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The students work independently in centers, developing social, math, writing, reading, and science skills. \r\nWith your items the students are able to explore and discover new and exciting activities that relate to their educational learning.","fullyFundedDate":1746783051194,"projectUrl":"project/boosting-independence/9254258/","projectTitle":"Boosting Independence","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Castillo-Regalado","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp523318_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753144570432","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/523318"},{"teacherId":9448672,"projectId":8725611,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your investment into the lives of my students. Your contributions directly purchased art materials used to create new and innovative artworks implementing a variety of colors, lines, rhythms, and patterns. This project impacted student learning by encouraging renewed interest in different art media (art materials). The students were eager to try the materials out and use them in their projects. The artworks created are an immediate reflection of the elements of art and principles of design. The inclusion of these art building blocks and guidelines are just proof that superior, quality materials are necessary in yielding superior, quality results.","fullyFundedDate":1730138132214,"projectUrl":"project/an-artistic-alternative-to-learning-his/8725611/","projectTitle":"An Artistic Alternative to Learning History: Art in Our Past","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Olezene","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9448672_orig.png?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725676358529","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9448672"},{"teacherId":8027100,"projectId":7566465,"letterContent":"Thanks to the donors, my students enriched their English verbal expression during the gallery walks, they enjoy practicing thier second language and reinforce their native language expression. They also developed their way of thinking, during this activities they were able to retell more vivid stories.\r\nThis grow to be one of their favorite activities during their language block, I will definatelly continue to use this strategy with future students. Seen students engagement during the activity I would say it was a success.","fullyFundedDate":1692715920091,"projectUrl":"project/inspirational-writing-gallery-walks/7566465/","projectTitle":"Inspirational Writing Gallery Walks!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hurtado","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8027100_orig.jpg?crop=297,297,x0,y50&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1758997023891","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8027100"},{"teacherId":523318,"projectId":9054316,"letterContent":"My students are so excited to be using all the wonderful materials they received from the donations. Sensory play encourages learning through exploration, curiosity, problem solving and creativity. The students love working with hands on materials as they develop their oral language and academic learning. \r\nWhen the students first saw the materials they were all excited to use it. By having a variety of materials for them to use in the sensory center students explore different tactile and visual play. \r\nPlay-based learning is an integral part of our daily curriculum. Sensory play stimulates the child's five senses and helps them develop independently. Thank you for providing my students with the materials that will help them grow.","fullyFundedDate":1739371426714,"projectUrl":"project/fostering-creativity-through-sensory-lea/9054316/","projectTitle":"Fostering creativity through sensory learning!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Castillo-Regalado","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp523318_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753144570432","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/523318"},{"teacherId":1204233,"projectId":8865431,"letterContent":"\"Hear Me Read, Watch Me Grow\" has given my students the opportunity to explore themselves as readers. The materials included in this project have been tools to improve their listening, reading tracking, comprehension but best of all - their motivation to read! \r\n\r\nStudents were excited to use the headphones and tablets across content areas. Students have access to leveled readers with science and social studies content. Several of my tigers receive oral accommodations for reading so being able to hear the various text at their convenience has been a game changer! Our school had limited headsets and my class had 3, with many more students needing the support. \r\n\r\nWith the short time we have been using the tools, individual student MAP growth has jumped 11-26 points! I cannot wait to see how they progress over the next few months! 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The base ten blocks have helped many students with regrouping and see subtraction in action. They can see and understand what is happening in the problem. This helps them connect what is happening on paper when they work with base ten blocks.","fullyFundedDate":1726260976050,"projectUrl":"project/show-me-the-math/8689702/","projectTitle":"Show Me the Math!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Cruz","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-7_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7824293"},{"teacherId":523318,"projectId":8818620,"letterContent":"The students have enjoyed learning to count by using the coins and items purchased by our wonderful donors. Pre-K has been able to use the coins to explain ways money can be used identified, sorted, and counting coins and bills. \r\nStudents are learning to use their oral language in both English and Spanish to communicate and pretend play coffee shop. They use the menu to sell the items to the other students and the students have to count out the coins to receive the item ordered. The students are learning ways in which they can earn money in the classrooms by our classroom jobs. They take their job serious and take pride in their job. They earn money at the end of the week for each day they did their job. 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