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Ms. Peoples from Fort Smith, AR is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading Our Way to Becoming Expert Ecologists

Help me give my students trade books that will supplement our unit on Ecology.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Peoples's classroom raised $176

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 have the privilege of working with the best and brightest students who will one day change the world! At my school, we believe in ensuring high academic and personal success for every student every day. In my classroom, students are exposed to a rigorous curriculum and challenged each day to set, work toward, and achieve goals. My students greet each day with determination and smiles on their faces, and they are eager to grow and improve.

No challenge is too big, and no dream is too small.

The students and families that my school serves come from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Many live below the poverty line, with more than 95% qualifying for free and reduced lunch. They face hardships that many people will never experience, yet they show grit and resilience as they continuously push toward creating better futures for themselves. But they also miss out on experiences that help build the background knowledge they need to develop language and vocabulary, comprehend literature, and expand on their learning.

With your help, I can provide my students with exposure to the experiences they need via rich texts and supplemental materials to enrich our curriculum further.

My Project

Reading is a passion for my students and me, and we read a variety of texts covering various topics each week. Still, my students need to be exposed to rich text with vivid imagery to gain knowledge and skills imperative to comprehension.

With these books, my students will build a solid vocabulary to help them understand the topics we will discuss together.

They will read more about waste and recycling, pollution, animal habitats and ecosystems, food chains, and climate change while maintaining the autonomy of choosing books that interest them in reading independently.

Ms. Peoples Harry C Morrison Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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 Smith, AR View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

25 students impacted 4donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
What If There Were No Bees?: A Book About the Grassland Ecosystem (Food Chain Reactions) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
What If There Were No Sea Otters?: A Book About the Ocean Ecosystem (Food Chain Reactions) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
What If There Were No Gray Wolves?: A Book About the Temperate Forest Ecosystem (Food Chain Reactions) • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
A Place for Butterflies (A Place for..., 1) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
A River Ran Wild: An Environmental History • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Why Should I Recycle? (Why Should I? Books) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
What Are Food Chains and Webs? (The Science of Living Things) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Wetland Food Chains • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Aliens from Earth: When Animals and Plants Invade Other Ecosystems • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
The Lorax (Classic Seuss) • Amazon Business $7.00 1 $7.00
Who Eats What?: Food Chains and Food Webs (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Oil Spill! (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Joyful Noise • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10

Materials cost

$102.75

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $8.48

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.54

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$148.77

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$26.25

Total project goal

$175.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $175.02

3 Donors

-$161.79

Donations toward project cost

-$148.77

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$13.02

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$13.23

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 $0.00

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