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Ms. S. from NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Help Keep Us Sharp!

My students need pencils and a classroom sharpener.

  • $239 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

What's the one school supply my second graders can absolutely not do without? Pencils! I'm a second grade general education teacher in Brooklyn. My school is a Title I school, and over 95% of its students receive free lunch. I teach in a general education class, with some special needs students.

Our neighborhood contains New York City's largest public housing development, and most of my students reside there.

Due to the geographic location of the neighborhood, there are few trains and bus routes servicing the community, so my students are very isolated from all of the bells and whistles of New York City.

My Project

We need enough plain old yellow #2 pencils and a pencil sharpener to last us throughout the school year. These pencils will be used on a daily basis. From writing assignments to math problems, my second graders are in desperate need of the most basic school supply there is! These pencils will definitely help keep us "sharp" !

Please help my new class of 7- and 8-year-olds start the school year off right!

A year's supply of pencils will keep us writing and working out math problems from September through June! This will help them from going without a basic necessity .

Ms. S.
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dixon Ticonderoga Pre-Sharpened with Erasers Pencils, #2, Yellow, Box of 30 (13830) • Amazon Business $5.99 20 $119.80
X-Acto School Pro Heavy-Duty Electric Sharpener (1670) • Amazon Business $25.00 2 $50.00

Materials cost

$169.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.55

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$202.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$35.71

Total project goal

$238.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $238.06

4 Donors

-$238.06

Donations toward project cost

-$202.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$35.71

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 $0.00

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