Donor's Choose Helps Public School Teachers

Hello First Grade Families,

Many of you reached out this summer or at the beginning of the school year to ask for a list of supplies your child will need for first grade. In first grade, we do not ask parents to provide any materials at the beginning of the year. As the school year progresses and needs arise, we occasionally send a request out to families for a specific supply. Most of the supplies we need we are able to purchase with our classroom budget money or out of pocket. For larger items such as easels, technology, leveled books, seating options, etc we use a website to help us acquire the materials and supplies we need. Donor's Choose is a non-profit company who works directly with public school educators to help them stock their classroom's with the necessities and other materials that will impact student learning.  Teachers can create a request for a material and Donor's Choose partners individuals and companies to help fund projects. This summer, I was lucky enough to have a project fully funded by BJ's Wholesale. One day this summer they decided to flash fund ALL of the projects in Maine that were posted. It was a very happy day for many teachers in Maine. A couple weeks later we received 18 pairs of bluetooth headphones. Student will make thank-you cards for donors and we will post pictures of students using the materials on our Donor's Choose page. Currently our grade has 5 active projects. Please visit the links below and check out our requests. We would appreciate you sharing our projects with family and friends via e-mail and/or social media.  We will happily accept donations as well. Every dollar counts and helps our projects get more recognition(which means a better chance our project getting funded)! All donations are tax-deductible.

Don't forget to stop by the PTO meeting on Thursday, October 5th at 6:00. Megan and Kassie will be presenting about Donor's Choose to the PTO and presenting ways that the PTO might be able to partner with teachers to help get their projects funded.

Miss Lincoln's projects:

https://www.donorschoose.org/project/learning-with-tiggly/2731967/

https://www.donorschoose.org/project/hear-the-difference/2660451/

Mrs. Verney's projects:

https://www.donorschoose.org/project/interactive-reading-and-writing-for-1st/2731543/

https://www.donorschoose.org/project/every-student-has-their-spot/2749298/

Mrs. Welch's project:

https://www.donorschoose.org/project/easely-accessible/2814176/

This is Mrs. Welch's first project. Use the code "LIFTOFF" at checkout to match your donation!