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Mrs. Waldschmidt from Los Alamos NM is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Help Sharpen Our Minds... and Crayons!

Help me give my students some basic supplies for the classroom. Laminating our items helps them last MUCH longer. This way I can use them again year after year. We also need a crayon sharpener in kindergarten!

  • $168 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

I work at a beautiful Title I school located in Los Alamos, New Mexico. My glorious school has about five hundred active students and about seventy-five dedicated staff members.

My kindergarten babies are absolutely amazing!

We have many students that have never been in a school setting before, students who do not speak English, students with physical disabilities, and students who have to make the extra effort to come to class each day; all wrapped up in one big kindergarten family.

My Project

The crayon sharpener is SO helpful for our classroom. Without it, we would waste tons of material. They make the crayons like new.

Spills happen A LOT in kindergarten, if we can laminate most of our items, they will last so much longer.

Lamination is beautiful.

Have you run out of cardstock before? I have. It make it difficult to make certain crafts out of flimsy paper. If you have to make flashcards, cardstock is an essential.

Please consider helping my little munchkins out in our little mountain town school. With these items I can help sharpen my students minds and their crayons!

Mrs. Waldschmidt
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Elmer’s 1680 CrayonPro Electric Sharpener • Amazon Business $48.66 1 $48.66
Scotch Thermal Laminating Pouches, 8.9 x 11.4 -Inches, 3 mil thick, 100-Pack (TP3854-100) • Amazon Business $10.00 3 $30.00
Neenah Cardstock, 8.5" x 11", Heavy-Weight, White, 94 Brightness, 300 Sheets (91437) • Amazon Business $11.99 2 $23.98
Scotch Thermal Laminating Pouches, 2.4 x 4.2-Inches, ID Badge without Clip, 100-Pouches (TP5852-100) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost

$110.63

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.66

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$142.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$25.11

Total project goal

$167.40

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$167.40

5 Donors

-$167.40

Donations toward project cost

-$142.29

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.11

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$0.00

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