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Mrs. Della Salla from Edison, NJ is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Open Books, Open Minds: Part 2

Help me give my students books like Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets, Nonni's Moon, Pashmina, and Lailah's Lunchbox. These books will help us celebrate diversity in our classroom!

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My Students

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to people who prepare for it today." - MX

My lively bunch of 28 students come from different cultural, religious, and ethnic backgrounds.

Each student has a unique and valuable set of experiences that they contribute to the class. We have worked hard to build bonds with each other and consider our class to be like a family, while our classroom is like a home. Students truly feel safe to be themselves, take risks, and explore.

My Project

Students will get to read books about characters from their cultures and others within our classroom. Reading books with diverse characters will motivate my students to read as they will be able to make connections with the characters and other students in our class.

These books will help students understand different aspects of their lives so that we can create a more inclusive, caring classroom.

Students will be able to understand social and cultural norms that may differ from theirs. This will help further our dialogue of multiculturalism and acceptance of all people. Children are learning to be productive members of a global classroom and society!

Mrs. Della Salla James Madison Intermediate School Grades 3-5

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Edison, NJ View local requests 28 students impacted 4donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Pashmina • Amazon Business $16.48 1 $16.48
Lailah's Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story • Amazon Business $14.59 1 $14.59
Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets • Amazon Business $13.72 1 $13.72
Snow Flower And The Panther • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Nonni's Moon • Amazon Business $12.20 1 $12.20
The Night Diary • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Jasmine Launches a Startup: (Entrepreneurship books for kids) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Written in the Stars • Amazon Business $10.87 1 $10.87
The Adventures of Gluskabe: The Coming (Volume 1) • Amazon Business $10.85 1 $10.85
The Adventures of Gluskabe: Giants in the Forest (Volume 2) • Amazon Business $10.85 1 $10.85
Fortune Cookie Fortunes • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Amina's Voice • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Tikki Tikki Tembo • Amazon Business $7.49 1 $7.49
Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns: A Muslim Book of Colors • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
The Empty Pot • Amazon Business $7.48 1 $7.48
The King's Chessboard (Picture Puffin Books) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Power Forward (Zayd Saleem, Chasing the Dream) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Babies, Burglars, and Other Bumps in the Night • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
The Adventures of Gluskabe: Skunk (Volume 4) • Amazon Business $6.43 1 $6.43
Kite Flying • Amazon Business $6.39 1 $6.39
Alvin Ho: Allergic to Dead Bodies, Funerals, and Other Fatal Circumstances • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
The Whole Story of Half a Girl • Amazon Business $6.29 1 $6.29
Night of the Moon: A Muslim Holiday Story • Amazon Business $6.21 1 $6.21
On Point (Zayd Saleem, Chasing the Dream) • Amazon Business $5.61 1 $5.61
Bounce Back (Zayd Saleem, Chasing the Dream) • Amazon Business $5.61 1 $5.61
The Adventures of Gluskabe: The Game Bag (Volume 3) • Amazon Business $4.23 1 $4.23

Materials cost

$239.84

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.60

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$273.44

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.25

Total project goal

$321.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $321.69

3 Donors

-$316.69

Donations toward project cost

-$269.19

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$47.50

match offer

-$5.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$4.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$0.75

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