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Mrs. Perros Barrett from Sherman Oaks, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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My students need a writing center that meets their needs. They need smaller pencils, specialized writing paper, and weighted writing instruments to improve their fine motor skills and letter formation.

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My Students

In a very large public school district, I teach at a Title One elementary school of about 1000 students who come from different socioeconomic and culturally diverse backgrounds. My 26 kindergarten students come to school everyday with an "I can!" attitude. They are hardworking, energetic 5-year-old children who are excited to "show what they know!". They speak English, Spanish, Amharic, Gujarati, Japanese, and Chinese and most come from immigrant families.

With a varied level of abilities, special needs, and literacy backgrounds, one thing that my kindergarten students all have in common is their eagerness to become writers.

But one thing that poses a challenge for some of them is the lack of fine motor development. A few of my students need to strengthen their fine motor skills and improve their pencil grasp and pressure. They are struggling with letter formation and need the tools to support them.

My Project

I would like to create a writing center to help my students develop their fine motor skills. These writing tools will help them strengthen the muscles in their writing hand in order to grasp a pencil correctly and to apply the right amount of pressure when pressing a pencil onto paper. The handwriting grips and Hi-Write paper will help them attend to the lines on the paper and will improve their letter formation.

Once my students overcome this fine motor hurdle, nothing will be in their way to becoming great writers!

They will use their writing instruments with ease and will be able to communicate their ideas in print. This will help motivate them to become great writers!

Mrs. Perros Barrett Kester Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Sherman Oaks, CA View local requests

Half 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

26 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
JJ926 - Classic Birch Tabletop Writing Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $79.99 1 $79.99
PENCILS FOR LITTLE HANDS SET OF 144 • School Specialty $21.29 1 $21.29
PAPER HI-WRITE INTERMEDIATE 1 - PACK OF 100 • School Specialty $9.93 1 $9.93
ACCESSORY WRITING EGG OHS SET OF 3 • School Specialty $7.09 1 $7.09

Materials cost

$118.30

Vendor shipping charges

$3.83

Sales tax

$10.82

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.77

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$164.72

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$29.07

Total project goal

$193.79

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$193.79

4 Donors

-$193.79

Donations toward project cost

-$164.72

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.07

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$0.00

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