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Mrs. Dempsey from Manassas VA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Current Mentor Text and Center Prep Materials

Help me give my students current mentor text as well as the materials to create and put in to place new and engaging independent and partner learning centers.

  • $602 goal

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My Students

This is my sixth year teaching 3rd grade students at my school. Over the past two years, our standards of learning have been updated in all subject areas. New topics of study have been added and new strategies to teach have been implemented. 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.

Mentor text resources with a focus on expanding diversity titles in our classroom library and independent and partner center materials is what I hope to provide to my students.

Your donation will help me give them these things as well as support the passion of teaching.

My Project

There are so many excellent new titles in an array of genres that aid in the understanding of sequencing, theme, and inferencing as well as titles that help support mindset.

Introducing a reading strategy with a mentor text is a great way to hook students.

My project also supports the needs of creating and supplying center materials for independent or partner work. Centers allow the added practice on a specific skill a student is working to master. They act as an engaging way to keep my students coming back for more.

Mrs. Dempsey
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Scotch Thermal Laminating Pouches, 200-Pack, 8.9 x 11.4 inches, Letter Size Sheets, Clear, 3-Mil (TP3854-200) • Amazon Business $28.52 5 $142.60
Stuart Goes To School • Amazon Business $5.99 12 $71.88
Roscoe Riley Rules #1: Never Glue Your Friends to Chairs • Amazon Business $4.99 6 $29.94
Astrobrights Color Paper, 8.5" x 11", 24 lb/89 gsm, Mixed Carton 5-Color Assortment, 250 Sheet Ream/1250 Sheet Carton (22998) • Amazon Business $25.99 1 $25.99
Neenah Cardstock, 8.5" x 11", 90 lb/163 gsm, White, 94 Brightness, 300 Sheets (91437) • Amazon Business $12.29 2 $24.58
On Wings of Words: The Extraordinary Life of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson for Kids, Biography of Female Poet for Kids) • Amazon Business $16.59 1 $16.59
The Magnificent Migration: On Safari with Africa’s Last Great Herds • Amazon Business $15.39 1 $15.39
Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
If You Take Away the Otter • Amazon Business $14.09 1 $14.09
Saving the Countryside: The Story of Beatrix Potter and Peter Rabbit • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Thurgood • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
Mr. Crum's Potato Predicament • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon Business $13.17 1 $13.17
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Gary and the Great Inventors: It's Laundry Day! • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Rescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship • Amazon Business $11.88 1 $11.88
The Day You Begin • Amazon Business $11.53 1 $11.53

Materials cost

$474.17

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.11

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$511.28

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$90.23

Total project goal

$601.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$601.51

14 Donors

-$386.77

Donations toward project cost

-$334.19

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$52.58

Matching donations from our partners

-$208.33

Match offers toward project cost

-$177.08

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.39

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$0.00

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