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Ms. Sharp from Friendsville, TN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ms. Sharp's classroom raised $976

Reading is a Magical Adventure!

Help me give my students quality, diverse, and high-interest books to read in our school library.

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Ms. Sharp Friendsville Elementary School
Friendsville, TN Grades PreK-2

My Students

Our school is in the beautiful foothills of the Smoky Mountains, and our school is a true community school. Our community is small, but they love our school and work hard to support it. However, with the current economic situation, our school has had a dramatic increase in students coming from high poverty situations.

Our school's community is very supportive of our school, but we are lacking in some of the fundamental educational tools to teach our students such as manipulative materials, STEM technology, updated books, and other educational resources.

Our students are eager to learn new information each day and come to school with a smile on their face. It is truly a pleasure to work with these students.

In my library and STEM classroom, I strive daily to give my students a wide range of materials and opportunities to experience new ways of reading. With these Volunteer State Book Award books, I will help my students learn to read and help begin a magical adventure of books. I am striving daily to make a difference in the lives of my students.

My Project

This project is for the purchase of Volunteer State Book Award books for our school library. These books have been chosen by Tennessee librarians, teachers, and students as high-interest, appropriate books for kindergarten through fifth grade students. The VSBA books have received excellent reviews and showcase a variety of styles of storytelling. Providing my students with books that they will find interesting is essential in getting our students to learn that reading is a magical adventure.

Research, and my own personal observation, has proven that students must see themselves in books, so it is vitally important for my students to be able to relate to the subject matter they read about in books.

Unfortunately, many of the students in my school only have access to books that are in our school library. Therefore, it is important that I provide a variety of books about different topics, with different reading levels, and with different topics. I want to ensure my students have access to a wide variety of culturally diverse books. By supporting this project you are helping put books into students hands. The learning opportunities created with simply giving a book to a student will have a lasting impact on my students. My students will begin to develop a lifetime love of learning, which will carry throughout the rest of their lives. Help my students go into a frenzy of excitement in order to go on a magical reading adventure!

236 students impacted 4 donors
Ms. Sharp Friendsville Elementary School Grades PreK-2 Friendsville, TN View local requests 236 students impacted 4donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Swish!: The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying Harlem Globetrotters • Amazon Business $17.99 2 $35.98
My Life as a Potato • Amazon Business $16.99 2 $33.98
If You Come to Earth • Amazon Business $16.99 2 $33.98
Glitch • Amazon Business $16.49 2 $32.98
Mel Fell • Amazon Business $15.99 2 $31.98
The Smart Cookie (The Food Group) • Amazon Business $15.49 2 $30.98
Oona (Oona, 1) • Amazon Business $15.30 2 $30.60
Milo Imagines the World • Amazon Business $13.36 2 $26.72
The Couch Potato (The Food Group) • Amazon Business $13.28 2 $26.56
The Bad Seed Presents: The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky (The Food Group) • Amazon Business $9.99 2 $19.98
The Good Egg (The Food Group) • Amazon Business $9.95 2 $19.90
The Good Egg Presents: The Great Eggscape! (The Food Group) • Amazon Business $9.89 2 $19.78
The Cool Bean (The Food Group) • Amazon Business $9.48 2 $18.96
A Field Guide to Getting Lost • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
When Stars Are Scattered • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Lift • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
See the Cat: Three Stories About a Dog • Amazon Business $8.99 2 $17.98
Scritch Scratch: A Ghost Story • Amazon Business $8.90 2 $17.80
Rescuing Mrs. Birdley • Amazon Business $8.56 2 $17.12
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Five Things About Ava Andrews • Amazon Business $16.31 1 $16.31
Old Rock (is not boring) • Amazon Business $16.26 1 $16.26
A Place to Hang the Moon • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
The Voice that Won the Vote: How One Woman's Words Made History • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read • Amazon Business $15.89 1 $15.89
Forbidden City (3) (City Spies) • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
Tune It Out • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Hike • Amazon Business $14.89 1 $14.89
Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tale with a Tail • Amazon Business $14.77 1 $14.77
Speak Up • Amazon Business $14.10 1 $14.10
The Elephant's Girl • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Shine! • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
The Blue House • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
City Spies (1) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Show Me a Sign • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Prairie Lotus • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
I Am Every Good Thing • Amazon Business $12.60 1 $12.60
Golden Gate (2) (City Spies) • Amazon Business $12.58 1 $12.58
Black Brother, Black Brother • Amazon Business $11.94 1 $11.94
Ways to Make Sunshine (A Ryan Hart Story, 1) • Amazon Business $10.92 1 $10.92
Ways to Grow Love (A Ryan Hart Story, 2) • Amazon Business $9.97 1 $9.97
Efrén Divided • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99

Materials cost

$787.26

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.81

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$829.07

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$146.31

Total project goal

$975.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $975.38

3 Donors

-$542.69

Donations toward project cost

-$461.29

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$81.40

match offer

-$432.68

Match offer toward project cost

-$367.78

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$64.90

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 $0.00

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