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Ms. Gonzales from San Francisco, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building A Beautiful Spanish Language Library

My students need a classroom library full of 44 exciting new Spanish language books!

  • $542 goal

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Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Help us stock our classroom library! In a classroom full of Kindergarteners who love to read, our shelves are sadly bare. We need beautiful, engaging literature in Spanish to fill our book bins and create an environment where students are can always get their hands on the right book for them.

My Kindergarten Spanish immersion students are already becoming avid readers.

They spend thirty minutes a day during reading workshop poring over emergent story books and "just right" books at their levels. They love listening to read alouds and reading along with shared reading books. Some of them are native Spanish speakers; others are just beginning to speak and understand Spanish. They come from an array of socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, as is typical at our school, a bilingual urban public school in California where the majority of students qualify for free and reduced price lunch.

My Project

While my students are eager to read, we inherited a classroom sadly lacking in reading material. We have been relying on generous loans from other teachers and from the public library to stock our shelves. This project would provide us with the books my student need which is high quality literature in Spanish to support our Spanish immersion program. These 44 books would allow my students to improve their comprehension strategies during interactive read alouds, fill their book bins with old and new favorites during reading workshop, discover new authors to admire and emulate, and find new mentor texts to inspire their own writing during writing workshop.

It is my belief that every child has the right to a classroom full of beautiful books, not photocopied decodables, not worn-out basal readers, but real, exciting, engaging literature.

Help my students learn to define themselves as readers in an environment where they will always have stories to share, authors to love, characters to laugh with and dream about, and plenty of books to fill their book bins.

Ms. Gonzales
Grades PreK-2
    More than a third of 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

    This project will reach 20 students.

    14 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sopa de calabaza • AKJ Books $16.05 1 $16.05
Que juego? / What Am I Playing? • AKJ Books $2.88 1 $2.88
Curious George Plants a Seed (Bilingual) • AKJ Books $2.91 1 $2.91
Clifford y la Hora de Dormir / Clifford''s Bedtime • AKJ Books $2.91 1 $2.91
No, David! David Shannon, Teresa Mlawer • AKJ Books $14.39 1 $14.39
Big Pig and Little Pig / Cerdo y Cerdito • AKJ Books $2.91 1 $2.91
One Hundred Days, Plus One • AKJ Books $13.83 1 $13.83
Curious George Cleans Up (Bilingual) • AKJ Books $2.91 1 $2.91
The Hare and the Tortoise (La Liebre y la Tortuga) Chronicle • AKJ Books $5.07 1 $5.07
Beauty and the Beast (Bilingual) Roser Ros, Cristina Losanto • AKJ Books $5.07 1 $5.07
Eres t mi mam ? (Are You My Mother?) P.D. Eastman • AKJ Books $3.64 1 $3.64
Pulgarcita / Thumbelina • AKJ Books $2.91 1 $2.91
Con Mi Hermano/With My Brother • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
David se mete en l os David Shannon, Teresa Mlawer • AKJ Books $11.67 1 $11.67
Hay un molillo en mi bolsillo! Dr. Seuss, Yanitzia Canet • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Quiero a Mi Mamma Porque/I Love My Mommy Because • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
Casi Peter H. Reynolds, Adapted by Esther Rubio • AKJ Books $13.51 1 $13.51
Curious George/Jorge El Curioso H. A. Rey • AKJ Books $5.07 1 $5.07
David va al colegio (David Goes to School) David Shannon, Te • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Donde Viven Los Monstruos (Where the Wild Things Are) Mauric • AKJ Books $7.99 1 $7.99
El Mejor Amigo del Mundo/ The best friend of the world • AKJ Books $10.94 1 $10.94
Let''s Eat/ A Comer! • AKJ Books $9.48 1 $9.48
Algun Dia Alison McGhee, Peter Reynolds (Illustrator) • AKJ Books $10.94 1 $10.94
Floating on Mama&apos • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
I''m Just Like My Mom: (Me Parezco Tanto a Mi Mama): I''m Just • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
La Tortuga Y La Liebre/ the Tortoise And the Jackrabbit • AKJ Books $5.80 1 $5.80
Maria Ite, eso no es tuyo/ Maria Ite, that is not yours • AKJ Books $6.21 1 $6.21
My Grandma/Mi Abuelita Ginger Foglesong Guy, Vivi Escriva (I • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
Tenemos Un Bebe/We Have a Baby Cathryn Falwell • AKJ Books $4.34 1 $4.34
Tengo que ir a la escuela?/ I Have to Go To School • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Tortillas and Lullabies/ Tortillas y Cancionsitas • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
Y pensar que lo vi por la calle Porvenir (And to Think That • AKJ Books $10.94 1 $10.94
Arandanos para Sal/ Blueberries for Sal • AKJ Books $14.59 1 $14.59
Ceniciento / Cinderello • AKJ Books $9.48 1 $9.48
El Flamboyan Amarillo • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
El mejor regalo del mundo: La leyenda de la Vieja Bel • AKJ Books $10.94 1 $10.94
Imagina Un Dia/ Imagine a Day • AKJ Books $17.51 1 $17.51
Julius, El Rey De La Casa / Julius, the Baby of the World • AKJ Books $11.67 1 $11.67
La tortilla corredora / The Runaway Tortilla • AKJ Books $12.59 1 $12.59
Lola Con Alas/lola With Wings • AKJ Books $13.51 1 $13.51
Los pollitos dicen/ The chicks say • AKJ Books $6.56 1 $6.56
Lover Boy/ Juanito El Carinoso • AKJ Books $11.64 1 $11.64
Piggies/ Cerditos • AKJ Books $7.99 1 $7.99
Si Yo Fuese Muy Delgado/ If Were Very Thin • AKJ Books $15.32 1 $15.32

Materials cost

$388.75

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$35.57

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.83

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$460.15

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.20

Total project goal

$541.35

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$541.35

11 Donors

-$537.47

Donations toward project cost

-$460.15

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$77.32

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.88

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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