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Ms. Kowal from New York, NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ponder the Pencil

My students need to write with PENCILS that are sharp and have erasers.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Kowal's classroom raised $193

This project is fully funded

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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

Ah.. I just got the long pencil with the good eraser! This is the way to start the day! Good point, unchewed, an eraser to fix a mistake. Hooray!

My first graders are ready to hit their morning journal with the right pencil in their hand.

They are eager to discover the evolving look of their handwriting and sketches when put to paper. Their words flow from their fingertips with the right (write) tool, a pencil. However in our city's dwindling Public School supply closet their is a challenge to keep pencils on the shelf. The foundation to the school day begins at the tip of a pencil (a sharp tip, hopefully) .

My Project

Ponder the Pencil and it's best friend the Electric Sharpener. A simple material that when put in the right ( or left ) hand empowers the talents, skills and imaginations of young writers to run onto a piece of paper and bloom into stories, pictures and the answer to many a question.

Please, provide pencils that placate the primary perseverance of the people who 'preciate penning......we would love for you to fund this project.

Thank you for enduring the puns.

Ms. Kowal PS 83 Luis Munoz Rivera Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bostitch SuperPro6 Electric Pencil Sharpener • Quill $71.99 1 $71.99
Ticonderoga Pencils #2, Yellow Finish, Un-sharpened • Quill $2.29 24 $54.96

Materials cost

$126.95

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$163.85

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$28.91

Total project goal

$192.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$192.76

4 Donors

-$192.76

Donations toward project cost

-$163.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.91

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$0.00

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