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Mrs. Beichley from Lees Summit MO is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Bringing Our Writing to Life!

My students need art supplies, blank books, and examples of fantastic picture books for our students to turn their writing into real books.

  • $2,141 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Think of picking up your favorite picture book to read alone or to a child. Now, picture that book being one you have written and illustrated! Our goal is to plant a lifelong love of writing and creating by having students make their very own books from start to finish.

We have a fantastic group of kids at our school.

We are a tight knit community and love to partner with the businesses along with other schools. Our students come from very diverse backgrounds and have different needs from student to student. Our staff and students have a love for learning and sharing what they have learned with their families and other grade levels. We are a K-6 building and we try to work with other grade levels to learn a vast amount of curriculum. We also try to do cross-curricular learning whenever possible. We love to display our work not only at our school but across the city.

My Project

As our students progress in their writing process we would like for them to take the process from start, with a rough draft and take it all the way to a "published" book. Our vision is for the students to write their own books and then use their art skills and different mediums to create their book. Students will write the book and then plan out the illustrations and what materials they feel would be the best fit to convey what they are trying to share with the reader. We will be starting by showing a wide variety of texts to inspire and give examples of all the amazing things our future authors and illustrators can create. The students will then go through the entire writing process from pre-writing, revising, editing, and will then start the artistic part of the project by working with the requested blank books along with all the paper, stickers, different kinds of markers, crayons, and pencils to bring their books to life by adding amazing illustrations to share with our class.

This donation would make this project a reality.

Unfortunately often materials for art projects are the last thing we can use our money to purchase for our classrooms. Our students will be able to activate both sides of their brains by using the left side to organize, write, and edit. Then they will have the chance to use the right side of their brain for their creativity for the arts while creating their book as they see it in their minds using a wide variety of materials.

Mrs. Beichley
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Elmo MO-1 Black Visual Presenter, 5.0 Megapixel • Staples Advantage $358.99 1 $358.99
PENCIL COLOR PK480 - SCHOOL SMART • School Specialty $58.92 3 $176.76
Rainbow Brights Books Options: 20 Books, Color: Assorted • Teachers' School Supply $27.99 6 $167.94
Rainbow Brights Books Options: 20 Books, Color: White • Teachers' School Supply $27.99 6 $167.94
CRAYONS PRANG MASTERPACK SET OF 800 • School Specialty $49.69 3 $149.07
ART MARKER FINELINE SET OF 200 - SCHOOL SMART • School Specialty $28.25 3 $84.75
SHARPIE FIN BLK CANISTER 36/PK • School Specialty $27.68 3 $83.04
PENCIL #2 PACK OF 144 - SCHOOL SMART • School Specialty $11.35 6 $68.10
MARKER MR SKETCH SCENTED SET OF 12 • School Specialty $9.22 6 $55.32
MARKER PERMANENT FINE ASSORTED SAN30072 SET OF 12 • School Specialty $8.73 6 $52.38
GLUESTICK ELMER'S CLEAR .24OZ 30-PK • School Specialty $12.63 4 $50.52
ERASER LYRA ORLOW-TECHNO PLASTIC PACK OF 20 • School Specialty $14.19 3 $42.57
Arts with the Brain in Mind • Amazon Business $21.80 1 $21.80
CORRECTION TAPE WITE-OUT EZ CORRECT WHITE PACK OF 10 • School Specialty $21.29 1 $21.29
POST-IT SUPER STKY NOTE LINED 5 X 8 MARRAKESH MMM5845SSAN PACK OF 4 • School Specialty $14.90 1 $14.90
POST-IT NOTES LINED 3 X 5 JAIPUR MMM6355AU PACK OF 5 • School Specialty $14.19 1 $14.19
PHOTOGRAPHIC SHAPE STICKER SET • School Specialty $13.48 1 $13.48
BOOK FOR ALL SEASONS SEAL STICKERS • School Specialty $12.42 1 $12.42
Sleep Like a Tiger (Caldecott Medal - Honors Winning Title(s)) • Amazon Business $11.44 1 $11.44
Stick and Stone • Amazon Business $10.69 1 $10.69
The Day the Crayons Quit • Amazon Business $10.32 1 $10.32
Beautiful Oops! • Amazon Business $10.12 1 $10.12
Press Here • Amazon Business $9.09 1 $9.09
The Book with No Pictures • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
BOOK REWARD STICKERS FOR HOLIDAYS PACK OF 360 • School Specialty $7.73 1 $7.73
STICKERS WIGGLE EYE BLACK • School Specialty $7.38 1 $7.38
Where the Wild Things Are • Amazon Business $6.00 1 $6.00
The Very Hungry Caterpillar • Amazon Business $5.52 1 $5.52

Materials cost

$1,642.74

Vendor shipping charges

$122.34

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$24.64

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,819.72

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$321.13

Total project goal

$2,140.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$2,140.85

1 Donor

-$2,140.85

Donations toward project cost

-$1,819.72

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$321.13

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$0.00

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