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Ms. Obst from Dallas TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Math, Writing, and Art!

My students need a variety of 16 art books and 20 folders to display their art work.

  • $251 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

Why is a math teacher taking time for art? Hmmm, it's an honest question, but if you have ever tried to maintain a child's interest in learning, then you know the answer. Children need to have FUN while learning and what better way than including ART!

My students are like most kids today, they thrive when there is visual, hands on, colorful activities.

I was inspired to include drawings and doodles when I was their age. I was lucky that my mom also loved to doodle and she recognized what was needed for my learning. So many of my students come from homes that both parents work long hours and as a result may not get a lot of extra time to explore their own learning needs.

My Project

I personally include a lot of drawings or doodles in my lessons. I try to bring math problems to life by including funny pictures or backgrounds of the story. I realized that my students should be the ones drawing the pictures, because their interpretation may be completely different than my own. Often though, they need a little help getting started. I provide examples, simple drawing lessons, and tons of art supplies, but I would love to have more art books so that they can take their imaginations to whole new level. In my math class we create our own math problems that we share with everyone and drawings are always included. As a result, these amazing kids ask for more time to create MATH problems, often choosing that over playing a game. What is also so great is that they are writing! Who knew? Well, I do now.

This project will bring math to life, help my students see that math is all around us, and that math CAN be FUN!

When we take time as adults to look at our world, we see the beauty of math. I want to open up my student's world to the same wonderful world of math.

Ms. Obst
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
BINDER 1 FASHION ASST COLORS • School Specialty Inc. $2.18 20 $43.60
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals Ed Emberley, Ed Emberley (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
Do You Doodle? Nikalas Catlow • Barnes and Noble $8.85 1 $8.85
How to Draw Lettering Judy Tatchell, Carol Varley, Fiona Brown (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.12 1 $5.12
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book Make a World Ed Emberley, Ed Emberley (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Trucks and Trains Ed Emberley, Ed Emberley (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
Discovering Great Artists: Hands-on Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters MaryAnn F. Kohl, Kim Solga • Barnes and Noble $12.95 1 $12.95
Oodles of Doodles: Over 200 Pictures to Complete and Create Nikalas Catlow (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.85 1 $8.85
Doodles: A Really Giant Coloring and Doodling Book Taro Gomi • Barnes and Noble $13.67 1 $13.67
Cartooning For Kids Mike Artell • Barnes and Noble $8.50 1 $8.50
Ed Emberley's Big Orange Drawing Book Ed Emberley, Ed Emberley (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.51 1 $7.51
Fabulous Doodles: Over 100 Pictures to Complete and Create Nellie Ryan (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.85 1 $8.85
Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Weirdos Ed Emberley • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
Infinite Designs Coloring Book Muncie Hendler • Barnes and Noble $1.97 1 $1.97
The Art Book for Children Editors of Phaidon Press, Gilda Williams Ruggi • Barnes and Noble $13.64 1 $13.64
Big Book of Things to Draw Fiona Watt, Anna Milbourne, Rosie Dickens • Barnes and Noble $10.93 1 $10.93
Ed Emberley's Big Green Drawing Book Ed Emberley, Ed Emberley (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.51 1 $7.51

Materials cost

$175.83

Vendor shipping charges

$4.36

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.64

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$217.83

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$32.55

Total project goal

$250.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$250.38

1 Donor

-$125.19

Donations toward project cost

-$108.92

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.27

match offer

-$125.18

Match offer toward project cost

-$108.91

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.27

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

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$0.00

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