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Mrs. Dale from Fort Hood, TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading is Cool; Especially in Music

My students need these books and visuals to expand the class library into a wonderful aspect of the music classroom.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Dale's classroom raised $501

This project is fully funded

My Students

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. -Abraham Lincoln

I teach at a Pre-kindergarten through 5th grade elementary school located on a military base in Texas.

My school is a Title 1 school, 98% of my students have one or both parents military and a majority are deployed. Also because of the military, I receive students all throughout the year.

My Project

These books and visuals will bring into my students' lives the strength to enjoy reading. All of my students will be able to read these books during center time and I will also use these books and visuals to enhance my lessons as these books can be adapted to instruments and to singing. The visuals will encourage my younger students to learn by placing the visuals in story order and to understand the story better by including themselves into the story.

Reading is very important to the students and with the ability to enjoy reading by using these books I have chosen comes happy students!

My students thoroughly enjoy the ability to pick a book out my classroom library and to be able to read to themselves and even to their classmates.

Mrs. Dale Clear Creek Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

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

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Fort Hood, TX View local requests

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

750 students impacted 24donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Barnyard Book & Puppet Set • Kaplan Early Learning Company $79.95 1 $79.95
Freddie the Frog and the Bass Chef Monster: 2nd Adventure: B • AKJ Books $17.72 1 $17.72
Freddie the Frog and the Mysterious Wahooooo Sharon Burch, T • AKJ Books $17.72 1 $17.72
Freddie the Frog and the Thump in the Night Sharon Burch, De • AKJ Books $23.95 1 $23.95
LA510 - There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Storytelling Kit • Lakeshore Learning $29.95 1 $29.95
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? - Paperback & CD • Kaplan Early Learning Company $9.99 1 $9.99
LA991 - Tabletop Storytelling Board • Lakeshore Learning $49.95 1 $49.95
RR360X - Storytelling Puppets - Set 2 • Lakeshore Learning $29.95 1 $29.95
LA920X - Storytelling Puppets - Set 1 • Lakeshore Learning $29.95 1 $29.95
Spider on the Floor • AKJ Books $4.43 1 $4.43
There Was an Old Monkey Who Swallowed a Frog Jennifer Ward, • AKJ Books $15.29 1 $15.29
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and Other Stories and Poems CD • Kaplan Early Learning Company $13.95 1 $13.95
Five Little Monkeys Books And Finger Puppets • Kaplan Early Learning Company $49.95 1 $49.95
Click Clack Moo Cows That Type (Hardback) • Kaplan Early Learning Company $16.99 1 $16.99

Materials cost

$389.74

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.85

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$425.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$75.10

Total project goal

$500.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$500.69

18 Donors

-$372.93

Donations toward project cost

-$326.14

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.79

Matching donations from our partners

-$117.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$99.45

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.55

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.76

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$0.00

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