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Mrs. Ford from Ogden, UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Improving Literacy With Past and Current Events

Help me give my students some rich literary books, as well as the Scholastic News magazine. I have also included Scholastic writing magazines and items to help organize our class room.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Ford's classroom raised $706

This project is fully funded

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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 part of a 5th grade class in Utah. Our school is a STEM school that focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. This year our school goal is to improve literacy to help the students learn across all curriculum.

My students are energetic and full of questions about past and current events.

They have a desire to learn and make connections from past events to the present. They beam with joy when they make these connections and soak up those "Ah-ha" moments.

My Project

One of our school goals is to improve literacy. This project helps get a bigger variety of books in my class library. It also provides us with the Scholastic news magazines to help students make connections to past and current events through literacy. This project also provides writing tools and items for class organization. With these items the environment and tools that the students have will help create a space for improved learning and give the students literature that is both interesting and educational. Students will be using both the books and magazines to improve literacy in both reading and writing.

Mrs. Ford New Bridge School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Scholastic News, Grades 5-6 (min. 10 subscriptions per order) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $5.75 33 $189.75
Just Write! Grade 5 Skills Book • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $2.95 33 $97.35
Classroom Keepers 30-Slot Mailbox, Blue (001318) • Amazon Business $38.75 1 $38.75
Just Jaime (Emmie & Friends) • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) • AKJ Education $11.65 1 $11.65
Wonder • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
Real Friends • Amazon Business $8.48 1 $8.48
Drama • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Dork Diaries 14: Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend Forever (14) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
The Hundred Dresses • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
What Was the Boston Tea Party? • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
The Great Kapok Tree • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Martin's Big Words The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Puffin Modern Classics) • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 (I Survived #7) • Amazon Business $5.03 1 $5.03
I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 (I Survived #4) (4) • Amazon Business $5.00 1 $5.00
I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 (I Survived #9) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
I Survived the Attacks of September 11th, 2001 (I Survived, Book 6) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
National Geographic Readers: Penguins! • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
Who Was Ben Franklin? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Rosa Parks? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Thomas Alva Edison? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was John F. Kennedy? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
What Was the March on Washington? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Charles Darwin? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
What Was the Gold Rush? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was King Tut? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Nelson Mandela? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
What Was Pearl Harbor? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Thomas Jefferson? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
What Was Pompeii? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Theodore Roosevelt? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
What Was the Holocaust? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
What Was the Vietnam War? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Who Was Eleanor Roosevelt? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
What Is the Declaration of Independence? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $3.83 1 $3.83
I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 (I Survived #15) • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
National Geographic Readers: Sharks! • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91

Materials cost

$532.65

Vendor shipping charges

$28.71

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.99

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$599.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$105.77

Total project goal

$705.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$705.12

1 Donor

-$299.68

Donations toward project cost

-$299.68

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$352.55

Match offer toward project cost

-$299.67

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$52.88

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$52.88

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$0.00

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