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Ms. Conner from Chicago, IL is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Conner's classroom raised $198

Journals & Pencils Needed For Poem Project

My students need 50 composition books and many pencils for a poem project.

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Ms. Conner James Otis Elementary School
Chicago, IL Grades PreK-2

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My students love to recite poetry and illustrate poems in a journal. We are out of journals and pencils. Students would be so thrilled if they had a new journal and pencils to copy poems and illustrate their understanding of poetry. Poetry stimulates the mind.

I teach 25 beautiful kindergarten students in a special needs school.

Most of my students receive free lunch. My students are eager to come to school everyday. They are very bright and work diligently on their reading & writing strategies. We study a poem each week. Poems are pasted in journals for students to copy and illustrate. Poems are a great way to increase skills for reading and writing. Words in poems are used for vocabulary study and rhyming techniques.

My Project

We are just finishing up our poetry unit for winter and our journals are filled with pictures and poems about penguins, snowmen and valentines. We need new journals for the spring. If we had new journals to write our spring poems, my students would be so happy. Their reading and writing skills would improve. They would be better prepared for first grade.

I tell my students that they are going to be the best first grade that our school has ever had.

You should see the smiles on their faces when I give them this compliment. With encouragement they are ready to conquer the world. If they had new pencils and journals for spring, I know that they would be the best first grade in the whole wide world. You would be responsible for helping our dream come true.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

25 students impacted 2 donors
Ms. Conner James Otis Elementary School Grades PreK-2

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Chicago, IL 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

25 students impacted 2donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
MEAD PRIMARY COMPOSITION BOOK -- Mead Primary Composition Book • Quill $2.15 50 $107.50
MY FIRST TICONDEROGA PENCIL, CHILDREN SIZE 7-1/2"L X 13/32" -- Dixon "My First" Pencils • Quill $5.21 8 $41.68

Materials cost

$149.18

Vendor shipping charges

 $1.49

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$161.91

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$35.54

Total project goal

$197.45

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $197.45

1 Donor

-$197.45

Donations toward project cost

-$161.91

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$35.54

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