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Ms. Dipold from Elyria OH is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Social-Emotional Learning and Diversity Library!

Help me give my students texts that nurture critical skills that can lead to a lifetime of loving themselves and others for a kinder future!

  • $619 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

The majority of students in our school, grades kindergarten through third, come from low-income households, so we really appreciate any support and resources that can be provided to us. Because of their ages, our students are still learning how to interact with others appropriately, express their own emotions in a healthy way, and develop the social skills they will need to succeed in academic, career, and personal settings. They are learning to work hard and to experience the excitement of learning. Our students are at crucial ages to learn about acceptance and understanding of themselves and others, which I would like to help cultivate through this project!

My Project

I am requesting texts that nurture critical skills that can lead my students to a lifetime of loving themselves and others for a kinder future.

The materials for this project will be incorporated into a complete Social-Emotional Learning Library for our school!

The requested materials, which are all developmentally-appropriate children's books, include a variety of SEL topics that are relevant to our Kindergarten - third grade students.

In addition to books on topics such as feeling recognition, self-esteem, friendship and social skills, and self-regulation, I am requesting texts with an emphasis on addressing and promoting diverse families, body positivity, diverse abilities, acceptance and inclusion, and representation.

This project will be beneficial to every tier of our school, since the resources will be utilized in school-wide guidance lessons, available to teachers to use in their classrooms, in small-group counseling sessions, and in individual counseling sessions to help teach these important topics and skills to ALL students!

Ms. Dipold
Grades PreK-2

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Brand New Kid • Amazon Business $18.95 1 $18.95
I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem • Amazon Business $17.04 1 $17.04
Up the Creek (Life in the Wild) • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Bodies Are Cool • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
YOU WILL BE MY FRIEND! (Starring Lucille Beatrice Bear, 2) • Amazon Business $14.59 1 $14.59
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Far Apart, Close in Heart: Being a Family when a Loved One is Incarcerated • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Clarissa's Disappointment: And Resources for Families, Teachers and Counselors of Children of Incarcerated Parents • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
I Am Whole: A Multi-Racial Children's Book Celebrating Diversity, Language, Race and Culture • Amazon Business $13.85 1 $13.85
The Boy with Big, Big Feelings (The Big, Big) • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
C is for Consent • Amazon Business $13.46 1 $13.46
My Body Sends a Signal: Helping Kids Recognize Emotions and Express Feelings • Amazon Business $13.41 1 $13.41
Not All Princesses Dress in Pink • Amazon Business $13.27 1 $13.27
I Hate Everything!: A book about feeling angry (Our Emotions and Behavior) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Listening to My Body: A guide to helping kids understand the connection between their sensations (what the heck are those?) and feelings so that they can get better at figuring out what they need. • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Fair is Fair • Amazon Business $12.00 1 $12.00
Be Who You Are • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
The Crayon Box that Talked • Amazon Business $11.66 1 $11.66
Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race (First Conversations) • Amazon Business $11.37 1 $11.37
The Little Butterfly That Could (Butterfly Series) • Amazon Business $11.28 1 $11.28
The Judgmental Flower (Building Relationships) • Amazon Business $10.54 1 $10.54
My Two Blankets • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
The Color Monster: A Story About Emotions • Amazon Business $10.20 1 $10.20
What Do I Say About That? • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
The Good Egg • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
The Juice Box Bully: Empowering Kids to Stand Up for Others • Amazon Business $9.86 1 $9.86
Where Oliver Fits • Amazon Business $9.83 1 $9.83
Unlovable (Owlet Book) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Hair Love • Amazon Business $8.98 1 $8.98
It's Okay To Be Different (Todd Parr Classics) • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
What If Everybody Did That? • Amazon Business $8.14 1 $8.14
Is a Worry Worrying You? • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Janine. • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Oh No, George! • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
What If Everybody Thought That? (What If Everybody?, 3) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
My Family, Your Family (Cloverleaf Books ™ ― Alike and Different) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
What If Everybody Said That? (What If Everybody?, 2) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Bad Seed • Amazon Business $6.81 1 $6.81
A Rainbow of Friends • Amazon Business $5.90 1 $5.90
How to Be a Friend: A Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them (Dino Tales: Life Guides for Families) • Amazon Business $5.79 1 $5.79
Katie Can: A Story About Special Needs―Children's Book About Down Syndrome and Different Abilities, K-2 (24 pgs) (Changes and Challenges In My Life) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$472.32

Vendor shipping charges

 $15.96

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.08

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$525.36

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$92.71

Total project goal

$618.07

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $618.07

11 Donors

-$593.07

Donations toward project cost

-$504.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$88.96

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

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 $0.00

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