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Mrs. S. from Lake View, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Book-of-the-Month, SCHOOLWIDE!

My students need 28 copies of "Recess Queen" by Alexis O'Neill and 29 copies of "The Quiltmaker's Gift" by Jeff Brumbeau.

  • $1,116 goal

This project expired on April 12, 2009.

This project expired on April 12, 2009.

Mrs. S. Pinehurst Elementary School
Lake View, NY Grades PreK-2

As a teacher of multi-age Kindergarten and 1st grade students, I have seen the joy that reading can bring and the power that books can have to teach and provide a vehicle for engaging students in interactive conversations.

As a teacher leader, implementing a common book-of-the-month, school-wide, with my young students as the leaders will be an agent for change for our school community. The challenge with the implementation is the overwhelming cost involved in providing books for each of our 32 classrooms. A book in each classroom will provide students with a common theme-literacy as as a motivating force for change through authentic conversation!

My K/1 students have chosen these books because of their specific moral messages. These messages involving building community and resolving conflicts will help our school work on these specific messages together and over the period of an entire month. The use of read-alouds, rich conversations and strategy development for dealing with these common issues will help everyone to take ownership for finding solutions and "being" the change that we need.

Your support of this project has the potential of empowering my young students to be literacy leaders in our school--to help reenergize, inspire and recommit ourselves to our literacy purpose and focus in our school community.

Half of students from low‑income households

Never Before Funded 620 students impacted
Mrs. S. Pinehurst Elementary School Grades PreK-2 Lake View, NY 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

Never Before Funded 620 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Recess Queen Alexis O'Neill, Alexis O'Neil, Laura Huliska-Beith (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.59 28 $380.52
Quiltmaker's Gift Jeff Brumbeau, Gail De Marcken (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.39 29 $417.31

Materials cost

$797.83

Vendor shipping charges

 $79.78

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$19.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$915.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$200.85

Total project goal

$1,115.85

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