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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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Read Aloud Books to Start Our Year Off Right

Help me give my students diverse picture books for our daily read aloud. Books like "Becoming Vanessa" and "We Are Still Here!" will go a long way in building our classroom community.

  • $423 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 are amazing! 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. Together we imagine new possibilities for our community, our country and the world.

At our school, 96% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and 92% of the students are students of color.

My students have come from many different parts of the world including Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Ethiopia, Somalia and the United States. The majority of my students are learning English as a second or third language.

My students are the engineers, pilots, dentists, poets and architects of the future. These students have the capacity to achieve greatness.

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 start our day right.

Students will be able to see themselves represented and put themselves in other's shoes as they listen to these books.

I'm excited to share so many of these books with my students, like "We Are a Garden: How Diversity Took Root in America" and "We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know." We need these books in our classroom. 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 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Little Dandelion Seeds the World • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Rise Up and Write It: With Real Mail, Posters, and More! • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Jayden’s Impossible Garden • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
111 Trees: How One Village Celebrates the Birth of Every Girl (CitizenKid) • Amazon Business $16.84 1 $16.84
All the Way to the Top: How One Girl's Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything (Inspiring Activism and Diversity Book About Children with Special Needs) • Amazon Business $16.45 1 $16.45
Bodies Are Cool • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Becoming Vanessa • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Watch Me: A Story of Immigration and Inspiration • Amazon Business $15.69 1 $15.69
What Are Your Words?: A Book About Pronouns • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Color Collector • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Meesha Makes Friends (Big Bright Feelings) • Amazon Business $14.81 1 $14.81
Don't Hug Doug: (He Doesn't Like It) • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
Love Is Powerful • Amazon Business $14.24 1 $14.24
How to Apologize • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
Watercress • Amazon Business $12.54 1 $12.54
We Are a Garden: A Story of How Diversity Took Root in America • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
The Bad Seed Presents: The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Stand Up! Speak Up!: A Story Inspired by the Climate Change Revolution • Amazon Business $9.19 1 $9.19
This Is Your Time • Amazon Business $8.51 1 $8.51

Materials cost

$319.93

Vendor shipping charges

 $3.99

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.80

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$358.72

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$63.30

Total project goal

$422.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $422.02

5 Donors

-$223.50

Donations toward project cost

-$189.98

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.52

Matching donations from our partners

-$198.52

Match offers toward project cost

-$168.74

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$29.78

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