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Mrs. Melissa Smith from Spooner, WI is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Smith Alive

My students need hermit crabs and shells to add to our existing habitat and learn more about living creatures and plantable pencils to learn more about living plants!

  • $380 goal

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Mrs. Melissa Smith has another project! Donate to 3D Print Uniquely to help her classroom.

$695 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

My students are amazing! They surprise me each and every day and keep me learning more for them. We seriously have some of the best students in our small-town elementary school.

My students are always ready to try something new, because of that, I want to be a better teacher every day.

I want to grow with them!

Our school is over sixty percent free or reduced price lunch recipients, but together our community, parents, and staff work to get us everything we need. I am so grateful to have wonderful people like you also partnering with us to help get our students everything they so deserve.

My Project

Currently we have five hermit crabs in our classroom. While looking ahead in our life cycles unit I discovered that we would be learning about skeletons and exoskeletons. I know these clear shells and additional hermit crabs would be great for learning more about these wonderful creatures in our classroom.

My students love to discover, learn, and grow.

Why shouldn't we do hands-on projects and activities that do the same? After our life cycles unit we then begin to learn about plants and their life cycle!

I'd love for my students to use these pencils until they were too short to use and plant them in student decorated pots. They'll see the plant life cycle from start to finish! It will definitely be hands-on learning!

We would then deliver them to local businesses on Earth day! Every year we try to do a community service related project and this would be a wonderful project. Last year we delivered potted plants and it was a highlight of many local businesses year!

In addition to learning about life cycles, they will also learn about kindness, giving, and caring about our community. Let's make this project come alive!

Mrs. Melissa Smith Spooner Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Spooner, WI 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

21 students impacted 9donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sprout Pencil: Color Pencil 8 Pack (Mix Edition) • Amazon Business $16.99 8 $135.92
Truedays 6.6" Plastic Flower Nursery Pot/ Planter / Flower Pot with Pallet 8 Colors • Amazon Business $19.99 3 $59.97
Land Hermit Crab, Fancy, Living, Pack 3 • Carolina Biological Supply Company $21.82 2 $43.64
Miracle-Gro Moisture Control Potting Mix, 8-Quart (currently ships to select Northeastern & Midwestern states) • Amazon Business $4.89 4 $19.56
Blown-Glass Hermit Crab Shell • Carolina Biological Supply Company $16.15 1 $16.15
Miracle-Gro Liquid Succulent Plant Food, 8 Ounce • Amazon Business $6.94 1 $6.94

Materials cost

$282.18

Vendor shipping charges

$5.98

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.23

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$322.39

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$56.89

Total project goal

$379.28

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$379.28

7 Donors

-$167.80

Donations toward project cost

-$162.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.55

match offer

-$188.40

Match offer toward project cost

-$160.14

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.26

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$23.08

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$0.00

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