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Ms. Sample from Saint Louis, MO is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Binding We Will Go, A Binding We Will Go, Hi Ho!

My students need a comb binding machine with starter kit so we can create journals and other learning logs/activity booklets to promote retention of classroom lessons.

  • $323 goal

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My Students

Our Special Needs classroom is very small in space but large in spirit, heart, and class size. In our humble little space, we work with students who require repeated review of lesson materials via journals or class-made booklets to which they may refer as needed to gain success with the curriculum.

We are a Title I, public elementary school in a large, urban community in Missouri, the Show Me State.

Our Special Needs classroom serves students in grades Kindergarten through fifth grade that require services all day (self-contained) or part of their day (resource). We work with children with a large variety of strengths and challenges including ADHD, Autism, Intellectual Disability, and Multiple Disabilities. Most of our students require repeated review and drill of materials to assure retention of content. Journals are a critical resource for this. We use pre-made journal materials to assist students with organizing information instead of using spiral notebooks. Unfortunately, stapled journals do not allow additional pages to be inserted later without disassembling. Pages often unintentionally get torn away from the back of their stapled booklets. If we can find separated pages, we often end up with over stapled booklets that are increasingly difficult to write in and work with.

My Project

Our pre-made journal pages copied at our district copy center are returned to us stapled (the district does not offer a binding service). With stapled booklets, students regularly lose the last page(s), adding to their frustration. When students wish to add a page or picture to help with retention of materials, we have to remove staples and try to re staple the booklets/journals manually with the staples often not quite making it all the way through to the last page. I was able to borrow a comb binder last year to assemble spelling journals and it made an AMAZING difference. Students helped with binding which encouraged them to take ownership of the journals. Binding also made page turning easier with thicker booklets/journals and allowed materials to open flat to facilitate writing on the pages, unlike stapled booklets. Adding pages was a bit easier: after making holes into the new pages, we were able to pry open the combs and add the new pages where needed. Journals remained bound.

We need easy to maneuver journals composed of pre-printed materials for our special needs students who need assistance with note taking, review, and organizational skills.

This requires a lot of binding and an electrical binding system is ideal. We're in the Show-Me State and we're challenging you to show us you will invest in our kids who have so many challenges of their own to overcome without having to struggle with stapled booklets. Help us give them bound booklets and journals! Thanks!

Ms. Sample
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Fellowes Binding Machine, Comb, Pulsar E 300, Electric, with Starter Kit (5216701) • Amazon $214.42 1 $214.42
Fellowes Plastic Binding Combs, Round Back, 1/2", 90 Sheet Capacity, Black, 100 Pack (52326) • Amazon $6.62 4 $26.48

Materials cost

$240.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.61

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$274.51

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.44

Total project goal

$322.95

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $322.95

1 Donor

-$193.80

Donations toward project cost

-$193.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$94.95

Match offer toward project cost

-$80.71

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.24

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$34.20

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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