Fund-a-Need by Alabama Waldorf School

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Fund a need or wish for our classrooms, campus, and students. Each gift makes an immediate impact.

Can you fill one of these needs with an exact good or service? Or want to make a gift towards the general fund to help all of our students thrive? Contact Annie Damsky at adamsky@alabamawaldorf.org

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NURSERY

$50 Wholesome Snack - Preschool

Feed a nursery or kindergarten class one month of nourishing, wholesome grains for snack, nurturing a foundation for developing balance and focus.

This listing is for contributions to our general fund that supports our operating budget and ongoing needs such as classroom supplies and playground maintenance.

$250 Sandbox - Preschool & Elementary

Sand is a big commodity on the playgrounds. Help us re-fill three sandboxes each semester on the nursery, kindergarten, and lower grades playground, laying the foundation for imaginative play and working together.

This listing is for contributions to our general fund that supports our operating budget and ongoing needs such as classroom supplies and playground maintenance.

$500 Scholarship Gift - All Programs

Offering tuition assistance strengthens the fabric of our community, and is a powerful investment in the bright futures of our young students. By providing financial support to our families, we ensure equitable access to a unique Waldorf Education, and live into our principles of valuing the whole child for their own innate capacities.

This listing is for contributions to our general fund that supports our financial aid program. If you are interested in learning more about supporting equitable access, please contact Annie Damsky at adamsky@alabamawaldorf.org

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$500 Be a Guest Artist Patron

Each class works with a local artist to produce an piece featured at our Spring Gala. Your gift will support bringing these artist and craftspeople to our students, and the investment in their supplies, time, and talent.

$750 Outdoor Play Kitchen

From the Nursery wishlist, a new all weather outdoor wooden kitchen set for the playground. It's perfect for making mud pies and other natural delicacies! Featuring a stove, sink and washing machine, it's made of solid eucalyptus to withstand outdoor conditions.

$250 Rocking Chair - Nursery

From the Nursery wishlist, all weather outdoor rocking chairs for teachers. The teacher rocking chair is a place of respose, representing a beacon of warmth when a break is needed from the play of the day.

$25 Play Buckets - Nursery

From the Nursery wishlist, play buckets for the playground. Imagination and creatvitiy abound on the Nusery playground, where a bucket may become a hat, a suitcase, a ktichen appliance, or a construction tool.

$40 Mealtime Placemats - Nursery

From the nursery wishlist, 10 yards of various fabrics to make new placemats for snack and lunchtime. Our youngest students learn social skills and personal care skills during meal time. Placemats are one aspect through which they begin to learn about personal space and caring for our belongings and the areas in which we live.

$1,500 Playgrounds Rebuild

We are lucky to have devoted Family Association volunteers ready to roll up their sleeves and help us restructure the landscape of our Nursery, Kindergarten, and lower Grades playgrounds. To achieve this, we need to rent machinery for the earthworks needed to rehabilitate the grounds to mitigate erosion and create sustainable solutions on which we can build new structures and innovate new experiences for our students.

KINDERGARTEN

$1,200 Circle Carpet - Kindergarten

From the Kindergarten wishlist, the centerpiece of the classroom: new carpets for each room for circle and story times and imaginative free play.

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$50 Wholesome Snack - Preschool

Feed a nursery or kindergarten class one month of nourishing, wholesome grains for snack, nurturing a foundation for developing balance and focus.

This listing is for contributions to our general fund that supports our operating budget and ongoing needs such as classroom supplies and playground maintenance.

$250 Sandbox - Preschool & Elementary

This listing is for contributions to our general fund that supports our operating budget and ongoing needs such as classroom supplies and playground maintenance.

$500 Scholarship Gift - All Programs

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$500 Be a Guest Artist Patron

$120 Play Washer/Dryer - Kindergarten

From the Kindergarten wishlist, this play washer and dryer will help bring meaningful work to life. Our children love to help take care of the classroom, folding placemats and napkins, washing dishes, and caring for their toys. Modeling responsible care for our everyday items is one way in which Waldorf Education helps foster the capacities of the developing child.

$110 Rocking Chairs - Kindergarten

From the Kindergarten wishlist. Our teacher rocking chairs provide a space around which children gather for a story, learn a new handwork skill, or come for comfort from their trusted adult. The teacher rocking chair is a place of respose, representing a beacon of warmth when a break is needed from the play of the day.

