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Mrs. Alva from Winston Salem, NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bless 2 Grade Levels with Reading Subscriptions!

My students need individual subscriptions for Time for Kids! They will get weekly non-fiction reading practice as well as current events. They will also have more exposure to working with maps, captions, comprehension, & diagrams, etc.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Alva's classroom raised $1,450

This project is fully funded

My Students

My class comes from an area in Winston Salem that is very diverse. We are close to downtown and a major hospital practically sits in our parking lot. On one end of the street there are doctors living nearby in the more historic areas and surrounded by medical buildings. But on the other side of the street we have the not-so-historic, run-down side. Our school is a Title I school with 100% of the students receiving free lunch. Forget reduced-price lunch. Here, all kids are guaranteed a warm breakfast and lunch free of charge.

This year our school has the highest number of students enrolled from the Red Cross Homeless Shelter than we've ever seen.

Many other students are bused to us from the Children's Home, for orphans and domestic abuse victims and their children, which is right around the next corner.

Another thing that sets us apart, is that the district HAG program is held at our school. Polar opposites right!?! The HAG program brings an extreme shift to the economic diversity of our students. The two sides couldn't be more father apart than the north and south pole.

Our differences make us stronger!

My Project

This project will fund our school's entire 3rd grade AND 2nd grade for individual subscriptions for TIME FOR KIDS!

There are nearly 100 kids per grade level so this project will benefit 8 classrooms!

With this magazine we will be able to do hands-on work with text features that are common in non-fiction texts on a weekly basis- like diagrams, maps, captions, texts boxes, etc... This magazine will bring current events to life for our students and will help our readers understand world events! With TIME FOR KIDS, curious kids AND their families will be enriched, enlightened—and entertained. The issues will take students and their families on adventures to faraway lands where they will meet other children and learn about world cultures. Colorful maps, entertaining photos and clear graphics bring events to life.

Mrs. Alva Brunson Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Winston Salem, NC View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

200 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
TIME For Kids - 3-4 COMBO Bundle - 28 issues / Minimum of 10 subscriptions • TIME for Kids $5.50 100 $550.00
TIME For Kids - G2 COMBO Bundle - 28 issues / Minimum of 10 subscriptions • TIME for Kids $5.50 100 $550.00

Materials cost

$1,100.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$85.80

3rd party payment processing fee

$16.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,232.30

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$217.46

Total project goal

$1,449.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,449.76

2 Donors

-$1,449.76

Donations toward project cost

-$1,232.30

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$217.46

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$0.00

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