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Mrs. Weeks from Coopersville MI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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From Bare to There: Books for a New Classroom!

My students need different genres of books--such as math, environmental science, graphic novels, and mysteries--to foster their love of reading.

  • $470 goal

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My Students

New building, new classroom, no books. Oh my! When my 3rd graders start school, they enter a space full of possibilities. It's a time when they start digging deep into books for answers to their questions, cues for navigating school, and facts to astonish others--i.e., the Egyptians invented toothpaste, some dolphins are pink and live in rivers, and the Hubble Space Telescope is about as long as a school bus! They are excited for school and the possibilities it brings.

Our classroom was added to the district this year, and it does not have a single staple, piece of paper, or book.

As a new teacher, I want to give my students every opportunity, but our lack of resources makes that difficult. Coming from high-poverty communities, many of my students face challenges outside of school that affect their interest and motivation to read. Having a wide variety of books in our classroom would give them the chance to discover and foster that passion.

My Project

These books would completely change our classroom. We would share poems with our peers at the start of every day, keep books in our desk for silent reading time, and read aloud two-person sketches to the class as we practice our public speaking. The math books would help introduce the concept of multiplication, and the graphic novels would guide us as we start creating our own comics! My students would be able to recommend books to their peers and grow in their interest in reading.

By donating these books to our room, you would give my students the chance to find stories they love, foster their interest in STEM topics, and fill our room with the sounds of laughter as we enjoy side-splitting poetry.

You would expose them to enduring classics like "Bridge to Terabithia," series like "Cam Jansen" and "Nancy Drew," and award winning authors and illustrators. The addition of these books would provide us with the opportunity for every student to become excited about reading.

Mrs. Weeks
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Graveyard Book • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Nancy Drew 31: The Ringmaster''s Secret • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Nancy Drew 02: The Hidden Staircase • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Nancy Drew 01: The Secret of the Old Clock • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Little House on the Prairie • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Little House in the Big Woods (Common Core Exemplar) • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Science Detectives How Scientists Solved Six Real-life Mysteries • AKJ Education $6.53 1 $6.53
Understanding Photosynthesis With Max Axiom, Super Scientist • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
The Earth-Shaking Facts about Earthquakes with Max Axiom, Super Scientist • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
Understanding Global Warming with Max Axiom, Super Scientist • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
The Surprising World of Bacteria With Max Axiom, Super Scientist • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
Saint George and the Dragon • AKJ Education $5.84 1 $5.84
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Witch of Blackbird Pond • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Grandfather''s Journey • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Story of Money • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics) • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Under The Quilt Of Night • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Forests Under Threat • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Rapunzel • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Animal Defenses How Animals Protect Themselves • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
What Is Hibernation? • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin The Revenge Of Rumpelstiltskin • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
What Is a Biome? • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Sir Cumference and All the King''s Tens A Math Adventure • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
What''s Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math Adventure • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
White Socks Only • AKJ Education $5.31 1 $5.31
Electricity • AKJ Education $5.15 1 $5.15
Walk Two Moons • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Paul Revere''s Ride • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute Lunch Lady #1 • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Boxcar Children Graphic Novels 2 Surprise Island • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Tuck Everlasting • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Lunch Lady and the League of Librarians Lunch Lady #2 • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Polkabats and Octopus Slacks 14 Stories • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
When Jessie Came Across the Sea • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Bridge to Terabithia • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Black Holes • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Constellations • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Climate Change • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Go Green! Lead the Way • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Number the Stars • AKJ Education $4.75 1 $4.75
Esperanza Rising • AKJ Education $4.39 1 $4.39
The Clue of the Left-Handed Envelope • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Schoolhouse Mystery • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
The Yellow House Mystery • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Joyful Noise Poems for Two Voices • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
The Boxcar Children • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Sea Monsters: A Nonfiction Companion to Dark Day in the Deep • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Hate That Cat A Novel • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Jack and the Beanstalk The Graphic Novel • AKJ Education $4.34 1 $4.34
Backup Goalie • AKJ Education $4.34 1 $4.34
Cinderella: The Graphic Novel • AKJ Education $4.34 1 $4.34
Love That Dog • AKJ Education $3.65 1 $3.65
Flat Stanley: His Original Adventure! His Original Adventure • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
The Magic School Bus Science Chapter Book #20: Rocks and Minerals Rocks & Minerals • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
The Magic School Bus Science Chapter Book #6: The Giant Germ The Giant Germ • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Arthur and the Scare-Your-Pants-Off Club An Arthur Chapter Book • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Arthur and the Crunch Cereal Contest An Arthur Chapter Book • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball #6 • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Oh Say, I Can''t See #15 • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Dinosaur Bones #3 • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
I Survived #1: I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
A to Z Mysteries: The Runaway Racehorse • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
Volcanoes and Other Natural Disasters • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living T • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
A to Z Mysteries: The Orange Outlaw • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
Arthur''s Classroom Fib • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91

Materials cost

$363.36

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.45

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$398.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$70.38

Total project goal

$469.19

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $469.19

8 Donors

-$232.99

Donations toward project cost

-$199.78

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.21

match offer

-$234.15

Match offer toward project cost

-$199.03

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$35.12

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$2.05

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 $0.00

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