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

Non-Fiction for All Readers!

Help me give my students access to high quality, high interest non-fiction books!

  • $426 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

I love teaching at a small elementary school in Michigan. We are a Title I School where a number of my students receive free and reduced priced lunch each day. Having 21 students with a range of abilities, special needs and personalities coming into my classroom each day, I need to be creative with my teaching, lessons and activities.

My students are the heart of my classroom!

They come to school each day eager and ready to learn and I want to be able to bring out the BEST in each of them!

My Project

Access to high quality, high interest non-fiction books will allow for my students to learn more about the world around them. They are constantly eager for new books and having a wide variety of non-fiction books is essential for growing as readers. Creating cross-curriculum Writing and Social Studies projects are wonderful benefits from having a non-fiction rich print classroom. Some examples of past projects include writing our own animal research books and creating a living wax museum of important people from history.

The history, important places, people and animals that my students experience within these books will take their learning to a whole new level!

Every day my students impress me with their growth as learners and as readers! I love to fill my library with books that will be able to allow them to explore different aspects of our world.

This project will help my students gain knowledge through texts at a variety of levels and will allow me to create exciting cross curriculum projects to capture their interest. It will also give my students the opportunity to teach their peers about the knowledge they have gained from these non-fiction texts. Thank you for considering my project!

Mrs. Haagsma
Grades 3-5

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Giant Pandas • AKJ Education $6.53 2 $13.06
Beluga Whales • AKJ Education $10.37 1 $10.37
National Geographic Kids Everything Dolphins Dolphin Facts, Photos, and Fun that Will Make You Flip • AKJ Education $9.45 1 $9.45
Chimpanzees • AKJ Education $7.67 1 $7.67
Annie Oakley • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Chocolate by Hershey A Story About Milton S. Hershey • AKJ Education $7.29 1 $7.29
Walruses • AKJ Education $7.26 1 $7.26
Salt in His Shoes Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Owls • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Bearded Dragons • AKJ Education $6.02 1 $6.02
Wilma Rudolph: Olympic Track Star • AKJ Education $5.91 1 $5.91
Big Blue Whale Read and Wonder • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Giant Pandas • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Christmas • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Beavers • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Edmund Hillary Reaches the Top of Everest • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Laura Ingalls Wilder • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Owls • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Watchful Wolves • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Pouncing Bobcats • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Who Is Michelle Obama? • AKJ Education $5.39 1 $5.39
American Black Bears • AKJ Education $5.32 1 $5.32
Jellyfish • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Life Cycle of a Penguin, The • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Sea Horses • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Mambas • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Gray Wolves • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Bald Eagles • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Cobras • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Humpback Whales • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Red-tailed Hawks • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Seals and Sea Lions • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Whales • AKJ Education $4.93 1 $4.93
Who Was Laura Ingalls Wilder? • AKJ Education $4.79 1 $4.79
National Geographic Readers: Bats • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
National Geographic Readers: Cheetahs • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
National Geographic Readers: Monkeys • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
National Geographic Readers: Wolves • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
National Geographic Readers: Alexander Graham Bell • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
Dr. Seuss: The Great Doodler • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
Malala A Hero for All • AKJ Education $4.49 1 $4.49
Who Was Betsy Ross? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Jacques Cousteau? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Jim Henson? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Johnny Appleseed? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Louis Armstrong? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Is Wayne Gretzky? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Henry Ford? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Frank Lloyd Wright? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Julia Child? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Is Muhammad Ali? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Is George Lucas? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Ernest Shackleton? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Harry Houdini? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Milton Hershey? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Chinchillas • AKJ Education $4.05 1 $4.05
Becoming Babe Ruth • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Jackie Robinson and the Story of All Black Baseball • AKJ Education $3.49 1 $3.49
The Story Of Chocolate • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
National Geographic Readers: Bears • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
Time For Kids: Clara Barton Angel of the Battlefield • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
Time For Kids: Henry Ford Putting the World on Wheels • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91

Materials cost

$326.65

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$361.55

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$63.80

Total project goal

$425.35

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $425.35

2 Donors

-$425.35

Donations toward project cost

-$361.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.80

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