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Ms. McKillop from Sacramento, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Let's Get Digging!

My students need plants and butterfly nets for the butterfly garden we created!

  • $253 goal

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My Students

Do you remember the first time you saw a butterfly? My students are enamored with butterflies, so we created a butterfly garden.

My students attend a large (over 1100 students) Title One school in Northern California.

97% of our students receive free or reduced lunches. Our students are emphatic and resilient....a challenge and a joy to teach, but worth every minute. Our biggest challenge is having them connect to something bigger than themselves and understand that their actions impact the environment and life around them.

My Project

Last year, through a grant and donations, my fourth graders were able to establish a butterfly garden on campus. The students were enamored and fascinated by butterflies, so we decided to attract as many of them as we could. The students began to chart and draw the wildlife they saw....our garden grew and so did our knowledge. We have yet to "grow" any butterflies because we had to fist establish a habitat to support them....a good lesson, but hard to wait. The plants we ordered will help to support the painted lady butterflies and the nets will help us be able to release them later.

The garden has enabled me to take the two dimensional concepts we are learning in our textbooks and make them come to life....very powerful to watch the students so excited about learning.

Ms. McKillop Prairie Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Sacramento, CA View local requests

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

500 students impacted 3donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Mallow Plant, Living • Carolina Biological Supply Company $10.21 4 $40.84
Net, Butterfly and Grasshopper • Carolina Biological Supply Company $27.07 4 $108.28

Materials cost

$149.12

Vendor shipping charges

 $14.91

Sales tax

 $13.64

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$214.91

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$37.93

Total project goal

$252.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $252.84

1 Donor

-$126.42

Donations toward project cost

-$107.46

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.96

match offer

-$126.41

Match offer toward project cost

-$107.45

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.96

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 $0.00

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