{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Contentnea Head Start","outOfStateSupporters":49.1,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":9445995,"projectId":10309932,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your kindness and generosity in supporting my Head Start classroom! Your thoughtful donations are helping us create a welcoming, organized, and engaging learning environment where our young children can learn, grow, and thrive.\r\n\r\nThe plastic take-home folders will provide an important way for teachers and families to stay connected. These folders will help us send home homework, classroom information, activities, and important notes while strengthening communication between parents and teachers.\r\n\r\nThe LED count-up/count-down timer and adjustable display clock will be a wonderful classroom tool for helping children learn about time, daily routines, transitions, and expectations. Visual timers can help young children understand how much time they have for activities and prepare for transitions throughout the day.\r\n\r\nThe thermal laminating pouches will allow us to protect and reuse important classroom materials, learning activities, visual supports, student work, and teacher-created resources. This will help us provide durable learning materials that can be used again and again.\r\n\r\nThe colored hanging file folders will help us keep classroom materials organized and easily accessible. A well-organized classroom allows teachers to spend more time focusing on what matters most—teaching and supporting our children.\r\n\r\nThe fidget toys will provide children with an additional tool to help support focus, self-regulation, and sensory needs during appropriate classroom activities. These resources can help children learn strategies for managing their emotions and staying engaged in the learning environment.\r\n\r\nBecause of your generosity, our students have access to resources that support learning, communication, organization, independence, self-regulation, and school readiness. Every donation makes a difference, and we are truly grateful that you chose to invest in our children and their future.\r\n\r\nThank you for believing in our Head Start students and helping us build bright futures, one child at a time!","fullyFundedDate":1787585037850,"projectUrl":"project/building-bright-futures-with-classroom-e/10309932/","projectTitle":"Building Bright Futures With Classroom Essentials","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mercer","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9445995"},{"teacherId":9445995,"projectId":10221339,"letterContent":"I would like to express our heartfelt appreciation for your generous donation of a microwave for our preschool classroom.\r\n\r\nAlthough a microwave may seem like a simple item, it will make a meaningful difference in the daily lives of our children. Having access to a microwave will allow us to safely and efficiently warm meals and snacks throughout the day. Many of our children depend on meals and snacks provided at school, while others bring meals from home that may need to be warmed. Being able to provide a warm meal helps our children feel comfortable, cared for, and ready to learn.\r\n\r\nThis donation will also make our daily classroom routines more efficient and allow our teachers to spend more time doing what matters most—teaching, nurturing, encouraging, and engaging with our children. It is another resource that helps us provide a safe, caring, and supportive environment where every child has an opportunity to learn and thrive.\r\n\r\nWe are especially grateful that you chose to invest in our young children and recognize the importance of supporting early childhood education. Your generosity is helping us meet a basic need while creating a more comfortable and nurturing experience for our students each day.\r\n\r\nThank you for believing in our children, supporting our teachers, and investing in the future of our community. Your kindness truly makes a difference, one child at a time","fullyFundedDate":1785538953441,"projectUrl":"project/feed-the-children/10221339/","projectTitle":"Feed the Children","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mercer","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9445995"},{"teacherId":9445995,"projectId":10231524,"letterContent":"These items can have a meaningful impact on our Head Start students because they will help create a more organized, interactive, and engaging learning environment. The Epson document scanner will allow teachers to quickly scan and save children's artwork, learning samples, assessments, family communication, and classroom documentation. This will help teachers maintain better records of children's progress while preserving evidence of their learning and accomplishments.\r\n\r\nThe dry erase pockets will give children hands-on opportunities to practice writing, drawing, tracing, letters, numbers, and early learning skills over and over again without using large amounts of paper. For 3-year-old Head Start students, repeated practice supports fine-motor development, early literacy, early math, and confidence. These reusable materials also allow teachers to easily differentiate activities based on each child's individual developmental needs.