{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Cabrillo Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":11.9,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":408391,"projectId":9312828,"letterContent":"Thank you for continuing to build literacy in our classroom through your generosity.\r\nWe are so grateful for your investment in the reading and writing of our littlest learners. \r\n\r\nIt has been so much fun to teach this class how to read. They are engaged eager and they want to learn how to read and write all the things (Mrs. Taylor what does this say? Let's say it sound by sound). It feels magical to them when I point out and celebrate their reading. But we know that their learning is a result of many consistent contributions day after day. Work that includes their good, hard work, their families and your investment in my teaching and our learning that is bringing about such monumental growth.\r\n\r\nA few more celebrations to share with you:\r\n\r\nMany students can now read the lunch menu (chicken sandwich, cheese nachos). \r\n\r\nWe are writing thankful notes \r\n(Whiskers the dog ... Whiskers has the 2 letter spelling for /w/ !). \r\n\r\nOur young readers are saying all the sounds in family f-a-m-i-l-y and writing words out sound by sound to label their beautiful art. \r\n\r\nTheir handwriting has blossomed which builds fine motor, reading, writing, and working memory skills to name a few.\r\n\r\nAt recess our kindergarteners are asking how to write words that match their interests (pasta) or their drawings (dinosaur, rainbow, boat). \r\n\r\nThey are on high alert for connections of sounds in words to our new learning concepts: the ch sound in chips, lunch, chicken. \r\n\r\nThank you for joining us in the hard work and delight of learning how to read. Your generosity is changing their lives day by day and will yield a lifetime of returns. \r\n\r\n\r\n-","fullyFundedDate":1746503696925,"projectUrl":"project/rocket-into-reading-year-2/9312828/","projectTitle":"Rocket Into Reading Year 2!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp408391_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1516850295773","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/christy-taylor"},{"teacherId":8119884,"projectId":9568729,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for the classroom carpet. This is now the most popular spot in the classroom. Students enjoy reading here during our silent reading times. It is also the perfect calm down corner when students are upset or over excited. There are often times throughout our day that a student may not be feeling the best, but when they come to our calm down corner, with there friends Barry and Slavi, they know they have a safe place to feel and calm down. Thank you for bringing this joy to our classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1755543003879,"projectUrl":"project/calm-corner-carpet/9568729/","projectTitle":"Calm Corner Carpet","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Thibodeaux","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8119884_orig.jpg?crop=1728,1728,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1651093882892","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8119884"},{"teacherId":408391,"projectId":9061120,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for investing in the stories of kindergartners. They have stories to share and words to write. For Mother's Day each child wrote a personal book with 10 things that they love about their mom. It was absolutely heartwarming to hear their stories and learn of the favorite food that their mom cooks, the way their mom cheers them up, how their mom shows them love. They had such motivation and confidence to communicate long, thoughtful messages. \r\n\r\nThis past week we collected phrases to say to ourselves when we need to stick with a task. The kindergartners came up with great phrases to 'say to their heart and their brain' (their phrase) when they might be feeling discouraged or frustrated or when things get hard ... taking their idea and putting onto paper or doing the monkey bars or learning some other new thing. I wish you could have heard them cheer each other on the next recess. It was remarkable.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in their hearts, their minds, their stories. You are a part of every page that they write and story they tell. Your generosity created the space for them to grow. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1737656559231,"projectUrl":"project/putting-our-stories-into-words-buildin/9061120/","projectTitle":"Putting our Stories into Words: Building Writing Skills and Strategies","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp408391_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1516850295773","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/christy-taylor"},{"teacherId":408391,"projectId":8979641,"letterContent":"Art truly is one of these most treasured experiences of our kindergarten scholars. It is creative, calming, exploring, and life giving. Using their art materials allows them the space to respond to their learning but also to express their ideas and their own selves.\r\n\r\nThe accessibility of materials with the spinning tray makes collaboration and sharing that much easier! The washi tape with its brilliant colors and designs gives them a wide selection and a novel way to create -- and often results in many gifts for their loved ones. The paint sticks produce vibrant reproductions of famous art work or recreations of our classroom books. And glue ... we always need glue. They are thrilled to have access to glue for their constructing and sculpting needs.\r\n\r\nThese art tools support our kindergarten scholars' emotional self-regulation and fuel their creative spirit, expression, and learning for strong core memories, positive early learning experiences, and lifelong artistic endeavors.\r\n\r\nThank you so very much for your generosity to us!","fullyFundedDate":1733284223424,"projectUrl":"project/art-from-the-start/8979641/","projectTitle":"Art From the Start","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp408391_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1516850295773","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/christy-taylor"},{"teacherId":408391,"projectId":8979322,"letterContent":"Our class was ELATED to receive this gift. They truly couldn't decide which was their favorite: magnatiles, puzzles, or play dough. Thank you so very much. The class cheered and oohed and ahhed as we unpacked your gifts.\r\n\r\nThe magnatiles are a floor favorite of the class. They work very well together to design, construct, and even rebuild or redesign their masterpieces together. I would say these are the most used activity because the class can be most independent with the magnatiles.