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Mrs. D. from is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mrs. D.'s classroom raised $718

How To Draw Books for My 4th, 5th And 6th Grade Students!

My students need 6 copies each of 10 "How-To" drawing books, including "Draw Fifty Cars, Trucks and Motorcycles" and "Draw 50 Famous Faces", along with single copies of 2 additional drawing books.

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Mrs. D.
Grades 3-5

"I am a visual art teacher in an elementary school in New York . I teach 400 4th, 5th and 6th grade students. We are a Title I school and we don't have all the supplies that we need. The students are discovering all kinds of shapes and lines and I am interested in expanding their knowledge by providing them a library of how-to books that they can look at and follow step-by-step to create a drawing.

I have modeled the step-by-step process myself using the white board and a dry erase marker to show them how the world is made up of different shapes. This is also an important lesson in teaching them about visual perception and giving each student the tools to observe and make judgments about their environment.

The books that I am asking you to provide us with will enable them to enlarge their vocabulary and explain how they arrived at their finished drawing. It will also give every child in my class the opportunity choose a book that interests them and use it in the class independently.

The books that you will purchase as part of this proposal will give my students opportunities to learn how to follow a step-by-step process similar to that of a narrative procedure that they will use in all disciplines such as math and science. It will also empower them to explain orally how they arrived at their drawing to their family, friends, classmates and teacher. Thank you, donors, once again for making a difference in the lives of New York schoolchildren. We can't wait to thank you by sending you our drawings!

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

400 students impacted 3 donors
Mrs. D. Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

400 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Draw 50 Famous Faces Lee J. Ames • Barnes and Noble $17.64 1 $17.64
Draw 50 Baby Animals: The Step-By-Step Way To Draw Kittens, Lambs, Chicks, And Other Adorable Offspring Lee J. Ames (Illustrator), Murray Zak (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.05 6 $48.30
Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Tyrannosauruses, Wooly Mammoths, and Many More.. Lee J. Ames, Lee J. Ames (Illustrator), Foreword by Georg Zappler • Barnes and Noble $8.05 6 $48.30
Birds: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Chickadees, Peacocks, Toucans, Mallards and Many More of Our Feathered Friends Lee J. Ames, Anthony D'Adamo, Tony D'Adamo, With Anthony D'Adamo • Barnes and Noble $8.05 6 $48.30
People: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Cavemen, Queens, Aztecs, Vikings, Clowns, Minutemen, and Many More... P. Lee Ames, With Creig Flessel • Barnes and Noble $8.05 6 $48.30
Draw 50 Princesses: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Many More Holly Handler Moylan, Lee J. Ames • Barnes and Noble $8.05 6 $48.30
Draw Fifty Dogs P. Lee Ames, Lee J. Ames (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.05 6 $48.30
Draw 50 Famous Faces: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Shakespeare, Bill Cosby, George Washington, and Many More... P. Lee Ames, Lee J. Ames (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.05 6 $48.30
Draw 50 Athletes: The Step-by-Step Way to Draw Wrestlers and Figure Skaters, Baseball and Football Players, and Many More... Lee J. Ames • Barnes and Noble $8.05 6 $48.30
Drawing with Lee Ames Lee J. Ames • Barnes and Noble $18.90 1 $18.90
Draw 50 Monsters, Creeps, Superheroes, Demons, Dragons, Nerds, Dirts, Ghoulds, Giants, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Curiosa... Lee J. Ames, Lee J. Ames (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.05 6 $48.30
Draw Fifty Cars, Trucks and Motorcycles P. Lee Ames • Barnes and Noble $8.05 6 $48.30

Materials cost

$519.54

Vendor shipping charges

 $51.95

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.79

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$588.28

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$129.13

Total project goal

$717.41

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $717.41

3 Donors

-$717.41

Donations toward project cost

-$588.28

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$129.13

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