$170 Electric Stove Top - Kindergarten

From the Kindergarten wishlist: cooking hearty and nourishing snacks in an important part of the Kindergarten day. Whether its Ms. Carole's potatoes or Ms. Andrea's stone soup, our children look forward to this cherished part of the daily rhythm.

$155 Nap Mats - Kindergarten

From our Kindergarten wishlist, fresh nap mats for restful sleep during the afternoon care. After a full morning of play, meaningful work, storytime, snack, and more, our students are offered a quiet space to rest and make space for their experiences to fully integrate within them.

$230 Composter- Kindergarten

From the Kindergarten wishlist, an electric composter supports our efforts in striving for ongoing sustainability and responsibility to the natural world. Kindergarteners learn the importance of minimizing waste and composting organic materials as they deliver the remants of snack to the composter and see the benefits transformed into fruiting plants in their outdoor garden.

$75 Balance Beam - Kindergarten

From the Kindergarten wishlist, indoor balance beams that promote developing balance, coordination, and patience in individual and group play.

$1,500 Playgrounds Rebuild

GRADES

$500 Parallel Bars - Middle School

Our beautiful hillside is home to the middle school recess area. These bars will help our students feel their physical strength, balance, and skills when taking a break from academic studies.

$250 Sandbox - Preschool & Elementary

This listing is for contributions to our general fund that supports our operating budget and ongoing needs such as classroom supplies and playground maintenance.

$100 Lesson Books - Elementary & Middle

Open main and subject lesson books for an elementary or middle school class, providing the opportunity for creative expression and experiential, hands-on learning.

This listing is for contributions to our general fund that supports our operating budget and ongoing needs such as classroom supplies and playground maintenance.

$500 Scholarship Gift - All Programs

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$70 Paint Jar Holder - Set of 5 - Elementary

From Ms. Merritt's 1st and 2nd grade wishlist. These paint holders are a vessel to learning through creative expression. Painting letters, numbers, feelings, and creative images awakens both academic and emotional sensibiities for our students.

$235 Recorders - Middle School Music

From the grades music class wish list: This Recorder Set would serve our 6th and 7th graders and includes Sopranino, Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass from the MIE Consort Series. The arched wind way allows for ease of play and consistent tone in all registers.

Music plays a key role in Waldorf Education, as expressed beautifully by a music teacher at the Rudolf Steiner School, "Through music we refine the capacity to connect. To harmonize. To resolve dissonance. To heal. To think. To feel. To mature. To make sound judgement. To vibrate. To tune. To move about the world with wholeness. To develop and hold onto that sense that the world is good."

$125 Wooden Recorders (Soprano) - Elementary

From the grades music class wish list: These maple wood recorders will sound beautiful as our elementary students play them with spirit.

$160 Wooden Recorders (Alto) - Elementary

From the grades music class wish list: These maple wood recorders will sound beautiful as our elementary students play them with spirit.

$160 Wooden Recorders (Tenor) - Elementary

From the grades music class wish list: These maple wood recorders will sound beautiful as our elementary students play them with spirit.

$500 Be a Guest Artist Patron

$70 Wooden Coastal Animals - Ms. Merritt

This beautifully crafted set of special aquatic creatures comes to life through the imaginative play of our youngest grades students.

This coastal animal collection includes a sea turtle, a dolphin, a flying fish, a seal, a puffin, a hermit crab, a crab, a whale, a penguin, and a seagull.

$30 Paintbrushes - Elementary

From Ms. Merritt's 1st and 2nd grade wishlist. Watercolor painting invites children into a world of flowing color and form, fostering imagination, emotional expression, and a deep sense of beauty and wonder. Painting often compliments the main academic lesson of the day to offer students an additional mode of comprehension and integration.

$550 Mobile Library - Elementary & Middle

From the Grades Team wishlist, a mobile shelf to store library books and resources shared by classes in a common space. This item will be custom built by an alumn committed to helping support the next generation of Alabama Waldorf students.

$125 Modeling Beeswax Set - Elementary

From Ms. Merritt's 1st and 2nd grade wishlist.

