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Mrs. Tressler from Canton, OH is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Bringing Stories to Life Part 2

My students need books and storytelling kits to retell stories including 'Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes', 'Five Green and Speckled Frogs' and our favorite alphabet stories.

  • $278 goal

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Help Mrs. Tressler

Mrs. Tressler has another project! Donate to Help Me Remember the Best Year of My Life! to help her classroom.

$193 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

My students come to school every day excited and ready to learn! They are eager to learn and try new things. I want them to know that I believe in them and they can do anything! I teach at a Title 1, pre-k through 2nd-grade school in inner-city Ohio where 100% of our students receive free breakfast and lunch. Most of the students are living at or below the poverty line. My students are creative, caring, and very energetic. Our classroom is a hands-on learning community. I work with children that are four and five years old.

Their ability to love learning excites me to find new and exciting ways to teach things to them.

They love to learn about new things. They love to look up information online together and will ask many questions to learn as much as they can.

My Project

Many of my students come to school without knowing the joy of reading. I read to my students everyday and I want to provide them with props that will help change this.

With the requested books, storytelling kits and magnets, my students will get excited to hear their favorite stories because they know they will get to use the pieces to retell the stories.

No longer will the students be just sitting and listening to the story, but now they will have a chance to engage in the story. The books will be used with some of the storytelling kits that we already have from part 1 of this project. These items will help with developing reading and language skills that they will need for the rest of their lives.

Mrs. Tressler Stone Reading & Math Preparatory School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Canton, OH View local requests

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

20 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
LC270X - Storytelling Puppets - Set 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
LL248 - Alphabet Picture Magnets • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
Little Folks Visuals LFV22851 Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes Flannel Boards • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
Little Folks Visuals LFV22852 Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons Flannel Boards • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
LC177 - Giant Magnetic Letters - Lowercase • Lakeshore Learning Materials $12.99 1 $12.99
LC176 - Giant Magnetic Letters - Uppercase • Lakeshore Learning Materials $12.99 1 $12.99
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes • Amazon Business $12.09 1 $12.09
Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes • Amazon Business $11.29 1 $11.29
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons • Amazon Business $10.80 1 $10.80
LA998 - Storytelling Lapboard • Lakeshore Learning Materials $9.99 1 $9.99
Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Paul Galdone Classics) • Amazon Business $6.52 1 $6.52
Red Riding Hood (retold by James Marshall) • Amazon Business $5.83 1 $5.83
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom • Amazon Business $5.64 1 $5.64
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? My First Reader • Amazon Business $5.47 1 $5.47
It Looked Like Spilt Milk • Amazon Business $4.72 1 $4.72
The Three Little Pigs (Reading Railroad) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
The Little Red Hen (Easy-To-Read Folktales) • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$203.18

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.05

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$236.23

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.69

Total project goal

$277.92

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $277.92

9 Donors

-$133.67

Donations toward project cost

-$122.62

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.05

match offer

-$133.66

Match offer toward project cost

-$113.61

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.05

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$10.59

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 $0.00

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