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Mrs. Misty Shay from Castro Valley, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bringing Kids Together Through Book Clubs! Books For Distance Learning!

Help me give my students physical books to read at home for our distance learning book clubs! This variety of books ranges from classics, like "My Fathers Dragon" to newer fiction stories like "The World According to Humphry".

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Misty Shay's classroom raised $1,072

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 class is a mixed-age Montessori classroom with students ranging from 6-9 years old (1st-3rd grade). They are independent and curious learners who want to know about everything! While we are currently in a distance learning model of learning, I want these students to have the opportunity to come together to enjoy books in a virtual book club setting. This will help us support community building so that when we do get to come together in the classroom again, we will have made meaningful connections with students in our classroom as well as other classrooms.

This group of students love to study the universe and everything it contains, from planets and the solar system to rocks, dinosaurs, and ancient civilizations.

Montessori education allows these students to follow their interests while still meeting the common core state standards. All of their subjects are integrated into their learning, from writing, math, science, history, and reading. Their love of learning guides them to go deeper into subjects and learn all they can about the things that are of interest to them.

My Project

While learning at home makes it hard to build community and a feeling of togetherness, implementing book clubs will help us be able to join together and unify our learning through reading and talking about books together and building their social skills.

This project will put books into student's hands, build community, AND this project will also build skills that they need such as responsibility, respectfully learning to discuss and think about the books they are reading; and students will learn about characters, setting, problems & solutions, connections, retelling, and forming an opinion.

Mrs. Misty Shay Golden Oak Montessori Hayward Grades PreK-2

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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.

Castro Valley, CA View local requests

More than half of 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

28 students impacted 18donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Borrowers • AKJ Education $5.83 13 $75.79
The Mouse and the Mortocycle • AKJ Education $5.59 13 $72.67
The Chocolate Touch • AKJ Education $5.59 13 $72.67
Frindle • AKJ Education $5.59 13 $72.67
Nikki and Deja • AKJ Education $5.10 13 $66.30
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things • AKJ Education $5.10 13 $66.30
The Birchbark House • AKJ Education $5.10 13 $66.30
My Father's Dragon • AKJ Education $5.10 13 $66.30
The World According to Humphrey • AKJ Education $4.89 13 $63.57
Fish Face • AKJ Education $4.37 13 $56.81
The Stories Julian Tells • AKJ Education $4.37 13 $56.81
My Name Is Maria Isabel • AKJ Education $4.19 13 $54.47

Materials cost

$790.66

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $72.35

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.86

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$910.87

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$160.74

Total project goal

$1,071.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,071.61

17 Donors

-$968.65

Donations toward project cost

-$847.30

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$121.35

match offer

-$74.79

Match offer toward project cost

-$63.57

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.22

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$28.17

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