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Ms. Cook from Orange, NJ is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Handwriting Hoopla!

Help me give my students an opportunity to use Handwriting Without Tears to improve fine-motor skills using a multi-sensory approach!

  • $1,703 goal

This project expired on April 8, 2022.

This project expired on April 8, 2022.

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Ms. Cook Central Elementary School
Orange, NJ Grades PreK-2

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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

We are a diverse urban community that has been greatly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Even now, as we emerge from virtual learning to in-person instruction, I see a deficit in the development of fine motor skills, especially handwriting. Our time away from the classroom has had a profound effect on our students. They are displaying academic, social, and emotional gaps equivalent to 18 to 24 months below their chronological age.

My Project

I am a Teacher of Students with Disabilities. Many of my students are also English Language Learners. Part of my daily responsibilities is to focus on small group instruction of two to four students per session. Many of my students have not had the opportunity to receive instruction in the area of handwriting due to the pandemic and virtual learning platform. The return to in-person instruction has brought this deficit into the limelight.

Handwriting Without Tears offers my Students With Disabilities (as well as all others that need extra support in this area) a multi-sensory approach to handwriting.

This project addresses a skill that is necessary in all subject areas. Increasing the ability to write will raise self-esteem as well as enhance academic performance for my students. I will be able to create lessons that engage my children and hold their interest in the task at hand. The materials provided by the program offer several opportunities to reinforce the proper formation of letters and numbers through systematically designed procedures.

Please help me to make learning to write productive and fun!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

Never Before Funded 150 students impacted
Ms. Cook Central Elementary School Grades PreK-2

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Orange, NJ View local requests

More than half of 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 150 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Handwriting without Tears Printing Kit, Kindergarten • School Specialty $760.19 1 $760.19
Handwriting without Tears Printing Kit, Grade 1 • School Specialty $511.12 1 $511.12

Materials cost

$1,271.31

Vendor shipping charges

 $127.13

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$19.07

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,447.51

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$255.44

Total project goal

$1,702.95

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