{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Copperview Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":34.3,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":4606246,"projectId":10387152,"letterContent":"Using markers during reading activities also encourages students to slow down and think carefully about what they are reading. They must consider the question, search for relevant information, and decide which details help them form an accurate response. This process strengthens comprehension while helping students understand that readers can return to a text to find evidence for their answers. These are skills they will continue to use as they encounter longer passages, more complex questions, and a wider variety of texts throughout their education.\r\n\r\nThe markers also allow us to make reading activities more engaging and interactive. Students can actively search for information, mark important details, and visually see how the answers to questions are connected to the text. This helps transform reading comprehension into a hands-on learning experience. It also gives teachers an opportunity to see how students approach a passage and determine whether they understand how to locate relevant information. Your donation of markers has helped us provide meaningful opportunities for students to practice these important reading skills while building their confidence as readers.\r\n\r\nBeyond reading instruction, the markers have also been a wonderful resource during drawing and art time. Creative activities provide students with opportunities to express their ideas, use their imaginations, and communicate in ways that extend beyond written words. Through drawing and art, students can illustrate stories, represent their understanding of a topic, create pictures to accompany their writing, and explore their own creativity.\r\n\r\nFor young learners, drawing can be an important part of the learning process. Students may draw a picture to show what happened in a story, create an illustration to explain a concept, or use pictures to communicate an idea before they are ready to express it fully in writing. Markers give students a variety of colors with which to bring their ideas to life. These opportunities help make our classroom a place where creativity is encouraged alongside academic growth.\r\n\r\nArt activities also provide students with opportunities to make choices, develop fine motor skills, and take pride in their work. Whether students are illustrating a favorite part of a book or creating artwork during a classroom activity, the markers help them participate in meaningful and enjoyable experiences. Having these materials available allows us to incorporate creativity into our classroom routines and gives students another way to share their thinking and celebrate their individuality.\r\n\r\nThe pencils have been equally essential to our classroom. In fact, pencils are among the most frequently used supplies in our daily instruction because students rely on them during nearly every part of the school day. From the moment students begin their morning activities to the time they complete their final assignments, pencils provide the basic tool they need to record their thinking, practice new skills, and demonstrate what they have learned.\r\n\r\nDuring phonics lessons, students use pencils to write letters, spell words, and practice connecting sounds to their corresponding letters. They may write consonant-vowel-consonant words, work with spelling patterns, or record high-frequency words they are learning to recognize and spell. These daily writing opportunities help students strengthen their understanding of how spoken language connects to written language. Repeated practice also helps students develop confidence and independence as they learn to read and write.\r\n\r\nPencils are just as important during mathematics instruction. Students use them to solve addition and subtraction problems, write equations, draw pictures to represent quantities, and explain their mathematical thinking. Writing out a problem or drawing a model helps students organize their ideas and show how they arrived at an answer. These activities allow teachers to check understanding and provide feedback while students continue developing their problem-solving skills.\r\n\r\nWriting instruction also depends on having pencils readily available. Students use them to practice letter formation, write words and sentences, respond to questions, and communicate their ideas on paper. As they grow as writers, they learn to form complete sentences, leave spaces between words, use capitalization and punctuation, and revise their work when necessary. Having pencils available throughout the day allows students to practice these skills consistently and apply them across different subjects.\r\n\r\nBeyond individual lessons, pencils support students as they complete worksheets, participate in partner activities, record observations, and demonstrate their learning. They are one of the most essential items in a classroom because so many learning experiences depend on students being able to write, draw, solve, and record their ideas. Without enough pencils, even a well-planned activity can become difficult for students to complete. Your donation helps ensure that students have access to this basic but indispensable tool whenever they need it.\r\n\r\nTogether, the markers and pencils support a wide range of learning experiences in our classroom. The markers help students identify details in texts, locate evidence to answer questions, and express their creativity through art. The pencils allow students to practice reading and writing skills, solve mathematics problems, complete assignments, and demonstrate their understanding throughout the school day.","fullyFundedDate":1785259365802,"projectUrl":"project/the-power-of-a-pencil-and-a-marker/10387152/","projectTitle":"The Power of a Pencil and a Marker","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Teasley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4606246_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1679888309231","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4606246"},{"teacherId":4606246,"projectId":10387126,"letterContent":"Organization is an important skill for young learners to develop. First-grade students are still learning how to manage their materials, follow classroom routines, and prepare themselves for different activities throughout the day. By using their pencil pouches, students can practice taking responsibility for their supplies and developing greater independence. When students know where their materials are located, they can transition more smoothly between lessons and spend more time focusing on learning rather than finding the tools they need.