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Ms. Girvan from Los Angeles, CA is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Our Classroom Library Needs Shelves!

Help me give my students an inviting classroom library designed to meet their needs.

  • $927 goal

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My Students

My students are a diverse, precocious group of learners living throughout the Los Angeles area. They are in a magnet program specializing in Modern Media and Communications. These young scholars are open to sharing ideas, collaborating, and growing as individuals.

My Project

As an English teacher, one of my goals is to develop a love of reading within each of my students. Participating in independent reading is an essential component of this mission. Reading provides countless benefits including, but not limited to, improving brain connectivity; reducing stress; and vocabulary expansion. An independent reading program allows students to select high-interest stories that are appropriately challenging to keep them hooked while simultaneously improving their reading skills.

I have collected hundreds of books for my student but do not have the shelves to display them!

The bookshelves being requested will provide an organized home for these texts. The iPad will be used by students to look up the reading level of the books they choose from the classroom library. This will ensure they are reading books within their reading ability.

Ms. Girvan
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sauder Select Collection 3 Shelf Bookcase, Chalked Chestnut finish • Amazon Business $118.14 3 $354.42
Apple 10.2-inch iPad Wi-Fi - 8th generation - tablet - 32 GB - 10.2' • Best Buy Education $330.00 1 $330.00

Materials cost

$684.42

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $62.62

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.27

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$787.31

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$138.94

Total project goal

$926.25

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $926.25

2 Donors

-$921.84

Donations toward project cost

-$787.31

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$134.53

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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