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Mrs. O'Brien from Martinez, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Flying Towards our Reading Goals at Home!

Help me give my students the ability to continue to work on becoming readers while at home during distance learning. I do not have a large enough library to send home leveled books for my students to read.

  • $232 goal

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My Students

I teach in an Intensive Autism self-contained classroom. My students range from 2-5 grade. All of my students are severely autistic. We serve students from every area of our school district.

My students range from being completely verbal and high functioning to students who are still working on communication and learning basic day to day life skills.

Although we are a small group it is necessary to have all the tools that any one of my students might need throughout the day. It poses a difficult problem when funds are so low.

My classroom is full of energy and learning. We are amazed by our students every day!

My Project

Distance learning is requiring that I send home a bulk of my classroom materials and library so students can continue to work towards their goals and become fluent readers. I have a very small library and since we are a small class that usually works out fine, but since we are all at home I need to have enough reading materials to send home multiple books with each student weekly.

These books will help bolster my slim library so I can challenge all of my students to surpass their reading goals.

Mrs. O'Brien John Swett Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Martinez, CA 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
AA833 Leveled Books Classroom Library 1 Books Only Level A K • Lakeshore Learning Materials $32.00 1 $32.00
AA835 Leveled Books Classroom Library 1 Books Only Level C K • Lakeshore Learning Materials $31.00 1 $31.00
GG369 Touch Read CVC Words Match • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
AA834 Leveled Books Classroom Library 1 Books Only Level B K • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.00 1 $29.00
AA836 Leveled Books Classroom Library 1 Books Only Level D KGr 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.00 1 $29.00

Materials cost

$150.99

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$13.82

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$197.07

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$34.78

Total project goal

$231.85

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$231.85

1 Donor

-$231.85

Donations toward project cost

-$197.07

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.78

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$0.00

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