\r\n\r\nThese pouches are especially helpful during reading, writing, and mathematics instruction, when students frequently move between activities and need access to their writing materials. Whether they are writing sentences, completing a phonics activity, solving a math problem, or responding to a question, students can quickly retrieve their supplies and get started. This simple organizational support helps our classroom routines run more smoothly and gives students an opportunity to build habits that will benefit them throughout their education. Your donation of pencil pouches has helped us create a classroom where students can take greater ownership of their materials and feel prepared to learn.\r\n\r\nThe black Expo markers have also become valuable tools in our daily instruction. We use these markers for quick checks throughout the school day, giving students frequent opportunities to practice the skills they are learning and demonstrate their understanding. Quick checks allow us to see what students know while a lesson is taking place, rather than waiting until the end of a unit or a formal assessment to discover whether they need additional support.\r\n\r\nDuring phonics instruction, students may use their markers to write words, identify sounds, practice spelling patterns, or complete activities that help them connect letters and sounds. During high-frequency word practice, they can write and review words they are expected to recognize and spell. In mathematics, students can solve addition and subtraction problems, draw picture representations, and show the strategies they use to find an answer. During writing lessons, students can practice forming letters, writing words, constructing sentences, and checking their work for correct capitalization and punctuation.\r\n\r\nThese quick checks encourage active participation because students have an opportunity to respond directly to the lesson. Instead of simply listening to the teacher explain a concept, they must think about what they have learned and apply it themselves. Teachers can review their responses, identify misconceptions, and provide immediate feedback when needed. This helps us adjust instruction to meet students' needs and provide additional practice before moving on to more challenging concepts. The black Expo markers make these activities easy to incorporate into our daily routines and help us create more opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning.\r\n\r\nThe colorful circular chips have brought another exciting opportunity for students to practice communication and collaboration. We use these chips as talking chips during group discussions, helping students learn how to take turns, listen to others, and contribute their own ideas. Developing strong discussion skills is an important part of learning, especially when students are working with partners or small groups. They need opportunities to share their thinking while also recognizing that their classmates have valuable ideas to contribute.\r\n\r\nDuring these activities, students receive colorful chips that they use to keep track of their opportunities to speak. When it is a student's turn to talk, they place one of their chips into a piggy bank. This provides a visual and hands-on reminder that they have contributed to the discussion and helps students understand the importance of sharing opportunities fairly. Rather than having one student dominate the conversation or a few students answer every question, talking chips encourage everyone to participate and give each student a chance to be heard.\r\n\r\nThe talking chips also help students develop important social and academic skills. Students practice waiting patiently, listening carefully, responding respectfully, and building on ideas shared by their peers. They learn that a productive discussion involves more than simply giving an answer; it also requires paying attention to what others say and thinking about different perspectives. These routines can support conversations about books, reading strategies, mathematics problems, classroom observations, and other topics connected to our lessons.\r\n\r\nFor young learners, learning how to participate in a group discussion takes practice. The colorful chips make this process more concrete and engaging by giving students something they can see and physically use to monitor their participation. The piggy bank adds an element of fun while reinforcing the routine. Your donation helps us create a classroom community where students are encouraged to speak, listen, cooperate, and learn from one another.\r\n\r\nThe transparent tape has also been an important resource in preparing our weekly partner and group activities. Throughout the school year, we create and print a variety of learning materials that students use to practice reading, writing, phonics, mathematics, and other academic skills. Many of these activities involve multiple pieces that need to be assembled, attached, or organized before students can use them. The tape allows us to put these materials together and prepare them for classroom use.\r\n\r\nPartner and group activities are an important part of our instruction because they give students opportunities to practice skills collaboratively. Students may work together to read words, sort examples, match information, discuss a text, solve problems, or complete a learning task. Preparing these activities often requires us to assemble printed materials into a format that is easy for students to handle and understand. The transparent tape helps us make these resources ready for use each week.