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Mrs. Davis from Coloma, MI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Inspiring Lifelong Readers

My students need 60 books to read, learning to love fiction books like Stories Julian Tells and My Weird School and non-fiction books like Tornado and True Dog Stories.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Davis's classroom raised $335

This project is fully funded

My Students

Do you remember the excitement of choosing books from the library when you were in elementary school? Well, I have 25 eager 8 and 9 year olds who love picking the perfect book to read, both from the school library and from our classroom collection.

The third graders I teach live in a small, rural town.

They love performing science experiments at school and riding their bikes at home. One child raises chickens, while another spends the summer picking fruit. Our school is a high poverty school. The majority of our students qualify for free or reduced rate lunch. The key to these students rising above their high poverty label is through education. If they can build and sustain a love for reading and learning, they can change their lives.

My Project

I want to encourage their love of reading and learning by having books that appeal to all interests from dogs, dinosaurs, and tornadoes, to humorous fiction books, to the classics. The students will be so excited to have new books to read! They'll snap them up, devour them, and eagerly share them with each other. All the while, they'll develop good reading skills and habits leading them to want to read more and more.

Having new books to add to our classroom collection will reinvigorate the kids' interest.

Plus, students arriving in third grade in the coming years will also reap the rewards of high interest books in our classroom.

Mrs. Davis Coloma Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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

25 students impacted 8donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Character Education (7 bk set) • AKJ Books $54.58 1 $54.58
Grade 3 High Interest, Low Readability (10 bk set) • AKJ Books $37.13 1 $37.13
Autobiography/Biography (9 bk set) • AKJ Books $36.43 1 $36.43
Humor (6 bk set) • AKJ Books $30.62 1 $30.62
Grade 3 $mart $et Nonfiction (10 bk set) • AKJ Books $25.00 1 $25.00
Grade 3 $mart $et Fiction (10 bk set) • AKJ Books $25.00 1 $25.00
Ann Cameron (6 bk set) • AKJ Books $21.86 1 $21.86
Tornado • AKJ Books $3.64 1 $3.64
Five True Dog Stories • AKJ Books $3.64 1 $3.64
Miss Mary Is Scary! (My Weird School Daze Series #10) Dan Gu • AKJ Books $3.64 1 $3.64
Raptor Pack • AKJ Books $2.91 1 $2.91
Sniffles, Sneezes, Hiccups, and Coughs • AKJ Books $2.91 1 $2.91
Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares • AKJ Books $2.91 1 $2.91

Materials cost

$250.27

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$284.02

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$50.12

Total project goal

$334.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $334.14

6 Donors

-$281.50

Donations toward project cost

-$254.27

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$27.23

match offer

-$35.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$29.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.25

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.64

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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