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Ms. Embry from Dallas TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

1000 Books Before Kindergarten

My students need books to take home and read with their parents daily in order to reach their goal of 1000 Books Before Kindergarten! WE also need tablets.

  • $877 goal

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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

Our school has two general education and two bilingual prekindergarten classes this year. For most of our pre-k students, this year will be their first experience at school or in a learning environment. Our pre-k students are eager to learn and love books! Almost 100% of our students come from low-income homes where books and literacy materials are scarce. Studies have found that by age four, children in middle and upper class families hear 15 million more words than children in working-class families, and 30 million more words than children in families on welfare. This disparity in hearing words from parents and caregivers translates directly into a disparity in learning words. And that puts our children born with the fewest advantages even further behind. Among those born in 2001, only 58 percent of poor children started school ready to learn, compared to 75 percent of children from middle-income families.

My Project

Our school is struggling with student achievement in reading at every grade level. Each year our reading scores are dropping at an alarming rate. In order to counteract this trend, we would like to promote literacy and reading with our early learners in order to make sure they have a solid foundation for learning to read when they enter kindergarten. By closing the vocabulary gap and promoting early reading skills, our prekindergarten students will have the language skills they need to be successful readers.

By encouraging parents to read to their children at home and providing the books and materials they need each day, we can bolster the language and cognitive learning skills of our youngest students.

This project will allow us to send home a new selection of books each night for parents to read to their children. The books can be returned the next day and swapped out for a new bag of books. The goal is for each prekindergarten student to have read 1000 books before they enter kindergarten next year. This project will allow the librarian to prepare a wide variety of book bags that can be shared among the students in order to reach the goal.

Parents and students that reach the 1000 book goal by the end of the school year will be entered in a drawing for a Kindle Fire tablet as a prize for their commitment to the program.

Ms. Embry
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Amazon - Fire 7 - 7'- Tablet - 8GB 7th Generation, 2017 Release - Black • Best Buy Education $51.06 3 $153.18
Pre-Reading: Key Letters Fiction Set C • AKJ Education $40.88 1 $40.88
Pre-Reading: Key Letters Fiction Set B • AKJ Education $40.88 1 $40.88
Pre-Reading: Key Letters Fiction Set A • AKJ Education $40.88 1 $40.88
AKJ Preschool Assortment (14 Books) • AKJ Education $25.20 1 $25.20
Schoolies • AKJ Education $10.50 2 $21.00
Can't Wait to Read! (12 Bk Set) • AKJ Education $21.00 1 $21.00
Oldies but Goodies - Fairytales (10 Books) • AKJ Education $19.50 1 $19.50
Fairytales for Girls (10 Books) • AKJ Education $19.50 1 $19.50
From Head to Toe Big Book • AKJ Education $18.24 1 $18.24
Sight Word Readers Parent Pack Learning the First 50 Sight Words Is a Snap! • AKJ Education $16.05 1 $16.05
Martha Speaks Picture Books (8 Books) • AKJ Education $15.60 1 $15.60
Wellness and Healthy Living (8 Book Set) • AKJ Education $14.00 1 $14.00
Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Curious George (6 Books) • AKJ Education $11.40 1 $11.40
All About My Body (6 Books) • AKJ Education $11.10 1 $11.10
Dinosaur Train • AKJ Education $10.50 1 $10.50
Wiggle, Jiggle, and Move (5 Book Set) • AKJ Education $8.75 1 $8.75
Red Is a Dragon A Book of Colors • AKJ Education $7.19 1 $7.19
Colors Board Book • AKJ Education $6.29 1 $6.29
Parts • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Day of the Dead / El Dia de los Muertos • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Who Hops? • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A B C I Like Me! • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Shapes • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
¿Ves una figura? (Do You See A Shape?) • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Delicioso y nutritivo (Delicious And Nutritious) • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Mi cuerpo (My Body) • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Todo sobre mí (All About Me) • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
El niño azul (Little Boy Blue) • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Alligators All Around An Alphabet • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
My Five Senses • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Veo colores (I See Colors) • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Con mis sentidos (With My Senses) • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Counting in the City • AKJ Education $4.59 1 $4.59
Mis cinco sentidos (My Five Senses) • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
My Very First Book of Colors • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
I Eat a Rainbow • AKJ Education $4.34 1 $4.34
Let's Look for Words (King Series) • AKJ Education $4.00 1 $4.00
Shapes At The Beach • AKJ Education $3.76 1 $3.76
La vida desde arriba (Life At The Top) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Cuando sea grande (When I Grow Up) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Carousel Colors • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Boris el basset (Boris The Basset) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Anna fue a Zambia / Anna Goes to Zambia • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Amigos del parque infantil (Playground Friends) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Al otro lado del mar (Across The Sea) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
¡En sus marcas, listos, fuera! (Ready, Set, Go!) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Soy tan hermosa (I Am So Beautiful) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
¡Chapoteando! (Splash Down!) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
¿Qué puedes ver? (What Can You See?) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Alboroto en el zoologico (Zoo Hullabaloo) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Boris se mantiene en forma (Boris Keeps Fit) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Campamento de safari (Safari Camp) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Di algo! / Speak Up! • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
La casa dinosaurio (Dinosaur House) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
La princesa y el guisante (The Princess And The Pea) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Mi vida de abeja (My Life as a Bee) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Qué rico se ve, ¡a comer! (It's Good Enough To Eat!) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Colorful Days • AKJ Education $3.59 1 $3.59
Saffy • AKJ Education $2.25 1 $2.25
Go! • AKJ Education $2.25 1 $2.25
Shapes (Illustrated Early Learning) • AKJ Education $2.25 1 $2.25
My First Book of Farm Words • AKJ Education $2.25 1 $2.25
My Spanish Book of Shapes • AKJ Education $1.75 1 $1.75
Jakers: The Lost Shamrock • AKJ Education $0.50 1 $0.50

Materials cost

$704.55

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.57

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$745.12

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$131.49

Total project goal

$876.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $876.61

12 Donors

-$747.00

Donations toward project cost

-$642.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$104.25

match offer

-$120.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$102.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$9.18

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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