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Mrs. Gauci from East Palo Alto, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books for TK - Exploring Oceans & Water and Plants

Help me give my students read aloud books all about the Oceans, Ocean Creatures, Water, and Plants.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Gauci's classroom raised $743

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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 Project

I am changing grades, teaching TK in the Fall. I am so excited for this change and hope to fill my students with knowledge and spark their curiosity. We will be studying Oceans & Water and Plants in our upcoming units. Our past TK teachers created an amazing list of books for these units of study which I would love to add to my classroom library for the children to see, touch, and explore. The books will help me to teach my children about the many creatures in the ocean, how water helps us and why we should care for it, and plant parts and needs.

These books will inspire my children to learn about the ocean and ocean creatures, water, and plants while they investigate the underwater and plant worlds.

I would love to have this set of books readily available in my classroom for my children to explore and learn.

Thank you for considering my classroom and my children for your donation and for inspiring my children for their future and ours.

Mrs. Gauci Costano School of the Arts Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Lives of Octopuses and Their Relatives: A Natural History of Cephalopods (The Lives of the Natural World) • Amazon Business $20.02 1 $20.02
The Pout-Pout Fish Hardcover Book • Lakeshore Learning Materials $18.99 1 $18.99
Peanut Butter and Jellyfish • Amazon Business $17.01 1 $17.01
Ocean Soup: A Recipe for You, Me, and a Cleaner Sea • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Big Al • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Somewhere in the Ocean • Amazon Business $14.78 1 $14.78
The Carrot Seed: 75th Anniversary - Reinforced Book • AKJ Education $14.59 1 $14.59
Little Cloud • Amazon Business $14.44 1 $14.44
I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean! • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Clark the Shark Dares to Share • Amazon Business $13.39 1 $13.39
Come On, Rain! - Reinforced Book • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Crabs!: A My Incredible World Picture Book for Children (My Incredible World: Nature and Animal Picture Books for Children) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Ten Little Starfish • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
Growing Vegetable Soup • Amazon Business $12.80 1 $12.80
Ten Seeds • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Colors on my Plate: Fruits and Vegetables: An interactive nutritional Guide for children • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
The Ocean needs our help • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Agent H2O Rides the Water Cycle • Amazon Business $11.95 1 $11.95
The Rainbow Fish • Amazon Business $11.22 1 $11.22
Sully the Seahorse: A book about self-esteem and resilience (Sea School Stories) • Amazon Business $11.15 1 $11.15
The Curious Garden • Amazon Business $11.12 1 $11.12
Tops & Bottoms (Caldecott Honor Book) • Amazon Business $11.06 1 $11.06
Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Giving Tree • Amazon Business $10.87 1 $10.87
From Seed to Plant • Amazon Business $10.64 1 $10.64
Seeds Go, Seeds Grow (A+ Books: Science Starts) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Stems (Plant Parts) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Vegetables on my plate! • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Roots, Stems, Leaves, and Flowers: Let's Investigate Plant Parts (Get Started with STEM) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Enormous Potato • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
I Can Save the Ocean!: The Little Green Monster Cleans Up the Beach (Little Green Books) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
The Enormous Turnip (First Favourite Tales) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Flowers (Plant Parts) • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of the Ocean (National Geographic Little Kids First Big Books) • Amazon Business $9.74 1 $9.74
Seeds (Plant Parts) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Secret Seahorse • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Leaves (Plant Parts) • Amazon Business $8.92 1 $8.92
Roots (Plant Parts) • Amazon Business $8.53 1 $8.53
Hello, World! Ocean Life • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Here Is the Coral Reef (Web of Life, 3) • Amazon Business $7.96 1 $7.96
Surprising Sharks: Read and Wonder • Amazon Business $7.82 1 $7.82
Pumpkins • Amazon Business $7.56 1 $7.56
Over in the Ocean: A beach baby animal habitat book (Our World, Our Home) • Amazon Business $7.39 1 $7.39
Hello, World! Garden Time: A Book of Plants and Gardening for Kids • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Plants Feed Me - Paperback Book • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Ocean Hide & Seek: A Finger Trail Lift-the-Flap Book • Amazon Business $6.53 1 $6.53
How Are You Peeling? (Scholastic Bookshelf) • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39
Weird Sea Creatures (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 2) • Amazon Business $4.24 1 $4.24
Little Critter: A Green, Green Garden: A Springtime Book For Kids (My First I Can Read) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$542.23

Vendor shipping charges

$0.95

Sales tax

$49.61

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.13

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$630.92

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$111.34

Total project goal

$742.26

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$742.26

4 Donors

-$451.13

Donations toward project cost

-$383.46

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$67.67

match offer

-$291.13

Match offer toward project cost

-$247.46

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$43.67

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$0.00

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