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Mrs. Wertz from Columbia, SC is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Wonderful Writing Workshop!

My students need 8 writers workshop resources, including quality journals, paper, and other writing tools.

  • $486 goal

This project expired on October 9, 2010.

This project expired on October 9, 2010.

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Mrs. Wertz Forest Lake Elementary School
Columbia, SC Grades PreK-2

My Students

Children can love to write! I want to provide them with the tools and setting to become inspired, self-driven "authors", and create a community of thoughtful writers by implementing an authentic writer's workshop.

My kindergarten students are a diverse group of wonderful children!

They come from varied backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, and home lives. Our school is a technology magnet elementary school in the south, with a high poverty classification. We have an amazing staff, and we serve some amazing children, some of whom overcome a lot just to be at school each day. They love to create, write, learn to read and be read to, learn about math, do science experiments, explore social studies topics, and more. They are funny and sweet, and light up when they master a new skill or become engaged in learning.

My Project

We will use primary composition journals each day so that students can keep a writer's notebook. These have space for both writing and drawing on each page, which suits the kindergarteners' developmental needs as beginning writers. Keeping a writer's notebook will help them to develop into thoughtful, creative writers, and give them ownership of their learning. We will use Smart Start story paper, some with space for drawing and some with space for writing, to publish pieces, to make booklets, for writing prompts and reading response activities, and more. The way the paper is lined helps students to remember how to form letters and where they should be on a line. We will use date stamps for each piece, both in the journals and on the paper, to chronicle student growth over the course of the year as we save work to each child's portfolio. The other items will be used as well as necessities for creating written pieces.

My hope is that by providing my students with the materials to participate in an authentic, meaningful writer's workshop each day that they will grow to become a community of thoughtful, creative, lifelong writers.

I want them to have choices in their writing, the tools to chronicle their growth, and a variety of mediums with which to work.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

Never Before Funded 22 students impacted
Mrs. Wertz Forest Lake Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Columbia, SC View local requests

Nearly all 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

Never Before Funded 22 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
RR674 - My Word Journal - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning $29.95 3 $89.85
VR412 - Self-Inking Date Text Stamp • Lakeshore Learning $7.99 3 $23.97
EK203 - Staple-Free Stapler • Lakeshore Learning $5.95 3 $17.85
HU18 - Electric Pencil Sharpener • Lakeshore Learning $44.95 1 $44.95
DD854 - Word Spacers - Set of 30 • Lakeshore Learning $14.95 1 $14.95
FG465X - Classic Primary Composition Book - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning $24.95 5 $124.75
SMART START K-1 WRITING PAPER 360 360 SHEETS- - --*Comments* • Teacher's School Supply Inc. $16.79 1 $16.79
SMART START 1-2 STORY PAPER 100 100 SHEETS----*Comments* • Teacher's School Supply Inc. $6.65 3 $19.95

Materials cost

$353.06

Vendor shipping charges

 $4.04

Sales tax

 $24.89

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.30

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$422.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$63.10

Total project goal

$485.39

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

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