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Ms. Chock from Kent, WA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Battling For Books

My students need 2 copies each of 15+ books to enrich their reading lives and gain better reading skills.

  • $428 goal

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My Students

"Always be prepared" is something that my students are reminded to be everyday and as the year goes on it becomes a part of them. To ensure that my students are always prepared, I feel I must obtain all the tools I can to make this possible.

My students are hard workers and never want to give up.

Our school is economically, socially, and ethnically diverse. We have over 90% of our students receiving free or reduced price lunch. In my classroom, I have 23 students from all over the world. Five different languages are spoken by my students and for many of them English is not their first language. They enjoy math and writing, but they especially love reading. Many of them have struggled hard to make it to a 4th grade reading level and I want them to have as much as they can so they can go beyond where they are now.

My Project

These students will benefit greatly by receiving books. Their minds will be opened to new worlds and they will be exposed to many different genres. They will also have a better opportunity to answer questions when they participate in the Battle of the Books Competition that is held school-wide. The books fly off the shelves in our library, as the library has very few sets and there are over 150 students trying to read them all year long. If our class had its own set, the students would have a better opportunity to read them all.

Obtaining these books for my students will make a big impact on their learning and will give them a better opportunity to learn about kids with other backgrounds.

It will also give them a better opportunity to win the Battle of the Books.

Ms. Chock
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda Tom Angleberger • AKJ Books $9.58 2 $19.16
The PS Brothers Maribeth Boelts • AKJ Books $11.10 2 $22.20
Crunch Leslie Connor • AKJ Books $12.57 2 $25.14
Cosmic • AKJ Books $5.17 2 $10.34
Out of My Mind Sharon M. Draper • AKJ Books $12.57 2 $25.14
Turtle in Paradise • AKJ Books $5.17 2 $10.34
Love, Aubrey • AKJ Books $5.17 2 $10.34
The Sixty-Eight Rooms Marianne Malone, Greg Call (Illustrato • AKJ Books $12.57 2 $25.14
A Long Walk to Water Linda Sue Park • AKJ Books $11.84 2 $23.68
Masters of Disaster • AKJ Books $4.43 2 $8.86
13 Treasures • AKJ Books $5.17 2 $10.34
Big Nate: In a Class by Himself Lincoln Peirce • AKJ Books $9.61 2 $19.22
Fatty Legs • AKJ Books $11.66 2 $23.32
Lone Wolf • AKJ Books $4.43 2 $8.86
The Lost Hero • AKJ Books $7.39 2 $14.78
The Mysterious Howling • AKJ Books $5.17 2 $10.34
Theodore Boone • AKJ Books $5.91 2 $11.82
The Popularity Papers: Research for the Social Improvement a • AKJ Books $11.80 2 $23.60

Materials cost

$302.62

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $26.48

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.54

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$363.64

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$64.17

Total project goal

$427.81

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $427.81

15 Donors

-$367.40

Donations toward project cost

-$316.04

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$51.36

match offer

-$56.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$47.60

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.40

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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