In Waldorf education, modeling beeswax nurtures creativity and focus as children warm and shape it with their hands, transforming simple material into art while cultivating patience, imagination, and a living connection to the natural world.

$150 Handwork Mobile Cart - Elementary & Middle

From the Handwork wishlist this mobile cart will help Ms. Langford bring knitting, crocheting, sewing and more into each grades classroom.

$300 Puerto Rico Excursions: 7th-8th grade class trip

From Ms. Bradley's wishlist. This spring our 7th-8th graders plan to travel to Puerto Rico on their milestone class trip. Help us create a memorable experience for this class as they get to explore El Yunque National Forest, a tropical rainforest, experience the history of El Morro and San Cristóbal, kayak Laguna Grande's bioluminescent bay, learn about cacao cultivation at Finca de Cacao La PruVite women-led farm, and experience so much more, including participating in hands-on volunteering, such as replanting native species and help with school repairs or other construction tasks at Escuela Micael, a Waldorf School community.

$500 Puerto Rico Chaperone Fund

From Ms. Bradley's wishlist for the 7th-8th grade class trip to Puerto Rico. Help minimize travel and lodging and expenses for our teachers chaperoning this outstanding group of students on their memorable class trip this spring.

$1,500 Playgrounds Rebuild

$650 Pair of durable outdoor soccer goals

From the grades Movement program wishlist, a pair of durable outdoor soccer goals to compliment the middle school games classes. Made of durable ABS materials, these goals have wheels for easy transport and fold flat for compact storage.

$95 Durable Playground Balls - Set of 6 - Elementary

From the grades movement program wishlist, a set of 6 durable playground balls.

These are designed to stand up to intense wear and tear without cracking or warping. From foursquare to kickball, the DuraBall liquid-vinyl cover makes this ball ideal for a range of tough playground activities.

$145 Soccer Balls - Set of 10 - Middle School

From the grades movement program wishlist, a set of 10 durable soccer balls constructed to be used on any surface, including concrete. These also have a tacky feel that provides better grip and foot control and come with a carrying bag included for easier storage and to promote longevity.

$60 Bamboo Wind Chimes - Middle School

From the middle school wishlist. These chimes will provide chill vibes to our middle school hillside hangout. Our middle schoolers are creating a relaxing outdoor den to hang out in during recess and extra study periods.

$55 Garden Gazing Ball - Middle School

From the middle school wishlist. This gazing ball will bring interest, reflection, and perspective to our middle school hillside hangout. Our middle schoolers are creating a relaxing outdoor den to hang out in during recess and extra study periods.

$175 Outdoor benches - set of 2 - Middle School

From the middle school wishlist. These benches will provide room to rest, chat, and read on our middle school hillside hangout. Our middle schoolers are creating a relaxing outdoor den to hang out in during recess and extra study periods. These solid wood benches are built to be outdoors and withstand weather conditions.

$65 Hammocks - Middle School

From the middle school wishlist. The hammock tree hideout will anchor the middle school hillside hang out areas. Our middle schoolers are creating a rel\axing outdoor den to hang out in during recess and extra study periods.

$800 Life size Outdoor Chess Game - Middle School

From the middle school wishlist. This life size chess game features 25" game pieces that will allow for hours of skillful fun in our middle school. This request includes plans for storage to ensure longevity of the board pieces.

$550 Portable Gaga Ball Game - Middle School

From the middle school wishlist, a custom built gaga ball game pit and game balls. Gaga ball combines dodging, striking, running, and jumping, with the objective of being the last person standing. This portable game will provide an opportunity for our middle schoolers to build healthy competition skills as well as agility, balance, strength, and responsive reflexes.

$500 Meditation Garden - Middle School

From the middle school wishlist, a meditation garden. This custom built meditation garden wiill include pebbles and sand to be raked, plants to care for, and stones to stack and position. These elements are part of the design that helps promote relaxation, mindfulness, balance and harmony. Our middle schoolers will find refuge here in between their academic lessons, meaningful work, social interaction and play.

$150 Picnic Tables - Grades

From the grades team wishlist, 2 new picnic tables for snack, lunchtime, and playground social time.

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Alabama Waldorf School Annie Damsky development@alabamawaldorf.org Birmingham, AL 2055920541 http://www.alabamawaldorf.org

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