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Ms. Taylor from San Diego CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Social-Emotional Learning and Character Development Through Picture Books

Help me give my students opportunities to develop strong character and social-emotional skills through pictures books and strong literature.

  • $670 goal

This project expired on December 13, 2019.

This project expired on December 13, 2019.

My Students

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

As an educator, it is my goal to guide students toward not only academic success, but also to ensure that students develop social and emotional skills and to provide a safe, cooperative, and collaborative learning environment where students are inspired to be innovative thinkers, problem solvers, and 21st-century learners.

My school focuses on providing opportunities to enrich, inspire, and encourage all students to love learning and develop a strong character. We are a school committed to developing a leader in every child and provide experiential learning opportunities designed to maximize learning for each student.

My Project

My classroom will consist of twenty-six amazing fourth graders! My students come into my classroom with a wide range of skills and interests and a wide variety of personalities.

Meeting both the academic and emotional well-being of my students is my top priority.

I strive to provide them with not just a stronghold on the fourth grade standards, but also I aim to provide them with a high level of emotional intelligence. By building a strong classroom community, my students are encouraged to take risks and embrace diversity.

By using picture books to teach social-emotional skills, my students will be able to analyze how the characters in the stories deal with a variety of social situations. Sometimes it is too difficult for students to look inwardly at such a young age, so using literature can be a great way to discuss these essential life skills in a classroom setting.

Picture books that deal with social-emotional learning can spark meaningful conversations.

By beginning the school year reading these types of books, I will be able to create a community of learners that can support each other academically, emotionally, and socially. Students will hopefully take what they learned while analyzing the characters in the story to help them navigate their own social situations.

Ms. Taylor
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Beautiful Oops! • Amazon Business $9.99 2 $19.98
Neema's Reason to Smile • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
What If... • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Elbert's Bad Word • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
Millie Fierce • Amazon Business $15.96 1 $15.96
Llama Llama Mad at Mama • Amazon Business $14.00 1 $14.00
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah • Amazon Business $14.00 1 $14.00
Willow • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music • Amazon Business $13.92 1 $13.92
Malala's Magic Pencil • Amazon Business $12.92 1 $12.92
Amazing Grace (Grace-picture Books) • Amazon Business $12.78 1 $12.78
I Can't Do That, YET: Growth Mindset • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson • Amazon Business $11.58 1 $11.58
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark • Amazon Business $11.14 1 $11.14
Sam and the Lucky Money • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
My Many Coloured Days • Amazon Business $10.71 1 $10.71
No Truth Without Ruth: The Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Amazon Business $10.48 1 $10.48
Just Believe in Your Dreams: Unicorn Weekly Planner and Notebook • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $9.92 1 $9.92
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez • Amazon Business $9.88 1 $9.88
The Juice Box Bully: Empowering Kids to Stand Up for Others • Amazon Business $8.66 1 $8.66
It's Okay To Be Different (Todd Parr Classics) • Amazon Business $8.54 1 $8.54
Helen's Big World (A Big Words Biography): The Life of Helen Keller • Amazon Business $8.54 1 $8.54
The Teddy Bear • Amazon Business $8.44 1 $8.44
How to Lose All Your Friends (Picture Puffins) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
My Friend is Sad (An Elephant and Piggie Book) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Teammates • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Brave Irene: A Picture Book • Amazon Business $7.98 1 $7.98
Mr. Lincoln's Way • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Something Beautiful • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
The Tenth Good Thing About Barney • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
The Table Where Rich People Sit (Aladdin Picture Books) • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Fly Away Home • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Wemberly Worried • Amazon Business $7.49 1 $7.49
The Name Jar • Amazon Business $7.36 1 $7.36
When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry… (Scholastic Bookshelf) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Quick As a Cricket (Child's Play Library) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
I Like Me! (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Somewhere Today: A Book of Peace (Albert Whitman Prairie Books (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Hooway for Wodney Wat • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Sometimes I'm Bombaloo (Scholastic Bookshelf) • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89
Crazy Hair Day • Amazon Business $6.64 1 $6.64
City Green • Amazon Business $6.54 1 $6.54
Lincoln Tells a Joke: How Laughter Saved the President (and the Country) • Amazon Business $6.45 1 $6.45
Suki's Kimono • Amazon Business $6.40 1 $6.40
Those Shoes • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman • Amazon Business $6.25 1 $6.25
Bootsie Barker Bites • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
The Story of Ferdinand • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$482.78

Vendor shipping charges

 $4.62

Sales tax

 $44.17

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$568.81

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$100.38

Total project goal

$669.19

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