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Ms. G. from Los Angeles, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help Us Start Our Classroom Library!

My students need a variety of picture books and chapter books at different levels so that we could start building our classroom library full of books that are engaging and appeal to a variety of interests.

  • $578 goal

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My Students

My students are enrolled in a 50/50 Spanish dual-immersion program, where they receive 50% of instruction is Spanish and 50% of instruction in English every day by two different teachers. I will be working with roughly 48 students who are all of diverse backgrounds, and aiming to become bilingual citizens to aid them in this global economy. Micheltorena is a Title 1 school where 60% of the students are socioeconomically disadvantaged, but that does not change the value they hold for reading and education in general!

My Project

I will begin my first year of teaching in a third grade classroom this upcoming August and I am very excited to start building a diverse classroom library! I have bought some books already, but quickly realized everything I want will just keep adding up! This project will help fund for many of the books that will help me start to build up my classroom library, which will only keep growing throughout the years. I will have two different groups of 24 students every day, because I teach in a dual-immersion school where students receive 50% of instruction in English and 50% of instruction in Spanish every day. I am requesting English books, because I am the English instruction teacher.

Your generous donation to our project will improve our third grade classroom, by helping me provide them with a quality classroom library that they will be excited to walk into on the first day of school!

From experiences as a student teacher, I know how important literacy is and how helping students develop a love for reading is crucial and I want to be the kind of teacher that provides her students with books to read in class and take home too! I want my students to be interested in the books they read and I also want to provide them with books at different levels, because I understand every student will be reading at different levels. I want to keep my students engaged in reading and want to keep them excited when it is time to read! Any help in funding this project will be much appreciated. I love my career and cannot wait to build a beautiful classroom library.

Ms. G. Micheltorena Street Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Los Angeles, 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

48 students impacted 10donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Roald Dahl Collection - 15 Paperback Book Boxed Set • Amazon Business $49.97 1 $49.97
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook • Amazon Business $11.17 2 $22.34
Amelia Bedelia Chapter Book Box Set: Books 1-4 • Amazon Business $15.96 1 $15.96
The Book with No Pictures • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya • Amazon Business $13.97 1 $13.97
The One and Only Ivan • Amazon Business $6.78 2 $13.56
Sideways Stories from Wayside School • Amazon Business $6.29 2 $12.58
Pinduli (ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Awards) • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
Falling Up • Amazon Business $12.41 1 $12.41
Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School (LaRue Books) • Amazon Business $12.36 1 $12.36
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez • Amazon Business $12.06 1 $12.06
The Giving Tree • Amazon Business $11.18 1 $11.18
Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and the Spirit of New Orleans • Amazon Business $11.05 1 $11.05
Chocolate Milk, Por Favor: Celebrating Diversity with Empathy • Amazon Business $10.95 1 $10.95
The Boxcar Children Books 1-4 • Amazon Business $10.72 1 $10.72
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon • Amazon Business $10.62 1 $10.62
Extra Yarn • Amazon Business $10.25 1 $10.25
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent) • Amazon Business $9.57 1 $9.57
My Diary from Here to There: Mi diario de aqui hasta alla (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $9.10 1 $9.10
The Jelly Donut Difference: Sharing Kindness with the World • Amazon Business $8.74 1 $8.74
Thank You, Mr. Falker • Amazon Business $8.29 1 $8.29
The Name Jar • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Abuela (English Edition with Spanish Phrases) (Picture Puffins) • Amazon Business $7.91 1 $7.91
Have You Filled a Bucket Today?: A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids (Bucketfilling Books) • Amazon Business $7.78 1 $7.78
Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye (Geronimo Stilton, No. 1) • Amazon Business $7.19 1 $7.19
The Invisible Boy • Amazon Business $7.15 1 $7.15
Playing Loteria /El juego de la loteria (Bilingual) (English, Multilingual and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $6.94 1 $6.94
The Doll People • Amazon Business $6.60 1 $6.60
Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $6.54 1 $6.54
Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors • Amazon Business $6.47 1 $6.47
A Chair for My Mother 25th Anniversary Edition (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon Business $6.09 1 $6.09
The Keeping Quilt • Amazon Business $6.00 1 $6.00
A Bad Case of Stripes (Scholastic Bookshelf) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Muggie Maggie • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle • Amazon Business $5.96 1 $5.96
Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun: Having the Courage To Be Who You Are • Amazon Business $5.85 1 $5.85
Child of the Civil Rights Movement • Amazon Business $5.59 1 $5.59
Those Shoes • Amazon Business $4.26 1 $4.26
The Adventures of Captain Underpants • Amazon Business $4.00 1 $4.00
Charlotte's Web • Amazon Business $3.38 1 $3.38
My Name Is Yoon • Amazon Business $3.03 1 $3.03
Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets • Amazon Business $2.97 1 $2.97

Materials cost

$416.24

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $38.09

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$490.57

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$86.57

Total project goal

$577.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $577.14

9 Donors

-$427.14

Donations toward project cost

-$363.07

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$64.07

match offer

-$150.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$127.50

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.50

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