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Multicultural Books For Us!

My students need a collection of multicultural books, including a set of big books and titles such as "Africa Is Not a Country" and "I Love My Hair".

Mrs. Kaufman Chester Park Center for Literacy Andtech

Chester, SC Grades PreK-2

I am a kindergarten teacher in a high-need community, 79% of the children in my class receive free lunch. There are twenty-five children in my classroom and only a handful has basic literacy knowledge necessary for the kindergarten curriculum and South Carolina State Standards. My students began kindergarten unprepared and need a huge boost to prepare them for the prosperous future. Eighty-five percent of the children in my classroom have no one to read to them outside of the classroom on a regular basis; because of this my students lack interest in reading or looking at books independently.

This project is geared toward helping, my five year old students, to become excited about reading independently by putting high quality multicultural literature in their hands. My goal is that by providing students with books where they see themselves in the illustrations and situations they will find value and enjoyment in reading. These books would not only help the students develop success in reading and therefore a love of reading but also engage them in exploring who they are as African American Children who are valued and loved.

For this project I am requesting the purchase of 21 pictures books and 1 set of big books. These books represent situations that my students find themselves in such as: parents in prison, living with extended family members, learning to love their skin color, learning to love their hair, living in poverty, and learning to love the cultural heritage from which they come from. These books will be put directly in the hands of each child daily. Students spend fifteen minutes a day exploring self selected books. The children are given a tote bag to keep their favorite books for a week; students are allowed to explore and reread these books as often as possible. Kindergarten is the time for students to build a love of reading so that they will become life long readers and develop into successful members of society. Please help us purchase these books so that we can learn about our culture and love to read.

This project will help 25 children who entered school with unprepared learns to love to read and explore their cultural heritage. By funding this project you make it possible for these children to no longer have books that represent cultures other than their own.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

25 students impacted 10 donors

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Chester, SC
Grades PreK-2
Literacy
Social Sciences
Traditional School
Books
Nearly all students from low‑income households

Mrs. Kaufman Chester Park Center for Literacy Andtech Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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 10donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total

No Bad News Kenneth Cole, John Ruebartsch • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15

Our Gracie Aunt Jacqueline Woodson, Jon J. Muth (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 1 $5.39

My Pop Pop and Me Irene Smalls-Hector, Cathy Ann Johnson (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39

Nappy Hair Carolivia Herron, Joe Cepeda (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29

Africa Is Not a Country Margy Burns Knight, Margy Knight, Anne Sibley O'Brien (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.95 1 $8.95

AV211 - Papa, Do You Love Me? Hardcover Book • Lakeshore Learning $15.95 1 $15.95

AV223 - Kevin and His Dad Hardcover Book • Lakeshore Learning $16.99 1 $16.99

AV226 - I Am America Hardcover Book • Lakeshore Learning $14.95 1 $14.95

AV222 - All Kinds of Children Hardcover Book • Lakeshore Learning $16.99 1 $16.99

Barber's Cutting Edge Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert, Raymond Holbert (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15

In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers Javaka Steptoe (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15

Do Like Kyla Angela Johnson, James Ransome (Illustrator), James Ransome (Photographer) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

I Love My Hair Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, E. B. Lewis (Illustrator), Earl B. Lewis (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29

Mr. George Baker Amy Hest, Jon J. Muth (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29

When I Am Old with You Angela Johnson, David Soman (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Jamaica's Blue Marker Juanita Havill, Anne Sibley O'Brien (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25

Visiting Day Jacqueline Woodson, James Ransome (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.35 1 $14.35

Goggles! Ezra Jack Keats, Ezra Jack Keats (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29

No Mirrors in My Nana's House Ysaye M. Barnwell, Synthia Saint James (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.20 1 $7.20

Yesterday I Had the Blues Jeron Ashford Frame • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45

Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life Jerdine Nolen, Kadir Nelson (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.25 1 $15.25

Please, Baby, Please Spike Lee, Tonya Lewis Lee, Kadir Nelson (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19

BK740X - Multicultural Big Book Set • Lakeshore Learning $109.00 1 $109.00

Materials cost			$334.41
Vendor shipping charges			$33.44
Sales tax			$16.72
3rd party payment processing fee			$8.36
Fulfillment labor & materials			$17.00
Total project cost			$410.00
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$90.00
Total project goal			$500.00
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$500.00
9 Donors			-$482.36
Donations toward project cost			-$410.00
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$72.36
Excluded support for DonorsChoose			-$17.64
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$0.00

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