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Mrs. Rookstool from Williamston, SC is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Legos for STEM!

Help me give my students LEGO sets, so we can grow our STEM bins from partners activities to individual activities.

  • $209 goal

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Mrs. Rookstool has another project! Donate to Take Home Books! to help her classroom.

$248 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

I am beyond blessed to teach 30, wonderful bundles of energy who come to school each day ready to learn and have fun. These kids are truly going to one day change the world! However, many of the students come from homes that lack financial stability. Our school is a Title I school, where the majority of the students receive reduced-price or free lunch. Even though the students face hardships at home, they give all they have in order to learn and grow.

Most of the children enter kindergarten with no preschool experience and they do not bring in daily school supplies so I usually provide community supplies that we store in buckets on the students tables.

Many of them start school without knowing letter names or sounds, and some are unable to write the letters. Many also have little to no number sense. This does not dampen their desire to become successful readers and mathematicians. Though there is much to be learned in order to succeed academically, my students do not give up. I am so lucky to be surrounded by such hard-working students every day.

My Project

This fall when students return to school, things are going to look very different and they are now required to have individual school supplies, individual places to store their materials and individual activities because they can no longer share anything due to COVID-19. This year I am challenged to teach 30 kindergarten students that will have to spend the majority of their day at a table behind a desk shield and I need 30 individual STEM bins for my kindergarteners.

The LEGO bricks and minifigures that I have requested will help me to add onto my existing STEM bin collection, and create more STEM bins, so that I will have enough for every student to have one that they can work on during morning work or as an early finisher activity, since they are no longer allowed to go to traditional centers like housekeeping.

Mrs. Rookstool Palmetto Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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More than three‑quarters 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

30 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Creative LEGO® Brick Set • LEGO Education $69.95 1 $69.95
Community Minifigure Set • LEGO Education $51.95 1 $51.95

Materials cost

$121.90

Vendor shipping charges

 $15.00

Sales tax

 $8.59

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$177.32

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$31.29

Total project goal

$208.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $208.61

2 Donors

-$131.21

Donations toward project cost

-$126.71

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$4.50

match offer

-$59.54

Match offer toward project cost

-$50.61

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.93

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.86

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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