\r\n\r\nOverall, these resources will help teachers spend less time managing paperwork and preparing materials and more time engaging directly with children. They support both the documentation requirements of Head Start and the hands-on learning experiences that young children need to grow and succeed.","fullyFundedDate":1778222472175,"projectUrl":"project/empowering-young-minds-one-tool-at-a-t/10231524/","projectTitle":"“Empowering Young Minds, One Tool at a Time”","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mercer","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9445995"},{"teacherId":9489778,"projectId":9508665,"letterContent":"Me and my children are able to create new memories and do alot of exploring around the classroom. The children were happy and excited to play with the new toys. The calming corner it is very comfortable since we added the rug. The book area has so many colorful books, music has the motion bottles able to print colorful papers for the class. Thank you for kindness and generosity my children and I appreciate everything. Donations like yours will allow us to enjoy our classroom thank you for your Donations we wouldn't be able to do what we do without the support of people like you. Again, we can't thank you enough for your dedication to our cause. Know that your gift will make a tremendous positive impact our classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1764682218098,"projectUrl":"project/giving-my-children-a-new-look-in-the-cla/9508665/","projectTitle":"Giving My Children a New Look in the Classroom","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Sheffield","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9489778_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1722799512556","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9489778"},{"teacherId":9475052,"projectId":9662902,"letterContent":"Your contributions to my cause meant so much! Because of your generous donations art creativity and sensory exploration for my children has been expanded. My students were in need of materials for art creativity such as: various colors of construction paper, paints, glue sticks, etc etc etc.\r\nThe children have been putting the many materials to use! They especially love the colored kinetic sand! They also love the dry erase markers! They use these to practice their \"early\" writing skills on the easel and dry erase boards. They enjoy art in our classroom and being donated these materials has allotted them to expand on their creativity!","fullyFundedDate":1764777853078,"projectUrl":"project/lets-paint-up-the-world/9662902/","projectTitle":"Let's Paint Up the World!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Ward","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-7_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9475052"},{"teacherId":10046936,"projectId":9398424,"letterContent":"I first would like to extend my greatest apologies for the late response. My students and I are beyond grateful for your act of kindness. The books has help them learn so much about diversity and how it is important in so many ways. It has taught them how we can learn from different cultures and how being different is what helps shape the world. They enjoy hearing the books as well as taking a virtual field trip to see the diversity in the world. Activities have also been done based off diversity around the world. Thank you so much for your donation. It means more than you know. Thank you.","fullyFundedDate":1756326875975,"projectUrl":"project/teaching-diversity/9398424/","projectTitle":"Teaching Diversity","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Boone","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10046936"},{"teacherId":9064541,"projectId":9862571,"letterContent":"The vacuum cleaner has made a great impact in our classroom environment. \r\nThe carpet much cleaner and dust free. \r\nThe classroom seems more brighter and the asthma attacks improved greatly. \r\nThe most important part is my students has a clean and dust free environment. Your donations made this possible for my students. We are so grateful for every donations that made this possible for our students. This has allowed me to teach an important life skill ,the importance of being able to have a clean environment.","fullyFundedDate":1762267534221,"projectUrl":"project/a-dust-free-environment/9862571/","projectTitle":"A Dust Free Environment","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Mewborn","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9064541_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1730494027630","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9064541"},{"teacherId":9064541,"projectId":9853087,"letterContent":"The Tide pods has been a great help to our classroom. It has enable us to keep our laundry clean and our classroom to be a clean pla ce to be. \r\nThe laminating paper allows the child art work to stay neat and become a keepsake for their parents. \r\nWe are so grateful and thankful for the support you have given to me and my students . Your donations made it possible for us to have clean cot covers for our c h, il, d r en cots. With a grateful heart we say thank you for all you do to help me to accomplish all I set out to do for my children.","fullyFundedDate":1761942150787,"projectUrl":"project/a-fun-place-to-be/9853087/","projectTitle":"A Fun Place To Be","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Mewborn","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9064541_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1730494027630","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9064541"},{"teacherId":9064541,"projectId":9869223,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting our new chairs