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Mrs. Schrank from Bronx, NY is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Handwriting Without Tears

My students need the Handwriting Without Tears classroom hands-on materials kit and letter and number charts.

  • $421 goal

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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

We are a kindergarten ICT class, 40% special education students and 60% regular education students.

My class is a class of 25 kindergartners with unique personalities and varying academic levels ranging from kindergarten to second grade.

My students are part of a larger school community of about 700 students.

Compared to other New York City Schools, we are much smaller. While our small size has a lot of pros there are also many cons; one being the lack of space that our school has along with a smaller budget. While we try to use our budget wisely providing a great number of resources for our students, we often do not have many of the things that we need to help all our students be successful.

My Project

Writing can be so daunting to a small 5 year old who is just starting school. I plan to use these tools to help slowly ease into handwriting by first exploring the letter formation with the sensory tools. These hands-on materials include roll a dough letters, stamp and screen letters, as well as wood pieces to make capital letters. By first exploring letters in this multi-sensory way kids will then be ready for "handwriting without tears." I have seen this program work wonders with individual students and they get so excited about writing. Please help us get the tools we need to fully integrate this program with our whole class.

A donation to this project will help students gain confidence in learning the alphabet and handwriting.

Proper handwriting will help for many years to come in their school career with a great start in Handwriting Without Tears in Kindergarten.

Mrs. Schrank PS 56 Norwood Heights Grades PreK-2

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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Bronx, 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 8donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Learning Without Tears • Learning Without Tears $299.00 1 $299.00
Print Letter & Number Poster • Learning Without Tears $5.95 4 $23.80

Materials cost

$322.80

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.84

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$357.64

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$63.11

Total project goal

$420.75

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $420.75

8 Donors

-$420.75

Donations toward project cost

-$357.64

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.11

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 $0.00

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