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Ms. Mac from Albuquerque NM is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Big Books for Big Brains

Help me give my students amazing literacy adventures to dive into, meet new characters, and travel amazing journeys into the vast world!

  • $301 goal

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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.

My Students

I work in a small, fully inclusive charter school, where almost seventy percent of the students receive free or reduced-price lunch. I work with students who are labeled in many ways: ELL, LD, ID, BIP, IEP, SLP, apraxic, autistic, ADD, ADHD, ODD, and the list goes on. I'm working to help students remove their labels and find their feet, as well as their voices.

My students come from a variety of backgrounds, but one thing they have in common is their thirst for creative learning opportunities.

My Project

Help give my students amazing book choices to choose from when they finish assignments early or during a read-to-self station. Requested titles include Code 7: Cracking the Code for an Epic Life, Lunch Lady, Inside My Imagination, The Skeleton Tree, The Word Collector, Pooperella: A Farty Tale Classic, and Up From the Sea.

Exposure to new novels and different genres is key to creating lifelong readers.

Reading builds vocabulary. Reading inspires adventures. Reading makes us think. Reading leads to discovery. Reading makes us better writers. Writers read the world! Help us change the world with strong readers by helping stock our shelves with high-quality, empathy-building, expressive literature that is captivating and engaging. It takes a village to create strong readers that challenge and push themselves further and further along the path of literacy. You can be part of that village!

Ms. Mac
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Skeleton Tree • Amazon Business $6.99 6 $41.94
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute: Lunch Lady #1 • Amazon Business $6.99 5 $34.95
Code 7: Cracking the Code for an Epic Life • Amazon Business $6.99 5 $34.95
The Evil Wizard Smallbone • Amazon Business $6.81 5 $34.05
Up From the Sea • Amazon Business $4.78 5 $23.90
The Epic Adventures of Huggie & Stick • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Inside My Imagination • Amazon Business $14.36 1 $14.36
The Word Collector • Amazon Business $13.68 1 $13.68
Pooperella: A Farty Tale Classic (Farty Tales) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost

$222.01

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.33

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$255.34

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$45.06

Total project goal

$300.40

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$300.40

1 Donor

-$101.00

Donations toward project cost

-$85.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.15

match offer

-$199.40

Match offer toward project cost

-$169.49

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.91

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$0.00

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