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Mrs. Garner from Las Vegas, NV is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Diverse Books for Diverse Readers

Help me give my students a classroom library that honors and reflects their own diversity.

  • $548 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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

I am a first-year teacher at a brand new Title I school in East Las Vegas. My first graders come from a high needs, low-income area and many are English Language Learners.

I will have an amazing group of 26 students in the upcoming 2020-2021 school year with diverse skills and backgrounds.

First grade is a pivotal and exciting year for young learners! It is the year they build skills to create a solid foundation for the rest of their time in elementary school. It is also the year that they begin to drastically improve their reading skills which are a vital part of their learning experience. One of the ways I hope to make their learning experience fun and worthwhile is by reading stories!

My Project

Reading helps teach students about the world around them and can be a vital instrument when young children are learning and testing out morals and values.

Ultimately, my goal is to promote inclusion and kindness, and to teach children it is ok to accept differences.

This is why I want to be able to bring stories of diversity to my first-grade classroom. My classroom includes a diverse and multicultural group of students. I want to build a classroom library that honors and reflects its own diversity! A diverse classroom library will expose my students to many different cultures and backgrounds and help me achieve this goal.

Mrs. Garner
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
When Aidan Became a Brother • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
All Because You Matter • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
I Am Every Good Thing • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Sulwe • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Where Are You From? • Amazon Business $15.79 1 $15.79
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
When We Were Alone • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
We Are Water Protectors • Amazon Business $14.68 1 $14.68
Missing Daddy • Amazon Business $14.44 1 $14.44
Under My Hijab • Amazon Business $13.92 1 $13.92
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Dreamers • Amazon Business $13.29 1 $13.29
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Malala's Magic Pencil • Amazon Business $12.77 1 $12.77
Soñadores (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $12.69 1 $12.69
Rick • Amazon Business $12.39 1 $12.39
Alma and How She Got Her Name • Amazon Business $12.26 1 $12.26
Alma y cómo obtuvo su nombre (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $12.19 1 $12.19
My Papi Has a Motorcycle • Amazon Business $11.70 1 $11.70
The Day You Begin • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
I Am Enough • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
A Different Pond (Fiction Picture Books) • Amazon Business $10.54 1 $10.54
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (Vashti Harrison) • Amazon Business $10.26 1 $10.26
Hair Love • Amazon Business $9.96 1 $9.96
Our Class is a Family • Amazon Business $8.24 1 $8.24
The Name Jar • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
George (Scholastic Gold) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
I Love My Hair! • Amazon Business $6.00 1 $6.00
We're Different, We're the Same (Sesame Street) (Pictureback(R)) • Amazon Business $4.11 1 $4.11

Materials cost

$398.08

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $31.25

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$465.30

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$82.11

Total project goal

$547.41

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $547.41

2 Donors

-$269.68

Donations toward project cost

-$236.07

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.61

match offer

-$269.69

Match offer toward project cost

-$229.24

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.45

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.05

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