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Mrs. Nelson from Maryville, TN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Reading Through 2022!

Help me give my students a document camera and new and exciting books for our classroom library as well as a document camera to help with daily lessons.

  • $809 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are the sweetest learners who walk through our doors from all walks of life eager to be loved and to learn. We are a rural school nestled in the Smoky Mountains. Many of our students never leave the county or state, so it is our job to educate them on the world around them and give them the tools they need to be successful.

My students are creative, kindhearted, funny, curious, and very driven when it comes to learning new things.

Our school has around 750 students in grades 6-8. I teach around 100 of these students in my 6th grade classroom. We have a growing classroom library that is full of wonderful books that my students enjoy reading, but we want to expand that library to include even more!

Through an expansive classroom library, students can be exposed to so many different characters, events, places, and stories. Readers are leaders and I want my students to be top tier!

My Project

Books can take you anywhere. By reading just a few pages of a novel, you can suddenly be in a totally different place, time period, or in someone else's shoes. Reading is the vehicle to take students to a brand new world. This project would expand our classroom library with new and exciting books that are high interest for students.

I believe that anyone who says that they do not like reading simply has not found the right book for them yet.

By having a diverse classroom library with a variety of books at the fingertips of students, they are more likely to pick up a book that they love, transporting them to a new place.

We also need a document camera to help with our daily lessons so that students can take notes with me in real time.

Mrs. Nelson
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
HUE HD Pro USB Document Camera for Windows, macOS and Chrome OS (Black) • Amazon Business $89.95 1 $89.95
Zebra Pen Mildliner Double Ended Highlighter Set, Broad and Fine Point Tips, Assorted Ink Colors, 25-Pack (78525) • Amazon Business $31.49 1 $31.49
Scotch Thermal Laminator Combo Pack, Includes 20 Letter-Size Laminating Pouches, Holds Sheets up to 8.9" x 11(TL902VP) • Amazon Business $27.63 1 $27.63
My Little Golden Book About Dolly Parton • Amazon Business $5.99 3 $17.97
Root Magic • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Zebra Pen Mildliner, Double Ended Highlighter, Broad and Fine Tips, Assorted Colors, 15 Pack • Amazon Business $16.88 1 $16.88
A Place to Hang the Moon • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Alone • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Born Behind Bars • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. (as told to his brother) • Amazon Business $15.59 1 $15.59
The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
Too Bright to See • Amazon Business $15.29 1 $15.29
Sakura Pigma 30064 Micron Blister Card Ink Pen Set, Ass't Colors, 2-mm • Amazon Business $15.09 1 $15.09
The Lion of Mars • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Rez Dogs • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Flight of the Puffin • Amazon Business $14.79 1 $14.79
The One Thing You'd Save • Amazon Business $14.62 1 $14.62
The Shape of Thunder • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
A Soft Place to Land • Amazon Business $14.21 1 $14.21
How to Find What You're Not Looking For • Amazon Business $14.17 1 $14.17
The Beatryce Prophecy • Amazon Business $14.00 1 $14.00
They Called Us Enemy • Amazon Business $13.40 1 $13.40
The Elephant in the Room • Amazon Business $13.24 1 $13.24
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids • Amazon Business $13.00 1 $13.00
Amari and the Night Brothers (Supernatural Investigations, 1) • Amazon Business $12.78 1 $12.78
Out of My Heart • Amazon Business $12.72 1 $12.72
Just Like That • Amazon Business $12.30 1 $12.30
Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood • Amazon Business $12.20 1 $12.20
Yusuf Azeem Is Not a Hero • Amazon Business $12.10 1 $12.10
Red, White, and Whole • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Unsettled • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Ophie’s Ghosts • Amazon Business $11.60 1 $11.60
The Year I Flew Away • Amazon Business $11.28 1 $11.28
JOLLY RANCHER Assorted Fruit Flavored Hard Candy, Holiday, 5 lb Bag (360 Pieces) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Ziploc Snack and Sandwich Bags for On the Go Freshness, Grip 'n Seal Technology for Easier Grip, Open, and Close, 90 Count, Pack of 3 (270 Total Bags) • Amazon Business $9.82 1 $9.82
Pony • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero • Amazon Business $6.57 1 $6.57
Sharpie 27145 Pocket Highlighters, Chisel Tip, Assorted Colors, 12-Count • Amazon Business $5.47 1 $5.47
My Little Golden Book About Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Amazon Business $4.49 1 $4.49

Materials cost

$647.61

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.71

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$687.32

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$121.29

Total project goal

$808.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$808.61

12 Donors

-$381.79

Donations toward project cost

-$335.77

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.02

match offer

-$413.59

Match offer toward project cost

-$351.55

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.04

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$13.23

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$0.00

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