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Great Readers, Great Artists!
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My Students
My students are bright, curious, and creative. Many are language learners, and live below the poverty line. My students love funny books, art projects, and investigating the natural world. They have endless questions about space, dinosaurs, and Picasso.
Many of my students are struggling with learning and physical disabilities. They are trying very hard to become scholars, even as their academic levels range from K to 5th grade. My students are resilient, but living in poverty presents many extra challenges.
They need and deserve the best.
My Project
We are a public school of the arts. Students learn about basic elements in art: line, texture, shape, value, form, and color. Students then apply this knowledge to every subject area. My students need books to help reinforce these concepts, while being inspired by famous artists from the past and present.
It's important for children to be represented in their literature. Many of these books are about women artists which may help young girls see themselves as artists. I am trying to broaden the scope of artists we have represented in our library so that all students are represented, regardless of ethnic background.
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Materials
Cost
Quantity
Total
Only One You
• Amazon Business
$9.39
2
$18.78
Klimt and His Cat
• Amazon Business
$17.12
1
$17.12
Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity!
• Amazon Business
$16.04
1
$16.04
Sonia Delaunay: A Life of Color
• Amazon Business
$16.04
1
$16.04
Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills
• Amazon Business
$15.72
1
$15.72
Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos
• Amazon Business
$15.58
1
$15.58
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (Americas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature. Commended)
• Amazon Business
$14.85
1
$14.85
Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen: The Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, a Writing Box, and One Clever Girl
• Amazon Business
$14.53
1
$14.53
Art
• Amazon Business
$14.52
1
$14.52
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books)
• Amazon Business
$14.42
1
$14.42
My First Book of Patterns
• Amazon Business
$14.20
1
$14.20
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America
• Amazon Business
$14.11
1
$14.11
Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression
• Amazon Business
$13.89
1
$13.89
The Line
• Amazon Business
$13.72
1
$13.72
Keith Haring: The Boy Who Just Kept Drawing
• Amazon Business
$13.56
1
$13.56
Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World
• Amazon Business
$13.37
1
$13.37
Uncle Andy's Cats
• Amazon Business
$13.00
1
$13.00
Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli
• Amazon Business
$12.75
1
$12.75
The First Drawing
• Amazon Business
$12.31
1
$12.31
My Museum
• Amazon Business
$12.21
1
$12.21
Miró's Magic Animals
• Amazon Business
$12.16
1
$12.16
Coppernickel Goes Mondrian (Artist Tribute)
• Amazon Business
$12.14
1
$12.14
Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines
• Amazon Business
$11.98
1
$11.98
Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire
• Amazon Business
$11.58
1
$11.58
The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid
• Amazon Business
$11.48
1
$11.48
Press Here
• Amazon Business
$10.99
1
$10.99
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality
• Amazon Business
$10.47
1
$10.47
Not a Stick
• Amazon Business
$10.30
1
$10.30
Perfect Square
• Amazon Business
$8.87
1
$8.87
A Line Can Be . . .
• Amazon Business
$7.17
1
$7.17
Materials cost
$397.86
Vendor shipping charges
FREE
Sales tax
$36.40
3rd party payment processing fee
$5.97
Fulfillment labor & materials
$30.00
Total project cost
$470.23
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
$82.98
Total project goal
$553.21
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal
$553.21
-$553.21
Donations toward project cost
-$470.23
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms
-$82.98
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