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Mrs. Senna from Middletown, CT is requesting materials related to food, clothing & hygiene through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Sharing Kindness & Building Self-Esteem!

Help me give my students rocks and paints for the opportunity to create and spread kindness throughout our community.

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Mrs. Senna has another project! Donate to Getting Excited for Graphic Novels! to help her classroom.

All donations currently doubled!
You can complete this project for $82.
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My Students

My students are excited learners who love to read and try new technology in our Library Media Center. I have the pleasure of seeing every classroom of students K-5 twice a week. I love seeing my 5th graders enthusiastically stopping me in the hall to tell me they already finished their book and they want to swap it out. I love the hugs I get when I see my Kinders and their belly laughs when we have a silly read aloud. I am constantly amazed at the clever ideas they come up with when they build with Keva planks or code on Scratch.

Despite outside circumstances that challenge my students daily, they arrive to school motivated, positive and excited to learn.

Our school community is an incredibly diverse and welcoming one. I love providing them with engaging literacy and technology experiences to enhance their learning and challenge their thinking! I love what I do and the children I share my days with!

My Project

A big push this year due to the pandemic and the challenges included with these unusual and uncertain times is a greater focus on Social-Emotional Learning. Students are stressed and are learning in an atypical environment.

Our school library is a welcoming place for growing, learning, creating and collaborating together.

I would like students to design and create their own kindness rock. We will have conversations about feelings we have and the types of words, phrases and actions that help make someone smile and feel better. Students will gain the opportunity to learn that sharing kindness can also intrinsically reward us because of the positive impact we receive from giving to others.

In the library we utilize the Engineering Design Process. When creating a project we ask questions, imagine idea, plan our project, create our design and improve our work as needed. The engineering design process would be incorporated into our kindness rock efforts.

Mrs. Senna MacDonough Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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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Middletown, CT 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

215 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
DECORKEY River Rocks for Painting, DIY & Smooth Kindness, Rocks for Arts, Naturally Stone, 2-3inches 24PCS Perfect for Kids Party,Crafts, and Decoration • Amazon Business $15.99 9 $143.91
32 Colors Acrylic Paint Marker Pens- Include 10 Glitter Markers, For Rock Painting, Paper, Plastic, Ceramic, Glass, Wood, Metal, Canvas. Water Based, Acid Free Non Toxic, Quick Dry, Fine Tip • Amazon Business $19.99 3 $59.97

Materials cost

$203.88

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.06

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$236.94

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.81

Total project goal

$278.75

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $278.75

5 Donors

-$243.44

Donations toward project cost

-$215.69

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.75

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.31

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 $0.00

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