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Mrs. Vega from Homestead, FL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Drop Everything and Read: D.E.a.R in Our Class

Help me give my students more reasons to read novels and informational books!

  • $336 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

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 LOVE teaching fourth grade. This pivotal year in elementary education is both extremely challenging and rewarding. This year, I have the privilege of working with the most hardworking, creative, energetic and inquisitive students. They come in all shapes, sizes and backgrounds, yet they each have an equal love for learning. They have a thirst for knowledge unparalleled to any class I have ever taught, and I want to give them the world. As third grade is a very structured year, there is less time in the strict curriculum to allow for the expenditure of my students' energy. My solution to this problem is to provide my students with flexible seating options to promote healthy movement during structured tasks.

Providing my children with flexible seating options will allow them to satisfy their jitters, fidgeting, anxiety and/or overall energy into healthy, non-disruptive movement that will promote improved attention during seated, structured tasks.

I believe that these alternative seating options will also make seated learning more fun for my students. These seating options will also afford my students with improved posture necessary for participating in seated tasks for longer periods of time.

My Project

The D.E.A.R. program in our class has created an inviting environment for readers. Students are able to drop everything and read! They are looking forward to reading and enjoy selecting a book from the classroom library.

With the addition of new novels, students will have a variety of books to choose from.

Having a variety helps to pique different students' interests. This will engage and encourage students to continue reading and learning. Ultimately, the books will shape them into life long readers.

Our read aloud time on our classroom carpet will also be more effective if each student has a personal copy to read from. Just imagine how much fun the students will have by reading together with their peers and teacher!

Mrs. Vega Somerset City Arts Academy Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Homestead, FL 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

34 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
James and the Giant Peach • AKJ Education $5.59 34 $190.06
What Was the March on Washington? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
What Was the Underground Railroad? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Amelia Earhart? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Ben Franklin? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
What Was the Gold Rush? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who was Thomas Jefferson? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
What Were the Twin Towers? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Rosa Parks? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Anne Frank? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Nelson Mandela? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Marco Polo? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Sacagawea? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37
Who Was Albert Einstein? • AKJ Education $4.37 1 $4.37

Materials cost

$251.24

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.77

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$285.01

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$50.30

Total project goal

$335.31

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $335.31

6 Donors

-$164.56

Donations toward project cost

-$145.13

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.43

match offer

-$164.56

Match offer toward project cost

-$139.88

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.68

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.18

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 $0.00

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