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Mrs. P. from SC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Building Readers One Book At a Time

My students need 13 sets of books by our favorite authors!

  • $490 goal

This project expired on November 20, 2014.

This project expired on November 20, 2014.

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

Have you ever walked into a room and discovered a room full of reading kids? My students need more books to help crave their amazing reading appetites!

I have been teaching first grade for the last 6 years.

Throughout the years I have been able to grow my library, but it never seems to grow as fast as my students' desires to read! My first graders always love their reading time, whether it is independent reading or a read aloud on the carpet. I teach at a wonderful school that focuses on teaching through inquiry. Our students work hard despite the numerous challenges they face.

My Project

I would love to help build our class library even more by adding lots of new books by our favorite authors! After I read a book aloud, the kids love to add it to their bag of books. Having these copies of our favorite read alouds by Eric Carle, Mem Fox, Lois Ehlert and Kevin Henkes would allow the kids to have copies to read during their independent reading time too!

Please help build my students' reading skills by helping us get lots of new books for our classroom.

They will be able to fall in love with fabulous authors like Eric Carle, Mem Fox, and Patricia Polacco!

Mrs. P.
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Pete the Cat (6 bk set) • AKJ Books $48.06 1 $48.06
Mercer Mayer (12 bk set) • AKJ Books $42.09 1 $42.09
Kevin Henkes (6 bk set) • AKJ Books $38.44 1 $38.44
William Steig (5 bk set) • AKJ Books $28.82 1 $28.82
Lois Ehlert (5 bk set) • AKJ Books $26.63 1 $26.63
Donald Crews (5 bk set) • AKJ Books $23.61 1 $23.61
Patricia Polacco (4 bk set) • AKJ Books $22.91 1 $22.91
Eric Carle (4 bk set) • AKJ Books $22.91 1 $22.91
Mem Fox (4 bk set) • AKJ Books $22.19 1 $22.19
Ezra Jack Keats (4 bk set) • AKJ Books $21.43 1 $21.43
Steve Jenkins (4 bk set) • AKJ Books $21.34 1 $21.34
Eve Bunting (4 bk set) • AKJ Books $20.66 1 $20.66
James Marshall (4 bk set) • AKJ Books $16.22 1 $16.22

Materials cost

$355.31

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $25.05

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.33

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$415.69

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$73.36

Total project goal

$489.05

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