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Ms. F.'s classroom raised $211

Seven Skills for Second Grade!

My students need 29 children's books, from "The Giving Tree" to "The Day It Rained Tortillas".

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Ms. F.
Grades PreK-2

My Students

Most of my students have never traveled outside of Florida. These 20 books will expose them to the worlds (both magical and real) that exist outside of their neighborhoods.

I teach first grade at a low income charter school in Florida.

Many of my students started the school year significantly behind grade level. Throughout the year, I have worked to shape my students into active thinkers who feel empowered by their own learning. Now my class feels comfortable asking questions about the world---those beloved essential WHY questions---that every teacher loves to hear. These books will help me provide them with the answers.

My Project

I am requesting 20 books that will build and enhance critical thinking skills, multicultural awareness, and communication standards in my diverse class of 21 students. Each book will be examined as a targeted lesson. Accompanying discussion questions will broach reading comprehension strategies as well as fundamental understandings of our world. For example, Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree not only exemplifies sequence of events, but it also underscores the importance of selflessness and empathy. Purposefully using literature in this way allows my students to appreciate literacy as way to gain more information about the world and their own lives.

America is becoming a rapidly diverse nation.

My students come from all over the world, but see little of their own background reflected in the curriculum. This small addition to my classroom library will have an exponential effect on my students' appreciation of their own culture and their place in the world. As a first grade teacher, I am setting them on the road to reading and to building positive relationships. These books will help me do both.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

21 students impacted 4 donors
Ms. F. Grades PreK-2

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

21 students impacted 4donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Hop on Pop Dr. Seuss, Dr Seuss • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
The Foot Book: Dr. Seuss's Wacky Book of Opposites Dr. Seuss, Seuss • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! Dr. Seuss • Barnes and Noble $4.49 1 $4.49
The Sneetches & Other Stories Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $10.76 1 $10.76
Whistle for Willie Ezra Jack Keats, Ezra Jack Keats (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
The Snowy Day Ezra Jack Keats • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Peter's Chair Ezra Jack Keats, Ezra Jack Keats (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
A Letter to Amy Ezra Jack Keats, Ezra Jack Keats (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
The Tiny Seed Eric Carle, Eric Carle (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle, Eric Carle (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.91 1 $7.91
Little Cloud Eric Carle, Patricia Lee Gauch (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
A Seed Is Sleepy Dianna Hutts Aston, Sylvia Long (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.23 1 $12.23
An Egg Is Quiet Dianna Hutts Aston, Sylvia Long (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.23 1 $12.23
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears: A West African Tale Verna Aardema, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $7.19 1 $7.19
Nappy Hair Carolivia Herron, Joe Cepeda (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
People Could Fly: American Black Folktales Leo Dillon, Leo Dillon (Illustrator), Diane Dillon (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $9.36 1 $9.36
The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein, Shel Silverstein (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.23 1 $12.23
The Day It Snowed Tortillas / El dia que nevo tortilla: Folk Tales Retold by Joe Hayes Joe Hayes, Antonio Castro L. (Illustrator), Joe Hayes (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $9.32 1 $9.32
My Mexico/Mexico Mio Tony Johnston, F. John Sierra (Illustrator), F. John Sierra • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29

Materials cost

$145.92

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.19

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$183.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$27.36

Total project goal

$210.47

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $210.47

3 Donors

-$210.47

Donations toward project cost

-$183.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.36

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