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Ms. Demeritt from Highland, UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Increasing Motivation and Engagment!

Help me give my students new books and STEM activities to help motivate them and feel excited about learning!

  • $869 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

I have a classroom of 27 great students! These students, due to COVID-19, have never had a normal school year. This year, we are trying to make this school year as normal as possible! I've found that these students are much further behind academically where my students in previous years have been. I think a large part of this is due to the pandemic.

I want to create a more engaging classroom to help my students be motivated and excited to learn!

With this motivation and excitement, they'll view school in a better light and be more open and willing to learn. I think a lot of academic growth will come from this.

My Project

These activities will help motivate students and help students to get excited to come to school, learn, and grow! Since COVID-19, I have noticed that many students (especially in my current class), are further behind where they should be and they are not very motivated to learn. With this attitude, I am not seeing as much progression as I usually do by this point in the year.

With these new books and STEM activities, students will be more engaged in learning and find new motivation to progress.

These books and STEM activities will help make lessons more engaging and proactive. I also plan to use these as motivation for students to complete their work and focus hard.

I am excited to see how these new items make a difference in our classroom!

Ms. Demeritt
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Questioneers Picture Book Collection • Amazon Business $53.99 1 $53.99
LEGO Classic Large Creative Brick Box 10698 Build Your Own Creative Toys, Kids Building Kit (790 Pieces) • Amazon Business $43.99 1 $43.99
What if You Had Animal Parts!? 7 Book Set • Amazon Business $43.99 1 $43.99
Stem Building Toys for Boys 6-8 Year Old Boys Best Gift Educational Toys for Kids Top Building Set for Boy 5-7 Engineering Building Kit Erector Toys Boys Age 8-12 Birthday Gift for 6 7 8 9 10+ yr Old • Amazon Business $32.99 1 $32.99
PLUS PLUS - Open Play Set - 600 Piece - Basic Color Mix, Construction Building Stem Toy, Interlocking Mini Puzzle Blocks for Kids • Amazon Business $30.00 1 $30.00
Roald Dahl Collection 16 Books Box Set • Amazon Business $30.00 1 $30.00
Little House 4-Book Box Set: Little House in the Big Woods, Farmer Boy, Little House on the Prairie, On the Banks of Plum Creek • Amazon Business $28.76 1 $28.76
PicassoTiles PTB120 120pcs Bristle Shape 3D Building Blocks Tiles Construction Toy Set Learning Playset STEM Toy Set Educational Kit Child Branin Development Preschool Kindergarten Toy • Amazon Business $25.01 1 $25.01
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia ( Boxed Set 7 Books ) • Amazon Business $25.00 1 $25.00
Amelia Bedelia Chapter Book 4-Book Box Set: Books 1-4 • Amazon Business $19.19 1 $19.19
The Magical Yet • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Scribble Stones • Amazon Business $16.10 1 $16.10
Pink Is for Boys • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Aaron Slater, Illustrator (The Questioneers) • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
The Whatifs • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Ocean! Waves for All (Our Universe, 4) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Thank You, Omu! • Amazon Business $14.89 1 $14.89
The Girl with Big, Big Questions (The Big, Big Series, 2) • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family • Amazon Business $14.27 1 $14.27
Strictly No Elephants • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
The Boy with Big, Big Feelings (The Big, Big) • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
My Magical Choices (The Magic of Me Series) • Amazon Business $13.19 1 $13.19
A Crankenstein Valentine • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
What Do You Do With an Idea? — New York Times best seller • Amazon Business $12.74 1 $12.74
Love Monster • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
That's My Friend! • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years (Our Universe, 1) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Place Value • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Wild Robot Escapes (The Wild Robot, 2) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
What Do You Do With a Problem? — New York Times best seller • Amazon Business $8.91 1 $8.91
The Hiccupotamus • Amazon Business $8.59 1 $8.59
How to Catch a Snowman • Amazon Business $8.16 1 $8.16
How to Catch a Leprechaun • Amazon Business $7.51 1 $7.51
Love Is My Favorite Thing • Amazon Business $7.18 1 $7.18
Snowmen at Play • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
I Survived the Galveston Hurricane, 1900 (I Survived #21) (21) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
I Survived: The Shark Attacks of 1916 • Amazon Business $5.68 1 $5.68
Who Was Walt Disney? • Amazon Business $5.36 1 $5.36
Who Was Jackie Robinson? • Amazon Business $5.28 1 $5.28
Who Was Anne Frank? • Amazon Business $5.08 1 $5.08
Who Was Kobe Bryant? (Who HQ Now) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
The Night Before Groundhog Day • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
The Gruffalo • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1888 (I Survived #16) (16) • Amazon Business $4.89 1 $4.89
Who Was Rosa Parks? • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
What Is NASA? (What Was?) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Worm Weather (Penguin Core Concepts) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$692.83

Vendor shipping charges

$4.99

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.39

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$738.21

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$130.27

Total project goal

$868.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$868.48

1 Donor

-$868.48

Donations toward project cost

-$738.21

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$130.27

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$0.00

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