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Ms. Kerai from Salem, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books, Books and More Books...Oh, My!

Help me give my students the books that they need to become readers! These multi-level books will enhance my classroom collection and will be perfect for my students! These new books will be engaging!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Kerai's classroom raised $335

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are a group of highly energetic and motivated first graders. They love to learn and delight in sharing their knowledge with others. My students come from diverse backgrounds and our school is located in a high needs area. With that in mind, I want to give my students every advantage that I can to be successful and reach their full potential. We learn from one another on a daily basis and strive to be cognizant of what we can do to help others through learning and caring. Being able to fully meet the diverse learning styles in my classrooms is something that I strive for on a daily basis.

My Project

These books are just what my students need! They are engaging and will support my struggling and emergent readers with wonderful picture and sight word support. These titles are ones that are right up my students’ alley as they are current and provide the students with exactly what they need to be successful readers and build upon their fluency, too! I am so very excited to help my students get these fabulous books! They are just what they need to build confidence and fluency! Please help make this project a reality for my students! Reading will tick in my classroom! WooHoo!

Ms. Kerai Horace Mann Laboratory 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.

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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

24 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
EE210X - Guided Reading Leveled Books - Complete Library • Lakeshore Learning Materials $179.00 1 $179.00
RA218 - Animals Up Close Photo Books • Lakeshore Learning Materials $71.50 1 $71.50

Materials cost

$250.50

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.76

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$284.26

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$50.16

Total project goal

$334.42

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$334.42

1 Donor

-$167.21

Donations toward project cost

-$142.13

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.08

match offer

-$167.21

Match offer toward project cost

-$142.13

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$25.08

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$0.00

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