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Ms. Potero from Philadelphia PA is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Flexible Pencils Please

My students need Haawooky Flexible Soft Pencils as part of their end of year gift.

  • $165 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

Lively, energetic, and kind are three words I would use to describe our young learners. Every day, they do their best to achieve all that they can. Our students desperately want to be actively involved in what they do in the classroom.

Living in a large city can be difficult for many young children.

My young learners live close to the downtown area in our city. They go to a Title I school, where all students receive free breakfast and lunch daily. Their basic food needs, except for dinner, are taken care of, but now they need something to sustain their minds.

My Project

My fourth-graders are the best. After two years with these awesome kids, they move onto fifth-grade and I will go back to third.

These awesome children deserve a surprise in the form of Flexible Pencils.

These pencils can be twisted. This makes them a fidget as well as a pencil.

Students will get tons of use out of these pencils. They will be able to write and draw with them. These pencils will also be manipulated by the fidgety children that I teach. So, these super-duper flexible pencils will make a great year-end gift.

Thank you so very much for stopping by and considering a donation to our classroom.

Ms. Potero
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Haawooky 35 Pieces Flexible Soft Pencil Magic Bend Pencils for Kids Children School Fun Equipment • Amazon Business $8.99 12 $107.88

Materials cost

$107.88

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.62

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$139.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$24.62

Total project goal

$164.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $164.12

1 Donor

-$164.12

Donations toward project cost

-$139.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.62

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 $0.00

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