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Ms. Long from Los Angeles, CA is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Brain Boost Sketchbooks: Unlocking Creativity and Gratitude

Help me give my students quality sketchbooks to use for nature drawing, visual journaling, practicing gratitude, and other artistic, brain-based activities.

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My Project

I teach in a school where the student population is linguistically and culturally diverse, and which serves a community with families from all over the world. I am always looking for highly engaging, creative ways to tap into my students' hunger for knowledge and their curiosity about the world, whether it is through art, music, dance, or literature. I see the exciting possibilities that I can make available to my students who need opportunities to explore creative and critical thinking through different learning modalities.

Sketching has been scientifically proven to improve memory, increase creativity, improve fine motor skills, and strengthen brain functions--all good things to have for our students.

It is also a wonderful way to promote social-emotional learning in the classroom.

For the past three years, we've used sketchbooks on a regular basis, and it has become an inspiring way for students to show their creativity and learning. These mixed media sketchbooks will give my students valuable opportunities to observe the world around them, as well as use their imagination to express their thoughts and feelings. Because sketchbooks are such a versatile learning tool, I will be able to plan a variety of art lessons that can be integrated with all content areas: nature sketching with science, exploring geometry with sketching two- and three-dimensional shapes, musically-inspired free-drawing and cartooning, and learning vocabulary, to name a few. We will also use them weekly for our gratitude practice, sketching words and images of things we are thankful for. Sketchbooks will also be an informative assessment tool for me as the teacher, since I'll be able to view and trace progress over time.

Ms. Long Fairburn Avenue Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Los Angeles, CA View local requests 24 students impacted 34donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Canson© XL© Mixed Media Pad - 7 in. x 10 in. - 60 Sheets - 98 lb. • Nasco $7.16 26 $186.16

Materials cost

$186.16

Vendor shipping charges

 $18.62

Sales tax

 $17.03

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.79

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$254.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$44.93

Total project goal

$299.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $299.53

31 Donors

-$231.97

Donations toward project cost

-$225.72

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$6.25

match offer

-$33.98

Match offer toward project cost

-$28.88

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.10

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$33.58

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 $0.00

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