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Mrs. Ippel from Gallup NM is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Let the Stories Come to Life!

My students need a mix of fiction and nonfiction literature that will engage and empower them during our daily read aloud time.

  • $466 goal

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My Students

I have a group of 18 second graders that live in Gallup, NM. Most of my students are Native American and live on a reservation. Every student in our classroom receives free and reduced breakfast. No matter their life situations, students find a safe, nurturing, and loving environment in our classroom. It is also a place where I try to provide my students with opportunities they would not have outside of school.

Reading is one of my key ingredients to providing my students with opportunities to explore the world, see through someone else's lens, brainstorm new ideas, and chase after our passions/interests.

Currently, my last group of second graders were bored with the reading curriculum we had last year. The books were worn and old. They were dull and uninteresting. Read alouds quickly became their least favorite time and quite honestly, it became mine as well. For my new group of students, I want to quickly engage them into our literature and change read-aloud time into a space of exploration, questions, and problem solving together.

My Project

This project would be providing me with 3-5 books that I could use to follow our theme and our reading strategies each week for the entire year. Books from this project will be used during the read-aloud portion. Our read aloud time consists of 20 minutes with 15 minutes of dissecting our reading strategy through book talks, writing or post-reading activities. The literature included in the project have strong vocabulary, empowering themes, and that are relate-able to our standards. The read alouds consist of a mix between non-fiction and fictions texts with themes ranging from mummies to inventors, from friendship to fairtales.

These books will become the basis for weekly exploration and deeper learning experiences.

For example- in March, we will be spending two weeks learning about inventors and the connections to history. With books like "On a Beam of Light," a story about Albert Einstein and "What Do You Do with an Idea?" students will make inventions of their own. This unit will also include coding opportunities for my students and stem projects to help develop an inventors mind. In December, my students will be learning about the Iditarod- the last great race on earth through books like "Stone Fox" and "DK Readers L4: Snow Dogs!: Racers of the North". Student will have the opportunity for a virtual field trip to experience the race in a new way.

This set of literature will follow weekly themes that help students grasp reading strategies more effectively and develop new learning experience with hands-on units. Literature is our basis for experiential learning. "It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations... " -Katherine Patterson

Mrs. Ippel
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Miracle of St. Nicholas (Golden Key Books) • Amazon Business $16.93 1 $16.93
Trapped! A Whale's Rescue • Amazon Business $14.09 1 $14.09
Hansel and Gretel • Amazon Business $13.40 1 $13.40
Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover)) • Amazon Business $11.19 1 $11.19
The Butter Battle Book: (New York Times Notable Book of the Year) (Classic Seuss) • Amazon Business $11.19 1 $11.19
The Umbrella • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
Dr Seuss's Sleep Book • Amazon Business $10.42 1 $10.42
Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau • Amazon Business $9.97 1 $9.97
You Wouldn't Want to Be an Egyptian Mummy!: Digusting Things You'd Rather Not Know • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
If I Built a House • Amazon Business $9.59 1 $9.59
Gravity • Amazon Business $9.13 1 $9.13
I am George Washington (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $8.50 1 $8.50
I am Helen Keller (Ordinary People Change the World) • Amazon Business $8.33 1 $8.33
Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Last Stop on Market Street • Amazon Business $7.88 1 $7.88
One Giant Leap • Amazon Business $7.54 1 $7.54
Polar Bears • Amazon Business $7.42 1 $7.42
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest • Amazon Business $7.32 1 $7.32
Tree of Cranes • Amazon Business $7.32 1 $7.32
If I Ran the Rain Forest: All About Tropical Rain Forests (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library) • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street • Amazon Business $7.01 1 $7.01
Trust Me, Jack's Beanstalk Stinks!: The Story of Jack and the Beanstalk as Told by the Giant (The Other Side of the Story) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Seriously, Cinderella Is SO Annoying!: The Story of Cinderella as Told by the Wicked Stepmother (The Other Side of the Story) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Frankly, I'd Rather Spin Myself a New Name!: The Story of Rumpelstiltskin as Told by Rumpelstiltskin (The Other Side of the Story) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Gentle Giant Octopus: Read and Wonder • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89
Amazing Animals: Polar Bears • Amazon Business $6.85 1 $6.85
National Geographic Kids Everything Ancient Egypt: Dig Into a Treasure Trove of Facts, Photos, and Fun • Amazon Business $6.82 1 $6.82
No Lie, Pigs (and Their Houses) Can Fly!: The Story of the Three Little Pigs as Told by the Wolf (The Other Side of the Story) • Amazon Business $6.82 1 $6.82
Really, Rapunzel Needed a Haircut!: The Story of Rapunzel as Told by Dame Gothel (The Other Side of the Story) • Amazon Business $6.79 1 $6.79
Polar Bears • Amazon Business $6.75 1 $6.75
Trust Me, Hansel and Gretel Are Sweet!: The Story of Hansel and Gretel as Told by the Witch (The Other Side of the Story) • Amazon Business $6.69 1 $6.69
A Chair for My Mother 25th Anniversary Edition (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon Business $6.09 1 $6.09
Seriously, Snow White Was SO Forgetful!: The Story of Snow White as Told by the Dwarves (The Other Side of the Story) • Amazon Business $6.00 1 $6.00
In the Rainforest (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Fairytale Boards) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Amazing Animals: Pandas • Amazon Business $5.93 1 $5.93
Eight Days Gone • Amazon Business $5.88 1 $5.88
On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein • Amazon Business $5.84 1 $5.84
Mummies and Pyramids: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #3: Mummies in the Morning • Amazon Business $5.61 1 $5.61
Those Shoes • Amazon Business $5.00 1 $5.00
If I Built a Car • Amazon Business $4.47 1 $4.47
The Legend of the Poinsettia • Amazon Business $4.12 1 $4.12
Tut's Mummy: Lost...and Found (Step into Reading) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Stone Fox • Amazon Business $3.94 1 $3.94
The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto (Step-Into-Reading) • Amazon Business $3.78 1 $3.78
DK Readers L4: Snow Dogs!: Racers of the North • Amazon Business $3.74 1 $3.74
National Geographic Readers: Level 2 - Pandas • Amazon Business $3.50 1 $3.50
The Truth about Bats (The Magic School Bus Chapter Book, No. 1) • Amazon Business $3.46 1 $3.46
Jack and the Beanstalk • Amazon Business $2.65 1 $2.65
National Geographic Readers: Polar Bears • Amazon Business $2.38 1 $2.38

Materials cost

$360.13

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.40

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$395.53

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$69.80

Total project goal

$465.33

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $465.33

8 Donors

-$441.21

Donations toward project cost

-$384.48

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$56.73

match offer

-$13.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$11.05

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$1.95

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$11.12

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 $0.00

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