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Ms. Collins from San Diego, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Read Aloud

Help me give my students a new chapter book...their very first and very own!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Collins's classroom raised $202

This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

The students I teach come from a variety of different economic backgrounds, with 100% of students receiving free lunch. Our school is also one of the most ethnically diverse schools in San Diego. Students speak a multitude of languages including English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Somali, and Burmese.

Our school is home to students that strive to be confident, respectful, responsible, and healthy thinkers.

I am kindly asking for your support in helping us as we continue distance learning. We need read aloud books for students.

My Project

We all know how important reading is for students. As readers grow they anxiously await the day when they can finally read chapter books. This is a very exciting time for readers but unfortunately many don't have access to these books. Due to distance learning students can no longer check books out from our class library. I would like to change that by providing each of the students in my room with their own copy of our next class read aloud.

Reading chapter books aloud to children introduces them to equally enriching, yet more complex storytelling that helps develop inferential reading skills.

Ms. Collins Herbert Ibarra Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all 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 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Stone Fox: 30th Anniversary Edition • AKJ Education $4.89 25 $122.25

Materials cost

$122.25

Vendor shipping charges

$6.00

Sales tax

$11.19

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$171.27

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$30.22

Total project goal

$201.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$201.49

2 Donors

-$123.54

Donations toward project cost

-$108.76

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.78

match offer

-$73.54

Match offer toward project cost

-$62.51

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.03

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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$0.00

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