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Ms. Solarek from Seattle, WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ready, Set, Read in Spanish!

Help me give my students books in Spanish to read and engage in book clubs!

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Solarek's classroom raised $588

This project is fully funded

My Students

Our school is filled with incredible students who love to come to school every day! They are such happy individuals with so much empathy and curiosity! The staff at our school learns as much from the students as the students do from us about life and the world.

My students bring many different cultures from around the world into our classroom every day, creating a rich and deep learning learning environment.

It is an amazing environment to teach about diversity because it is so evident. I am truly indebted to my students for all they teach me about life and their culture.

My Project

We need sets of books in Spanish to use in our reading workshop for book clubs. These four titles will be used throughout the year in both the 3/4 and 4/5 classrooms. If these books are funded, students will be able to engage in group conversations about the plot, characters and theme in Spanish. The teacher will also be using the book in the lesson to model and support students with the text. This will create for a supportive literacy environment in students' second language. The books selected have a range of diverse characters that students can see themselves in the book.

Ms. Solarek Olympic Hills Elementary School Grades 3-5

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.

Seattle, WA 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

90 students impacted 4donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Quien cuenta las estrellas? / Number the Stars (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $12.99 10 $129.90
Gracias a Winn-Dixie / Because of Winn-Dixie (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $11.99 10 $119.90
La princesa era traviesa / The Princess Was Mischievous (Spanish Edition) (Serie Naranja) • Amazon Business $10.99 10 $109.90
Yo, Naomi Leon (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $6.64 10 $66.40

Materials cost

$426.10

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$37.28

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.39

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$499.77

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$88.19

Total project goal

$587.96

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$587.96

3 Donors

-$537.96

Donations toward project cost

-$457.27

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$80.69

match offer

-$50.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$42.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

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$0.00

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