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Mrs. Downey from Salem, MA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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For the LOVE of READING!

Help me give my students the LOVE of reading! Our Kindergarten classrooms need books to help boost our young readers! The book carts with leveled readers will give the students many titles to fall in love with reading!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Downey's classroom raised $1,787

This project is fully funded

My Students

Our Kindergarten students are a beautifully diverse group of learners. Many of our students come to our Kindergarten with English as their second language as well diverse socio economic needs. All of these qualities certainly makes our Kindergarten a culturally diverse place for learning to happen.

Our students need to have a classroom that's inviting, comfortable and engaging for the best learning to happen.

As Kindergarten teachers it's our job to get our students hooked into learning and to make them feel safe and in return they will be engaged learners!

My Project

The book carts and fiction leveled library will be used daily to increase reading levels of our young readers! The inviting books are leveled, and with the rolling cart system, our Kindergartners will be able to easily place the books in the correct book bin building independence and responsibility.

The benefits of the fictional library are endless... students will learn sight words, story elements and decoding words while learning reading fictional stories which will build empathy and kindness.

These books will continue to enhance the print-rich classroom that we as Kindergarten teachers strive to create. The leveled library will add excitement to our classrooms for many years to come!

Mrs. Downey Horace Mann Laboratory School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Salem, MA View local requests

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

60 students impacted 1donor

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
FF464 - Leveled Library Mobile Storage Cart • Lakeshore Learning Materials $129.00 3 $387.00
AA316 - Level I Book Bin - Gr. 1 - Library 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $43.99 3 $131.97
AA309 - Level H Book Bin - Gr. 1 - Library 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $43.99 3 $131.97
AA308 - Level G Book Bin - Gr. 1 - Library 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $41.99 3 $125.97
AA302 - Level A Book Bin - K - Library 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 3 $119.97
AA306 - Level E Book Bin - Gr. 1 - Library 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $38.99 3 $116.97
AA305 - Level D Book Bin - K-Gr. 1 - Library 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $37.99 3 $113.97
AA304 - Level C Book Bin - K - Library 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $37.99 3 $113.97
AA303 - Level B Book Bin - K - Library 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $37.99 3 $113.97
AA307 - Level F Book Bin - Gr. 1 - Library 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $36.99 3 $110.97

Materials cost

$1,466.73

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$22.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,518.73

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$268.01

Total project goal

$1,786.74

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,786.74

2 Donors

-$1,786.74

Donations toward project cost

-$1,518.73

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$268.01

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$0.00

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