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Mrs. Gatliff from Celeste TX is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Let the Writing Begin!

My students need blank My First Journals, blank Softcover Books, and writing manipulatives to help them become successful authors & illustrators.

  • $296 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Last August, a group of intelligent, curious, energetic, happy four-years-old children took their first steps into my pre-kindergarten classroom as they began the first step of their formal public school adventure!

Our school is in a rural town of about 817 people with average incomes between $21,000-$24,000.

The town is so small that there isn't a stoplight, a chain restaurant, a Wal-Mart, a library, or a public park, but we do have a new Dollar General, an excellent quilt shop, a handful of small businesses, and some of the best kids in the world!

My Project

The set of My First Journals will be used daily by my budding authors & illustrators. They will express themselves through their creative artwork and their emergent writing skills. In the spring, each student will get to "self-publish" a unique-one-of-a-kind book by using the blank soft-covered books.

My pre-k students WANT to be authors & illustrators.

They deserve fun, developmentally appropriate materials that will help them learn to become writers.

By helping my class today, you might be helping tomorrow's bestselling authors and illustrators! Please make a difference in the lives of my pre-k students. They each have stories to share!

Mrs. Gatliff
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
FF728 - My First Journal - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $27.99 3 $83.97
AA374 - Blank Softcover Book - Set of 10 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $12.99 3 $38.97
BX532 - Easy-Clean Craft Trays - Set of 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 2 $33.98
EE626 - Learn-The-Alphabet Rubbing Plates • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
TS108 - Rainbow Scratch Paper • Lakeshore Learning Materials $6.99 2 $13.98
CE564 - Beginner’s Picture-Word Rubbing Plates • Lakeshore Learning Materials $12.99 1 $12.99
RA421 - Rubbing Crayons - Set of 40 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $9.99 1 $9.99
NF9763 - White Sentence Strips • Lakeshore Learning Materials $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$217.86

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.27

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$251.13

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$44.32

Total project goal

$295.45

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$295.45

6 Donors

-$295.45

Donations toward project cost

-$251.13

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$44.32

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$0.00

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