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Mrs. Bowthorpe from Salt Lake City, UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Creating Book Lovers

My students need books with beautiful illustrations and inspiring stories that will get them to think and be creative.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Bowthorpe's classroom raised $484

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are enthusiastic learners who enjoy school. They are high poverty, with a high population of refugee students. Many of them are English Language Learners and new to the country. My students have experienced severe trauma, and school is a safe place for them. They are very excitable and show enthusiasm for classroom activities.

Many of our students have limited access to literature at home.

In first grade, reading is a BIG focus and it is a difficult skill to learn. It is very complex and requires access to LOTS of books.

My Project

Reading to children can provide them an example of fluency, expression and how they can become good readers. I want my students to have a love for literature, and explore books across the curriculum. Each content area in the common core curriculum can include some piece of literature and a writing component.

By allowing students to explore a wide range of books they will be exposed to more vocabulary, and will know more.

Children that are read to, know more than other children. Also, it is evident in test scores that many boys' reading scores are less than girls. With a growing knowledge based society it is essential that we make boys and girls love reading. These specific books will

help integrate literature across the curriculum including math. Many of my students have suffered trauma, the self-help books will help them identify and recognize their feelings and learn what they can do to self-regulate.

The Most Magnificent Thing, Your Fantastic Elastic Brain, and The Wonderful Things You Will be are excellent books to create growth mindset. Students need to discover that their brains are a muscle, and with effort and hard work they can learn anything!

If I can create a love for reading early on in my students in First Grade, they will be better prepared for upper grades.

Mrs. Bowthorpe Olene Walker Elementary School 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.

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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

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Self-Help for Kids Book Set (Set of 4) - Paperback • Kaplan Early Learning Company $29.71 1 $29.71
Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: Stretch It, Shape It • Amazon Business $16.59 1 $16.59
The Book with No Pictures • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
Anno's Counting Book • Amazon Business $14.79 1 $14.79
Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun: Having the Courage To Be Who You Are • Amazon Business $13.50 1 $13.50
Rosie Revere, Engineer • Amazon Business $12.86 1 $12.86
Animals on Board (MathStart 2) • Amazon Business $5.99 2 $11.98
Measuring Penny (Rise and Shine) • Amazon Business $11.35 1 $11.35
Lacey Walker, Nonstop Talker (Little Boost) • Amazon Business $11.23 1 $11.23
The Wonderful Things You Will Be • Amazon Business $11.13 1 $11.13
You Get What You Get (Little Boost) • Amazon Business $11.02 1 $11.02
The Most Magnificent Thing • Amazon Business $10.93 1 $10.93
The Recess Queen • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue • Amazon Business $9.93 1 $9.93
It's a Book • Amazon Business $9.81 1 $9.81
Chrysanthemum • Amazon Business $9.34 1 $9.34
Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs: As Retold by Mo Willems • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
Beautiful Oops! • Amazon Business $8.55 1 $8.55
Bunny Cakes (Max and Ruby) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Each Kindness (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $7.61 1 $7.61
The Name Jar • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Place Value • Amazon Business $7.58 1 $7.58
The Doorbell Rang • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Mission of Addition (Math Is Categorical) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
The Action of Subtraction (Math Is Categorical) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
12 Ways to Get to 11 (Aladdin Picture Books) • Amazon Business $6.87 1 $6.87
A Place for Zero (Charlesbridge Math Adventures (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $6.36 1 $6.36
What If Everybody Did That? • Amazon Business $6.12 1 $6.12
My Mouth Is a Volcano! • Amazon Business $6.11 1 $6.11
One Gorilla: A Counting Book • Amazon Business $6.06 1 $6.06
A Bad Case of Stripes (Scholastic Bookshelf) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
How Big Is a Foot? (Rise and Shine) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Beep Beep, Vroom Vroom! (Great Source Mathstart) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Monster Musical Chairs (MathStart 1) • Amazon Business $5.65 1 $5.65
More or Less (MathStart 2) • Amazon Business $5.45 1 $5.45
Henry the Fourth (MathStart 1) • Amazon Business $5.25 1 $5.25
Shark Swimathon (MathStart 3) • Amazon Business $5.11 1 $5.11
Jack the Builder (MathStart 1) • Amazon Business $4.52 1 $4.52
Double the Ducks (MathStart 1) • Amazon Business $4.42 1 $4.42
Tally O'Malley (MathStart 2) • Amazon Business $3.38 1 $3.38
The Greatest Gymnast of All (MathStart 1) • Amazon Business $3.13 1 $3.13
The Ants Go Marching (Classic Books With Holes) • Amazon Business $3.03 1 $3.03
Leaping Lizards (MathStart 1) • Amazon Business $2.89 1 $2.89

Materials cost

$370.83

Vendor shipping charges

 $5.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.56

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$411.39

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$72.60

Total project goal

$483.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $483.99

1 Donor

-$483.99

Donations toward project cost

-$411.39

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$72.60

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