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Ms. Sandoval from Oakland CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Reading Night 2018

My students need books by Mo Willems to take home for reading.

  • $356 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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

I teach a group of twenty-four first grade students in one of the cities with the highest crime in the nation. All students at my school site receive a free lunch. A full 97% of my school's student population is Hispanic, and most of them are first-generation in the United States. At least 15% of my students are newcomers to the country. School is one of the only places in which my students interact with someone who speaks academic English.

Living and attending school in a highly impoverished urban setting, my students are not exposed to many educational experiences outside of the classroom.

Exposing my students to different types of learning while keeping them engaged and entertained is very important to me.

My Project

This is the third year that my school has had a reading night before the end of the school year. I have the idea of giving each one of our traditional kindergarten, kindergarten, first, and second-grade students that attend the event an Elephant and Piggie Book by Mo Willems. I came up with this idea because the books are fun to read. Even if students cannot read words, they can read the pictures in these books. Additionally, these books are hardcover and would be a great addition to their own library or a great way to start a library at home.

Please give students at my school the opportunity to continue to read at home with a Mo Willems' Elephant and Piggie book.

Allow them to be immersed in reading while feeling entertained and engaged.

Ms. Sandoval
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Thank You Book (An Elephant and Piggie Book) • Amazon Business $7.64 10 $76.40
Pigs Make Me Sneeze! (An Elephant and Piggie Book) • Amazon Business $6.39 10 $63.90
My Friend is Sad (An Elephant and Piggie Book) • Amazon Business $5.59 10 $55.90
There is a Bird on Your Head! (An Elephant and Piggie Book) • Amazon Business $4.99 10 $49.90

Materials cost

$246.10

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$22.52

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.69

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$302.31

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$53.35

Total project goal

$355.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$355.66

1 Donor

-$237.11

Donations toward project cost

-$201.54

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$35.57

match offer

-$118.55

Match offer toward project cost

-$100.77

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.78

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$0.00

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