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Mrs. Warden from Portland, OR is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Poetry Power!

My students need 27 childrens poetry books, such as Where the Sidewalk Ends and My Many Colored Days to read and listen to during the school year.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Warden's classroom raised $424

This project is fully funded

My Students

Do you remember what it was like the first time you read a poem from "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and you laughed until you cried? My students have not yet experienced the joy and laughter that poetry can bring into their lives, but they have also never met Shel Silverstein.

I am a 3rd grade teacher in a high poverty school in the northwest.

All of my students are on free or reduced school lunch and breakfast. There is a wide range of diversity in our classroom, with 7 different native languages being spoken by all of the students. Despite the challenges of their home lives, all of the students are kind, hard-working, and they have a tremendous desire to learn. Our classroom is a place where they all feel welcome and safe and we treat each other like a family. While there are many obstacles to overcome by the school environment and the linguistic and cultural differences with my students, I personally know that there is no where else that I would rather teach.

My Project

As a 3rd year teacher, I do not have many poetry books for my students to read. As part of our third grade writing curriculum, we need to have materials that will help us to teach poetry to our students. I don't personally have the means to purchase all of the resources needed in my classroom. There is also no available funding in our school or district. While all of my students love writing poetry, I need assistance in purchasing poetry books in order to support and teach my students this writing unit. Our classroom needs many different picture poetry books, that will engage and hook my students during our poetry study. With these poetry books, I would be able to read aloud and share many different forms of poetry with them. These books would allow them to not only hear great poetry, but write poetry modeled after great poets.

Your donation will help ensure that all of my students are able to experience truly great poetry, such as Shel Silverstein, during our poetry unit.

With these books they will learn about the power of poetry and the imagination and creativity that it brings. Please help fill our classroom with these wonderful books that will get my 3rd graders pumped about poetry!

Mrs. Warden Harrison Park School Grades 3-5

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half of 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 24donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
If Not for the Cat Jack Prelutsky, Ted Rand (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
I Love You the Purplest Barbara M. Joosse, Barbara Lavallee (Illustrator), Mary Whyte (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors Joyce Sidman, Beckie Prange (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $14.53 1 $14.53
Falling Up: Poems and Drawings Shel Silverstein, Shel Silverstein (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.98 1 $12.98
Where the Sidewalk Ends: 30th Anniversary Special Edition Shel Silverstein, Shel Silverstein (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.98 1 $12.98
A Light in the Attic Shel Silverstein, Shel Silverstein (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.98 1 $12.98
It's Raining Pigs & Noodles Jack Prelutsky, James Stevenson (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.54 1 $8.54
Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs Alan Katz, David Catrow (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
I'm Still Here in the Bathtub: Brand New Silly Dilly Songs Alan Katz, David Catrow (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
Twilight Comes Twice Ralph Fletcher, Kate Kiesler (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.68 1 $13.68
Listen to the Rain Bill Martin Jr., James Endicott (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.30 1 $12.30
Science Verse Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
Quiet Place Douglas Wood, Dan Andreasen (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.83 1 $6.83
Don't Take Your Snake for a Stroll Karin Ireland, David Catrow (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.99 1 $12.99
What If. . . Regina J. Williams, Doug Keith (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.94 1 $12.94
My Many Colored Days Dr. Seuss, Steve Johnson (Illustrator), Stephen T. Johnson (Illustrator), Lou Fancher (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
All the Places to Love Patricia MacLachlan, Mike Wimmer (Illustrator), Michael Wimmer (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $12.30 1 $12.30
Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (A Poetry Speaks Experience Series) Nikki Giovanni, Michele Noiset (Illustrator), Kristen Balouch (Illustrator), Jeremy Tugeau (Illustrator), Damian Ward (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.67 1 $13.67
Sharing the Seasons: A Book of Poems Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins, David Diaz (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $17.86 1 $17.86
Wonderful Words: Poems About Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening Lee Bennett Hopkins, Karen Barbour (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.38 1 $15.38
Hailstones and Halibut Bones: Adventures in Color Mary O'Neill, John Wallner (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $11.61 1 $11.61
Color Me a Rhyme: Nature Poems for Young People Jane Yolen, Jason Stemple (Photographer) • Barnes and Noble $7.48 1 $7.48
City I Love Lee Bennett Hopkins, Marcellus Hall (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.76 1 $13.76
Waiting to Waltz: A Childhood Cynthia Rylant, Stephen Gammell (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $16.23 1 $16.23
Smelly Locker: Silly Dilly School Songs Alan Katz, David Catrow (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.79 1 $13.79
Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems Lee Bennett Hopkins, Karen Barbour (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $6.83 1 $6.83
The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein, Shel Silverstein (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $9.43 1 $9.43

Materials cost

$328.75

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.93

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$368.68

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$55.09

Total project goal

$423.77

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $423.77

18 Donors

-$419.29

Donations toward project cost

-$368.68

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$50.61

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.48

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