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Mrs. Wilhelm from Irvine, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Literacy Inspires Creativity

Help me give my students 57 different titles to put into Inchy and inspire our students to be creative.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Wilhelm's classroom raised $1,848

This project is fully funded

My Project

When you take a peek at my classroom you will see eager faces, ready to learn. You will see students who enjoy sharing laughter with their peers, putting their problem-solving skills to use with STEAM activities, creating artwork, and playing with their friends.

I am requesting books for Inchy, our book vending machine to increase literacy and inspire creativity!

There are two things that many students at our school love to do! One is to read, and the other is to create. I am requesting 57 different titles for Inchy. These books will serve two purposes. The first is they will get the students at our school reading. The second is they will get our students creating. These books will be mentor texts that our students will use to create their own stories, they will be models for illustrations, and they will inspire book projects where students will creatively share what the stories they have read.

In order to reach every student, I am asking for a wide selection of books. Who Would Win and Weird Sea Creatures will appeal to our nonfiction readers. Graphic novels like I Survived and The Baby-Sitters Club are very popular with our students. Graphic novels are fun to read and the pictures are engaging. Hachiko Waits, Old Yeller, and The Puppy Place will appeal to our animal lovers. Our gamers will be excited to see Pokemon, Minecraft, and I Spy books. Wings of Fire is very popular with our students.

Through this project our students will be able to let their creativity shine. They will read a book and the decide how to share the stories they read. They can use crayons, colored pencils, markers, technology, fabric, and more. I can't wait to see what they create!

Mrs. Wilhelm Santiago Hills Elementary School Grades PreK-2 Irvine, CA View local requests 30 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
57 Book Titles from Scholastic • Scholastic Books Face $1,392.45 1 $1,392.45

Materials cost

$1,392.45

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$127.41

3rd party payment processing fee

$20.89

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,570.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$277.19

Total project goal

$1,847.94

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,847.94

1 Donor

-$785.38

Donations toward project cost

-$785.38

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.00

match offer

-$923.96

Match offer toward project cost

-$785.37

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$138.59

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$138.60

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$0.00

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