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Ms. Bouvier's Kindness Committee from Providence RI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Help Us Fall In Love With Reading Through Diverse Texts

Help me give my students culturally responsive chapter books that they can connect with.

  • $235 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

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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

My students are all learning English as a Second Language in the fifth grade. These children are incredibly motivated to learn even though life's hardships have impeded in their progress for the beginning years of their lives. Hardships such as interrupted informal education, being poverty stricken and acquiring a new language and culture! Almost all of my student's families have immigrated to the U.S for a better life. They have already overcome a lifetime worth of trauma and yet they are still eager to learn and grow!

My students look at our classroom as a sanctuary.

Every day they come in excited, eager, and ready to put their daily positive affirmations to use. During our Bee Family morning meeting the students reflect on their purpose by chanting Rita Pierson's famous mantra, "I am somebody. I was somebody when I came. I will be a better somebody when I leave. I am powerful and I am strong. I deserve the education that I get here. I have things to do, people to impress, and places to go."

Their burning desire to learn is why I try to give them the very best education that they can get.

My Project

My students are absolutely falling in love with reading! We are in need of culturally responsive books to continue their desire to read chapter books and more elaborate texts!

When a reader can see themselves in the stories they read they can better connect with the text and this may be just what they need to understand the text.

When we try to engage our learning in reading we always want to find a way to connect with the reading to pull them in. In order for them to find the joy in reading, making a strong connection to self is exactly the crack in the door they need to be lifelong English readers.

Ms. Bouvier's Kindness Committee
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dreamland • AKJ Education $13.43 2 $26.86
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry • AKJ Education $6.29 3 $18.87
Hatchet • AKJ Education $5.48 3 $16.44
Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Maybe Something Beautiful • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
The Dreamer • AKJ Education $6.56 2 $13.12
Diego Rivera His World and Ours • AKJ Education $13.10 1 $13.10
Expo Dry Erase Markers, Chisel Point, Assorted, 6/Pack (1927524) • Quill.com $11.72 1 $11.72
Belkin WaveRest Gel Filled Cushioned Mousepad, Blue • Quill.com $10.49 1 $10.49
Los Cien Vestidos (The Hundred Dresses) • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
He Said, She Said • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount St. Helens • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Out of My Mind • AKJ Education $6.99 1 $6.99

Materials cost

$166.45

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$198.95

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$35.11

Total project goal

$234.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$234.06

1 Donor

-$156.04

Donations toward project cost

-$132.63

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.41

match offer

-$78.02

Match offer toward project cost

-$66.32

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.70

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$0.00

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