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Ms. Olsen from San Francisco CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Books That Add Spice

The cost of the Books is $571, including shipping and <a target="new" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm" onclick="g_openWindow('http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm', 300, 800, 'fulfillwindow');return false;">fulfillment</a>.

  • $586 goal

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My latest favorite subject to teach in my first grade classroom is writing. Our day today was chock full of writing, and our current genre is fiction. We read a funny book and mapped out the beginning, middle, and end, and identified the problem and the solution. The students then got a chance to map out their own stories, which some turned into rough drafts. A few of them even arrived at the editing and final draft stages. You wouldn't believe how many of these six and seven-year-olds begged to stay in during recess so that they could work on their stories! You can see why I love teaching writing! Despite the students' enthusiasm and speed, there is work to be done on in room. Their stories lacked powerful beginnings and endings and exciting words. Some of them need help with their ideas and are simply retelling familiar fairy tales at this point. Others need help with sentence fluency and organization. This is the one of the two proposals I am putting together to add books to our classroom library that will be used to improve my students' writing. I am reading a book about the traits of writing, and these are books that are suggested as good models of ideas, fluency, organization, word choice, voice, and conventions. I chose hardcover editions so that they would last as long as possible, and they will be shared, like everything in my classroom, with a fellow first grade teacher with whom I collaborate closely. Thank you for spicing up our writing!

Ms. Olsen
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Mem Fox, Julie Vivas (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Sidewalk Circus Paul Fleischman, Kevin Hawkes (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.39 1 $14.39
Moon Rope/Un lazo a la luna Lois Ehlert, Amy Prince (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $15.30 1 $15.30
Double Trouble in Walla Walla Andrew Clements, Salvatore Murdocca (Illustrator), Sal Murdocca (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.35 1 $14.35
Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.89 1 $11.89
Snowman Raymond Briggs, Raymond Briggs (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.60 1 $13.60
Old Henry Joan W. Blos, Stephen Gammell (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
I'm in Charge of Celebrations Byrd Baylor, Peter Parnell (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $17.05 1 $17.05
Flower Garden Eve Bunting, Kathryn Hewitt (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.30 1 $6.30
Mean Soup Betsy Everitt, B. Everitt • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40
When Sophie Gets Angry -- Really, Really Angry... Molly Bang, Molly Garrett Bang (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.76 1 $12.76
Who Is the Beast? Keith Baker, Keith Baker (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40
Charlie Anderson Barbara Abercrombie, Mark Graham (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
Miss Spider's Tea Party (Miss Spider Series) David Kirk, Neeley, Antoinette White (Editor), David Kirk (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.25 1 $15.25
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg D. B. Johnson, Donald B. Johnson (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.25 1 $6.25
Dear Mr. Blueberry Simon James, Simon James (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.29 1 $6.29
My Chair Betsy James, Mary Newell DePalma (Illustrator), Mary Newell DePalma (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $15.25 1 $15.25
Cinder Edna Ellen B. Jackson, Kevin O'Malley (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Don't Take Your Snake for a Stroll Karin Ireland, David Catrow (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40
Wolf Who Cried Boy Bob Hartman, Tim Raglin (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
How Are You Peeling? Foods with Moods Saxton Freymann, Joost Elffers • Barnes and Noble $13.56 1 $13.56
Yesterday I Had the Blues Jeron Ashford Frame, Paul Owen Lewis, R. Gregory Christie, R. Gregory Christie (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
The Magic Hat Mem Fox, Tricia Tusa (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon Patty Lovell, David Catrow (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.79 1 $12.79
Straight Line Wonder Mem Fox, Marc Rosenthal (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Feathers and Fools Mem Fox, Nicholas Wilton, Nicholas Wilton (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40
Where Is the Green Sheep? Mem Fox, Judy Horacek, Judy Horacek (Illustrator), Judy Horacek (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40
Time for Bed Mem Fox, Jane Dyer (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.80 1 $12.80
Whoever You Are Mem Fox, Leslie Staub, Leslie Staub (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40
Tough Boris Mem Fox, Kathryn Brown (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.40 1 $14.40

Materials cost

$386.54

Vendor shipping charges

 $38.65

Sales tax

 $28.02

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.66

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$480.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$105.37

Total project goal

$585.37

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $585.37

3 Donors

-$566.47

Donations toward project cost

-$480.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$86.47

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$18.90

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