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Mrs. Dunhill from Las Vegas NV is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Spring Into Read Aloud Stories

Help me give my students stories that will ignite their imagination and help them learn about the world around them! My students need these fiction and non-fiction books for whole group instruction to help build reading comprehension.

  • $700 goal

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Hooray! 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

Our students are very curious and are full of questions. We strive every day to learn something new. We have worked with Green Our Planet and installed our first set of garden beds. We want these beds to be a learning classroom for students, whether we are inside or outside out our learning never stops.

Our kindergarten students are very curious about the world around them and we want to give them those hands on chances to learn as much as possible.

Our students live in sunny Las Vegas, NV. As teachers at a low income/low SES Title 1 elementary school, we try to give our students as many hands-on learning activities as possible. Our students don't get the opportunity to explore much of the world around them. All of our students school-wide receive free breakfast and lunch and 30% of our students are homeless. Our school's goal is to provide students with the best learning education while teaching them how to be the best person they can be. One small act at a time, we can change our world.

My Project

Reading aloud is one of the most important things parents and teachers can do with children. Reading aloud builds many important foundational skills, introduces vocabulary, provides a model of fluent, expressive reading, and helps children recognize what reading for pleasure is all about.

A good read-aloud book allows students to go beyond just surface-level knowledge.

The books I have chosen will allow students to emphasize key aspects of college- and career-ready standards, including quality, sequenced text-dependent questions, improved speaking, listening and writing tasks, and a focus on academic vocabulary.

These books will be used to teach students deeper thinking comprehension skills. Some of the books are going to be used for science lessons. These books have been paired together to help teach the Next Gen Science Standards.

Through "A Picture Book of George Washington" and "A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln" students will learn about the history of our country. "Helpers in my Community" will teach students all about the community they live in. "Dear Juno" is about a Korean-American boy who cannot read the letter he receives from his grandmother in Seoul but he understands what it means from the photograph and dried flower that are enclosed and decides to send back to her a similar letter.

Mrs. Dunhill
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Hogwash! (Wilson, Karma) • Amazon Business $18.99 5 $94.95
Enemy Pie : (Reading Rainbow Book, Children’s Book about Kindness, Kids Books about Learning) • Amazon Business $12.74 6 $76.44
How I Became a Pirate • Amazon Business $10.66 5 $53.30
A Picture Book of George Washington (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $7.77 6 $46.62
A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln (Picture Book Biography) • Amazon Business $6.71 6 $40.26
Helpers in My Community (Bobbie Kalman's Leveled Readers: My World: G) (My World: Reading Level G) • Amazon Business $6.49 6 $38.94
Cactus Hotel (Rise and Shine) • Amazon Business $7.92 4 $31.68
The Little Red Hen (Folk Tale Classics) (Paul Galdone Classics) • Amazon Business $6.79 4 $27.16
National Geographic Readers: Seed to Plant • Amazon Business $4.99 5 $24.95
National Geographic Readers: Great Migrations Butterflies • Amazon Business $3.99 6 $23.94
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King Jr. (Scholastic Bookshelf) • Amazon Business $6.17 3 $18.51
Dear Juno (Picture Puffins) • Amazon Business $6.99 2 $13.98
From Seed to Plant • Amazon Business $6.99 2 $13.98
Zinnia's Flower Garden • Amazon Business $5.99 2 $11.98

Materials cost

$516.69

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$40.56

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$595.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$105.00

Total project goal

$700.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$700.00

3 Donors

-$139.82

Donations toward project cost

-$119.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.22

match offer

-$559.29

Match offer toward project cost

-$475.40

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$83.89

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.89

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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