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Mrs. Fuentes from Irvine, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Read With Me, An Environmental Challenge

My students need a wide variety of books & magazines on environmental science like Soil, Farming, Monarch Butterfly, Ladybugs, and more for small group reading.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Fuentes's classroom raised $1,524

This project is fully funded

My Students

We love to read! This project will allow us to share the joy of books with primary students at our school as we collaborate to learn more about the environment, how to protect it, and the role that animals and insects play in it.

I teach a great group of fifth graders.

They enjoy coming to school each day and learning from each other. They enjoy integrating art into their learning, and they also enjoy working with younger students at our school. This project will provide my students with books to take into the primary classrooms at my school. By having these supplies, my students will be able to become mentors to our school's primary students. They will work with the younger students to read books & create original artwork based on these stories with them. Through this project, my students will learn how to encourage younger students to think creatively.

My Project

This project will provide my fifth graders an opportunity to collaborate with the primary students at our school & encourage a love of reading while encouraging students to learn more about our environment. To do this, I’m requesting a variety of picture books. Examples of these books are Ladybugs, The Honey Makers, Bats, Spiders, Pigs, From Seed to Plant, Farming, The Reasons for the Seasons and more. I am also requesting a grade level set of The Life and Billy Miller and the Kids Discover Magazine Soil. My students will help the primary students read the requested books, & through this process they will learn how to become a mentor to younger students.

This project provides a great opportunity for the students at my school to collaborate and to learn more about protecting our environment at the same time.

I am hopeful that I can get these valuable resources into the hands of my students with the help of generous donors.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Year of Billy Miller • Amazon Business $4.52 64 $289.28
KIDS DISCOVER: Soils, Pack of 8 • Carolina Biological Supply Company $39.60 4 $158.40
Forces make Things Move • AKJ Books $4.37 11 $48.07
The Fruits We Eat • Amazon Business $7.99 6 $47.94
Let's Go Rock Collecting (Let'S-Read-And-Find-Out Science. Stage 2) • Amazon Business $3.48 11 $38.28
What Makes a Magnet? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) • Amazon Business $3.38 11 $37.18
Farming Gail Gibbons, Gail Gibbons (Illustrator) • AKJ Books $5.83 6 $34.98
From Seed to Plant • AKJ Books $5.83 6 $34.98
Monarch Butterfly • AKJ Books $5.83 6 $34.98
Pigs Gail Gibbons • AKJ Books $5.83 6 $34.98
Stargazers Gail Gibbons, Gail Gibbons (Illustrator) • AKJ Books $5.83 6 $34.98
Spiders Gail Gibbons, Gail Gibbons (Illustrator) • AKJ Books $5.83 6 $34.98
Ladybugs • AKJ Books $5.83 6 $34.98
Bats Gail Gibbons, Gail Gibbons (Illustrator) • AKJ Books $5.83 6 $34.98
Weather Words and What They Mean • AKJ Books $5.83 6 $34.98
The Reasons for Seasons Gail Gibbons, Gail Gibbons (Illustra • AKJ Books $5.83 6 $34.98
Seasons Of Arnold''S Apple Tree (Tr) • AKJ Books $5.11 6 $30.66
Post Office Book: Mail and how It Moves Gail Gibbons, Gail G • AKJ Books $5.10 6 $30.60
The Honey Makers • AKJ Books $5.10 6 $30.60
The Vegetables We Eat • Amazon Business $4.75 6 $28.50
Archaeologists Dig for Clues Kate Duke, Kate Duke (Illustrat • AKJ Books $4.37 6 $26.22
Bats Around the Clock • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13

Materials cost

$1,128.66

Vendor shipping charges

$15.84

Sales tax

$103.27

3rd party payment processing fee

$16.93

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,294.70

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$228.48

Total project goal

$1,523.18

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,523.18

2 Donors

-$684.85

Donations toward project cost

-$684.85

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$717.47

Match offer toward project cost

-$609.85

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$107.62

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$120.86

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$0.00

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