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Mrs. Solis from Minneapolis, MN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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More Read Aloud to Build Our Classroom Community

Help me give my students diverse picture books for our daily read aloud. Books like "Outside In" and "Kiyoshi's Walk" will go a long way in building our classroom community.

  • $888 goal

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Mrs. Solis has another project! Donate to Painting Supplies for Amazing 4th Graders! to help her classroom.

$277 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

My students and I spent this year in distance learning. Even though distance learning has been a struggle for my students in different ways, we have created amazing routines, art projects and science experiments. At the end of February, many of my students and I will be returning to in-school learning. It will be challenging and wonderful at the same time. I am requesting these supplies to get my classroom ready for our upcoming circumstances.

We are living through history.

My students are incredible people. They come with tenacity, creativity, and a wide variety of experiences and gifts. We work hard every day as scholars, artists, critical thinkers, and friends.

My Project

Every morning I read a picture book to my students. My students thrive on our daily read aloud--it helps us build our literacy skills, social emotional skills and gives us strong, collective experiences. These picture books will give my students an outlet for their imaginations, feelings and satisfy our need for normalcy.

The 2020-2021 school year has been eventful and challenging.

My students have experienced so much and, yet, every day they show me how resilient they are.

There are so many amazing books in this project. There are books about caring for the environment, like "If Bees Disappeared," books about COVID, like "Outside In," and books about inspirational people, like "Rise! From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou."

These are books that we need in our classroom. Students will be able to see themselves represented and put themselves in other's shoes as they listen to these books. My students will be inspired, engaged and positively impacted.

Mrs. Solis Folwell Community School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters 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

25 students impacted 12donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Planet Ocean: Why We All Need a Healthy Ocean • Amazon Business $31.99 1 $31.99
When You Look Up • Amazon Business $22.97 1 $22.97
The Unstoppable Garrett Morgan • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
Unpack Your Impact: How Two Primary Teachers Ditched Problematic Lessons and Built a Culture-Centered Curriculum • Amazon Business $19.60 1 $19.60
Sharuko: El Arqueólogo Peruano Julio C. Tello / Peruvian Archaeologist Julio C. Tello (Spanish and English Edition) • Amazon Business $19.29 1 $19.29
Rise!: From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou • Amazon Business $19.03 1 $19.03
Beautiful Shades of Brown: The Art of Laura Wheeler Waring • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
The Lost Package • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Code Breaker, Spy Hunter: How Elizebeth Friedman Changed the Course of Two World Wars • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Maryam’s Magic: The Story of Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Home Is in Between • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
If Bees Disappeared (If Animals Disappeared, 1) • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Kiyoshi's Walk • Amazon Business $18.95 1 $18.95
A Girl Named Rosita: The Story of Rita Moreno: Actor, Singer, Dancer, Trailblazer! • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Laxmi's Mooch • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Life Doesn't Frighten Me (25th Anniversary Edition) • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
An Equal Shot: How the Law Title IX Changed America • Amazon Business $17.93 1 $17.93
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace Engineer • Amazon Business $17.52 1 $17.52
Honeybee: The Busy Life of Apis Mellifera • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Big Feelings: From the New York Times bestselling creators of All Are Welcome • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
If You Come to Earth • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
My Thoughts Are Clouds: Poems for Mindfulness • Amazon Business $16.89 1 $16.89
Mars! Earthlings Welcome (Our Universe, 5) • Amazon Business $16.56 1 $16.56
Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner • Amazon Business $16.49 1 $16.49
Outside In • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
A House for Every Bird • Amazon Business $15.84 1 $15.84
I Dream of Popo • Amazon Business $15.83 1 $15.83
We Wait for the Sun • Amazon Business $15.42 1 $15.42
A New Day • Amazon Business $15.06 1 $15.06
Wood, Wire, Wings: Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
And the People Stayed Home (Family Book, Coronavirus Kids Book, Nature Book) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Ten Beautiful Things • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
G My Name Is Girl: A Song of Celebration from Argentina to Zambia • Amazon Business $14.73 1 $14.73
Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist (Women in Science Books, Marine Biology for Kids, Shark Gifts) • Amazon Business $14.57 1 $14.57
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 • Amazon Business $14.47 1 $14.47
If You Take Away the Otter • Amazon Business $14.29 1 $14.29
The Most Beautiful Thing • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
Simon B. Rhymin' • Amazon Business $13.59 1 $13.59
You Are Enough: A Book About Inclusion • Amazon Business $12.58 1 $12.58
Lift as You Climb: The Story of Ella Baker • Amazon Business $11.79 1 $11.79
I Can Say No • Amazon Business $9.95 1 $9.95

Materials cost

$713.57

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.70

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$754.27

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$133.11

Total project goal

$887.38

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $887.38

10 Donors

-$715.32

Donations toward project cost

-$614.02

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$101.30

Matching donations from our partners

-$165.00

Match offers toward project cost

-$140.25

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$7.06

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