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Ms. T. from Newark, NJ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Art Packs for Homework Tonight!

My students need art periodicals, artist biographies and art history books to deepen their understanding of art and to enhance their own art-making.

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

Upon entering the art room the other day, one of my students saw the supplies I had assembled and said, "I'm not sure what we're going to be doing today, but I know it's going to be fun." The best learning happens when students are engaged in something challenging and fun. When students create two and three dimensional artworks from their imaginations, sculpting with clay, painting, drawing and printmaking they experience the kind of challenge that supports their intellectual growth and achievement.

Our Pre-K to 4th grade elementary school is located in an ethnically diverse, low income, inner city neighborhood in the Northeast.

Many of my students are very talented, but families can't afford private art lessons and art-camp in the summer. To be artistically successful, our students need a top notch, public school, art education program.

My Project

I am requesting art supplies and reading materials that will promote continuity of art making and art learning while students are away from school. Each week, students will take home a different art-pack focused on a particular artist, art culture or art movement. The art-pack will include a book or magazine and art supplies for creating art related to the art-pack topic.

My plan is to create an educational art experience for my students that will integrate literacy with art and will involve families in students' arts education.

Students will complete engaging interactive art-pack activities with their parents or siblings or other family members. Art-pack activities will include readings, writing prompts and art-making projects.

Most students do not have any art supplies or art books at home.

Your donation will provide students with the opportunity to learn about art and to create art with their families. Consumable art supplies will be replenished as art-packs are returned to school each week. Students will take a different art-pack home the following week.

Ms. T. Elliott Street Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

700 students impacted 6donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Scholastic Art, Grades 7 - 12 (min. 10 subscriptions per order) - 6 Issues / Min. 10 Subscriptions / Grades 7–12 • Scholastic Classroom Magazines $8.99 10 $89.90
22076-1012 - Faber-Castell Grip Watercolor EcoPencil Set - Assorted Colors, Set of 12 • Blick Art Materials $4.99 10 $49.90
33407-1009 - Twisteez - Box of 200, 500 ft, Bulk Pack • Blick Art Materials $29.16 1 $29.16
20117-1016 - Crayola Construction Paper Crayons - Set of 16 • Blick Art Materials $2.32 10 $23.20
68342-1015 - 13 Art Movements Children Should Know - Hardcover • Blick Art Materials $12.71 1 $12.71
68342-1001 - 13 Women Artists Children Should Know (Hardcover) • Blick Art Materials $12.71 1 $12.71
68342-1002 - 13 Paintings Children Should Know (Hardcover) • Blick Art Materials $12.71 1 $12.71
68342-1004 - 13 Buildings Children Should Know (Hardcover) • Blick Art Materials $12.71 1 $12.71
68342-1014 - 13 Architects Children Should Know - Hardcover • Blick Art Materials $12.71 1 $12.71
68342-1013 - 13 Painters Children Should Know (Hardcover) • Blick Art Materials $12.71 1 $12.71
68342-1016 - 13 Art Techniques Children Should Know - Hardcover • Blick Art Materials $12.71 1 $12.71
68342-1017 - Impressionism: 13 Artists Children Should Know - Hardcover • Blick Art Materials $12.71 1 $12.71
68342-1007 - 13 Modern Artists Children Should Know (Hardcover) • Blick Art Materials $12.71 1 $12.71
68342-1005 - 13 Sculptures Children Should Know (Hardcover) • Blick Art Materials $12.71 1 $12.71
68342-1006 - 13 American Artists Children Should Know (Hardcover) • Blick Art Materials $12.71 1 $12.71
Standard Shipping • Blick Art Materials $9.95 1 $9.95
70106-1115 - Color Theory (Paperback) • Blick Art Materials $8.46 1 $8.46

Materials cost

$350.38

Vendor shipping charges

 $35.04

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$420.68

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.24

Total project goal

$494.92

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $494.92

6 Donors

-$477.27

Donations toward project cost

-$420.68

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$56.59

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.65

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