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Mrs. Sluiter from Wyoming MI is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Homes for Our Books!

My students need 3 bookshelves for our classroom library! Our library has grown out of the shelving available...a great problem to have!

  • $210 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

The first thing my students notice when they walk into my classroom is the wall of books that makes up my classroom library. I have worked hard over the past three years to accumulate books that will help my students become life-long readers. When they come to me, many are self-proclaimed non-readers.

My students are fantastically diverse 8th graders in a Title 1 urban district.

Over 75% of them are on free and reduced lunch and do not have access to books outside of school.

My Project

Over the past three years, I have gathered books for my classroom library from donors (like you!), thrift shops, garage sales, and anywhere else I can find them. It has grown leaps and bounds and has helped so many students give up the title "non-reader" and lose themselves in books.

Our library has outgrown our available shelves!

We are in need of bookshelves for all our beloved books in our classroom library! As of right now, they are being piled on top of the current shelves and in crates on the floor. Being able to display each book helps students find what they are looking for and helps us keep the books tidy and new for the next reader.

Mrs. Sluiter
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sauder Beginnings 5-Shelf Bookcase, Soft White • Amazon Business $48.59 3 $145.77

Materials cost

$145.77

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.19

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$177.96

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$31.40

Total project goal

$209.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$209.36

7 Donors

-$154.68

Donations toward project cost

-$131.48

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$23.20

match offer

-$54.68

Match offer toward project cost

-$46.48

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.20

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$0.00

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Project Activity

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