My students need materials to decorate bookcases to create "Free Little Libraries" in schools, and supplies for the Launch Parties at each of these schools when we reveal the Free Little Libraries!
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Peano's classroom raised $433
This project is fully funded
Celebrating 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.
My Students
The students we are serving through Book Club are kids who love to read books of their own choosing but have very little opportunity to do so. We lost our Reading classes where students participated in Reading Workshop, and then we lost our librarian, and now our kids cannot check out books. So the only opportunity they have to read whatever they want is Book Club.
Our students are the forgotten kids: low-income students at a neighborhood school, students who are diverse learners, ELL students, immigrants from over 30 different countries, students at risk of dropping out.
Yet, despite these diverse factors, they have one thing in common-- a love of reading.
While some are the obvious participants, like students in AP English classes, or straight A students, many others are surprises. The diverse learner, who might be only at a 4th-grade reading level, but still loves to read. A girl who is failing all of her classes, but comes every month to Book Club. A boy with very few friends, but who musters the courage to sit at a table with strangers, just because he's dying to talk to someone about the book he read.
My Project
Our first project for the RHS Book Cub received an incredible outpouring of support! The even better news? Our cup runneth over-- we have collected more books than my students here can actually use, and we would like to share the wealth!
With our overflow of books, we have designed a service learning project where RHS Book Club students will create Free Little Libraries in our school and in neighboring elementary schools.
We need book cases, materials to decorate them, supplies to create Book Suggestion Cards, and food/raffle prizes for our launch parties at each of these schools.
With so many librarian positions cut in CPS schools, we want to ensure that students still have access to books that they want to read on their own, in their free time, with nothing standing in their way. These Free Little Libraries will be created by students for other students-- who better to get the right high-interest books into their hands?
More than three‑quarters of 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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Total project cost
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Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
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Total project goal
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How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$432.81
1 Donor
-$432.81
Donations toward project cost
-$367.89
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