for our library. My students placed the chairs in an arrangement that please them. I have notice they stays longer in the reading center, only because there is more comfortable chairs in the center. Your donations made this possible for my students. We are so excited to be able to change the library setting. The children said tell everyone thank you for our beautiful chairs. We're so thankful to be able to share our remodeled setting area with other as the enter our classroom. \r\nAgain thank you for your donations.","fullyFundedDate":1762267582630,"projectUrl":"project/a-comfortable-reading-place/9869223/","projectTitle":"A Comfortable Reading Place","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Mewborn","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9064541_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1730494027630","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9064541"},{"teacherId":9064541,"projectId":9778677,"letterContent":"Your donations has make a great impact in one of my student's day in the classroom. He never sit down ,but with the flex wobble chair he will walk over and sit on it for 10 or 15 minutes this is a great accomplishment for him. My students enjoys sitting on it in different places in the classroom. \r\nThe chair has been a great addition to our setting arrangement. \r\nMy students thinks this chair is everything, they asked why we dont have 2 of these chairs,that's how much they love the ability to wiggle and rock without moving out of pla e . We are so thankful for your support.","fullyFundedDate":1761164890608,"projectUrl":"project/a-stable-setting-place/9778677/","projectTitle":"A Stable Setting Place","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Mewborn","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9064541_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1730494027630","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9064541"},{"teacherId":9445995,"projectId":9347057,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your donation. Using a scanner in the classroom offers many valuable benefits for both the children and well as myself. It allows me to preserve and document children's work by creating digital copies of artwork, writing, and projects, which can later be used in portfolios or progress records. Scanners make it easy to share children's accomplishments with families through emails, or slideshows, strengthening the home–school connection. They also support literacy and creativity by enabling me to turn children's drawings and dictated stories into class books or learning displays, helping students feel proud of their work. Additionally, scanning promotes organization by reducing paper clutter and keeping records easily accessible. It introduces children to basic technology in a developmentally appropriate way, showing them how their creations can be shared and saved digitally. Scanned work can even be reused for learning materials or classroom activities. Overall, a scanner is a simple yet powerful tool that enhances learning, communication, and creativity in the early childhood environment.\r\nWhen I did a sample piece of artwork with the children, they were so excited to try and push the button to start the scan. They really enjoy doing more writing and artwork so that it can be scanned.","fullyFundedDate":1758202913733,"projectUrl":"project/teachers-growing-with-technology/9347057/","projectTitle":"Teachers Growing With Technology","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mercer","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9445995"},{"teacherId":9445995,"projectId":9295974,"letterContent":"Thank you for your tremendous donation!!!\r\nWhen the children saw the magnetic blocks, everyone wanted to play with them at the same time. They are building Creating imaginative structure such as houses, castles, school, and even playground for everyone to play in. They are learning about spatial awareness where they are understanding how pieces fit together to build stable structures. \r\n\r\nThey decorated folders to keep their important papers that they want to take home and show their parents what they have created. \r\n\r\nThe file folders are used to keep all of the children file information in order.\r\nThank you for making learning fun in the classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1746699675553,"projectUrl":"project/picassos-in-the-making/9295974/","projectTitle":"Picassos In The Making","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mercer","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9445995"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_111775","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":null,"numTeachers":null,"percentFrplEligible":95,"percentAsian":0,"percentBlack":62,"percentWhite":25,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":6,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"US Census Data for the surrounding geographic area","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":5,"gradesServed":"Not specified","studentTeacherRatio":null,"demographicsDataSource":"Census ZCTA","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"UNCLASSIFIED","ncesMetroType":null},"inStateSupporters":50.9,"schoolId":111775,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Contentnea Head Start on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Contentnea Head Start","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/north-carolina/office-of-head-start/contentnea-head-start/111775"}