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Ms. Brinkley from Mesquite, TX is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Ready to Read!

Help me give my students an in-class library with books they enjoy and can relate to.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Brinkley's classroom raised $379

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

My students come from all different backgrounds, so this makes my classroom a really cool melting pot. I learn about new movies, music, food, and video games every day. They are always making me laugh and even on the hardest days I wouldn't trade my students for the world. I taught a lot of my students their 7th grade year and now I get to see them grow into 8th graders aka the "seniors" of middle school.

These middle school students have shown me what it means to be strong.

My students have taught me how to be extremely patient and understanding, how to be kind even when others are not, and how to remember that no matter what is going on in your life, there are people rooting for you. It warms my heart when I receive hugs in the hallways or when they do a little dance when they get an answer right in class. Even though my students come from what the world would consider a low-income home, they are rich in character and courage. They fight through adversity and push through personal pain to make sure that they get the education they deserve.

My Project

Great readers become great writers. Their vocabulary expands and they are able to pull in more examples for evidence in their writing for state assessments and other writing-related activities.

Having this in-class library will encourage my students to read more in class and they'll get to see characters that look like them, act like them, and are experiencing similar life events.

The storage cubes will provide easier access for books for the students since they have to write Reading/Thinking/Writing journal entries every Friday about a book they are reading.

Most of my middle school students have never read a book for entertainment purposes, let alone been to a library that had books full of characters they can relate to. Whenever I ask the students why they do not like reading, they all say the content is boring or they cannot relate to the story being told. Theses special stools and ten books will used by my students for their independent reading.

Ms. Brinkley Lanny Frasier Middle School Grades 6-8

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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.

Mesquite, TX View local requests

Nearly all 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

102 students impacted 5donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Fat Catalog ALT1102ACSO Metal Stack Stools with Padded Seat, Red/Purple/Blue/Green/Yellow (Pack of 5) • Amazon Business $79.60 1 $79.60
KOUSI Storage Kids Clothing Storage - 14"x14" Cube (16 Cubes) Storage Apartment Storage Cube Cube Organizer Cube Shelf Shelves Cube Shelf Apartment Essentials Dresser Shelf Dresser with Shelf • Amazon Business $73.49 1 $73.49
Classroom Keepers 10-Shelf Organizer, Red (001314) • Amazon Business $30.99 1 $30.99
Food Fight!: A Mouthwatering History of Who Ate What and Why Through the Ages • Amazon Business $15.25 1 $15.25
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight • Amazon Business $12.81 1 $12.81
For Black Girls Like Me • Amazon Business $12.12 1 $12.12
The Last Kids on Earth and the Zombie Parade • Amazon Business $11.06 1 $11.06
The Poet X • Amazon Business $10.96 1 $10.96
The Last Kids on Earth and the Midnight Blade • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
Ghost Boys • Amazon Business $9.98 1 $9.98
The Last Kids on Earth and the Cosmic Beyond • Amazon Business $8.86 1 $8.86
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Movie Tie-in Edition • Amazon Business $6.21 1 $6.21
Dear Martin • Amazon Business $5.48 1 $5.48

Materials cost

$287.10

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.31

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$321.41

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$56.72

Total project goal

$378.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $378.13

1 Donor

-$378.13

Donations toward project cost

-$321.41

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$56.72

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