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Ms. McElderry from Dixon MT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Books Make It Better

Help me give my students a STEM exploration set and books that are fun and informative!

  • $327 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our students come from a variety of backgrounds. Most of our population comes from poverty. All of our students receive free lunches. The students try their best every day but have a lot of obstacles facing them. For some, just getting to school is a huge challenge.

I have never seen a group of students who try so hard and face the world and its challenges head-on in the way that my students do.

They have the odds stacked against them, but they try every day.

My Project

I feel the best way to help students increase their reading ability is to have them read more and to read books that they like. All of these books have been chosen with my students in mind. They love books about animals and real life occurrences. We took a vote, and the winners of the vote were the books that were added to the project.

My students will be able to choose from these new books and that will allow them to read independently at their own grade level and ability.

My students will be able to read books they like, and this project will encourage them to read more independently.

Ms. McElderry
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
STEM EXPLORATIONS LEVERS & PULLEYS BUILDING SET • AKJ Education $13.49 4 $53.96
There's a Nightmare in My Closet • AKJ Education $5.83 4 $23.32
All About Animals in Winter • AKJ Education $5.07 4 $20.28
Volcanoes! • AKJ Education $4.49 4 $17.96
Looking at Maps and Globes • AKJ Education $4.34 4 $17.36
National Geographic Readers: Snakes! • AKJ Education $3.64 4 $14.56
Abe Lincoln's Hat • AKJ Education $3.64 4 $14.56
The Titanic: Lost and Found Lost...and Found (A Step 3 Book/ Grades 2-3( • AKJ Education $3.64 4 $14.56
Dolphins! • AKJ Education $3.64 4 $14.56
The Statue of Liberty • AKJ Education $3.64 4 $14.56
Hungry, Hungry Sharks! • AKJ Education $3.64 4 $14.56
Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! • AKJ Education $3.64 4 $14.56
Wild, Wild Wolves • AKJ Education $4.49 2 $8.98

Materials cost

$243.78

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.66

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$277.44

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.96

Total project goal

$326.40

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$326.40

2 Donors

-$316.12

Donations toward project cost

-$277.44

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$38.68

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.28

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$0.00

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