\r\n\r\nHaving tape available also allows us to repair and maintain classroom materials when needed. This helps us keep activities organized and usable for students rather than having to replace materials that become separated or damaged. By preparing and maintaining these resources, we can continue offering hands-on learning opportunities that encourage communication, teamwork, and academic practice. Your donation of transparent tape supports the behind-the-scenes work that goes into creating meaningful lessons and ensures that students have the materials they need to participate.\r\n\r\nFinally, the paper clips have helped us organize student materials throughout the school day. In a busy classroom, students use many different papers, worksheets, activities, and instructional resources. Keeping these materials organized is important for helping students stay on track and ensuring that completed work and ongoing activities remain together.","fullyFundedDate":1784754306776,"projectUrl":"project/help-fill-our-classroom-supply-shelf/10387126/","projectTitle":"Help Fill Our Classroom Supply Shelf!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Teasley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4606246_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1679888309231","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4606246"},{"teacherId":4606246,"projectId":10451409,"letterContent":"Your donation of snacks helps us address this need by providing students with opportunities to enjoy a small snack during the morning. When students have access to food, they can feel more comfortable and ready to participate in classroom activities. Instead of worrying about being hungry, they can direct their attention toward their teacher, their classmates, and the lessons in front of them. This simple support helps create a more positive learning experience and allows us to spend more time focusing on instruction and less time managing the distractions that can come with hunger.\r\n\r\nFor young learners, the ability to concentrate is essential to making progress throughout the school day. During phonics instruction, students must listen carefully to individual sounds, connect those sounds to letters, blend words, and practice reading unfamiliar words. During reading lessons, they work to understand stories, identify important details, and develop fluency. In mathematics, they solve addition and subtraction problems, draw picture representations, explain their strategies, and learn to approach challenges with confidence. These tasks require students to remain engaged and use their thinking skills. When students are distracted by hunger, it can be harder for them to give these activities their full attention. Providing morning snacks helps us create conditions that support their participation in these important learning experiences.\r\n\r\nThe variety of snacks you donated has also been helpful because it gives us several options to offer students throughout the school day. Scooby-Doo graham cookies, animal crackers, Teddy Grahams, Biscoff cookies, and Goldfish crackers provide convenient snack choices that can be incorporated into our classroom routines. Having snacks available helps us respond to students' needs and provide a welcoming environment in which children feel supported. These small moments of care remind students that their well-being matters and that their classroom is a place where they can feel comfortable asking for help when they need it.\r\n\r\nOne of the greatest benefits of having these snacks available is the way they help students remain engaged during our extended morning learning block. From 9:00 a.m. until noon, students participate in a variety of lessons and activities that build foundational academic skills. They may begin with phonics and word reading, transition into reading connected text, participate in partner discussions, and later work through mathematics activities that require them to explain their thinking. Throughout this time, students need opportunities to listen, respond, practice, and apply what they have learned. A morning snack can help students feel more settled so they can continue participating in these activities rather than becoming distracted by an empty stomach.\r\n\r\nWe know that students learn best when they feel supported and are able to focus on the task at hand. When a child is thinking about how hungry they are, it can be difficult to pay attention to directions, follow along with a lesson, or remember the steps needed to complete an activity. A grumbling tummy can become a distraction that takes attention away from reading a sentence, solving a math problem, or listening to a classmate share an idea. By helping provide snacks, you are helping reduce one of these everyday barriers to learning. Your generosity allows us to offer students a little extra support so they can return their attention to the important work of the morning.\r\n\r\nSnacks also help us maintain a positive and encouraging classroom atmosphere. Taking a short break to enjoy a snack can provide students with a moment to pause, recharge, and prepare to continue learning. Young children benefit from predictable routines and opportunities to meet their basic needs throughout the day. When students know that a snack will be available, it can help make the morning feel more manageable and give them an opportunity to reset before returning to their academic activities. These routines support the classroom community by helping students feel cared for and ready to reengage with their learning.\r\n\r\nYour donation also supports our ability to make the most of our instructional time. Every morning provides valuable opportunities for students to develop skills that will support them throughout their educational journey. We want our students to spend those hours practicing reading, strengthening their understanding of numbers, writing their ideas, and learning how to collaborate with their peers. When hunger becomes a distraction, it can interrupt that progress. Having snacks available helps us respond to students' needs and protect the time we have set aside for meaningful instruction.