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Mrs. Hinchey from Oklahoma City, OK is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Making Leaders Out of Readers

Help me give my students flexible seating, a weighted lap pad, and clipboards for a comfortable reading corner in my learning lab.

  • $458 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students attend an inner-city alternative school that teaches “at-promise” kids who are struggling behaviorally and academically. They often arrive each day with challenges most of us cannot comprehend - broken homes, generational poverty, homelessness, mental illness, and hopelessness. My job is to educate, love, and inspire.

Everyone deserves a second chance and my students teach me that every single day!

I want to provide the most engaging resources and learning environment possible for each and every student.

My Project

I am hoping to upgrade my middle school reading corner within the classroom. Students come to my room for academic assistance and often crave a different work or learning environment. I work to provide a safe, creative and motivating atmosphere.

I would like to provide a couple of nontraditional seating options to encourage reading and assignment completion.

The beanbag, floor seats, and wobble cushions along with a calming weighted puppy lap mat would entice them to give additional assignments effort and a bonus, pick up a book and read in a comfy environment.

Mrs. Hinchey
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
LC405BU - Flex-Space Comfy Floor Seat - Blue • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 2 $119.98
LC573BU - Flex-Space Big Beanbag Seat - Blue 30w x 32h • Lakeshore Learning Materials $89.99 1 $89.99
CA202 - Cuddly Puppy Weighted Lap Pad • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
LC511BU - Flex-Space Wobble Cushion - Blue • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 2 $39.98
JAM Paper Plastic Clipboard, Letter Size, Assorted Colors, 4/Pack (3409IASSRT) • Staples $26.99 1 $26.99

Materials cost

$326.93

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $26.64

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$388.47

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$68.55

Total project goal

$457.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $457.02

1 Donor

-$457.02

Donations toward project cost

-$388.47

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$68.55

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