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Mrs. R.'s classroom raised $303

Kids Pick The Winner!

My students need 19 nominees for the South Carolina's Children's Book Award.

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Mrs. R.
Grades 3-5

My Students

Inspiration. That is often the difference between a good reader and an avid book-lover. I want my students to love reading and I think participation in the South Carolina Children's Book Award Program will ignite a love of reading in my students.

My students come from a middle income homes and have mostly 2 parent working families.

Our town has 3 military bases, so approximately 33% of our students come from military families. They are involved in many after school activities and because of this, rarely have time for reading. They also love movies (and stars), entertainment, and the latest video game craze. Thanks to all of this high tech interactivity, many of them have a hard time seeing how engaging curling up with a good book can be. I believe that many students just haven't found the right book to ignite that love of reading. By participating in the SC Book Award Program, my students will be exposed to 20 high quality pieces of literature and also feel like their opinions of the books matter because they will be voting on which ones they like the most. I feel like this will be highly motivational to students who often wonder if what they are doing in school is really relevant to the "outside world"

My Project

We will not just be reading these books; we will discuss overall themes and issues relative to the genres of the different books, as well as work on book talks/reviews and literature discussions. Despite the fact that all students will be reading a different book, there is much to be discussed about quality literature that is applicable to any book. The SCASL provides podcasts with book talks for each of the books also. We will watch these as we discuss the books we are choosing to read and then we will take that knowledge and learn to give book talks and record them to show to other 4th grade classes in our school. This project will then impact the students on many levels. I hope it will inspire them to read many pieces of quality literature (they have 20 to choose from!), they will learn to use technology as we listen to the podcasts and then film our own, and they will work on writing good book reviews to motivate others to read the books.

By donating to this project, you will allow my students to read high quality literature and feel like they are making a difference by voting on the South Carolina Children's Book of the Year.

25 students impacted 11 donors
Mrs. R. Grades 3-5 25 students impacted 11donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
100 Days and 99 Nights Alan Madison • Barnes and Noble $5.12 1 $5.12
42 Miles Tracie Vaughn Zimmer, Elaine Clayton (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.99 1 $12.99
A Dog on His Own Mary Jane Auch • Barnes and Noble $5.93 1 $5.93
All the Lovely Bad Ones: A Ghost Story Mary Downing Hahn • Barnes and Noble $10.94 1 $10.94
Breakfast in the Rainforest: A Visit with Mountain Gorillas Richard Sobol, Richard Sobol (Photographer), Leonardo DiCaprio (Afterword) • Barnes and Noble $15.41 1 $15.41
Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak Kay Winters, Larry Day (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.61 1 $14.61
Every Soul a Star Wendy Mass • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
Farmer George Plants a Nation Peggy Thomas, Layne Johnson (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.57 1 $14.57
Found (Missing Series #1) Margaret Peterson Haddix • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
George Washington Carver Tonya Bolden, In Association Museum, Field Museum • Barnes and Noble $15.39 1 $15.39
I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer Carole Boston Weatherford, Eric Velasquez (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.76 1 $13.76
Lady Liberty Matt Tavares, Matt Tavares (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.61 1 $14.61
Lost and Found Andrew Clements, Mark Elliott (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
Skylar Mary Cuffe-Perez, Renata Liwska (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.16 1 $12.16
The Gollywhopper Games Jody Feldman, Victoria Jamieson (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $5.97 1 $5.97
Leanin' Dog K. A. Nuzum • Barnes and Noble $10.93 1 $10.93
The Totally Made-up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish Claudia Mills • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
When the Wolves Returned: Restoring Nature's Balance in Yellowstone Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, Dan Hartman (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.27 1 $12.27
Wild Tracks!: A Guide to Nature's Footprints Jim Arnosky • Barnes and Noble $10.22 1 $10.22

Materials cost

$210.04

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $14.81

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.15

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$263.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$39.30

Total project goal

$302.30

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $302.30

7 Donors

-$302.30

Donations toward project cost

-$263.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.30

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