\r\n\r\nBeyond the immediate benefit of having something to eat, your donation sends an important message to our students: they are valued, supported, and deserving of opportunities to succeed. Children notice when the adults around them work to create a caring environment. Providing snacks demonstrates that our classroom community recognizes the importance of supporting the whole child, not just focusing on academic expectations. Students need opportunities to learn, but they also need to feel comfortable, cared for, and ready to take part in the school day. Your generosity helps us provide that kind of environment.\r\n\r\nWe are especially thankful that these snacks can benefit students throughout the weeks ahead. The Scooby-Doo graham cookies, animal crackers, Teddy Grahams, Biscoff cookies, and Goldfish crackers give us a variety of options to include in our classroom snack routines. Each package represents another opportunity to help a student feel more comfortable during the morning, return to a lesson with renewed attention, or participate more fully in an activity. Although these moments may seem small, they can make a meaningful difference in the way students experience their school day.\r\n\r\nThank you for recognizing that supporting student learning sometimes begins with meeting students' basic needs. Your contribution helps our students approach the morning with greater comfort and gives them more opportunities to listen, participate, pay attention, and continue learning without worrying about hunger. We are grateful that you have chosen to support our classroom in such a thoughtful and practical way.","fullyFundedDate":1787589566408,"projectUrl":"project/full-bellies-focused-minds/10451409/","projectTitle":"Full Bellies, Focused Minds!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Teasley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4606246_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1679888309231","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4606246"},{"teacherId":4606246,"projectId":10368791,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity and for investing in our classroom and our students' learning. Your donations of pink highlighters, orange highlighters, light covers, blue and black Expo markers, and LED light strips have made a meaningful difference in our daily classroom routines and learning experiences. These materials may seem like simple classroom supplies, but each one serves an important purpose in helping us create an engaging, comfortable, and supportive environment where students can develop essential academic skills. From strengthening early reading abilities to supporting students' focus and providing opportunities for hands-on practice, your donations help us meet the needs of our young learners in meaningful ways. We are incredibly grateful for your kindness and for the difference you are making in our classroom.\r\n\r\nOne of the most valuable resources has been the pink and orange highlighters. We have been using these highlighters during our decodable reading activities to help students identify and recognize the phonics patterns and high-frequency words we are learning each week. As first-grade students develop their reading abilities, it is important for them to learn how to recognize individual words and understand the relationship between letters and sounds. However, recognizing a word on its own is only one part of becoming a successful reader. Students also need opportunities to apply their knowledge when reading complete sentences and passages. The highlighters have helped us connect these two important parts of literacy instruction.\r\n\r\nDuring phonics lessons, students practice reading words that contain specific spelling patterns, such as short-vowel words, consonant blends, and other phonics skills introduced throughout the year. Once students have practiced these words in isolation, they encounter them again in decodable passages. The highlighters allow students to locate and highlight words that contain the phonics patterns we are studying. This gives students a visual reminder of the skills they have been learning and encourages them to apply their knowledge while reading connected text.\r\n\r\nWe also use the highlighters to identify the high-frequency words students are expected to recognize and read during a particular week. These words appear regularly in early reading materials, and becoming familiar with them helps students read sentences and passages with greater confidence and fluency. By highlighting these words, students can distinguish the words they are learning to recognize quickly from the words they are decoding using their phonics knowledge.\r\n\r\nThis process has several important benefits. First, students have an opportunity to identify and practice the words in isolation, allowing them to focus on the letters, sounds, and spelling patterns within each word. Next, they encounter those same words in a passage, where they must use their knowledge in a meaningful reading context. This helps students understand that phonics skills are not simply something they practice during a separate lesson; they are tools that help them read real sentences and stories. Students begin to recognize familiar patterns, decode unfamiliar words more confidently, and develop greater independence as readers.\r\n\r\nHighlighting also makes our reading activities interactive and visually engaging. Students actively search for words, pay attention to spelling patterns, and take ownership of identifying the skills they recognize. This encourages close attention to print and gives students a concrete way to demonstrate their understanding. We can also use these activities to check for understanding and determine which phonics patterns or high-frequency words may need additional practice. Your donation of highlighters has helped us create meaningful connections between word-level practice and reading fluency, supporting students as they build the foundational skills needed for future reading success.