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Mrs. Dempsey from Manassas VA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Classroom Library RESET!

Help me give my students a new classroom library with a wide selection of genres and a comfy place to read to self as well as a meeting place for collaboration.

  • $989 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

This will be my fourth year teaching 3rd grade students at my school. Our classroom library took a huge loss this year - damaged and missing books due to a school-wide renovation. Did the books inadvertently get thrown away? Either way, our classroom library is limited. Our renovated classroom looks fantastic! Our class library - not so much! My school is located outside of Washington, D.C. and has a high military family population. We are proud of our school, community, and strive to work together so we can all succeed.

A classroom library with many genres and a comfy place to read to self is what we’re striving for.

Your donation will help give us just that as well as a meeting place and a start to flexible seating choices.

My Project

My classroom library is a place students truly enjoy. It’s an opportunity for students to have choice in what they read.

Our library refresh will get students excited to take a book off the shelf and start the next book in a series, or another title from the same author.

It includes many and varied genres and includes a good fit book for every student in my classroom.

The list of items also includes several mentor texts that I enjoy including in our lessons - this is my hook to introduce students to new genres and widen their interests. These mentor texts are the books that students wait in line for to be able to hold on to the book themselves! That is a pretty awesome thing to witness.

Mrs. Dempsey
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Homelegance Track Arm Loveseat with Metal Accent Leg Leather Gel Match, Grey • Amazon Business $418.89 1 $418.89
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Box of Books (Books 1-10) • Amazon Business $82.63 1 $82.63
Chronicles of Narnia Box Set • Amazon Business $27.93 1 $27.93
Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Ivy & Bean Boxed Set: Books 7-9 • Amazon Business $15.64 1 $15.64
The Word Collector • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
The Boo-Boos That Changed the World: A True Story About an Accidental Invention (Really!) • Amazon Business $13.42 1 $13.42
Stephen Biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections (Stephen Biesty Cross Sections) • Amazon Business $13.37 1 $13.37
The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague (Amazing Scientists) • Amazon Business $12.20 1 $12.20
The Highway Rat • Amazon Business $10.70 1 $10.70
Inky's Amazing Escape: How a Very Smart Octopus Found His Way Home • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
Paddle Perch Climb: Bird Feet Are Neat • Amazon Business $8.04 1 $8.04
Milo Speck, Accidental Agent • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Rump: The (Fairly) True Tale of Rumpelstiltskin • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Red: The (Fairly) True Tale of Red Riding Hood • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Holes (Holes Series) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Bubble Gum Brain • Amazon Business $7.80 1 $7.80
Voices in the Park • Amazon Business $7.75 1 $7.75
Jack: The (Fairly) True Tale of Jack and the Beanstalk • Amazon Business $7.67 1 $7.67
Bat and the Waiting Game • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Full House: An Invitation to Fractions • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
A Boy Called Bat • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
Case Closed #1: Mystery in the Mansion • Amazon Business $6.73 1 $6.73
The Greedy Triangle (Scholastic Bookshelf) • Amazon Business $6.64 1 $6.64
Grump: The (Fairly) True Tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves • Amazon Business $6.47 1 $6.47
Who Was Neil Armstrong? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
What Is NASA? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Who Was Henry Ford? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
What Was the Great Depression? • Amazon Business $5.69 1 $5.69
What Is Climate Change? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $5.69 1 $5.69
The Cardboard Kingdom • Amazon Business $5.60 1 $5.60
Where Is Antarctica? • Amazon Business $5.01 1 $5.01
Who Was Nikola Tesla? • Amazon Business $5.01 1 $5.01
What Is the Women's Rights Movement? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $5.01 1 $5.01
What Was the Ice Age? • Amazon Business $4.79 1 $4.79
I Survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888 (I Survived #16) • Amazon Business $2.89 1 $2.89

Materials cost

$798.42

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.98

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$840.40

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$148.31

Total project goal

$988.71

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$988.71

17 Donors

-$812.59

Donations toward project cost

-$744.34

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$68.25

Matching donations from our partners

-$113.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$96.05

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$16.95

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$63.10

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$0.00

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