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Ms. Sowers from Silver Spring, MD is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Send Broken Crayons into Retirement

Help me give my students crayons to develop fine motor skills, art skills, math skills, and more!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Sowers's classroom raised $304

This project is fully funded

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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 Project

My scholars are creative, imaginative thinkers and makers! However, many struggle with fine motor skills. After two years of the pandemic and virtual schooling they need opportunities to build those skills! While my kindergarteners love to use crayons in math, writing, and art, many of our crayons haven been broken over the course of this year.

Kindergarteners need more than broken crayons bits!

Please help me purchase a new box of crayons for all the Kindergarteners at my school. We will use them to draw number stories, opinions about books, and design science projects.

Ms. Sowers Georgian Forest Elementary School 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.

Silver Spring, MD View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Crayola Large Crayon Set - Set of 8 • Blick Art Materials $2.12 100 $212.00

Materials cost

$212.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$12.72

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.18

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$257.90

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$45.51

Total project goal

$303.41

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$303.41

2 Donors

-$303.41

Donations toward project cost

-$257.90

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$45.51

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$0.00

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