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Mr. Kooienga from Crystal Lake, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Dreaming and Learning Through Picture Books

Help me give my students picture books to make learning come alive. The Giving Tree and the book Oh the Places You Go and Caldecott winners have great themes that 5th graders could learn from.

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My Students

My students are part of a public school in the state of Illinois. There are around 700 students in the building. The students in this class love to read and enjoy read alouds and getting to read their own novel during school. This class loves to move around and work with buddies during the day, sharing and hearing other students ideas. We are building a community of learners.

5th grade is an exciting time in children's lives.

This is the year where they get to finish up elementary school and look forward to middle school. It is a year of great change academically, socially, and emotionally.

My Project

The picture books will be a first step into getting students to love reading. They will be used to teach 5th-grade concepts like theme, Point of View, Figurative Language, and social/emotional targets, and so much more. I would like my classroom to start participating in a picture book a day movement. This movement centers on getting students interested in reading and using those books to teach the necessary concepts.

Picture books allow students to increase their imagination, become better readers and writers, and work on social/emotional skills.

Picture books give students examples of characters that they can learn from. These books allow students to gather ideas of what it takes to be an author and allows them to use these ideas in their writing.

Picture books have many benefits in the classroom. I desire to give my students a deep love of reading and using picture books to gain their interest is the first step.

Mr. Kooienga North Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Crystal Lake, IL View local requests

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

25 students impacted 2donors

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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) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $75.00 1 $75.00
Kindness Pack: Grades K-2 (DonorsChoose.org Exclusive) • Scholastic Magazines and Book Clubs $30.00 1 $30.00
The Other Side • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Nerdy Birdy • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
The Most Magnificent Thing • Amazon Business $15.26 1 $15.26
After the Fall (How Humpty Dumpty Got Back Up Again) • Amazon Business $14.82 1 $14.82
Oh, the Places You'll Go! • AKJ Education $13.86 1 $13.86
Enemy Pie : (Reading Rainbow Book, Children’s Book about Kindness, Kids Books about Learning) • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
The Giving Tree • AKJ Education $13.13 1 $13.13
What Do You Do With a Problem? — New York Times best seller • Amazon Business $12.53 1 $12.53
Come With Me • Amazon Business $12.33 1 $12.33
The Bad Seed • Amazon Business $11.73 1 $11.73
Thelma the Unicorn • Amazon Business $11.66 1 $11.66
Rot, the Cutest in the World! • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
Gaston (Gaston and Friends) • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
Antoinette (Gaston and Friends) • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
The Invisible Boy • Amazon Business $10.51 1 $10.51
Last Stop on Market Street • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Each Kindness (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards)) • Amazon Business $9.69 1 $9.69
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato (Charlie and Lola) • Amazon Business $8.16 1 $8.16
Spork • Amazon Business $8.09 1 $8.09
Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Deed • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
The Sandwich Swap • Amazon Business $7.52 1 $7.52
Those Shoes • Amazon Business $6.58 1 $6.58
Madeline • AKJ Education $6.56 1 $6.56
Earthquakes • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Flower Garden • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Leo the Late Bloomer • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Wall • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Tortoise and the Hare • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
The Story of Ferdinand • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
We the Kids • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Corduroy • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Story and Pictures • AKJ Education $5.83 1 $5.83
Cinderella • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? • AKJ Education $5.80 1 $5.80
Days Like This • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
The Velveteen Rabbit • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
The Very First Americans • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64

Materials cost

$441.72

Vendor shipping charges

 $10.50

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.63

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$488.85

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.27

Total project goal

$575.12

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $575.12

1 Donor

-$50.00

Donations toward project cost

-$42.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.50

match offer

-$525.12

Match offer toward project cost

-$446.35

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$78.77

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