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Ms. Swanson from Cambridge OH is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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3rd Grade is Rooted in their Reading!!

My students need engaging and interactive read aloud books to help teach a variety of reading skills and strategies that will help create a love of reading!

  • $495 goal

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My Students

I am embarking on a new journey as a 3rd grade ELA teacher for the 2017-2018 school year! I will be moving from 1st grade to 3rd grade so I will be making some adjustments. I am very excited to work with this new group of students and help them to become just as excited and curious about reading as I am! This is something I hope to instill in each of the students I encounter on my new journey as a 3rd grade reading teacher.

I teach at a low-income/high poverty school district, where many of my students are faced with challenges in and out of the classroom.

I want to give my students an experience to find the joy and adventure in reading that I know can be achieved in our classroom! They deserve to have the best and that is what I want to provide for each and every single one of my little kiddos when they enter my room this coming August!

My Project

These read aloud books have been selected very carefully for my classroom. They will help my students become engaged in reading and foster learning. Each of these chosen books is filled with many lessons such as teaching the craft and structure of a text, incorporating writing skills, inferring, key ideas, details, questions, comprehension, and making connections. Having these books in our classroom will help to create a library of learning for my students! Each book that has been selected focuses of certain strategies and skills to teach my kiddos!

A goal of this first year in 3rd grade is to make reading fun, engaging, adventurous, and exciting to each and every single student that I have the pleasure of working with!!

These special read aloud books will have a lifetime home in our classroom for many years to come!

Ms. Swanson
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Pecos Bill Invents the Ten-Gallon Hat • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Memoirs of a Hamster • Amazon Business $15.97 1 $15.97
National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry: 200 Poems with Photographs That Squeak, Soar, and Roar! • Amazon Business $14.66 1 $14.66
Two Bad Ants • Amazon Business $14.02 1 $14.02
Picture Day Perfection • Amazon Business $13.56 1 $13.56
Trombone Shorty • Amazon Business $13.45 1 $13.45
Turkey Bowl • Amazon Business $13.16 1 $13.16
Saturdays and Teacakes • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
Creature Features: Twenty-Five Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
Rotten Richie and the Ultimate Dare • Amazon Business $12.34 1 $12.34
Hoop Genius: How a Desperate Teacher and a Rowdy Gym Class Invented Basketball (Carolrhoda Picture Books) • Amazon Business $12.01 1 $12.01
Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun: Having the Courage To Be Who You Are • Amazon Business $11.44 1 $11.44
Pinduli (ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Awards) • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear • Amazon Business $10.73 1 $10.73
The Carpenter's Gift: A Christmas Tale about the Rockefeller Center Tree • Amazon Business $10.59 1 $10.59
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson • Amazon Business $10.11 1 $10.11
Last Stop on Market Street • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Cactus Soup • Amazon Business $9.69 1 $9.69
Martina the Beautiful Cockroach • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story • Amazon Business $8.63 1 $8.63
Thank You, Mr. Falker • Amazon Business $8.30 1 $8.30
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Legend of Old Befana • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest • Amazon Business $7.94 1 $7.94
Ruby's Wish • Amazon Business $7.91 1 $7.91
How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story • Amazon Business $7.80 1 $7.80
The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams • Amazon Business $7.43 1 $7.43
Princess Hyacinth (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated) • Amazon Business $7.38 1 $7.38
What Really Happened to Humpty? (Nursery-Rhyme Mysteries) • Amazon Business $7.29 1 $7.29
The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Crow Boy (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $6.97 1 $6.97
The Polar Bear Son: An Inuit Tale • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
The Raft • Amazon Business $6.84 1 $6.84
Substitute Creacher • Amazon Business $6.66 1 $6.66
I Wonder Why Penguins Can't Fly: And Other Questions About Polar Lands • Amazon Business $6.57 1 $6.57
Picnic at Mudsock Meadow • Amazon Business $6.49 1 $6.49
On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein • Amazon Business $5.84 1 $5.84
Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story (Albert Whitman Prairie Paperback) • Amazon Business $5.51 1 $5.51
The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses • Amazon Business $4.51 1 $4.51

Materials cost

$384.31

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.76

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$420.07

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$74.13

Total project goal

$494.20

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$494.20

8 Donors

-$373.31

Donations toward project cost

-$318.07

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.24

Matching donations from our partners

-$120.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$102.00

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.00

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.89

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$0.00

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