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Mrs. Bauer from Menomonie WI is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Sharp, Composed and Organized 5th Graders!

Please help me give my students composition notebooks, pencil pouches, black pencils, and a sharpener.

  • 2 donors
  • $338 goal

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My Project

With our science curriculum (FOSS), each student is required/encouraged to bring a composition notebook to use as an interactive science notebook. This item is listed on the district supply list (the list that parents use when buying items for their students before the start of the year), but many times, students bring a spiral-bound notebook instead.

Spiral-bound notebooks fall apart with the amount of cutting and gluing done in the science notebooks, while composition notebooks have turned out to be much more durable.

For this project, the composition notebooks would be given to students who bring spiral-bound notebooks instead.

Pencils are always a huge issue in any elementary school classroom. We never seem to have enough of them, so classroom teachers always use prep time to sharpen them. I have tried many ways to solve this problem: students checking out pencils, pencil war competitions, and community pencils in the classroom. Nothing seems to work.

Next year, I will continue to have a classroom supply of pencils, but I have to find a way for "my" pencils to stand out among the students'. I feel that if I have black pencils (students rarely have black pencils of their own) after a student borrows one, they will know they need to give it back. When desks are cleaned, students will also know the black pencils go back into the community bucket. Problems solved... I hope anyway.

A great pencil sharpener is also important to keep our black classroom pencils sharp, and zipper pouches will help us organize and house the pencils for each table group!

Mrs. Bauer
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dixon Ticonderoga Wood-Cased #2 Pencils, Pre-Sharpened, Pack of 60, Black (13915) (60) • Amazon Business $26.49 3 $79.47
Bostitch Office SuperPro Glow Extra Heavy Duty Commercial Classroom Electric Pencil Sharpener with Replaceable Cutter Cartridge System, 6-Hole, Silver/Black (EPS14HC) • Amazon Business $74.97 1 $74.97
Mead Composition Notebooks, 6 Pack, College Ruled Paper, 7-1/2" x 9-3/4", 100 Sheets, Assorted Bright Colors (850106-ECM) • Amazon Business $11.42 5 $57.10
Marspark 48 Pieces 3 Ring Pencil Pouch Pencil Bag Pencil Zipper Pouches for 3 Ring Binder Pencil Pouch Bulk Pencil Cases with Clear Window for Office Supplies(Multicolor) • Amazon Business $41.79 1 $41.79

Materials cost

$253.33

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$287.13

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$50.67

Total project goal

$337.80

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $337.80

1 Donor

-$143.56

Donations toward project cost

-$143.56

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$168.91

Match offer toward project cost

-$143.57

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.34

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$25.33

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 $0.00

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