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Mrs. Colestock from Lakewood, CO is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mrs. Colestock's classroom raised $266

Read Around El Mundo

My students need 1-5 copies each of 17 Spanish translations, including "Las Aventuras Del Capitan Calzoncillos (The Adventures of Captain Underpants)" and "Clifford Va de Viaje".

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Mrs. Colestock Alameda International Junior Senior High School
Lakewood, CO Grades 9-12

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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.

Captain Underpants say, "Struggling students deserve our support!" I work in an extremely highly affected school, where many of our students will be the first in their families to finish high school or even think about college as a possible option for their futures.

For so long, my students have felt neglected by the community--newer, fancier schools were built, providing "those other kids" with all sorts of support and resources, but our community seems to have been left behind. Our kids have a hard time staying positively focused on their potential--which is immense--when all around them they see signs that lead them to feel otherwise. One of their greatest weaknesses has been literacy, both in English and, for many, in their native Spanish. We are making great headway with these students in their reading and writing, but they still are wary of books and mistrusting of the enjoyment that can come from them. You can help us change that!

We want to start the school year off on the right foot. Working with enthusiastic teachers at all levels across our part of the district, we'd like to see our students reading to each other. For some, this will be simply a chance to relive their favorite childhood tales; for others, a chance to fine tune their pronunciation in Spanish; for many, it will be a chance to interact with the written word in a non-threatening and fun way, a theme we then want to bring back into the classroom. By helping to create this library of enjoyable reading materials, our students will be reading with and to each other at the High School, as well as to Elementary and Middle School students as well. Engendering them with a true enjoyment of literature--of all sorts--will help them start to connect with the power of reading and how it will help prepare them for the reading that they will do after school, in college, and in life.

With your support, our kids can win on so many fronts. They will learn to see reading as something enjoyable and fun, and they will improve their reading abilities along the way, since you can't improve your literacy skills in one language without it also having a positive impact on others. Finally, a gift of this sort from the community will remind these students that they, too, are supported and encouraged to strive for their very best. For many of our students, this is truly the most important--and most glaringly missing--part of the equation.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

150 students impacted 6 donors
Mrs. Colestock Alameda International Junior Senior High School Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Lakewood, CO View local requests

More than 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

150 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
What Day Is It?/ Que Dia Es Hoy? (Green Light Readers Level 1 Series) Alex Moran, Daniel Moreton (Illustrator), Alma Flor Ada (Translator), F. Isabel Campoy (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $3.55 2 $7.10
Wilma sin limites: Como Wilma Rudolph se convirtio en la mujer mas rapida del mundo Kathleen Krull, David Diaz (Illustrator), Alma Flor Ada (Translator), F. Isabel Campoy (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $6.30 1 $6.30
Alexander y el dia terrible, horrible, espantoso, horroroso Judith Viorst, Ray Cruz (Illustrator), Alma Flor Ada (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Quienquiera que seas Mem Fox, Leslie Staub (Illustrator), Alma Flor Ada (Translator), F. Isabel Campoy (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $6.30 1 $6.30
Teatro Del Gato Garabato Alma Flor Ada, F. Isabel Campoy, F. Isabel Campoy (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.35 1 $14.35
Los Osos Berenstain y Demasiada Fiesta Berenstain • Barnes and Noble $3.59 5 $17.95
Junie B. Jones tiene un monstruo debajo de la cama (Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed) Park, Denise Brunkus (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $3.59 3 $10.77
Las buenas acciones de Clifford Norman Bridwell, Argentina Palacios (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $3.15 3 $9.45
Clifford Va de Viaje Bridwell, Norman Bridwell (Illustrator), Argentina Palacios (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $3.15 3 $9.45
Adivinanzas: Qu tiene el rey en la panza (Riddles) Longo, Manufactured by Inc. Scholastic • Barnes and Noble $3.59 2 $7.18
Monstruo, vas a comerme? Purificacion Menaya, Petra Steinmeyer • Barnes and Noble $7.15 1 $7.15
La increible y triste historia de la candida Erendida y su abuela desalmada: Siete cuentos (Innocent Erendira and Other Stories) Gabriel Garc a M rquez • Barnes and Noble $8.05 1 $8.05
La Semilla de Zanahoria Ruth Krauss, Crockett Johnson (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $3.59 3 $10.77
El Capit n Calzoncillos y la feroz batalla contra el Ni o Mocobi nico 2a Parte: La venganza de los Rid culos Mocorobots Dav Pilkey, Dav Pilkey (Illustrator), Miguel Azaola (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 3 $16.17
El Capit n Calzoncillos y la feroz batalla contra el Ni o Mocobi nico 1a Parte: La noche de los Mocos Vivientes Dav Pilkey, Miguel Azaola, Dav Pilkey (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.39 3 $16.17
El Capit n Calzoncillos y la furia de la Supermujer Macroel stica (Captain Underpants and The Wrath of The Wicked Wedgie Woman) Dav Pilkey, Miguel Azaola • Barnes and Noble $5.39 3 $16.17
Las Aventuras Del Capitan Calzoncillos (The Adventures of Captain Underpants) (Captain Underpants Series) Pilkey • Barnes and Noble $4.49 3 $13.47

Materials cost

$183.09

Vendor shipping charges

 $18.31

Sales tax

 $5.31

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$218.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$47.85

Total project goal

$265.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $265.85

4 Donors

-$132.63

Donations toward project cost

-$108.76

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.87

match offer

-$133.22

Match offer toward project cost

-$109.24

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.98

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