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Mrs. Morikawa from Irvine, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Financial Literacy with Picture Books

Help me give my students picture books to help them increase their financial literacy skills.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Morikawa's classroom raised $299

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are excited to come to school each day and to learn from one another. They enjoy working in collaborative groups and sharing their knowledge with each other. They enjoy using their critical thinking skills to evaluate new information while integrating the arts to show their learning. They get very excited any time we can use technology in the classroom, and they aren't afraid to try something new.

Jane Goodall once said, "You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." With this quote in mind, I want to help my students become aware of the impact they are having on the world around them.

My Project

In second grade, students learn about money. We count, sort, and save! In this project, I am asking for picture books to not only teach financial literacy, but to give students an opportunity to save and spend their classroom currency. Some of the books like Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday and Rock, Brock, and the Savings Shock will teach kids about saving their money. Other books like The Big Umbrella A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue will be used as incentives during our picture book parties.

Learning about financial literacy through picture books helps students understand how wants and needs and saving and spending work.

Mrs. Morikawa Santiago Hills Elementary School Grades PreK-2 Irvine, CA View local requests 30 students impacted 6donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Under My Hijab • Amazon Business $17.06 1 $17.06
Where Are You From? • Amazon Business $14.89 1 $14.89
Seeds and Trees: A children's book about the power of words • Amazon Business $13.23 1 $13.23
Lailah's Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story • Amazon Business $12.87 1 $12.87
I Can't Do That, YET: Growth Mindset • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books) • Amazon Business $11.27 1 $11.27
The Big Umbrella • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
Kindness Snippet Jar • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
We Don't Eat Our Classmates • Amazon Business $10.59 1 $10.59
The Invisible Boy • Amazon Business $10.51 1 $10.51
The Day You Begin • Amazon Business $10.45 1 $10.45
Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire • Amazon Business $9.88 1 $9.88
My Dog Mouse • Amazon Business $9.70 1 $9.70
I Am Enough • Amazon Business $9.49 1 $9.49
A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue • Amazon Business $8.43 1 $8.43
Rock, Brock, and the Savings Shock • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Scaredy Squirrel at Night • Amazon Business $7.82 1 $7.82
Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday • Amazon Business $7.51 1 $7.51
Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors • Amazon Business $7.00 1 $7.00

Materials cost

$202.06

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $18.49

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.03

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$253.58

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$44.75

Total project goal

$298.33

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $298.33

4 Donors

-$143.00

Donations toward project cost

-$132.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$10.20

match offer

-$142.09

Match offer toward project cost

-$120.78

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.31

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$13.24

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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