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Ms. Ho from Irving TX is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

A Classroom Can Never Have Too Many Pencils!

Help me give my students a large supply of quality pencil, a pencil sharpener, and storage to help every student do their best!

  • $597 goal

This project expired on March 22, 2021.

This project expired on March 22, 2021.

My Students

Our beautiful school is nestled between two communities-an affluent neighborhood on one side and an urbanized sprawl on the other. Our students come from both. Despite their home-settings, they are eager to come to school each day ready to try new things and take brave chances in order to grow both personally and academically. They absolutely love hands-on, active, engaging projects, and appreciate challenges that allow them to think outside the box to find solutions!

Each child in my classroom absolutely loves learning, although the methods and environments in which they learn best vary greatly.

We incorporate a variety of strategies, classroom arrangements, seating arrangements, and options to ensure that each student's needs are met. They are an amazing class, and I am so blessed and thankful to have a new group of learners that are excited and ready to learn each year!

My Project

Welcome to our class! When you enter, even our virtual class, I hope you see students busy at work talking, thinking, and writing with their pencil ready to write. Students deserve to feel prepared, motivated, and supported before they put ever their thoughts to paper. These pencils will help create a space where students feel comfortable and ready to show what they know in every subject. Observations in Science! Concepts in Math/Financial Literacy! Notes to parents for parent engagement! Character traits from books we're reading!

I believe something as simple as a pencil brings EVERY student that much closer to improving their writing and ability to communicate all the wonderful things they are learning daily!

Our class is on the verge of an amazing learning adventure, and sometimes it all starts with a pencil. Thank you in advance for being apart of this amazing journey with us!

Ms. Ho
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
TICONDEROGA Pencils, Wood-Cased, Unsharpened, Graphite #2 HB Soft, Yellow, 96-Pack (13872) • Amazon Business $8.47 40 $338.80
X-ACTO Electric Pencil Sharpener | Teacher Pro Pencil Sharpener for Classrooms, Quiet Electric Motor, Adjustable to Six Pencil Sizes • Amazon Business $23.21 3 $69.63
LC91 Lakeshore ClearView Storage Box • Lakeshore Learning Materials $6.99 6 $41.94
X-ACTO Electric Pencil Sharpener | XLR Heavy Duty Electric Pencil Sharpener, Quiet Motor, Pencil Saver Technology, Auto-Reset and Safe Start • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99

Materials cost

$470.36

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.06

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$507.42

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.54

Total project goal

$596.96

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