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Mrs. Barbara Snell from Brooklyn, NY is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Move Your Feet, Lose Your Seat...

My students need a place to read and discuss in the classroom. They need 3 comfortable beanbags and pillows to fall into their books and a table to come and discuss their ideas.

  • $845 goal

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Mrs. Barbara Snell has another project! Donate to May the Odds Be Ever In Our Favor! to help her classroom.

$647 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

We spend about 30-45 minutes everyday independently reading. We then spend much of the day discussing books and quotes and other things we have read. These students need places to do that in the classroom aside from sitting at a desk and upright in chairs.

The kids in my 6th grade class are starving for interaction and attention.

Coming from a Title I, K-8 school, with almost the entire population receiving free lunch because of economic restraints, innovation and resources are hard to come by. But ready or not, the world marches on with or without them. It's my job, my responsibility and my privilege to give them the best opportunity to keep up with the ever-changing and advancing world.

My Project

The changing standards require them to have more reading time and more conversational time as well. As of now, they spend almost 7 hours a day in a desk in a hard chair doing all of their work. I don't know about you, but when I read I like to just fall into my book. I need to give them a place to do that. These beanbags and pillows will allow for designated places to relax and focus on their independent reading. The table will allow for a gathering place to discuss our readings and findings.

Your donations will allow for these students to have a variety of work spaces that will meet their individual learning needs.

It will also help to transition their mind frame when moving from independent reading work into more structured group discussion.

Mrs. Barbara Snell PS 95 the Gravesend Grades 6-8

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Brooklyn, NY 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

25 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
CN433 - 48" x 72" Large Group Table • Lakeshore Learning Materials $299.00 1 $299.00
FF655X - Indoor-Outdoor Big Pillows - Set of 3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $199.00 1 $199.00
CK30BU - Big Beanbag Seat - Blue • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 1 $59.99
CK30GR - Big Beanbag Seat - Green • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 1 $59.99
CK30RD - Big Beanbag Seat - Red • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 1 $59.99

Materials cost

$677.97

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.17

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$718.14

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$126.73

Total project goal

$844.87

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$844.87

1 Donor

-$844.87

Donations toward project cost

-$718.14

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$126.73

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$0.00

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