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Ms. Terri from Brooklyn, NY is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Socially-Distant Picnic Lunchtime

Help me give my students mats to decorate and use as socially-distant picnic lunch and recess spaces.

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My Students

All of the students--from pre-Kindergarten through grade 5--are mine, as I have the pleasure of serving as their school librarian. They are energetic, smart, inquisitive, creative and oh, so affectionate.

Our goal is to meet district requirements, satisfy parents and, most importantly, to restore the social-interaction and active fun that the students so desperately need.

After a spring and summer of isolation, every single one of them is aching to return to school. Although they will be happy to see their teachers, I have to admit that their real longing is to have social interactions with their friends.

Imagine their dismay when they are confronted with the reality of lunch and recess during this pandemic. Our district has determined that this will be an instructional period, during which students will eat while working at their socially-distanced desks. Parents who have opted to send their children into the school building at this difficult time did so precisely out of concern for their need for social interaction.

My Project

My goal is to preserve fun at lunch and recess--while following C.D.C. social-distancing and district educational guidelines--by turning it into Picnic Time. We are lucky to have a schoolyard with a brand new cheery mural and ample space on the first floor to use in inclement weather. We have books on health and wellness topics to read aloud to small classroom groups while they are eating, thus adhering to a new district mandate that has turned lunch into an instructional period. We are just missing a place to sit or stand and a place to put the food--two sections of exercise floor mat for each child that will help them, especially those in pre-Kindergarten through grade 2, understand and follow the concept of social distancing.

After the picnic, our students will have a recess like no other with these mats!

The food mats will be stowed away in personal giant baggies. The sitting mats will become defined personal spaces for dance parties, yoga, epic Simon Says and other socially-distant games. Picnic Time will play an important beginning step in the emotional healing of our students.

Ms. Terri PS 54 Samuel C Barnes Grades PreK-2

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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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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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Exercise Foam Mat Tiles – Gym Mats for Home – Work Out Mat - Light Blue Denim – Premium Floor Mat with Borders • Amazon Business $17.89 17 $304.13

Materials cost

$304.13

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.56

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$338.69

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$59.77

Total project goal

$398.46

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $398.46

3 Donors

-$249.23

Donations toward project cost

-$211.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.38

match offer

-$149.22

Match offer toward project cost

-$126.84

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.38

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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