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Mrs. Thies from Tucson, AZ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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It's All About the Books!

My students need 27 books to help us meet new Common Core standards in reading and to address bullying issues.

  • $306 goal

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My Students

Common Core State Standards call for language arts materials that are rich in content. Children should also use texts that they can read independently. Our classroom is in great need of fictional and informational books that will help children meet these Common Core Standards.

My first graders are excited about having fun and learning!

I would like to help them do both! Every one of my students is excited about becoming a good reader, and I want to help them reach their goals. With all of the cuts to education, it has become increasingly hard for teachers to come up with the right resources to meet all of the changing standards in an effective and fun manner. My classroom is no different. We need help coming up with the right materials to meet the rigorous State Standards.

My Project

These 27 books will help us meet the Common Core Language Arts Standards and more effectively discuss the issue of bullying. Several of the books are Common Core Exemplar books and are perfect for heightening the rigor that is required of the standards. Other texts will be excellent for me to read and discuss with the children, while still others will be great for the students to read independently. The combination of these books will give my class the opportunity to have a variety of fictional and informational texts to use in our classroom.

First grade is such a pivotal year in a child's education.

I would like to give my students the chance to meet the increased rigor of the English Language Arts Common Core Standards by using texts that are more involved and interactive. These books will give us just the boost that we need to help us learn to read in an interesting and fun way, while becoming Common Core ready!

Mrs. Thies
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Weed Is a Flower • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
My Light Molly Bang, Molly Bang (Illustrator) • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Bullies Never Win • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Seven Blind Mice • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Goin'' Someplace Special Patricia C. McKissack, Jerry Pinkney • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Lousy Rotten Stinkin'' Grapes Margie Palatini, Barry Moser (I • AKJ Books $13.13 1 $13.13
Tornadoes • AKJ Books $13.10 1 $13.10
Punctuation Takes a Vacation • AKJ Books $13.10 1 $13.10
My Name Is Yoon Helen Recorvits, Gabi Swiatkowska (Illustrat • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
The Three Bully Goats • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
Hello! Good-Bye! Aliki, Aliki (Illustrator) • AKJ Books $12.40 1 $12.40
Wind Blew • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Bat Boy His Violin • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Alexander, Who''s Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going To Move • AKJ Books $5.83 1 $5.83
Watch Out! at Home • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
Tornadoes • AKJ Books $5.10 1 $5.10
Georgia O''Keeffe Mike Venezia, Mike Venezia (Illustrator), M • AKJ Books $5.07 1 $5.07
Twisters and Other Terrible Storms • AKJ Books $4.37 1 $4.37
Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll • AKJ Books $4.37 1 $4.37
How People Learned to Fly • AKJ Books $4.37 1 $4.37
Berenstain Bears And The Bully Jan Berenstain, Stan Berensta • AKJ Books $3.64 1 $3.64
George Washington Carver • AKJ Books $3.61 1 $3.61
What Is Electricity? • AKJ Books $3.61 1 $3.61
Thomas Alva Edison • AKJ Books $3.61 1 $3.61
Super Storms, Vol. 2 Seymour Simon, Chronicle Books • AKJ Books $2.91 1 $2.91
Storms! National Geographic Readers • AKJ Books $2.91 1 $2.91
Billy Bully Ana Galan, Alvaro Galan, Steve Simpson (Illustra • AKJ Books $2.91 1 $2.91

Materials cost

$211.25

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $15.10

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.17

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$259.52

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$45.80

Total project goal

$305.32

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $305.32

6 Donors

-$197.55

Donations toward project cost

-$169.42

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.13

match offer

-$106.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$90.10

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.90

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.77

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