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Ms. Ormsbee from Staten Island, NY is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bringing The Classroom To Life With Art

My students need sketching pencils, heavy-duty paper, dual-tip markers, oil pastels, and other art supplies to incorporate art instruction and design into our classroom.

  • $325 goal

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My Students

Building connections between old and new knowledge helps enlighten and enhance learning. Classroom discussions help broaden my students' knowledge base about the topics and ideas we're studying. Although my students attend a Title I school, they love working together, discussing new topics, as well as making connections between what they're learning and the real-world.

My students range in abilities and languages spoken--they are diverse learners who need a variety of teaching strategies to help them learn.

They love learning and thrive for knowledge.

My Project

My students love to express themselves through art, music, and drama.

And each year, my students start school with a blank canvas classroom and as the year progresses, they help turn it into a masterpiece.

They use the classroom art supplies to transform the room. They use oil pastels to create self-portraits. They use sketching pencils, coloring pencils, and markers to show their learning on chart paper, to illustrate their stories and comics, to build and design props for their upcoming performances, and to write inspirational quotes and sayings. They use watercolors painted onto the thick paper to go along with their original poems.

The art they create and the projects they invent are all possible when the materials are available in the room.

And it is them...my students who make the classroom into a home.

Ms. Ormsbee PS 13 M L Lindemeyer Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Staten Island, NY View local requests

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

25 students impacted 20donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Ohuhu 40 Colors Dual Tips Permanent Marker Pens Art Markers for Kids, Highlighter Pen with Carrying Case for Drawing Sketching Adult Coloring Highlighting and Underlining • Amazon Business $19.49 3 $58.47
Paper Mate Flair Felt Tip Pens, Medium Point (0.7mm), Black, 12 Count • Amazon Business $11.99 3 $35.97
Dixon Ticonderoga Wood-Cased #2 HB Pencils, Box of 96, Yellow (13872) • Amazon Business $9.96 3 $29.88
20013-2509-Sakura Cray-Pas Junior Artist Oil Pastels - Assorted Colors, Set of 25 • Blick Art Materials $2.77 10 $27.70
Sax Drawing Paper - 70 pound - 9 x 12 inches - Pack of 500 - White • Amazon Business $12.42 2 $24.84
Crayola Colored Pencils, 64 Count, Adult Coloring • Amazon Business $7.99 3 $23.97
20411-2009-Prismacolor Ebony Pencil - Graphite, Pack of 12 • Blick Art Materials $5.68 3 $17.04
Standard Shipping • Blick Art Materials $9.95 1 $9.95
Sargent Art 36 Count Premium Pink Eraser Class Pack, Best Buy Assortment, 36-1012 • Amazon Business $9.39 1 $9.39

Materials cost

$237.21

Vendor shipping charges

 $5.47

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.56

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$276.24

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.75

Total project goal

$324.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $324.99

20 Donors

-$280.68

Donations toward project cost

-$276.24

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$4.44

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$44.31

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 $0.00

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