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Ms. Melissa from Brooklyn, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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First Graders Need Steve Jenkins Animal Books!

Help me give my students animal fact books by the author Steve Jenkins.

  • 6 donors
  • $252 goal

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My Project

My students absolutely adore animals. We just started a unit all about intriguing animal facts. Students will also be writing short informational paragraphs about animals and making animal fact trading cards. The author and illustrator, Steve Jenkins, has incredibly compelling animal books! I would love to add a Steve Jenkins animal book bin to our classroom library. I know that my students will love these books! I think that they will especially be interested in the book, Actual Size.

Your donation will help my students become stronger readers while they learn more about animals.

Ms. Melissa PS 261 Zipporiah Mills Grades PreK-2

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Brooklyn, NY 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

20 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
The Animal Toolkit: How Animals Use Tools • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
The Bird Book • Amazon Business $16.05 1 $16.05
Biggest, Strongest, Fastest • Amazon Business $15.59 1 $15.59
The Animal Toolkit: How Animals Use Tools • Amazon Business $13.85 1 $13.85
Actual Size • Amazon Business $6.79 2 $13.58
Why Do Elephants Have Big Ears?: Questions ― and Surprising Answers ― About Animals • Amazon Business $13.24 1 $13.24
Look Again: Secrets of Animal Camouflage • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
Eye to Eye: How Animals See The World • Amazon Business $10.70 1 $10.70
Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95
Living Color • Amazon Business $9.59 1 $9.59
Creature Features: Twenty-Five Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do • Amazon Business $8.66 1 $8.66
Prehistoric Actual Size • Amazon Business $8.36 1 $8.36
What Do You Do When Something Wants to Eat You? • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? • Amazon Business $7.83 1 $7.83
Down, Down, Down: A Journey to the Bottom of the Sea • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Sisters and Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World • Amazon Business $6.89 1 $6.89

Materials cost

$180.75

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.71

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$213.46

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$37.67

Total project goal

$251.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $251.13

4 Donors

-$217.60

Donations toward project cost

-$213.46

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$4.14

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$33.53

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 $0.00

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