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Ms. Patterson from Sherman Oaks, CA is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Getting a Grip on Handwriting

Help me give my students pencil grips for classroom and home and quality wood pencils to make writing for any subject easier and more pleasurable!

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My Students

Our class is excited to return to a regular classroom day after more than a year of crisis distance learning and shorter hybrid schooldays. We have high hopes this year will bring the best of what we've missed from on-campus school with a fresh start in a new grade!

Because of the pandemic, we've gained a great many new skills for working digitally and independently, as well as practicing life skills that will help us face future challenges.

Finally, we get to bring these new ways of thinking and working back to a full in-person classroom!

My Project

After our pandemic emphasis on keyboards and screens, students need to build manual stamina and skill in writing now that we are returning to a regular classroom setting.

Students haven't had the same demands for handwriting during crisis distance learning and the hybrid return that they will have during a regular six-hour day at school.

Their manual skill and stamina for writing must be rebuilt to ensure that physical discomfort doesn't hamper their performance in the many and varied handwriting tasks required across the subject areas.

These pencil grips, enough for all students to keep one in their desk, and one in their backpack for working on assignments at home, will ensure students practice the proper way to hold a pencil, to minimize fatigue from writing and support legible penmanship. Quality wood hex pencils that sharpen well and last, and can't roll away to fall on the floor and break the lead inside, will make writing tasks less frustrating and more pleasurable. Let's get writing!

Ms. Patterson Dixie Canyon Community Charter School Grades 3-5

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Sherman Oaks, CA View local requests 32 students impacted 4donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Crossover Pencil Grip - 12 Ct $24.48 6 $146.88
Musgrave No 2 Gross Wood Case Hex $34.11 1 $34.11

Materials cost

$180.99

Vendor shipping charges

 $19.91

Sales tax

 $16.56

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.71

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$250.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$44.15

Total project goal

$294.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $294.32

2 Donors

-$244.32

Donations toward project cost

-$207.67

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$36.65

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

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 $0.00

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