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Mrs. Smallwood from Jenkins, KY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Elementary Students CAN Learn About Financial Literacy!

My students need individual paperback copies of A Chair for My Mother and one classroom copy of the Gratitude Journal for Kids in order to learn about setting financial goals, saving, and expressing gratitude.

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My Students

Our students come from a once thriving, coal-mining community that has been devastated by the loss of income and industry. With over 82% qualifying for free or reduced-price lunches, these children are in great need of a high-quality education. Education and shared resources will be their ticket out of poverty.

My students need books that will teach them about human resources, income, saving, and creating a savings goal.

Using these books for story hour will help my children improve their financial literacy.. I want my students to have confidence in themselves and understand that education is the ticket for getting them out of poverty. These books will build their confidence and help them to feel success.

My Project

In the story, A Chair for My Mother, a little girl and her family save money in a jar to buy a chair after their furniture is destroyed in a fire. My students will each use their individual copy of this book to identify the steps this family took to achieve their financial goal. As a class, we will use the gratitude journal to reflect on the good things we have in life and why we should be grateful for them.

Objectives: Students will be able to explain that the money people earn for work is called income, that people use income to buy things they want and that they can keep some of their income to buy things in the future.

They will learn about how to save money for both needs and wants.

In this lesson, students will learn that characters in the book are human resources who save part of the income they earn.

Students will identify other human resources and state how the mental and physical work of those human resources allows them to earn income. Finally, students will name strategies to reach a savings goal.

Mrs. Smallwood Jenkins Middle High School Grades 3-5

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Chair for My Mother 25th Anniversary Edition (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon Business $6.99 30 $209.70
Gratitude Journal for Kids: Daily Prompts and Questions • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99

Materials cost

$216.69

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Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.25

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$249.94

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$44.11

Total project goal

$294.05

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $294.05

2 Donors

-$147.02

Donations toward project cost

-$124.97

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.05

match offer

-$147.02

Match offer toward project cost

-$124.97

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.05

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 $0.00

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