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Ms. Ekins from Salt Lake City, UT is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Pride of Reading

Help me give my students books that are a good fit and will help them build reading confidence!

  • $195 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

I recently returned to teaching second grade in an urban school.

Despite many challenges, my students come school each day eager to learn how to learn and drive their own learning.

My students love school because they experience thrilling and motivating educational experiences that simultaneously improve their math, writing, reading, science, and social studies skills.

This often takes monetary funding I am not given by my state or school district. Unforgettable learning experiences in second grade help my students retain learning in their long-term memories.

My Project

After teaching second grade for seven years, then fourth grade for five years, my classroom library has a wide range of reading levels. However, I have learned that I seem to have donated the majority of my easiest-level books along the way. My second graders are struggling to find good-fit books in my classroom library.

I have many beginning readers in my class after a year and a half of remote learning since their kindergarten year.

The confidence the ability to read a book brings is palpable. I'd love to fill my library with books the second graders can all access.

Ms. Ekins North Star Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

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.

More about Ms. Ekins

Salt Lake City, UT View local requests

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

20 students impacted 2donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Living in Urban Communities • AKJ Education $5.10 1 $5.10
Communities in My World • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Continents in My World • AKJ Education $5.07 1 $5.07
Fox All Week • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Snail-Snaily-Snails • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Puppy Mudge Has A Snack • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Little Critter: Just a Little Sick • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Biscuit and the Little Pup • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
The Day I Had to Play with My Sister • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
How Many Fish? • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Go Away, Dog • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Oliver • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Pinky and Rex • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Henry and Mudge: The First Book • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Amelia Bedelia Helps Out • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Who Will Be My Friends? • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Sometimes Level 1 • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Why the Frog Has Big Eyes • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Recycle • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Reduce • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
And I Mean It, Stanley • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Hot Dog • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Sammy the Seal • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Mac and Cheese • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
The Fat Cat Sat on the Mat • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
No More Monsters for Me! • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
There Is a Carrot in My Ear: and Other Noodle Tales • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
I Saw You in the Bathtub: And Other Folk Rhymes • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Kick, Pass, and Run • AKJ Education $3.64 1 $3.64
Little Bear (Common Core Exemplar) • AKJ Education $3.61 1 $3.61
Kingfisher Readers L3: Astronauts • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
Kingfisher Readers L1: Seals • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
Kingfisher Readers L2: Where Animals Live • AKJ Education $2.91 1 $2.91
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom • AKJ Education $2.88 1 $2.88
Who Will Help? • AKJ Education $2.55 1 $2.55

Materials cost

$127.65

Vendor shipping charges

 $6.00

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$165.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$29.22

Total project goal

$194.78

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $194.78

1 Donor

-$97.39

Donations toward project cost

-$82.78

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.61

match offer

-$97.39

Match offer toward project cost

-$82.78

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.61

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 $0.00

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