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Mrs. Sowe from McKinney TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading Matters!

Help me give my students an opportunity to grow as readers by providing books they want to read and can relate to.

  • $310 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

As a teacher in a community faced with high poverty and socioeconomic difficulties, my students are faced with a variety of challenges each day both in and out of the classroom. Despite the challenges, my students are curious and filled with imagination, open hearts, and minds. Our school is Title I, which supports free breakfast and lunch provided to students at the school. I must make their school experience meaningful.

I aim to provide my students with creative and positive learning experiences that will foster their curiosity.

It is my job as an educator to allow their curiosity to expand and their skills to develop and grow while keeping them inspired to learn.

My Project

These books will continue to enhance the print-rich classroom that I strive to create. My classroom library is a place that my students really enjoy. We read fifteen minutes every day and I read a book my class votes on. Every student book that is placed in my library is treated with love and care, and they are thankful for the opportunities to read. All of these books have been chosen with my students in mind. Students will be able to choose books, which will help them continue to enjoy independent reading time.

With these new books, my students will be able to choose from a variety of books that will allow them to read independently at their own grade level.

They will also be able to choose books that interest them. The best way to increase reading ability is to read more, and these books will continue to help my students grow stronger in reading.

Mrs. Sowe
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dragon Hoops • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
A Thousand Questions • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Serena Says • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Goodbye, Mr. Terupt • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a true story) • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Lumberjanes Vol. 16 • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Smartest Kid in the Universe • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
The Nerviest Girl in the World • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Shine! • Amazon Business $13.29 1 $13.29
A Place at the Table • Amazon Business $12.19 1 $12.19
Lumberjanes Vol. 14 • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Class Act • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 (I Survived Graphic Novel #3): A Graphix Book (3) (I Survived Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
When Life Gives You Mangos • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 (I Survived Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $9.34 1 $9.34
Mr. Terupt Falls Again • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
I Survived The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 (I Survived Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Saving Mr. Terupt • Amazon Business $6.19 1 $6.19

Materials cost

$229.93

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.45

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$263.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$46.48

Total project goal

$309.86

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$309.86

2 Donors

-$204.43

Donations toward project cost

-$173.77

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.66

match offer

-$105.42

Match offer toward project cost

-$89.61

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.81

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.01

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$0.00

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