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

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Start Loving Books on Day 1

Help me give my students some great books to start off our year.

  • $206 goal

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My Project

Next year we are starting a brand new curriculum and although the city is providing us with the basic books required to start the year off they are not providing us with the books we will need to start off the year right. The ten books they provided for the first six weeks of school is not enough.

We need engaging books to help my new students learn to love books while they are learning about what to expect in school, how to be a good friend and how they feel.

This will be many of my students first time in school and many of them do not have children's books at home. The books I am requesting are funny enough to engage two and three year olds so they will learn to love listening to stories.

Ms. Smirk PS 938 Grades PreK-2

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than half 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Goodbye, Friend! Hello, Friend! • Amazon Business $16.83 1 $16.83
Lacey Walker, Nonstop Talker (Little Boost) • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Share and Take Turns/Comparte y turna (Learning to Get Along®) (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to Listen • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Feelings (Reading Rainbow Book) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Me First (Laugh-Along Lessons) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Listen, Buddy (Laugh-Along Lessons) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Lots of Feelings (Shelley Rotner's Early Childhood Library) • Amazon Business $8.83 1 $8.83
Friends at School • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Here Are My Hands (Owlet Book) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Hurty Feelings (Laugh-Along Lessons) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Happy in Our Skin • Amazon Business $7.71 1 $7.71
Mind Your Manners: In School (Mind Your Manners Series) • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Maisy Goes to Preschool: A Maisy First Experiences Book • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
We're Different, We're the Same (Sesame Street) (Pictureback(R)) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$142.75

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.14

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$174.89

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$30.86

Total project goal

$205.75

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $205.75

1 Donor

-$205.75

Donations toward project cost

-$174.89

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.86

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 $0.00

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