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Ms. Saunders from Montgomery, AL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bring Current Events To Fifth Graders

My students need 30 subscriptions to Time For Kids World Report, a current events newspaper aimed at children's interests and reading levels.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Saunders's classroom raised $218

This project is fully funded

The more you know, the more you want to know. At least, my students have discovered this to be true as we explore current events together. Conversations about the recent presidential election or the economic crisis lead to new questions and investigations into related issues. I teach fifth graders in a high-poverty public school. Our current events time is filled with conversation, reflection, reading, and writing - and provides students with the opportunity to grow as citizens of the globe.

However, many of my students lack the resources needed to access daily news about current events. Most newspapers and online reports are printed above their reading level. It is a daily struggle to find accurate and high-quality texts about current events and world news.

Time For Kids is a publication designed by educators for students. This weekly newsletter is filled with relevant, interesting, and appropriately leveled articles about current issues in the world. With 30 weekly subscriptions to Time For Kids, my fifth graders would have guaranteed access to the world around them in a format that meets them at their level.

Your help will ensure that my students continue talking, reading, and writing about the world around them. You will make it possible for them to learn about the issues that affect our lives, and in doing so, will infect them with the desire to continue this learning once they walk out the classroom door.

Ms. Saunders Dannelly Elementary School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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.

Montgomery, AL View local requests

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

75 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
TIME For Kids Magazine- World Report Edition w/ TFK Around the World (grades 4-6). Pricing is valid for orders placed after March 2008. After August 15th of current school year, pricing will remain in effect but TIME For Kids reserves the right to prorate issue quantity and free gifts. Only valid for orders in quantities of 10 or more. Orders for less than 10 subscriptions will NOT be fulfilled. • Time for Kids $4.88 30 $146.40

Materials cost

$146.40

Vendor shipping charges

$14.64

Sales tax

$5.86

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.20

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$178.10

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$39.10

Total project goal

$217.20

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$217.20

8 Donors

-$217.20

Donations toward project cost

-$178.10

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.10

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$0.00

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