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Ms. Singer from Bronx NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Book Buddies for Kindergarten Readers!

Help me give my students book buddies! My students love to share their books with a plush friend!

  • $722 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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 teach a group of curious, bright, and kind kindergarten students in the South Bronx. They come to kindergarten excited to learn how to read, write, become mathematicians, and to play!

My students are explorers and their imaginations are limitless!

When listening to a good book, they are eager to predict what comes next and share their ideas about books. Kindergarten students love read-alouds and remembering stories and events to enhance their play. They act out the stories and events through play and use their imaginations to create their own stories!

My Project

The use of stuffed animals from well-loved books will accompany each student during independent reading time on a daily basis! I specifically chose characters from stories that my students love in order to encourage scholars to cuddle up with a buddy and a book!

On World Read Aloud Day, a third grade class lent us their "book buddies" and my scholars could not get enough of reading all day!

Many of my students chose to read during Choice Time and "grow their brain" in order to read and cuddle with a soft friend!

Characters like Knuffle Bunny, Harry the Dirty Dog and the Hungry Caterpillar have found their way into my students' hearts. I am confident that with these "book buddies" in our class, scholars will be even more excited about literacy and becoming life-long readers.

Ms. Singer
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Aurora World Dr. Seuss Cindy Lou Who 12", Grinch Santa 19", & His Dog Max 18" Christmas Special Set of 3 Plush Toys, Multicolor • Amazon Business $49.99 1 $49.99
YOTTOY Frog and Toad Plush Friends (Frog & Toad Gift Set) • Amazon Business $47.00 1 $47.00
YOTTOY Pigeon & Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus Set - Hardcover • Amazon Business $44.98 1 $44.98
Disney Store Original Winnie the Pooh Plush Set of 4 with Piglet, Tigger, Winnie and Eeyore • Amazon Business $41.48 1 $41.48
Aurora Plush Bundle of 3, 20" Cat in the Hat, and 12" Thing 1 & 12" Thing 2 • Amazon Business $37.99 1 $37.99
Kohls Cares 11" If you Give A Mouse a Cookie Plush Rare Soft Stuffed Doll Toy • Amazon Business $31.70 1 $31.70
Elephant 7" & Piggie 5" Soft Toys • Amazon Business $28.00 1 $28.00
Knuffle Bunny 11" • Amazon Business $26.00 1 $26.00
YOTTOY Big Screen Paddington Bear 8.5 Soft Toy • Amazon Business $23.00 1 $23.00
Ugly Duckling with Book • Amazon Business $22.89 1 $22.89
Harry the Dirty Dog 10" Soft Toy • Amazon Business $22.00 1 $22.00
Kohl's Cares Pete The Cat Stuffed Plush Animal and I Can Read Book with 3 Stories • Amazon Business $20.99 1 $20.99
ADORE 15" Gruff the Goat Plush Stuffed Animal Toy • Amazon Business $17.84 1 $17.84
World of Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Plush • Amazon Business $15.95 1 $15.95
15" Billy Goat Plush Stuffed Animal Toy • Amazon Business $15.84 1 $15.84
Manhattan Toy Lovelies Pink Piper Pig Stuffed Animal, 12" • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
Corduroy (Book and Bear) • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
Wild Republic Brown Bear Plush, Stuffed Animal, Plush Toy, Gifts for Kids, Cuddlekins 12 Inches • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
GUND Christmas 'Honey Bun' Girl Plush • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
Gund Christmas 'Cinna-man'-Boy Plush • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
Aurora World 15915 12" Horton, 12", Light Blue • Amazon Business $14.80 1 $14.80
Llama Llama Red Pajama Beanbag Plush, 10” • Amazon Business $10.45 1 $10.45
Gund Classic Curious George in Red Shirt 8" by Gund • Amazon Business $10.31 1 $10.31
Where the Wild Things Are: Max Plush Toy and Sticker Book (Miniature Editions) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Manhattan Toy Dr. Seuss The Lorax Soft Stuffed Animal Toy • Amazon Business $8.19 1 $8.19

Materials cost

$574.92

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.62

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$613.54

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$108.27

Total project goal

$721.81

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$721.81

10 Donors

-$474.54

Donations toward project cost

-$404.44

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$70.10

match offer

-$246.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$209.10

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$36.90

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.27

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$0.00

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