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Mrs. Heather Stewart from Lake Tapps, WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart

Help me give my students a class set of the book "The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise" by Dan Gemeinhart!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Heather Stewart's classroom raised $401

This project is fully funded

My Students

My elementary school serves 1st-3rd graders. A huge passion of mine has always been around classroom climate.

I train and expect my students to be independent, hard-working, and cooperative learners focused on setting and reaching their own individual goals.

I offer a variety of seating options including: ergonomic stools, exercise balls, traditional chairs and cushioned benches to sit on every day.

I opt to not use overhead fluorescent lighting. Instead I have provided over 30 lamps throughout the classroom to foster a more relaxing environment for learning.

We listen to instrumental music during our independent work times in the background.

My students know they are safe, loved, and valued. We are family.

My Project

A favorite part of the day in our 3rd classroom is read aloud time.

"Your heart needs this joyful miracle of a book." -author Katherine Applegate.

I have fallen in love with this brand new book by Dan Gemeinhart called "The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise". I want my students to experience this book, this story, this journey.

A short summary-

Five years. That's how long Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus, criss-crossing the nation. It's also how long ago Coyote lost her mom and two sisters in a car crash. Coyote hasn’t been home in all that time, but when she learns that the park in her old neighborhood is being demolished—the very same park where she, her mom, and her sisters buried a treasured memory box—she devises an elaborate plan to get her dad to drive 3,600 miles back to Washington state in four days...without him realizing it.

First and foremost, I read aloud to my students purely for the entertainment value---students provided the time to just sit and enjoy listening to a story read by their teacher. During read aloud, my students have their own copy of the book in hand in order to track along with the story. This allows for building of their fluency, vocabulary and improved comprehension.

In addition, read aloud allows me to introduce my students to a genre of literature that they might not have otherwise considered. Fantasy, autobiography, historical fiction, realistic fiction, mystery...read aloud time allows me to immerse my class in intentionally chosen books in ways they never dreamed possible.

Thank you for your consideration...and please consider reading this book yourself!

Mrs. Heather Stewart Lake Tapps Elementary School Grades 3-5 Lake Tapps, WA View local requests 23 students impacted 7donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise • Amazon Business $11.72 24 $281.28

Materials cost

$281.28

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $24.61

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.22

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$340.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$60.02

Total project goal

$400.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $400.13

2 Donors

-$322.49

Donations toward project cost

-$308.24

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.25

match offer

-$37.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$31.88

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.62

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$40.15

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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