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Ms. Serrano from Buena, NJ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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I Want To See Me In Books

Help me give my students a classroom library with books that reflect and celebrate our diversity.

  • $412 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

In order for children to grow as learners, teachers need to find strategies that work best for their students. Through music, movement, hands-on learning, literature, and technology, I strive to reach those students who yearn for a different way to learn.

My students are very energetic, excited, and enthusiastic about learning!

My goal is to create the best learning environment for my students. Our school is a PreK-2 elementary school. Our school is located in a rural community. We are a Title I school and we serve ESL students and special education students as well.

In my kindergarten class, I have students with different needs and learning styles. Our classroom is very diverse with students from all backgrounds. Many of my students are ELL and have special needs. Being bilingual myself I am able to offer my Spanish speaking students, and their families, a comfort in knowing that they are able to communicate with me and I am able to communicate with them in their Native language. Meeting all my students' needs is a priority in my classroom.

My Project

Celebrating diversity in my classroom has always been very important to me. I want all of my students to see themselves in the books I read to them and the books they choose to read.

In our classroom, we celebrate our differences; we respect each other; and we honor our many traditions.

With your help, I want to grow our classroom library to provide all my students with books that celebrate and reflect each of them. These books will also create opportunities for important conversations that we must have with our students.

Ms. Serrano John C Milanesi Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Buena, NJ 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Unpack Your Impact: How Two Primary Teachers Ditched Problematic Lessons and Built a Culture-Centered Curriculum • Amazon Business $19.60 1 $19.60
¿De dónde eres?: Where Are You From? (Spanish edition) • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Under My Hijab • Amazon Business $16.95 1 $16.95
A Piñata in a Pine Tree: A Latino Twelve Days of Christmas • Amazon Business $16.80 1 $16.80
Ohana Means Family • Amazon Business $15.20 1 $15.20
The Piñata That the Farm Maiden Hung • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Thank You, Omu! • Amazon Business $14.89 1 $14.89
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family • Amazon Business $14.84 1 $14.84
We Are Water Protectors • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
Awesomely Emma: A Charley and Emma Story (Charley and Emma Stories, 2) • Amazon Business $14.47 1 $14.47
Eyes That Kiss in the Corners • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Carmela Full of Wishes • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Speak Up • Amazon Business $13.97 1 $13.97
Saturday • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Queen of the Hanukkah Dosas • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Milo Imagines the World • Amazon Business $13.36 1 $13.36
You Matter • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
Thread of Love • Amazon Business $10.39 1 $10.39
Skin Like Mine (2) (Kids Like Mine) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
Chocolate Me! • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Fly Away Home • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Green Is a Chile Pepper: A Book of Colors • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
¡Yo Quiero Pasteles!: I Want Pasteles! (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Immi's Gift • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95

Materials cost

$315.01

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.73

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$349.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$61.72

Total project goal

$411.46

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $411.46

2 Donors

-$205.73

Donations toward project cost

-$174.87

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.86

Matching donations from our partners

-$205.73

Match offers toward project cost

-$174.87

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.86

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