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

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Book of the Month Club

Help me give my students the gift of reading. By contributing to this project, you will be helping to give each child in our school one book per month for an entire school year!

  • $2,515 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

When the term literacy is mentioned, reading is often the first thing that comes to mind. Reading is an essential skill that every child needs in order to become a successful adult. There are many opportunities our school uses to develop our children’s love for reading including: family library nights, community guest readers, and book giveaways. However, we could do more to promote the love and excitement of reading.

For our project, we want our students to realize that reading can transport them to places they have never been before.

Our goal is to inspire students with the intrinsic motivation to read outside of the school walls. This project would allow us to provide every child in our elementary with one new book to take home every month. Many of our families are just trying to put food on the table, and do not have the money to purchase books. By sending books home, we will being giving each child the gift of reading.

Our school has an average enrollment of of 355 students with 65% of the student population receiving free or reduced price lunch.

My Project

For our project, we want students to realize that reading can transport them to places they have never been before. Our goal is to inspire students with the intrinsic motivation to read outside of the school walls. The grant funding would allow us to provide every child at our elementary with one new book to take home every month. Many of our families are just trying to put food on the table, and do not have the money to purchase books. By sending books home, we will being giving each child the gift of reading.

We hope students will increase their reading levels through practice at home, develop a love reading, and most importantly realize that literacy has the ability to change their future and take them anywhere.

Mrs. Castle
Grades PreK-2
    More than half 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 355 students.

    5 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Caldecott Classroom Library Builder: Grades PreK–5 (DonorsChoose.org Exclusive) - Box of 20 titles / Grades PreK-5 • Scholastic Magazines $75.00 5 $375.00
Classroom Library Must-Haves: Grades 4-6 (DonorsChoose.org Exclusive) - Box of 20 titles / Grades 4-6 • Scholastic Magazines $75.00 5 $375.00
Newbery Classroom Library Builder: Grades 3+ (DonorsChoose.org Exclusive) - Box of 20 titles / Grades 3-5 • Scholastic Magazines $70.00 5 $350.00
Classroom Library Must-Haves: Grades 2–3 (DonorsChoose.org Exclusive) - Box of 20 titles / Grades 2-3 • Scholastic Magazines $70.00 5 $350.00
Classroom Library Must-Haves: Grades K–1 (DonorsChoose.org Exclusive) - Box of 20 titles / Grades K-1 • Scholastic Magazines $75.00 2 $150.00
Classroom Library Must-Haves: Grades PreK (DonorsChoose.org Exclusive) - Box of 20 titles / PreK • Scholastic Magazines $75.00 2 $150.00
Best of Grades K–1 Picture Books Pack (DonorsChoose.org Exclusive) - Box of 20 titles / Grades K-1 • Scholastic Magazines $70.00 2 $140.00

Materials cost

$1,890.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $189.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$28.35

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,137.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$377.18

Total project goal

$2,514.53

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,514.53

2 Donors

-$2,479.24

Donations toward project cost

-$2,137.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$341.89

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$35.29

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 $0.00

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