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Mrs. LaPutka from South Jordan, UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books to Celebrate All Children

Help me give my students books for story time that will prepare them to be inclusive with special needs students.

  • $165 goal

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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 Project

Our school contains 3 cluster classrooms with intellectually disabled students. As a general education First Grade teacher, I feel it is important to teach my students about these classrooms and how to interact with children who have different needs. Ultimately, I want my students to learn that people in general are more alike than different and to celebrate our differences. I hope to teach my students how to be more inclusive with everyone!

One of the books in this project, We're All Wonders, has the most beautiful line in it: Look with kindness and you will find wonder.

Isn't that beautiful? By looking with kindness, not fear or distaste, we can learn and grow! My students are only 6 and 7 years old which means they may not have been taught yet how to interact with people who have different needs. They must be explicitly taught how to interact gently with our special cluster students: Look, don't gape. Smile, don't frown. Wave, don't ignore. Invite, don't exclude.

The special education teacher in the younger cluster and I gathered many books about inclusion. I previewed them to find just the right ones for my young students. Before we conducted the actual lesson, I read books to prepare my students for the gathering. We worked together to create a lesson teaching inclusion. She brought her students into our classroom, and we did activities to show how much all of our students share in likes and dislikes. It was wonderful!

Since I plan to be at this school for a long time, I would like to own these books so that we can easily conduct this lesson every year. The lesson was so successful that the cluster teacher did it again for all 5 of our other First Grades c

Mrs. LaPutka Golden Fields Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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South Jordan, UT View local requests 19 students impacted 4donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
We’re All Wonders Hardcover Book • Lakeshore Learning Materials $18.99 1 $18.99
What Happened to You? (What Happened to You?, 1) • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Included: A book for ALL children about inclusion, diversity, disability, equality and empathy • Amazon Business $16.95 1 $16.95
All My Stripes: A Story for Children With Autism • Amazon Business $13.14 1 $13.14
I Am Different, The Same As You: A Children's Book about Differences That Promotes Diversity and Inclusion, Empathy, Acceptance, and Compassion for ... Abilities, Special Needs, or Down Syndrome • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Different--A Great Thing to Be! • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
It's OK to be Different: A Children's Picture Book About Diversity and Kindness • Amazon Business $9.69 1 $9.69
It's Okay To Be Different (Todd Parr Classics) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost

$108.43

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.63

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$140.06

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$24.72

Total project goal

$164.78

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $164.78

2 Donors

-$164.78

Donations toward project cost

-$140.06

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.72

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