{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Charles Kelly Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":28.6,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":9486021,"projectId":8330906,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generosity, our music classroom is now filled with an excitement and energy that is absolutely contagious. The new drum set has quickly become the heart of our room, drawing students in, encouraging them to explore rhythm, and giving them the chance to experience music in a hands-on, meaningful way. Many of my students had never played a real drum set before or even seen/heard one in person, and the look on their faces when they sat down for the first time was unforgettable. They are developing coordination, confidence, teamwork, and musical expression every time they use it.\r\n\r\nThe impact of this instrument goes far beyond learning to keep a beat. Students who are typically shy or hesitant have found a new way to participate and shine. Small groups are using the drums to create patterns together, classes are practicing steady beat and ensemble playing, and students with sensory needs especially benefit from the structured, physical outlet the drum set provides. Your gift has brought a sense of joy, creativity, and empowerment to our learning space, and it will continue to inspire young musicians for years to come. Thank you for helping my students experience the magic of making music.","fullyFundedDate":1724083732343,"projectUrl":"project/unlocking-our-inner-animals-lets-get-c/8330906/","projectTitle":"Unlocking Our Inner Animals: Let's Get CKES Drumming","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Yacavino","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9486021"},{"teacherId":9484032,"projectId":9512796,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity. These supplies have helped my students tremendously. The seat sacks have been a great upgrade to the ones that I already had. Many of my previous ones had already ripped, so now all of my students have nice seat sacks to help them organize their supplies better. \r\n\r\nThe new prizes for the classroom prize been have been a great addition. 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This helped tremendously when we were doing whole-group work on our whiteboards. \r\n\r\nThe Dash robot is a great addition to STEM club. This is a great tool to use for coding. I am so excited to show students how to use the Dash website to code & have students visually see their robot move. Thank you again for your generosity!","fullyFundedDate":1746785668633,"projectUrl":"project/whiteboards-and-stem/9272486/","projectTitle":"Whiteboards and STEM","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McAllister","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9484032_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1713994027224","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9484032"},{"teacherId":9484032,"projectId":9208329,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your support and generosity. These seat sacks have been a life-saver in my classroom. I started the year with enough seat sacks for each student that I got off of Facebook marketplace. Unfortunately, many of those ripped over the course of the year since they were used for years prior. My students were so excited to receive these new and great quality seat sacks. \r\n\r\nSeat sacks are so helpful in teaching students how to stay organized. These seat sacks in particular are the perfect size for a Chromebook, pair of headphones, and 1 or 2 independent reading books. I know these seat sacks will last for years to come!","fullyFundedDate":1746785714671,"projectUrl":"project/organizational-tools/9208329/","projectTitle":"Organizational Tools","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McAllister","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9484032_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1713994027224","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9484032"},{"teacherId":9484032,"projectId":9231117,"letterContent":"I cannot thank you enough for your generosity. Being able to gift my students with a great end of the year gift has been so nice. With this project I was able to gift each student a beach bucket & shovel, coloring book, a large tube of bubbles, and a graphic novel. I know many students do not have much to do at home over the summer, so gifting my students with a graphic novel and coloring book is amazing. \r\n\r\nMy students were so excited to see their gifts on the last day of school. They were so excited to have a graphic novel and started playing with the bubbles right away. Thank you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1746785891707,"projectUrl":"project/summer-books-fun/9231117/","projectTitle":"Summer Books & Fun","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McAllister","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9484032_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1713994027224","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9484032"},{"teacherId":9168511,"projectId":8261642,"letterContent":"The students and I are so grateful and appreciative for your donations! This project allowed students to learn about financial literacy and earn rewards for awesome behavior along the way :) \r\n\r\nStudents learned how to save money from week to week to earn big tickets items. Students also worked with counting money and understanding money concepts. Students were able to work in the \"store\" and take the money to sell the products. \r\n\r\nBehavior skyrocketed in the right direction when students learned they can learn and have fun at the same time!","fullyFundedDate":1713822422084,"projectUrl":"project/financial-literacy-and-future-success/8261642/","projectTitle":"Financial Literacy and Future Success","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Pandola","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9168511_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1708691674410","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9168511"},{"teacherId":9484032,"projectId":9135620,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating to my classroom! I am so grateful that people are generous enough to do so. This project was so exciting for me, because it truly impacted my students daily activities. Each morning, my students read out loud to a website \"robot\" to practice their fluency. This was also a stressor for some students because of the noise, or because their laptop would not register what they were saying because it would hear the students that were nearby. \r\n\r\nAfter these headphones were delivered, there has been a tremendous difference. My students no longer refuse to go on this website because they know that their headphones will help their laptop hear their voice. My students are no longer stressing out and getting frustrated because of these headphones. \r\n\r\nThank you so much for helping my students!","fullyFundedDate":1741099919355,"projectUrl":"project/headphones-for-fluency/9135620/","projectTitle":"Headphones for Fluency!