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Ms. Skiba from Bronx, NY is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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South of the Border Books to Study Mexico!

My students need 14 books about Mexican culture and one set of Spanish vocabulary flashcards.

  • $262 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

Queremos aprender sobre México - We want to learn about México! In Summer 2010, I traveled to México on a Fulbright-Hays Seminar Abroad for educators to learn about the country. Upon my return, I designed a unit to teach my students about México, but we need accompanying books.

My class is made up of third graders in a New York public school who go home to houses, apartments or shelters with little to no materials to succeed in school.

This dedicated third grade class is located in an extremely low-income community, where 100% of students receive free lunch. My students want to do well and want to learn as much as they can, but barely have the resources to do so.

My Project

My Fulbright-Hays unit is titled "México: I can do it too!" and is comprised of 11 lessons that allow students to get an interactive experience when studying Mexico. For example, when learning about indigenous clothing in rural México, students will see pictures that I took, and then design similar clothing for their own paper dolls. For each lesson of my unit - one on geography, two on history, seven on cultural awareness, and one celebration - I have created similar interactive activities to help teach all learning styles. To accompany each lesson, I have also identified children's picture books that relate to the day's activity. So after the lesson on clothing, students would hear a read aloud, "What Can You Do with a Rebozo? Que Puede Hacer Con Un Rebozo?" by Carmen Tafolla. However, while my unit plan calls for 11 read alouds and a few other books for students to reference, we do not have these materials. The books you donate to our classroom will directly support this unit.

By making a donation to this project, you will completely complement the unit I created, giving a perspective to the lessons that the discussions and activities do not provide.

But this project is not just for my class, this unit is being provided to the nine other third grade classes in my school, and the books will be passed to them as well. So, not only will this wonderful collection of books on México directly support the students in my class, but over 200 third graders at my school!

Ms. Skiba PS 86 Kingbridge Heights Grades 3-5

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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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Bronx, NY View local requests

Nearly all 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

250 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Cort s: Conquering the Powerful Aztec Empire Carl R. Green • AKJ BOOKS $27.29 1 $27.29
Grandma's Chocolate / El chocolate de Abuelita Mara Price, Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Lisa Fields (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $11.59 1 $11.59
Where Fireflies Dance Lucha Corpi, Mira Reisberg (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $6.79 1 $6.79
What Can You Do with a Rebozo? Carmen Tafolla, Amy Cordova (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $12.16 1 $12.16
The Skirt Gary Soto, Eric Velasquez (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $12.16 1 $12.16
Estela's Swap Alexis O'Neill, Enrique O. Sanchez (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $6.79 1 $6.79
My Tata's Guitar: La Guitarra de mi Tata Ethriam Cash Brammer, Daniel Lechon, Daniel Lechon (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $12.94 1 $12.94
Spanish (Flash Kids Flash Cards) Flash Kids Editors • AKJ BOOKS $3.00 1 $3.00
The Day of the Dead (El D a de los Muertos) Bob Barner (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $11.59 1 $11.59
Uno, Dos, Tres, Posada! Virginia Kroll, Loretta Lopez (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $12.98 1 $12.98
Mice and Beans Pam Munoz Ryan, Joe Cepeda (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $13.76 1 $13.76
Festive Foods: Mexico Sylvia Goulding • AKJ BOOKS $13.30 1 $13.30
Grandma and Me at the Flea (Los Meros Meros Remateros) Juan Felipe Herrera, Anita De Lucio-Brock (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $13.76 1 $13.76
Elena's Serenade Campbell Geeslin, Ana Juan (Illustrator) • AKJ BOOKS $16.23 1 $16.23
Mexico Beth Gruber • AKJ BOOKS $10.51 1 $10.51

Materials cost

$184.85

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.77

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$222.62

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$39.29

Total project goal

$261.91

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $261.91

5 Donors

-$142.82

Donations toward project cost

-$121.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$21.27

match offer

-$118.91

Match offer toward project cost

-$101.07

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.84

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.18

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 $0.00

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