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Mr. Dearybury from Spartanburg, SC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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It's A Zoo In Here!

My students need 10 Weekly Readers subscriptions and 20 animal books to use for animal projects and classifying animals.

  • $264 goal

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My Students

My classroom is an active, vibrant, exciting place of learning, where students come to drink deep and leave full of knowledge. Help me to make their cups overflow each day with this awesome, hands on, integrated, science based project!

My students attend a small, inner-city, Title I school in South Carolina.

Our school, while filled with over 70% free and reduced lunch, strives everyday to push our students to new heights! We engage our students with the Arts, wow them with our curriculum, and put their hands on every lesson. They are curious learners...like little sponges, soaking up every bit of information I can give them. They LOVE science. I work overtime trying to go deeper and get more for their wondering minds.

My Project

Every year I teach my 2nd graders how to create a research project. I do this to get them ready for projects that will be assigned for the rest of their school career. Our state standards focus on animal classifications and habitats, so I choose to assign an animal project. We currently use books from the library, but many of the books are older, the books are not always available when we need them, and many times we share between classes. I am requesting this science library of nonfiction animal books and Weekly Readers so that we can keep them in our room and use them for the projects, as well as different science activities all year long. We want our classroom to be a "zoo in here!"

My students deserve the best.

I want them to succeed in every part of my class and in life. I am up late even now, on a school night, trying to get the materials I need to create excitement through learning that will invite success into their lives. Help me help them by donating to this amazing science project!

Mr. Dearybury Woodland Heights Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Spartanburg, SC View local requests

Nearly all 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

60 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Weekly Reader Grade 2 WITH Science Spin (For Orders of 2 14 Subscriptions) • Weekly Reader $6.70 10 $67.00
Frogs • AKJ Books $4.67 1 $4.67
Giant Panda Edana Eckart • AKJ Books $3.86 1 $3.86
Sea Turtles • AKJ Books $5.42 1 $5.42
Best Book of Sharks • AKJ Books $5.45 1 $5.45
Octopuses Lola M. Schaefer • AKJ Books $4.64 1 $4.64
Rabbits • AKJ Books $5.06 1 $5.06
Alligator • AKJ Books $5.06 1 $5.06
Ant (2nd Edition) • AKJ Books $6.23 1 $6.23
Ants • AKJ Books $5.06 1 $5.06
Amazing Gorillas! (I Can Read Book Series) Sarah L. Thomson, • AKJ Books $3.11 1 $3.11
Hippopotamus • AKJ Books $5.06 1 $5.06
Salamanders • AKJ Books $5.42 1 $5.42
Clown Fish Carol K. Lindeen • AKJ Books $5.42 1 $5.42
Killer Whales Sandra Markle • AKJ Books $6.20 1 $6.20
Ladybugs • AKJ Books $5.42 1 $5.42
Ostriches • AKJ Books $6.36 1 $6.36
Barn Owl • AKJ Books $3.89 1 $3.89
The Bald Eagle • AKJ Books $5.42 1 $5.42
Rattlesnakes • AKJ Books $4.64 1 $4.64
Grasshoppers • AKJ Books $4.64 1 $4.64

Materials cost

$168.03

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.70

Sales tax

 $11.85

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$224.10

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$39.55

Total project goal

$263.65

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $263.65

4 Donors

-$130.33

Donations toward project cost

-$112.05

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.28

match offer

-$131.82

Match offer toward project cost

-$112.05

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.77

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.49

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