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

Kindergarteners Want a Special Gift for Their Reading Buddies!

Help me give my students gift cards to Barnes and Noble so they can give their 4th grade reading buddies a special end of the year gift.

  • $347 goal

This project expired on July 5, 2019.

This project expired on July 5, 2019.

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 kindergarten students absolutely adore their fourth grade reading buddies. Once a week, our reading buddies visit our class to read to us. The two classes really have a special bond. The fourth graders are extremely kind and patient with my students. My students are always asking me when the "big kids" are coming to our room. My students are thrilled when they see their buddies in the hallway!

Our buddies have read books all year to us and we would like to thank them by giving them a gift card to our local Barnes and Noble store so they can pick out a book this summer!

We want our reading buddies to enjoy reading this summer! Please help my kindergarten students so they can give the gift of reading to their buddies!

Ms. Melissa
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Adventure Gift Card • Barnes and Noble $10.00 26 $260.00

Materials cost

$260.00

Vendor shipping charges

$0.95

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$294.85

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$52.03

Total project goal

$346.88

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