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Ms. Barker from Richmond, VA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Power of Picture Books: Managing Emotions With Books

Help me give my students picture books that reinforce anchors of social-emotional learning.

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My Project

Last year students had a daily community circle in their homerooms where they discussed a variety of relevant topics. I am adopting that familiar, structured model for our library classes for the 2023-24 school year. Every week we will start our library class off with a picture book that centers as a theme a pillar of social-emotional learning (SEL). We will discuss characters' dilemmas, how characters overcome obstacles, how they manage emotions and relationships, and how students see themselves in the pages of the book.

Books are powerful.

Centering SEL in our weekly library lessons will equip students with one more tool to help them manage relationships and emotions, grow empathy, and strengthen resiliency.

Ms. Barker Westover Hills Elementary School Grades 3-5

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Richmond, VA 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

365 students impacted 6donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Creative SEL: Using Hands-On Projects to Boost Social-Emotional Learning • Amazon Business $34.99 1 $34.99
Pass It On • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Daisy • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Miss Irwin • Amazon Business $18.37 1 $18.37
No Fits, Nilson! • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
The Unbudgeable Curmudgeon • Amazon Business $17.85 1 $17.85
We Are Lions! • Amazon Business $17.19 1 $17.19
I Am a Tornado • Amazon Business $16.98 1 $16.98
When We Are Kind / Nihá’ádaahwiinít’íigo (English and Navaho Edition) • Amazon Business $16.96 1 $16.96
The Wishing Balloons • Amazon Business $16.39 1 $16.39
Argyle Fox • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Anita and the Dragons (Lantana Global Picture Books) • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
The Rabbit Listened • Amazon Business $15.44 1 $15.44
The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name • Amazon Business $14.79 1 $14.79
My Shadow Is Pink • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Life • Amazon Business $14.19 1 $14.19
My Mind is a Mountain / Mi mente es una montaña • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
A Small Kindness • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Rulers of the Playground • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Enemy Pie : (Reading Rainbow Book, Children’s Book about Kindness, Kids Books about Learning) • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
A Friend for Henry: (Books About Making Friends, Children's Friendship Books, Autism Awareness Books for Kids) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
I Am Okay to Feel • Amazon Business $10.96 1 $10.96
Big Feelings • Amazon Business $10.91 1 $10.91
The Invisible Boy • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Like • Amazon Business $10.33 1 $10.33
My Mouth Is A Volcano • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99

Materials cost

$400.73

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.01

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$436.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.07

Total project goal

$513.81

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $513.81

4 Donors

-$507.93

Donations toward project cost

-$436.74

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$71.19

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$5.88

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