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Ms. Melissa from Brooklyn NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Help Us Learn About Animals and Play With Our Food!

Help me give my students copies of Unusual Creatures A Mostly Accurate Account of Some of Earth's Strangest Animals and Funny Food 365 Fun, Healthy, Silly, Creative Breakfasts.

  • $662 goal

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My Students

I teach a dynamic group of fabulous kindergarten students in an​ extremely diverse school in New York. My students love reading funny stories, writing, poetry, creating art, exploring in science, learning new words, building, dancing, singing, playing math games, playing with puppets, and learning new facts. We are obsessed with our composting worm bin!

My class absolutely loves our beloved puppet, Chef Lotsa Words.

He cooks up sight words, poems, vocabulary words, and books each day in his "magic" pot. My students are funny, enthusiastic, inquisitive, compassionate, and sweet.

My Project

My class recently learned about eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables. I would love to have a breakfast where they can make faces on pancakes using fruit! I would love for each student to receive their own copy of Funny Food: 365 Fun, Healthy, Silly, Creative Breakfasts so their families can continue to make healthy and funny breakfasts! We will also be learning about some unusual animals this spring from the book, Unusual Creatures and I would love to give my students their very own copy to add to their home libraries.

Your donation will inspire my students to create healthy breakfasts and teach them about animals!

Ms. Melissa
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Funny Food 365 Fun, Healthy, Silly, Creative Breakfasts • AKJ Education $14.56 24 $349.44
Unusual Creatures A Mostly Accurate Account of Some of Earth's Strangest Animals • AKJ Education $7.29 24 $174.96

Materials cost

$524.40

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$562.27

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$99.22

Total project goal

$661.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$661.49

9 Donors

-$491.45

Donations toward project cost

-$451.78

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.67

match offer

-$130.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$110.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.50

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$40.06

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$0.00

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