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Mrs. Bourgault from Las Vegas NV is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Books, the Building Blocks of Knowledge

My students need novels to build their knowledge and love of reading.

  • $508 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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 Students

My students crave knowledge. Learning with hands-on activities is more meaningful than using a textbook. For my students, being able to test and redesign a possible solution is a far better experience in the learning process.

My students are very diverse.

Our school is located in a low income area of Las Vegas, Nevada. Being a magnet school, we like to take a different approach to the learning process. Giving students the opportunity to reach and answer by experimentation using the design process.

My Project

My Students need novels to read. Giving each student a choice of what to read is more meaningful then assigning a book. This way the students has ownership of the book they choose.

Reading is the foundation to a great education.

Each time a student finishes a book they will be able to place a block on the tower, thus building their reading foundation. This will give the students incentive to read and build up the tower until the entire class has read 100 books, then they can can play. Once the tower falls the reading begins again to build the reading tower.

Mrs. Bourgault
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Giant Colorful Tumbling Timbers comes with Large Dice & Storage Bag • Amazon Business $94.99 1 $94.99
EasyGO Large Stack & Tumble Giant Wood Stacking & Tumble Tower Blocks Game, Stacks to Over 4 Feet Tall! • Amazon Business $69.88 1 $69.88
The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl • Amazon Business $11.29 5 $56.45
The Wild Robot Escapes • Amazon Business $11.29 5 $56.45
Real Friends • Amazon Business $9.89 5 $49.45
Two Dogs in a Trench Coat Go to School: Book 1 • Amazon Business $7.99 5 $39.95

Materials cost

$367.17

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$28.82

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.51

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$431.50

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$76.15

Total project goal

$507.65

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$507.65

8 Donors

-$429.57

Donations toward project cost

-$400.92

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.65

match offer

-$35.98

Match offer toward project cost

-$30.58

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.40

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$42.10

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$0.00

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