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Ms. Casaleggi from Saint Louis, MO is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Take Me Home Tonight: Books Are for Sharing!

My students need 16 quality hardcover picture books that they can take home and labels for labeled book bags to read and do activities with their parents (I already have bags).

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Casaleggi's classroom raised $275

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 3rd grade students enter my urban classroom with many challenges...about 30% of them and their families speak another language...many of their parents have limited education backgrounds themselves...and poverty means that there is often not enough money for food, let alone books.

Yet my students are hungry for more than food, they love learning and, with some encouragement, start to develop a love for reading in my book-rich, literacy-based classroom.

Through book fairs and garage sales, I have built a large classroom library that I am proud of and almost daily I receive a request to allow a student to bring a book home so they have something to read.

My Project

I want to be able to grant these delightful requests with "Weekend Book Bags"- a bag containing a high quality book, related questions and activities and a fun item, such as a snack or stuffed animal to enjoy with the book. My hope is that these book bags will not only bring joy to my students, but to their families as well. Having bilingual books will allow many of my students to read with their parents and encourage literacy in two languages! The questions and activities will help parents to be active participants in their child's education and development and promote healthy discussion and quality family time.

I believe these book bags will help the love of reading students develop in my classroom to expand and extend into their home lives as well...touching parents, brothers, sisters, cousins, grandparents, neighbors, etc with the power and pleasure found in a good book.

Ms. Casaleggi Confluence Academy - South City Grades 3-5

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
My Many Colored Days Board Book Dr. Seuss, Steve Johnson (Il • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Zen Shorts Jon J. Muth (Illustrator) • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03
Amazing Grace (HC) • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
American Tall Tales Mary Pope Osborne, Michael McCurdy (Illu • AKJ Books $15.56 1 $15.56
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back • AKJ Books $7.01 1 $7.01
Jazz Walter Dean Myers, Christopher A. Myers (Illustrator), • AKJ Books $14.78 1 $14.78
Abuela''s Weave • AKJ Books $6.98 1 $6.98
Cinder Edna • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03
Pastel Para Enemigos-Enemy Pie • AKJ Books $12.47 1 $12.47
Rain Came Down David Shannon • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03
If You Take a Mouse to the Movies • AKJ Books $13.25 1 $13.25
The Gardener Sarah Stewart, David Small (Illustrator) • AKJ Books $14.03 1 $14.03
El L rax Dr. Seuss, Aida E. Marcuse (Translator) • AKJ Books $11.66 1 $11.66
La Mariposa Francisco Jimenez, Simon Silva (Illustrator) • AKJ Books $5.42 1 $5.42
A Place for Zero • AKJ Books $13.22 1 $13.22
By My Brother''s Side Tiki Barber, Ronde Barber, Barry Root ( • AKJ Books $13.22 1 $13.22
INKJET LABELS PERMANENT ADHESIVE 1''X2 5/8'' 750/PK WHITE • School Specialty Inc. $6.13 1 $6.13

Materials cost

$194.52

Vendor shipping charges

 $0.61

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.92

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$233.05

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.13

Total project goal

$274.18

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $274.18

8 Donors

-$274.18

Donations toward project cost

-$233.05

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.13

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