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Ms. Berenblum from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Book Totes 2.0!

Help me give my students the books and phonics resources they need to meet their interests and support their reading development!

  • $400 goal

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

The students at my school are creative, passionate, and curious. We serve a diverse population and are part of a diversity pilot project in NYC. We strive to maintain a racial, ethnic, and economic mix because we believe that integration and equal access benefit everyone. Students with special learning needs are fully integrated into the classroom, and everyone's learning benefits as a result. This year, we are doing a combination of remote learning and blended learning. That means some kids are learning fully from home and others are coming into school a few days a week.

This year, our class is a curious and lovable bunch: 35 joyful kids who love to learn and explore, whether in-school or remote.

Anything they hear or read about, they want to know more. They have a wide range of learning needs and I want to make learning fully accessible to each and every one of them! Many of my students are spending more time indoors, with their families, and I want to create exciting learning experiences that bring the world to their living room.

My Project

The fun continues! It has been 6 months since most of my students were able to check books out from our school library, and just as long since they browsed the classroom library. They are at risk of turning into Zoombies from too much screentime and are hungry for good old-fashioned (paper) books. Our teaching trio has decided to set up Operation Book Tote to solve this problem.

With the help of volunteers to do deliveries, we will send each student a tote bag full of books from our classroom library-- enough to keep them reading for two weeks or longer until we can swap books out.

Our kids have filled out questionnaires with their book preferences, and we have made ourselves lists of what to pack in each of the 35 bags. The only problem is... how can our classroom library sustain such a giant book drop? 12 books per bag, times 35 students...that's a lot of books! Please help us get these kids the reading material that will light up their day, allow them to step back from the blue glow of their devices, and bring about an Off-screen Reading Revival in the fourth grade!

Ms. Berenblum The Brooklyn New School at PS 146 Grades 3-5

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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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Mr. Lemoncello's Library Books 1-4 (Boxed Set) • Amazon Business $23.97 1 $23.97
The Last Kids on Earth and the Skeleton Road • Amazon Business $11.18 2 $22.36
Hasbro Gaming Scrabble Junior: Disney Junior Edition Board Game, Double -Sided Game Board, Matching and Word Game (Amazon Exclusive) • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
Slime • Amazon Business $18.93 1 $18.93
Miss Bernard is a Wild Card - The My Weird School Game • Amazon Business $16.01 1 $16.01
The Secret Lake: A children's mystery adventure • Amazon Business $7.99 2 $15.98
Wayside School Boxed Set: Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, Wayside School is Falling Down, Sideway Stories from Wayside School • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom • Amazon Business $14.38 1 $14.38
Learning Resources Sight Word Swat a Sight Word Game, Home School, Visual, Tactile and Auditory Learning, Phonics Games, 114 Pieces, Ages 5+ • Amazon Business $13.06 1 $13.06
National Geographic Kids Everything Sports: All the Photos, Facts, and Fun to Make You Jump! • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Three Keys (A Front Desk Novel) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Class Act • Amazon Business $11.92 1 $11.92
Learning Resources Slam Ships Sight Words Game, Homeschool, Visual, Tactile and Auditory Learning, Ages 5+ • Amazon Business $11.91 1 $11.91
The Last Kids on Earth and the Nightmare King • Amazon Business $11.66 1 $11.66
Primer • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Stephen Curry: The Children's Book: The Boy Who Never Gave Up • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
The Last Kids on Earth and the Midnight Blade • Amazon Business $9.78 1 $9.78
Full Court Pressure (Sports Illustrated Kids Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
Full Court Flash (Sports Illustrated Kids Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
A Boy Called Bat • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Bat and the End of Everything • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Last Kids on Earth: June's Wild Flight • Amazon Business $6.49 1 $6.49
Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure • Amazon Business $6.14 1 $6.14
Beastly Basketball (Sports Illustrated Kids Graphic Novels) • Amazon Business $5.95 1 $5.95
Basketball's Greatest Players (Step into Reading) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$300.13

Vendor shipping charges

 $5.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$339.63

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$59.93

Total project goal

$399.56

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $399.56

1 Donor

-$373.09

Donations toward project cost

-$339.63

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.46

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$26.47

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