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Mrs. Selin from Kenosha WI is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

The Picture Book A Day Challenge!

My students need to experience the benefits of reading a picture book a day plus new bookshelves.

  • $787 goal

This project expired on November 11, 2018.

This project expired on November 11, 2018.

My Students

The students in my classroom are unique, energetic and mind-blowing little individuals. They are creative, yet organized; fun, yet studious. In a word, they are amazing. I am blessed to work with them, teach them, guide them and ultimately, learn from them.

I teach in a fantastic school in the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Most of my students are from low-to-middle-class, hard-working families. Our community is tremendous when it comes to taking part in their children's learning experiences. We are proud Gremlins!

My Project

The power of literature, specifically through picture books, is amazing. I'm challenging myself and my students to take part in the Picture Book A Day Challenge this year. We need your help to build our library to undertake this project. Please consider the following:

“The importance of reading aloud to children on a daily basis can’t be overestimated.

The U.S. Department of Education Commission on Reading took into account over ten thousand studies and found that the most important activity for building the skills and background for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children (Anderson, Hiebert, Scott, & Wilkinson, 1985). Children who are read to are usually the very best readers in the classroom, and they acquire large vocabularies, write well, and do better in other subject areas, as well. - Lori D. Oczkus, 2012, Best Ever Literacy Survival Tips

The benefits of Picture Book Read Alouds include time to enjoy class, build classroom community, develop empathy, social emotional learning, more chances to include diverse stories, practice critical reading and analysis of books, include a variety of topics in (and outside) of the curriculum, equalize access to text for all students, enhance listening skills, create joy for the reading experience and model fluency.

Your donation will help to build our classroom library. We already have over sixty amazing, diverse and inspiring texts. Your donation will help complete the library so that we have immediate access to a wide array of literature on a daily basis. It will also help to house these precious materials since we've asked for two new bookshelves.

We appreciate your donation and can't wait to share our stories with you.

Mrs. Selin
Grades 3-5

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
HODEDAH IMPORT Hodedah 3 Shelve Bookcase, Black • Amazon Business $35.40 2 $70.80
Grandad Mandela • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Quiet Please, Owen McPhee! • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Iggy Peck, Architect • Amazon Business $16.16 1 $16.16
Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $15.42 1 $15.42
I Am Enough • Amazon Business $15.41 1 $15.41
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 • Amazon Business $14.88 1 $14.88
Love • Amazon Business $14.86 1 $14.86
The Word Collector • Amazon Business $14.53 1 $14.53
Free as a Bird: The Story of Malala • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Forever or a Day • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Rolling Thunder • Amazon Business $14.24 1 $14.24
Blue Sky White Stars • Amazon Business $14.23 1 $14.23
The Most Magnificent Thing • Amazon Business $14.01 1 $14.01
Seeds and Trees: A children's book about the power of words • Amazon Business $13.76 1 $13.76
The Apple Orchard Riddle (Mr. Tiffin's Classroom Series) • Amazon Business $13.75 1 $13.75
Inside My Imagination • Amazon Business $13.68 1 $13.68
Gaston (Gaston and Friends) • Amazon Business $13.65 1 $13.65
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Ada Twist, Scientist • Amazon Business $13.46 1 $13.46
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (Irma S and James H Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature (Awards)) • Amazon Business $12.90 1 $12.90
The Memory Box: A Book About Grief • Amazon Business $12.90 1 $12.90
Be Kind • Amazon Business $12.75 1 $12.75
Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: Stretch It, Shape It • Amazon Business $12.66 1 $12.66
7 Ate 9 • Amazon Business $12.59 1 $12.59
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear • Amazon Business $12.42 1 $12.42
I Walk with Vanessa: A Story About a Simple Act of Kindness • Amazon Business $12.32 1 $12.32
The Invisible Boy • Amazon Business $12.06 1 $12.06
School's First Day of School • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
Rot, the Cutest in the World! • Amazon Business $11.48 1 $11.48
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race • Amazon Business $11.48 1 $11.48
After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again) • Amazon Business $11.37 1 $11.37
Nerdy Birdy • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
The Bad Seed • Amazon Business $10.90 1 $10.90
The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes • Amazon Business $10.78 1 $10.78
You Wouldn't Want to Be at the Boston Tea Party!: Wharf Water Tea You'd Rather Not Drink • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
A Sweet Smell of Roses • Amazon Business $9.58 1 $9.58
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Nurse During the American Civil War!: A Job That's Not for the Squeamish • Amazon Business $9.20 1 $9.20
Star of Fear, Star of Hope • Amazon Business $8.41 1 $8.41
The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
You Wouldn't Want to Explore with Lewis and Clark • Amazon Business $7.96 1 $7.96
The Whispering Town (Holocaust) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
The Harmonica • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust • Amazon Business $7.60 1 $7.60
The Gardener • Amazon Business $6.83 1 $6.83
Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town • Amazon Business $5.92 1 $5.92
George vs. George: The American Revolution As Seen from Both Sides • Amazon Business $5.56 1 $5.56
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women • Amazon Business $3.38 1 $3.38

Materials cost

$628.94

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.43

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$668.37

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$117.95

Total project goal

$786.32

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