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Mrs. Gonzalez from Xenia, OH is requesting materials related to food, clothing & hygiene through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Our Empty Tummies: Snacks for Hungry Kindergarten Students

Help me give my students snacks to eat when they are hungry at school and to put in their pockets to keep them from being hungry at home.

  • $186 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Students in my kindergarten classroom come to school excited about learning. Most of my students come from low-income families, and all the students at my school receive free breakfast and lunch. This background can mean that students’ families cannot afford to purchase needed school supplies.

Unfortunately, some of my students are experiencing homelessness which can mean that they lack items to meet their most basic needs.

My students deserve to receive the best education possible so that they are able to succeed in school and in life. These boys and girls have such awesome attitudes, and they try their best every day! They have dreams of becoming teachers, doctors, police officers, and astronauts.

My Project

"I missed breakfast because I was late." "I'm hungry, Teacher. I wish you had a snack for me." "I didn't eat much last night." These are all statements that my kindergarten students have made to me. Many of my kindergarten students do not have adequate nutrition at home, so they come to school hungry. They have difficulty concentrating on learning because this basic need is not met.

I am requesting snacks, including granola bars, cheese crackers, chips, and applesauce, to help reduce the hunger that my students feel at school and at home.

I plan to make this food available to students in the morning, if they are late and miss breakfast, and during snack time since many of my students can not bring a snack. We have lunch at 12:40, which is a long time for five and six-year-old children to go without breakfast and snacks. I will also send home some of these individually packaged snacks in my neediest students' pockets, to help them be less hungry at home. Feeding my students, donors to this project will help them be able to focus on learning and acquiring the academic and social skills necessary to become successful students and adults.

Thank you for taking the time to read my project idea! This project is extremely important to my wonderful kindergarten students. Previously, some awesome donors have funded similar projects and my students were extremely happy and relieved to have the opportunity to have a snack when they were hungry. It made such a difference!

Mrs. Gonzalez
Grades PreK-2
    More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

    This project will reach 25 students.

    4 donors have given to this project.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Crackers Big Smiles with Cheddar, Colors, and Pretzel Crackers, Snack Packs, 30 Count Variety Pack Box • Amazon Business $9.98 3 $29.94
Cheetos Puffs Cheese Flavored Snacks, 0.875 Ounce, Pack of 40 • Amazon Business $11.98 2 $23.96
GoGo SqueeZ Fruit on The Go, Apple, Tasty Kids Applesauce Snacks Made from Apples, Gluten, Nut & Dairy Free, Vegan, 18 Pouches, 57.6 Oz • Amazon Business $11.06 2 $22.12
Quaker Chewy Granola Bars, Chocolate Chip, 58 Count (Pack of 1) - Packaging May Vary • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Fritos Original Corn Chips, 1 Ounce (Pack of 40) • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
Lay's Classic Potato Chips, 1 oz (Pack of 40) • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
Doritos Nacho Cheese Flavored Tortilla Chips, 1 oz (Pack of 40) • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98

Materials cost

$125.95

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.89

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$157.84

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$27.85

Total project goal

$185.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $185.69

3 Donors

-$114.81

Donations toward project cost

-$98.34

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.47

match offer

-$70.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$59.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$10.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.88

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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