Books build community. As we embark on the year ahead, our classroom community looks different than it ever has before. Students are sharing a classroom with smaller peer groups and alternating cohorts so they only get to know half of their class to begin our year. Shared experiences through common books helps to unite our community. I am hoping to be able to purchase and send home books each month that our class can read and enjoy as a united class. Sponsoring a child for $15 would ensure that this becomes possible every month for each child in my...read more first grade classroom.read less