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Ms. Jenness from Portland, OR is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Books to Connect

Help me give my students books to enrich their reading experience at school.

  • $1,184 goal

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My Project

My amazing elementary students love to read and discover new books and explore new ideas. These books will help them connect to the subjects and ideas that they are studying.

With these new books, my students will be able to dive more deeply into the topics that we learn about in class.

The kindergarten, first grade, and second grade reading groups will have a wide variety of topics and authors to enrich their learning experience.

These books connect to our literacy units, and provide a breadth of perspectives to help students make connections to the world around them.

Ms. Jenness
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Áolinguito, de la A A La Z! Descubriendo El Bosque Nublado / Olinguito, from A to Z! Unveiling the Cloud Forest (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $20.95 1 $20.95
On the Farm, At the Market • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau (Incredible Lives for Young Readers) • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Bee Dance • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Island: A Story of the Galápagos • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
A Child of Books • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
A Library • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
The Secret Subway • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Here Come the Girl Scouts!: The Amazing All-True Story of Juliette 'Daisy' Gordon Low and Her Great Adventure • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Before We Eat: From Farm to Table • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
The Circus Ship • Amazon Business $16.79 1 $16.79
Vincent Can't Sleep: Van Gogh Paints the Night Sky • Amazon Business $16.79 1 $16.79
Color Farm • Amazon Business $15.89 1 $15.89
The Listeners (Tales of Young Americans) • Amazon Business $15.79 1 $15.79
This Is New York • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
Giant Squid (Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor (Awards)) • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Creature Features: Twenty-Five Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
My First Day • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
Henri's Scissors • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
My First Day • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore • Amazon Business $13.40 1 $13.40
The Cat and the Bird: A Children's Book Inspired by Paul Klee (Children's Books Inspired by Famous Artworks) • Amazon Business $13.26 1 $13.26
Over and Under the Rainforest • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Vincent's Colors (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Over and Under the Pond: (Environment and Ecology Books for Kids, Nature Books, Children's Oceanography Books, Animal Books for Kids) • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
Yes & No • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39
Powwow Day • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
Locomotive • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
Rain School • Amazon Business $11.19 1 $11.19
Thank You, Mr. Falker • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Yum! MMMM! Que Rico! • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
No One Saw • Amazon Business $10.39 1 $10.39
Sopa de frijoles / Bean Soup: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem (Bilingual Cooking Poems, 2) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (A Big Words Book, 1) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Bat Loves the Night: Read and Wonder • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Wind Blew (Rise and Shine) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Surprising Sharks: Read and Wonder • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Hurricanes! (New Edition) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Tornadoes! (New Edition) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Where in the Wild?: Camouflaged Creatures Concealed... and Revealed • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Inch by Inch • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Chameleons Are Cool: Read and Wonder • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Yucky Worms: Read and Wonder • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
The Irish Cinderlad (Trophy Picture Books (Paperback)) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Big Blue Whale: Read and Wonder • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Giant Squid: Searching for a Sea Monster (Smithsonian) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
I Have a Dream (Book & CD) • Amazon Business $8.93 1 $8.93
Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story • Amazon Business $8.80 1 $8.80
Introducing Asia (Introducing Continents) • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
Sisters and Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Over and Under the Snow • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
How Did That Get in My Lunchbox?: The Story of Food (Exploring the Everyday) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Fireflies • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Sootface • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Seven Silly Eaters • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Adelita • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Bats at the Library (A Bat Book) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Little Island: (Caldecott Medal Winner) (Dell Picture Yearling) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Ganesha's Sweet Tooth • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Rain (Rise and Shine) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Koala Lou • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Listening Walk • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Brick by Brick • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Pablo Picasso (Revised Edition) (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush • Amazon Business $7.89 1 $7.89
Vincent van Gogh (Revised Edition) (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists) • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Your Digestive System Works! (Your Body Systems) • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? (Brown Bear and Friends) • Amazon Business $6.74 1 $6.74
Meet Piet Mondrian (Meet the Artist) • Amazon Business $6.59 1 $6.59
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau • Amazon Business $6.59 1 $6.59
Library Lion • Amazon Business $6.28 1 $6.28
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Grasshopper on the Road (I Can Read Level 2) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Poppleton: An Acorn Book • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Giggle, Giggle, Quack (A Click, Clack Book) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99
Too Many Tamales • Amazon Business $4.49 1 $4.49
Scholastic Reader Level 3: Poppleton In Winter • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$945.77

Vendor shipping charges

 $15.95

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$14.19

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,005.91

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$177.51

Total project goal

$1,183.42

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,183.42

1 Donor

-$1,183.42

Donations toward project cost

-$1,005.91

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$177.51

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