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McAllister","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9484032_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1713994027224","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9484032"},{"teacherId":9484032,"projectId":9122343,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting my classroom! It is amazing to show my students that there are so many good people out there who like to support others. The snacks that were donated were well-loved by my students. They were so excited that there were snacks and were constantly asking for them! \r\n\r\nThe whiteboard vinyl has made such an different in my classroom! While my students were so excited for the snacks, I could not wait for the magnetic whiteboard vinyl to arrive! I love being able to easily hang up magnetic items such as the date and daily schedule on the board each day. It has also made my classroom look so much nicer than the old chalkboards that were there previously. Thank you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1742823927536,"projectUrl":"project/whiteboards-and-snacks/9122343/","projectTitle":"Whiteboards and Snacks","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McAllister","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9484032_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1713994027224","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9484032"},{"teacherId":9484032,"projectId":8963366,"letterContent":"I cannot thank you enough for your generosity! I am so thankful that you are supporting my classroom. My students were so excited to receive these books, especially the books in Spanish. This school year, I have so many students who speak Spanish. Before these books got delivered, they had already read all of the Spanish books that I had in my classroom library. They were so excited to see some more books that they could read, especially the Dog Man books. \r\n\r\nI am so excited for the new, diverse picture books. I can't wait to have more books that my students can picture themselves in. Thank you again for supporting my students. It means so much!","fullyFundedDate":1739985394009,"projectUrl":"project/a-diverse-classroom-library/8963366/","projectTitle":"A Diverse Classroom Library","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McAllister","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9484032_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1713994027224","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9484032"},{"teacherId":9519666,"projectId":9000490,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous contributions! The blocks, treats, and snacks have been so appreciated. \r\n\r\nMy students are absolutely loving the magnet blocks. Before the donation I only had a small set of magnet blocks that students would often fight over. Instead of being a positive activity for my students my kiddos would often end up in conflict by the end of class. Now there are plenty of blocks to go around! My students are collaborating in ways they never have before. It is exciting to see them working as a team to create bigger and more complex projects.\r\n\r\nThe treats and snacks have been going fast. Each art class I choose 2 mystery artists who can pick a treat from my box! This incentive has been helping keep behaviors on track. I have also been able to provide snacks for my hungry kids who may be experiencing food insecurity at home. \r\n\r\nYour donations have meant so much to both my students and myself.","fullyFundedDate":1734155647704,"projectUrl":"project/hunger-positive-incentives-steam-teamw/9000490/","projectTitle":"Hunger, Positive Incentives, STEAM Teamwork","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Schwegler","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9519666"},{"teacherId":9168511,"projectId":8165580,"letterContent":"The students and I are so grateful for your support and dedication to education. This project allowed students to spread kindness into their community. Students created adoption posters for each dog at our local animal shelter and included them with our baskets we created for the shelter. The students were so happy when they found out our posters/gift baskets were loved by the dogs. The animal shelter even put up pictures of our project on their website and the students said it made them feel amazing to be kind and help the community. \r\n\r\n\r\nYour donation didn't just help support these current students or the community it also will help students every year create a kindness project in my class. Due to the generous donors on this project, I will be completing a kindness project every year with my students to teach them how to be kind even when no-ones watching!","fullyFundedDate":1713822422143,"projectUrl":"project/helping-the-community-animal-shelter/8165580/","projectTitle":"Helping the Community Animal Shelter","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Pandola","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9168511_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1708691674410","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9168511"},{"teacherId":9484032,"projectId":8687600,"letterContent":"I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your donations to this project. Having the snack boxes was such a big help in my classroom. Many of my students struggle with having snacks available at home, so being able to provide them with snacks at the end of the day was so nice. My students were so excited when I showed them the snacks that were donated to us. They were amazed that someone even thought to send us a donation. Showing them that people are this generous was something that was very special to me. I love showing them and letting them hear about the good things that happen in the world. \r\n\r\nThe kick bands and seat cushion are used daily in my classroom. This has been a huge help with keeping my students focused while being able to get some of their energy out. 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