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Ms. McDonough from Folcroft PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Classroom Chapter Chat Book Clubs

Help me give my students books, books, and more books, to read for pleasure as well as start classroom book clubs.

  • $465 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My students are energized, creative, and hardworking third-grade children. They are writers, illustrators, singers, comedians, and so much more.

We are a Title I school and this year, one hundred percent of students will receive free breakfast and lunch.

We are located in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Our children come from low socioeconomic households and assistance is often needed to help them find success. Teachers in our school are continually helping families in any way possible. We care for our students as our own.

My Project

Students LOVE when we receive new books for our classroom library. One thing that I love to introduce in the final quarter of the school year is book clubs. Students can select the book of their choice out of certain available books, and they will join in with their classmates who have the same books. Students will use these books to guide conversations, make recommendations and create lasting book talk memories. The excitement within our classroom when Book Club begins is energizing. To watch the interest levels of the students and their conversations blossom, are both heartwarming and fun. I look forward to utilizing these new books to create a love of reading and hopefully, students will want to go on to join book clubs outside of our classroom in the future!

Ms. McDonough
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bud, Not Buddy • AKJ Education $6.56 5 $32.80
How to Steal a Dog • AKJ Education $5.83 5 $29.15
Jamaica's Find • AKJ Education $5.83 5 $29.15
The Name Jar • AKJ Education $5.83 5 $29.15
Whistle for Willie • AKJ Education $5.83 5 $29.15
Amina's Voice • AKJ Education $5.83 5 $29.15
The Story Of Ruby Bridges: Special Anniversary Edition (Common Core Exemplar) • AKJ Education $5.10 5 $25.50
Judy Moody • AKJ Education $4.37 5 $21.85
Donavan's Word Jar • AKJ Education $3.64 5 $18.20
I Am Rosa Parks • AKJ Education $3.64 5 $18.20
The Invisible Boy • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Malala's Magic Pencil • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
Fish in a Tree • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
Booked • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
The Crossover • AKJ Education $12.40 1 $12.40
The Playbook • AKJ Education $10.94 1 $10.94
The Action of Subtraction • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
It Looked Like Spilt Milk • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
A Chair for My Mother: 25th Anniversary Edition • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
One Crazy Summer • AKJ Education $5.59 1 $5.59

Materials cost

$359.78

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.40

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$395.18

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$69.74

Total project goal

$464.92

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $464.92

3 Donors

-$232.46

Donations toward project cost

-$197.59

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.87

match offer

-$232.46

Match offer toward project cost

-$197.59

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.87

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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