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Mrs. Gilbert from Houston TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Becoming a Life Long Reader

Help me give my students the basic books for learning about important people, weather and number sense.

  • $553 goal

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

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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

I am a teacher in a Title I school. The majority of my students receive free lunch. The students that I serve live in an at risk community. My students are early learners. They are learning social skills and how to interact with each other. They are exploring the world and the world around them.

I will be teaching very young children.

Some of them have attended school before and some of them have not. I want to make my classroom inviting and I want my students to learn and be able to become life long learners.

I want my students to feel at home when they walk into my classroom. I want them to be able to understand and grasp all the standards that they are required to learn and more.

My Project

Reading is the core to everything we do. Students can learn about different things that interest them. They can learn about important people such as Maya Angelou, George Washington Carver and Abraham Lincoln.

It is so important for young learners to learn about people who helped shape America.

I'm requesting books that children will be able to read and learn from. This project includes books about weather, people and number sense.

These readers will be the perfect books for my students to read. The books are written in kid friendly language and they also include pictures that will help my students read along the way.

The more my students read the more they will know. My students are very curious and they love learning new things.

Mrs. Gilbert
Grades PreK-2

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Really Good Stuff Greater Than Or Less Than Student Manipulatives – Set of 12 • Amazon Business $17.97 1 $17.97
Shape by Shape • Amazon Business $13.29 1 $13.29
Lemonade in Winter: A Book About Two Kids Counting Money • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
The Big Book of Bugs (The Big Book Series) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Leaves • Amazon Business $12.83 1 $12.83
Hey, Water! • Amazon Business $12.74 1 $12.74
Zero the Hero • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
More or Less (MathStart 2) • Amazon Business $5.99 2 $11.98
Perfect Square • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
All Shapes Matter • Amazon Business $11.44 1 $11.44
Singing in the Rain • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Autumn in the Forest (Lift-a-Flap Surprise) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Winter in the Forest (Lift-a-Flap Surprise) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
My Even Day (Arbordale Collection) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Gavin the Gator: Greater Than and Less Than • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
"WOW! Weather!" • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
Little Snowflake • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Teacher Created Materials - Science Readers: Content and Literacy: Water Cycle - Grade 2 - Guided Reading Level G • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
National Geographic Kids Everything Weather: Facts, Photos, and Fun that Will Blow You Away • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
Summer in the Forest (Lift-a-flap Surprise) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Spring in the Forest (Lift-a-flap Surprise) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Oh Say Can You Say What's the Weather Today?: All About Weather (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
The Great Graph Contest • Amazon Business $7.58 1 $7.58
Mouse Shapes • Amazon Business $7.53 1 $7.53
Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday • Amazon Business $7.49 1 $7.49
Little Raindrop (Nature Stories) • Amazon Business $7.29 1 $7.29
Perimeter, Area, and Volume: A Monster Book of Dimensions • Amazon Business $7.06 1 $7.06
If You Were a Quadrilateral (Math Fun) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Domino Addition • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Measuring Penny (Rise and Shine) • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
How a Seed Grows (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) • Amazon Business $6.93 1 $6.93
The Backyard Bug Book for Kids: Storybook, Insect Facts, and Activities • Amazon Business $6.69 1 $6.69
The Greedy Triangle (Scholastic Bookshelf) • Amazon Business $6.59 1 $6.59
Spaghetti And Meatballs For All! (Scholastic Bookshelf) • Amazon Business $6.59 1 $6.59
We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States • Amazon Business $6.35 1 $6.35
From Seed to Plant • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
A Tree Is a Plant (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
One Cent, Two Cents, Old Cent, New Cent: All About Money (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library) • Amazon Business $6.00 1 $6.00
I See Spring • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Feel the Wind (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Clouds (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 1) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Teacher Created Materials - TIME For Kids Informational Text: How Plants Grow - Grade 1 - Guided Reading Level E • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Lucky Tucker • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Tally O'Malley (MathStart 2) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Little Critter: Just Saving My Money (My First I Can Read) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Bugs A to Z • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
The Berenstain Bears' Dollars and Sense • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Worm Weather (Penguin Core Concepts) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Even Steven and Odd Todd, Level 3 (Hello Math Reader) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
National Geographic Readers: Seed to Plant • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Let It Rain • Amazon Business $3.79 1 $3.79

Materials cost

$429.26

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.99

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$469.69

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$82.89

Total project goal

$552.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $552.58

1 Donor

-$276.29

Donations toward project cost

-$234.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.44

match offer

-$276.28

Match offer toward project cost

-$234.84

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.44

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