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Ms. Tindle from Philadelphia, PA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Keeping Learning Fun and Engaging with Interactive Notebooks!

My students need a class set of scissors, pencils, crayons, glue, markers, and postage notes in order to create interactive notebooks that help them remain excited and engaged in math, reading, writing, and science lessons.

  • $325 goal

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This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My students walk into the building every morning knowing that they are in a safe heaven. A place where they will be well taken care of, fed, and nourished mind, body, and soul by the dedicated teachers/staff that work here. Most of my students come from severely impoverished households within the lower Kensington area that is saturated with issues of substance abuse and violence. When a student is asked why they don't have the basic necessary supplies (pencils, paper, seasonally appropriate attire), I have been honestly told on multiple occasions, "My mom had to buy us food."

I cannot imagine waking up and going to school as carefree as most of these children do knowing the challenges that await at home.

However, I do understand that these students get up and come to school smiling because the school provides them with hope. We enrich their minds with literature, math, arts, and sciences. With what little resources we find, we manage to give them the power to dream big. By providing them with every tool possible, we enable those dreams to come true even in the face of great challenge.

My Project

I strive to keep learning fun and engaging for students whom often have more than just schooling sitting on their minds. In order to do this I have started to implement interactive notebooks in my lessons. This enables students to break away from the constraints of sitting and mindlessly copying down notes off the board for hours. Instead, students are given guided opportunities during the lessons to color, cut out, glue, and fill in thoroughly planned out informational diagrams, illustrations, flow charts, poetry, and graphs. They then apply sticky notes to the top of each section that represents a new skill so they may refer back to those pages during future lessons. Notebooks have a “left-side, right-side” orientation to help students record, organize, and process new information in creative and meaningful ways!

Students become hands-on with their work and thus; students can express their interpretations and reactions to the content through creative ideas.

As the note books are completed throughout the year, students use them as reference books for review of skills. My students begin to gain a sense of self ownership over their education and take pride in knowing that they are working on creating a valuable resource that can be used to help them in the next grade as well.

I have used interactive notebooks for the past two years and have sadly drained my personal funds doing so. I give my all for my students and would like to continue to provide them with this resource. With your aide, these materials will provide the children with the opportunity to become fully immersed in their education in a way that is both enjoyable and highly effective in passing on knowledge to create lifelong learners.

Ms. Tindle
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Binney & Smith Crayola Classpack Crayons, Assorted Colors, 800/Ct • Staples Advantage $60.10 1 $60.10
Jr. Stainless Steel Scissors, 12-Piece Classpacks, Assorted, Blunt Tip, 5" Full • Staples Advantage $23.99 2 $47.98
Staples Copy Paper, LETTER-Size, 92/104 US/Euro Brightness, 20 lb., 8 1/2" x 11", 1 Case, 10 Reams, 5,000 sheets • Staples Advantage $33.28 1 $33.28
Staples Yellow Pencils, No. 2, Soft, 72/Pk • Staples Advantage $7.99 3 $23.97
Elmer's Glue Stick Class Pack, Purple, 30/Pk • Staples Advantage $6.55 3 $19.65
Post-it Notes, 1-3/8" x 1-7/8", Cape Town Collection, 12 Pads/Pack • Staples Advantage $8.49 2 $16.98
Westcott Kids Value Scissors with Blunt Tip, 5", Assorted Colors • Staples Advantage $1.69 7 $11.83
Binney & Smith Crayola Nonwashable Regular Markers, Conical Tip, Broad Line, Assorted Colors, 12/Pk • Staples Advantage $2.11 5 $10.55
Elmer's Washable School Glue, 4 oz. • Staples Advantage $0.94 10 $9.40
Staples School Glue, 1 Gallon • Staples Advantage $8.28 1 $8.28

Materials cost

$242.02

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.63

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$275.65

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.64

Total project goal

$324.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $324.29

6 Donors

-$162.14

Donations toward project cost

-$137.82

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.32

match offer

-$162.15

Match offer toward project cost

-$137.83

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.32

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