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Mrs. Duchesne from Skowhegan ME is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Connecting Math With Literacy In Kindergarten

My students need fifty read aloud books to introduce new math ideas and help students visualize important math concepts, while also making a connection to math and literacy.

  • $531 goal

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My Students

A typical day in our classroom starts with a delicious breakfast provided by our wonderful school kitchen. Our school district is one hundred percent free breakfast and lunch to all students because we understand that hungry minds need full bellies. Our school is a wonderful community of diverse families who support each other.

My students are kind, responsible and respectful.

They uphold these titles with pride and can be seen daily, trying to make our school and classroom a better place. We provide a nurturing environment that creates good citizens, independent thinkers and lifelong learners. We are a lively group of students who are eager to learn new things with innovative tools.

My Project

This project would allow my classroom to have a good selection of excellent, math read alouds in the classroom. These fifty text selections would allow my students to grasp new math concepts more easily and would provide a firm foundation in basic number sense. By helping students to better visualize the numbers and concepts upon which math is based, these great math read alouds could make a tangible difference in their math skills later on in their educational careers.

Providing great math read alouds will help my students visualize numbers and math concepts in a fun way that will engage them in a love of learning and of math for life.

There is so much to learn in kindergarten. These books will help introduce all math standards that are expected of our earliest learners. For example, "Animals on Boards, Domino Addion, Plus Sign, and What's New at the Zoo all address addition word problems. Elmer, The Great Graph Contest, and What Pet Should I Get?" all introduce students to the concept of graphing data. Each book has been chosen to cover topics of time, graphing data, subtraction, addition, comparing numbers to twenty, numbers to one hundred, shapes, measurement, sorting and number writing. These books would be a game changer for teaching these concepts to my students.

Mrs. Duchesne
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Shape Of Things (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon Business $17.20 1 $17.20
Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres • Amazon Business $14.59 1 $14.59
The Mitten • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Eight Silly Monkeys • Amazon Business $13.44 1 $13.44
When I Build With Blocks • Amazon Business $12.20 1 $12.20
Elmer (Elmer Books) • Amazon Business $11.64 1 $11.64
Mrs. McTats and Her Houseful of Cats • Amazon Business $11.04 1 $11.04
What Pet Should I Get? (Classic Seuss) • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
Balancing Act • Amazon Business $10.42 1 $10.42
Ten for Me • Amazon Business $9.11 1 $9.11
Toasty Toes: Counting by Tens (Know Your Numbers) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
How Long?: Wacky Ways to Compare Length (Wacky Comparisons) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
Eggs and Legs: Counting by Twos (Know Your Numbers) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
What's New at the Zoo? An Animal Adding Adventure • Amazon Business $8.71 1 $8.71
How Heavy?: Wacky Ways to Compare Weight (Wacky Comparisons) • Amazon Business $8.66 1 $8.66
How Tall?: Wacky Ways to Compare Height (Wacky Comparisons) • Amazon Business $8.41 1 $8.41
Lots of Ladybugs!: Counting by Fives (Know Your Numbers) • Amazon Business $8.30 1 $8.30
The Great Graph Contest • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
If You Were a Plus Sign (Math Fun) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
If You Were a Minus Sign (Math Fun) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Five Little Monkeys Jump in the Bath (A Five Little Monkeys Story) • Amazon Business $7.93 1 $7.93
The Biggest House in the World (Knopf Children's Paperbacks) • Amazon Business $7.67 1 $7.67
Bendon Publishing Eight Silly Monkeys Mini Board Book • Amazon Business $7.66 1 $7.66
Domino Addition • Amazon Business $7.65 1 $7.65
Ten Apples Up On Top! • Amazon Business $7.65 1 $7.65
Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On • Amazon Business $7.57 1 $7.57
12 Ways to Get to 11 (Aladdin Picture Books) • Amazon Business $7.28 1 $7.28
Quack and Count • Amazon Business $7.22 1 $7.22
Ten Black Dots • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
One Is a Snail, Ten is a Crab: A Counting by Feet Book • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Hop Jump (Rise and Shine) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
How Many Snails?: A Counting Book (Counting Books (Greenwillow Books)) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Inch by Inch • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Just a Little Bit • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed (Padded Board Book) (A Five Little Monkeys Story) • Amazon Business $6.18 1 $6.18
Beep Beep, Vroom Vroom! (Great Source Mathstart) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Just Enough Carrots (MathStart 1) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Jack the Builder (MathStart 1) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
The Button Box • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
More or Less (MathStart 2) • Amazon Business $5.51 1 $5.51
A Pair of Socks (MathStart Series, Matching, Level 1) • Amazon Business $5.48 1 $5.48
It's About Time! (MathStart 1) • Amazon Business $5.39 1 $5.39
Animals on Board (MathStart 2) • Amazon Business $5.26 1 $5.26
The Very Busy Spider: A Lift-the-Flap Book (The World of Eric Carle) • Amazon Business $4.80 1 $4.80
Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes (MathStart 2) • Amazon Business $4.64 1 $4.64
3 Little Firefighters (MathStart 1) • Amazon Business $4.43 1 $4.43
Circus Shapes (MathStart 1) • Amazon Business $4.10 1 $4.10
Curious George Time for School (CGTV Novelty 8x8) • Amazon Business $3.33 1 $3.33
Tally O'Malley (MathStart 2) • Amazon Business $3.21 1 $3.21

Materials cost

$394.85

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $19.74

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.92

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$450.51

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$79.50

Total project goal

$530.01

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $530.01

4 Donors

-$528.25

Donations toward project cost

-$450.51

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$77.74

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.76

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