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Mrs. Newby from McMinnville TN is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

On the Road to a More Organized Library!

Help me give my students book bins for easier access to books by having them organized by characters, genres, and series.

  • $573 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our school is a PreK-5th grade school in McMinnville, TN. We have about 500 students who visit the library weekly. Unfortunately, our school has a high poverty rate but that does not stop our students from wanting to learn. They love to read and we love to keep them reading. Some of their favorite books to read are Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dog Man.

My Project

The book baskets will enable me to organize the books on the shelves in a more efficient way that will in return allow students to find books easily. The way the books are currently organized, they are constantly falling over and causing the library to appear a little messy and being put back in different spots when being previewed. When they are put back in different spots other students cannot find them when they are searching for them.

If we were able to house the books in appropriate book baskets I feel that books would be put back in the correct baskets after being previewed and the library would look a lot neater.

I also feel that being able to generify the books in book baskets would help students who have hard time choosing books. Examples of generified categories would be Adventure, Family, Sports, Suspense, etc.

Mrs. Newby
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
TT925X Neon HelpYourself Book Bins Set of 6 Colors • Lakeshore Learning Materials $44.99 10 $449.90

Materials cost

$449.90

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$486.65

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$85.88

Total project goal

$572.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$572.53

1 Donor

-$243.33

Donations toward project cost

-$243.33

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$286.26

Match offer toward project cost

-$243.32

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$42.94

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$42.94

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$0.00

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