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Ms. K. from Redwood City CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Dictionary Dreams

My students need a class set of dictionaries.

  • $699 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

We are a low income school. More than 70% of my class has a first language other than English. The parents have little education and few resources to provide educational guidance at home so they trust and rely on the school to provide this.

Few of my students have a dictionary at home and most have had little opportunity to explore and enjoy a dictionary. In the third grade we are supposed to learn dictionary skills and it is difficult to do so with our current half set that is falling apart. I know my class would be so excited to get a brand new set for the classroom.

I have requested a set of 21 hardback dictionaries to keep in the classroom so that we can master the necessary skills and enjoy the pleasures that a nice dictionary has to offer.

You really would bring joy to the class by providing new dictionaries. And you can imagine the joy it brings a teacher to see her students excited and enthusiastic over a new book!

Ms. K.
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
ELEMENTARY DICTIONARY LAMINATED HARDCOVER • Teacher's School Supply $22.11 21 $464.31

Materials cost

$464.31

Vendor shipping charges

 $46.43

Sales tax

 $33.66

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.61

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$573.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$125.78

Total project goal

$698.78

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $698.78

1 Donor

-$674.12

Donations toward project cost

-$573.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$101.12

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$24.66

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 $0.00

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