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Ms. Denise from Rockford, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Turning Pages, Touching Hearts With Social Emotional Picture Books

Help me give my students social emotional learning books with engaging, relatable stories and characters to help them develop coping skills, resilience, and empathy.

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I have a special position in my school-the Calm Classroom Teacher. As a Calm Classroom teacher, I educate our students in grades K-5 in social emotional skills, calming and coping strategies, and executive functioning skills. I help students develop self-awareness, self control, and intrapersonal skills that are so important for school and life success.

I plan to use these books as read-alouds with my daily whole group and small SEL groups to help students understand different perspectives, and appreciate diversity, while also fostering strong relationships and promoting inclusivity.

Social and emotional learning (SEL) books can help our kids develop skills that are beneficial in their personal and academic lives. Social-emotional learning lets children build compassion, explore conflict resolution, identify and navigate emotions, and nurture excitement for the broad and diverse world beyond their doorstep. Using picture books to teach SEL skills are so important, as most picture books feature main characters children can relate to. The characters are all facing the sorts of challenges that children are learning to work through in their daily lives.

Exposure to diverse characters helps children develop empathy and understanding towards people who are different from them, while also developing a sense of belonging and community.

Ms. Denise Welsh Elementary School 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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Rockford, IL 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

512 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
A Friendship Yarn • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Two • Amazon Business $16.62 1 $16.62
The Way Back Home • Amazon Business $14.29 1 $14.29
Kindness Starts With You - At School • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Kindness Makes Me Stronger: Children’s Book about Magic of Kindness, Empathy and Respect (World of Kids Emotions) • Amazon Business $12.60 1 $12.60
Marker • Amazon Business $12.38 1 $12.38
Ricky, the Rock That Couldn't Roll (You Rock Group) • Amazon Business $12.12 1 $12.12
Kindness Rocks (Kindness Rocks the World) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Kindness Snippet Jar (A Little Spot) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
I Walk with Vanessa: A Picture Book Story About a Simple Act of Kindness • Amazon Business $11.76 1 $11.76
MEESHA MAKES FRIENDS • Amazon Business $11.50 1 $11.50
The Kindness Book • Amazon Business $11.37 1 $11.37
Nobody Hugs a Cactus • Amazon Business $11.25 1 $11.25
Draw the Line • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Tomorrow I'll Be Kind • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
Peanut Butter & Cupcake • Amazon Business $10.83 1 $10.83
Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great (Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great, 1) • Amazon Business $10.69 1 $10.69
The Jelly Donut Difference: Sharing Kindness with the World • Amazon Business $10.52 1 $10.52
The Kindest Red: A Story of Hijab and Friendship (The Proudest Blue, 2) • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
It Will be Okay: Trusting God Through Fear and Change (Little Seed & Little Fox) • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
Each Kindness • Amazon Business $10.43 1 $10.43
Random House Books for Young Readers, The World Needs More Purple People (My Purple World) • Amazon Business $10.32 1 $10.32
Eraser • Amazon Business $10.31 1 $10.31
The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family (The Proudest Blue, 1) • Amazon Business $9.82 1 $9.82
Stick and Stone: Best Friends Forever! • Amazon Business $9.39 1 $9.39
Will You be the "I" in Kind?: A Picture Book About Kindness, Empathy, and Compassion • Amazon Business $9.39 1 $9.39
The Other Side • Amazon Business $9.35 1 $9.35
The Judgmental Flower (Building Relationships) • Amazon Business $9.31 1 $9.31
Grumpy Bird (Tankard Bird Picture Books) • Amazon Business $9.01 1 $9.01
Milo's Monster (Big Bright Feelings) • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
What Does It Mean to Be Kind? • Amazon Business $8.36 1 $8.36
How to Lose All Your Friends (Picture Puffins) • Amazon Business $7.87 1 $7.87
Kindness is my Superpower: A children's Book About Empathy, Kindness and Compassion (My Superpower Books) • Amazon Business $7.52 1 $7.52
Maddi's Fridge • Amazon Business $7.43 1 $7.43
Doug the Pug and the Kindness Crew (Doug the Pug Picture Book) • Amazon Business $6.04 1 $6.04

Materials cost

$376.29

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.64

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$411.93

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$72.69

Total project goal

$484.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $484.62

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 $484.62

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