\r\n\r\nPuzzles have served to build language and a shared sense of purpose and task accomplishment celebrated together. The joint deliberation over which puzzle to begin, the passing of pieces that fit another person's section. It truly is a delight to observe their collaboration and puzzle with them.\r\n\r\nThe excitement over the play dough is that it is scented and comes in tiny packages. The children are eager to mold and shape and show their creations. \r\n\r\nThank you for providing constructive ways to keep hands active, build concentration and collaboration for our kindergarten scholars! These truly are learning superpowers!","fullyFundedDate":1733279739034,"projectUrl":"project/concentration-problem-solvingcollabora/8979322/","projectTitle":"Concentration, Problem Solving,Collaboration: Learning Super Powers","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp408391_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1516850295773","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/christy-taylor"},{"teacherId":408391,"projectId":8501048,"letterContent":"31 donors. Thirty-one generous families. This is by far the largest collaboration of givers I have ever received—and by far the biggest impact in my classroom. Thank you!\r\n\r\nYour investment is multiplied not only in this year but in years to come as children build and accelerate their reading skills. What a gift in literacy you have given to my students. \r\n\r\nOur school year began with most students not knowing letter sounds. Now kindergarteners are breaking words apart to write them, telling me the sounds, writing the sounds, and putting all those sounds together to read. Weekly we are growing: me as an educator accelerating my teaching and students advancing in reading. Their eyes twinkle as we celebrate their learning.\r\n\r\nEach 5 year old's confidence and willingness to try hard new things has grown because my students not only experience strong support but also the success of growing as readers and writers. Families are so eager to share how their child is attempting to read words everywhere ... sound by sound they work through the word to read it. It's truly an amazing experience for everyone involved.\r\n\r\nLearning is transferring outside of our reading block to all other areas. Students ask me what sounds are needed for messages that they want to send to their families. Student interests in airplanes, Mario and Sonic, fireworks, snowflakes and rainbows are no longer picture representations but now written expression to communicate with others. \r\n\r\nYour work and generous investment has changed the literacy stories of each child in our classroom this year ... and every child who will enter in the years to come. \r\n\r\nThank you for joining together to give every child the right to read and to change the course of their lives, their families, and their communities. \r\n\r\nThank you for helping our kindergarteners rocket into reading.","fullyFundedDate":1724428441901,"projectUrl":"project/rocket-into-reading/8501048/","projectTitle":"Rocket into Reading","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Taylor","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp408391_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1516850295773","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/christy-taylor"},{"teacherId":9651494,"projectId":8649028,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for the materials to provided for our TK Class. The materials you provided brought such joy and delight to the children. They can now, everyday paint, color, and create such fun wonderful art projects in the classroom. \r\n\r\nThe children are learning and experiencing hands on activities through thier art projects. They have learned about animals such as the penguins and turkeys. The studied flowers like the sunflower and tulip. The lifecyle of pumpkins. They also have learned about their community and created a community scene through painting boxes, roads, signs. \r\n\r\nWe are only half way through the school year, and we definitley plan on having many more learning adventures. Again thank you for your support!","fullyFundedDate":1726190050525,"projectUrl":"project/art-from-the-start-art-in-our-tk-classr/8649028/","projectTitle":"Art From the Start: Art in Our TK Classroom","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Higares","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9651494"},{"teacherId":8062477,"projectId":8612777,"letterContent":"I wanted to express my sincere gratitude and thank you for the donation made to my classroom. Providing students with basic supplies makes a huge difference in how their year goes. The impact of having basic classroom supplies was amazing and overwhelming.\r\n\r\nThe white board markers encouraged students to solve math problems and brain storm ideas visually. The whiteboard erasers empowered them to make mistakes and to correct them. \r\n\r\nNotebooks helped students keep their notes organized. \r\n\r\nAlso, the students used the notebooks as their Reading Response Journals. \r\nThe card stock paper was used by them to create tabs in their Reading Response Journals for the various reading strategies that we follow in class.\r\n \r\nThe folders helped organize their assignments and homework, and other learning materials.. This organization skill will make them successful moving on to middle and high school. \r\n\r\nThank you again for supporting this project- you have made a tremendous impact in our classroom. Your donations give my students pride and unrelenting motivation. \r\nMe and my class extends warmest holiday wishes and a Happy New Year to you all!!","fullyFundedDate":1727458425457,"projectUrl":"project/starting-strong-with-school-supplies/8612777/","projectTitle":"Starting Strong with School Supplies","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Johar","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8062477"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_3790","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":277,"numTeachers":20,"percentFrplEligible":72,"percentAsian":27,"percentBlack":1,"percentWhite":9,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":50,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"13.8:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_MIDSIZE"},"inStateSupporters":88.1,"schoolId":3790,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Cabrillo Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Cabrillo Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/california/fremont-unified-school-district/cabrillo-elementary-school/3790"}