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Ms. Brandt from Hazelwood MO is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Books for Building BIG Brains

Help me give my students books on their levels to go along with high-interest themes (zoo, transportation, farm) to help motivate learning!

  • $213 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

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

What do you think of when someone says the words "loving" "eager" and "spunky"? I'll tell you what I think about when I hear those words, the students in my class.

Although our students may be small in number, they are big at heart.

We are a self-contained special education classroom full of energy even with varying special needs such as Autism, Down Syndrome, severe medical conditions, physical impairments, hearing impairments, visual impairments, speech impairments, emotional disturbances among others. My kiddos loves to read books. Books are one of the many ways that they learn how to express themselves. The eagerness at story time is amazing! Their smiles says it all!

My students range in grades from kindergartner to fourth grade but cognitively they are on an infant to toddler level. They need many manipulatives to help them stay focused on their learning.

My Project

Having a colorful classroom library is very important for student interest in reading. My kids are not able to check out books from the school library or community library because of our book handling skills. We LOVE books in our hands, but we need our books adapted so that we can have books in our hands.

Every book that our kiddos enjoy, I rip them apart, laminate them, and then I rebind the books.

Why do all that extra work? That way kids who may drool (due to medical conditions) do not ruin a book, a simple wipe, and good to go. Some friends are learning book handling skills and we need to add adaptions so that they can turn the pages on their own. If books are laminated, it is very easy to add and remove extras without ruining books. I have very young students who are graduating from board books to real books. We tend to be rough while we are learning how to treat books. If they are laminated and rebound- no big deal. Even our most loved books look the same as day one as day 812.

We unfortunately cannot use libraries to help build our book skills where we are currently. So please take it in your hearts to buy us a new book for our classroom that I can get into our student's hands!

Ms. Brandt
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
I Love Bugs! • Barnes and Nobles $17.99 1 $17.99
Mae Among the Stars • Barnes and Nobles $17.99 1 $17.99
A Penguin Story • Barnes and Nobles $17.99 1 $17.99
A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Book & CD Storytime Set) • Barnes and Nobles $12.99 1 $12.99
Summer Sun Rising • Barnes and Nobles $10.95 1 $10.95
Time to Sleep • Barnes and Nobles $8.99 1 $8.99
Whose Vehicle Is This?: A Look at Vehicles Workers Drive - Fast, Loud, and Bright • Barnes and Nobles $8.95 1 $8.95
Snow Paperback(First Edition) • Barnes and Nobles $7.99 1 $7.99
Zoo Day • Barnes and Nobles $7.99 1 $7.99
In Like a Lion Out Like a Lamb • Barnes and Nobles $7.99 1 $7.99
Big Smelly Bear • Barnes and Nobles $7.95 1 $7.95
Not Norman: A Goldfish Story • Barnes and Nobles $6.99 1 $6.99
Bugs Are Insects • Barnes and Nobles $6.99 1 $6.99
Gilbert the Great (Gilbert the Shark Series #1) • Barnes and Nobles $6.95 1 $6.95

Materials cost

$148.70

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.23

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$180.93

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$31.93

Total project goal

$212.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$212.86

1 Donor

-$212.86

Donations toward project cost

-$180.93

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.93

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$0.00

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