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Mrs. Boyd from Nashville, TN is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Namaste To Start Our Day!

My students need instructional cards, videos, balance balls and mats and storage bins to implement yoga into our morning routine.

  • $995 goal

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My Students

Many of my students do not know what is going on beyond our city, state, or country's borders. They do not know what challenges face teens worldwide. Please allow me to introduce my students to Malala. She stood up for the educational rights for Pakistani girls. She is proof that one voice matters.

Our school has many nationalities represented.

My students are high achieving, yet, from various different economic backgrounds. Our school is considered to be a school of need according to the number of students that qualify financially for free lunch programs. My students love to learn. They enjoy hands-on labs where they can create products or explain and explore why things occur.

My Project

Some of my students live a very stressful life. Some of them come from a rough home life and not all students have the coping skills to deal with the stress that life can bring. When our students are dealing with all the stressors that life can bring, school becomes the last thing on their mind. I am hoping to use these mats and resources to provide a yoga class in the mornings before school so that students can start the day on a good note; relaxed and ready to go. I am hoping that by regularly integrating yoga, they will have the skills they need to deal with stress when it occurs in their everyday lives. We took a survey at the end of the year and over 80% of our students said that school makes them feel stressed. After hearing these results we came up with a list of things we could do to release some of this stress. Students came up with ideas such as punching bags, extra recess time, more time for art and many other ideas. One idea that kept coming up from students and teachers was the idea of offering yoga to students who feel any sort of stress during the school day.

Being a kid isn't the same as it was twenty years ago.

Many of our students are under a lot of pressure at a very young age. Yoga is a great way to relieve stress and anxiety and promote wellness and a healthy lifestyle. We will be using the yoga balls, yoga mats and various instructional videos/books for daily yoga practice. I look forward to being able to offer them a way to deal with the roughness that life can bring through yoga. Thank you in advance for your support!

Mrs. Boyd Rose Park Magnet Middle School Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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Nashville, TN View local requests 30 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
YogaDirect Fun Yoga Mat For Kids - Butterfly $17.16 20 $343.20
Gaiam Kids Balance Ball, Orange, 45cm $14.98 8 $119.84
Fire Tablet, 7" Display, Wi-Fi, 8 GB - Includes Special Offers, Magenta $49.99 2 $99.98
Sterilite 19859806 30 Quart/28 Liter Ultra Latch Box, Clear with a White Lid and Black Latches, 6-Pack $44.50 1 $44.50
Sterilite 19889804 70 Quart Ultra Latch Box See through with White lid and Black latches,4 pack $38.51 1 $38.51
Yoga Pretzels (Yoga Cards) $14.99 2 $29.98
Shaun T Shaun T's Fit Kids Club - 2 Workouts - Cool Moves $23.75 1 $23.75
Yoga and Mindfulness Practices for Children Card Deck $19.99 1 $19.99
Kids World Yoga $14.95 1 $14.95
You Are a Lion! and Other Fun Yoga Poses $12.61 1 $12.61
Gaiam Kids: Yogakids Fun Collection $12.59 1 $12.59
DanceX: Fun Dance & Exercise For Kids With Great Music $12.00 1 $12.00
Good Night Yoga: A Pose-by-Pose Bedtime Story $11.84 1 $11.84
YogaKids, Vol. 3: Silly to Calm $9.94 1 $9.94
Yoga Kids, Vol. 2: ABC's for Ages 3-6 $9.48 1 $9.48

Materials cost

$803.16

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.05

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$845.21

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$149.15

Total project goal

$994.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$994.36

1 Donor

-$98.00

Donations toward project cost

-$83.30

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.70

match offer

-$896.36

Match offer toward project cost

-$761.91

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$134.45

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$0.00

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