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

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Books Galore!

My students need a variety of books on different reading levels to meet their individual needs, plus book bins.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Falco's classroom raised $931

This project is fully funded

My Students

Our class is made up of 2 teachers and 32 students in a 4th grade Integrated Co Teaching Class. We have general education students as well as special education students, so we have a wide range of performance levels in our classroom.

Our neighborhood is comprised of low income families, and many of our students live in public housing.

100% of our students receive free lunch and quite a few of our students are currently living in homeless shelters. Our small school is located in the neighborhood of Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York, and we are a Title I school. We are aware that many of our students are performing below grade level so we need a variety of resources to meet their needs.

My Project

We have been working on building a reading life in our classroom. We want our students to develop a LOVE for reading and we want them to be exposed to all genres of literacy. Unfortunately, we have limited resources at our school and our families have limited resources as well. We find that the students are asking us to buy books for them. Although we have reached into our wallets to buy books for our classroom library, it's not enough.

We see this as an opportunity to get reading materials of high interest into the hands of our eager students.

We would like leveled independent reading books for our special needs students as well as our general education students. We are also asking for eye catching and colorful bins to store our books in the designated library area in our classroom. We would like the area to look inviting so the kids would be excited to take books from our library and take care of them for other kids that are in our class in the future.

Ms. Falco PS 194 Raoul Wallenberg Grades 3-5

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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

32 students impacted 13donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
YB10PU - Lakeshore Storage Boxes - Purple • Lakeshore Learning Materials $4.99 45 $224.55
GG919 - Level Z Extra Book Set - Gr. 7-8 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $37.00 1 $37.00
GG916 - Level W Extra Book Set - Gr. 6 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $37.00 1 $37.00
GG917 - Level X Extra Book Set - Gr. 6 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $36.00 1 $36.00
GG915 - Level V Extra Book Set - Gr. 5-6 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $35.00 1 $35.00
GG914 - Level U Extra Book Set - Gr. 5 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.00 1 $34.00
GG912 - Level S Extra Book Set - Gr. 4-5 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $33.00 1 $33.00
GG918 - Level Y Extra Book Set - Gr. 6 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $33.00 1 $33.00
GG913 - Level T Extra Book Set - Gr. 5 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $32.00 1 $32.00
GG909 - Level Q Extra Book Set - Gr. 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $32.00 1 $32.00
GG911 - Level R Extra Book Set - Gr. 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $31.00 1 $31.00
TT942 - Level K Extra Book Set - Gr. 2 - Library 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $31.00 1 $31.00
TT949 - Level P Extra Book Set - Gr. 3-4 - Library 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.00 1 $29.00
TT948 - Level O Extra Book Set - Gr. 3 - Library 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $28.00 1 $28.00
TT943 - Level L Extra Book Set - Gr. 2 - Library 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $26.00 1 $26.00
TT947 - Level N Extra Book Set - Gr. 3 - Library 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $25.00 1 $25.00
TT944 - Level M Extra Book Set - Gr. 2-3 - Library 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.00 1 $24.00
TT941 - Level J Extra Book Set - Gr. 1-2 - Library 2 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $22.00 1 $22.00

Materials cost

$749.55

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$790.79

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$139.55

Total project goal

$930.34

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $930.34

9 Donors

-$829.75

Donations toward project cost

-$714.29

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$115.46

Matching donations from our partners

-$90.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$76.50

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.59

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 $0.00

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