\r\n\r\nThe light covers have also made a wonderful difference in our classroom environment. Classrooms need to be bright enough for students to see instructional materials and complete their work, but harsh overhead lighting can sometimes make the learning environment feel less comfortable. The light covers have helped soften the appearance of the classroom lighting, reducing the harshness of the overhead lights and creating a more comfortable atmosphere for students throughout the school day.\r\n\r\nA comfortable classroom environment can support students as they work to maintain their attention and participate in learning activities. Our students spend their days listening to instruction, reading, writing, solving math problems, and collaborating with their peers. Having an environment that feels welcoming and visually comfortable helps us create a space where students can direct their attention toward these important tasks. The light covers have helped us make our classroom feel calmer and more inviting, allowing students to focus on the lessons and activities taking place throughout the day.\r\n\r\nWe appreciate that these covers improve the overall appearance of our classroom while also serving a practical purpose. They help create a more cohesive learning environment where students can feel comfortable settling into their routines and engaging with the material. Although they may seem like a small addition, the light covers have had a noticeable impact on the atmosphere of our classroom. Thank you for helping us make our learning space more supportive of students' daily needs.\r\n\r\nThe blue and black Expo markers have become some of our most frequently used classroom tools. We use them daily during lessons across multiple subject areas because they allow students to practice skills, demonstrate their understanding, and receive quick feedback. Their versatility makes them especially valuable in a first-grade classroom, where students benefit from frequent opportunities to respond, practice, and show what they know.\r\n\r\nDuring phonics instruction, students use the Expo markers to write words in Elkonin boxes, which are visual boxes that help students separate words into their individual sounds. Students listen to a word, identify its phonemes, and represent the sounds in the correct sequence. This activity strengthens their understanding of the relationship between spoken sounds and written letters. Students can practice spelling CVC words, work with the phonics patterns being introduced, and make corrections as they develop their skills.\r\n\r\nThe Expo markers are also used for high-frequency word practice. Students write words they are learning, practice spelling them, and review them as part of our daily literacy routines. Writing these words repeatedly provides opportunities to build familiarity and automaticity, helping students recognize and spell them more confidently. Because the markers can be erased, students can practice several words on the same surface without needing a new worksheet each time.\r\n\r\nIn math, students use the Expo markers during addition and subtraction lessons to solve problems, draw picture representations, and demonstrate their strategies. They can write equations, represent quantities with drawings, and show how they arrived at an answer. These activities allow us to check students' understanding quickly and identify when additional instruction or practice may be helpful.\r\n\r\nThe markers also support sentence-writing activities. Students can practice forming letters, writing words in the correct order, using spaces between words, and including capitalization and punctuation. Teachers can quickly review students' responses and provide immediate guidance. Across all these subjects, the markers make it easy to incorporate quick checks for understanding into our lessons. Students have frequent opportunities to participate rather than simply watch, and teachers gain valuable information about what students understand and what they may need to practice further. Your donation helps us provide these daily learning opportunities while making classroom practice flexible, interactive, and reusable.\r\n\r\nFinally, the LED light strips have added a decorative touch to our classroom while helping draw students' attention toward the front of the room, where our lessons and instructional materials are displayed. Creating an engaging learning space involves more than arranging desks and displaying resources; it also means thoughtfully organizing the environment so students know where to direct their attention during instruction.\r\n\r\nThe LED lights add visual interest to the classroom and help highlight our instructional area. During whole-group lessons, students need to focus on the board, the learning objectives, and the examples we use to introduce new concepts. The lights help make this area visually distinct and contribute to an inviting classroom atmosphere. They also add personality and warmth to our learning space, helping create an environment where students feel excited to participate in classroom activities.\r\n\r\nTogether, these donations have helped us strengthen instruction, support student focus, and create a classroom that encourages active participation. The highlighters help students connect phonics and high-frequency word practice to real reading passages. The light covers help soften our classroom lighting and create a more comfortable learning environment. The Expo markers support daily practice and quick checks across reading, writing, and math, while the LED light strips add visual appeal and help draw attention to our instructional space.\r\n\r\nThank you for recognizing the importance of these everyday classroom resources and for helping us provide meaningful learning experiences for our students. Your generosity supports our ability to prepare engaging lessons, respond to students' needs, and create an environment where young learners can build confidence and independence. We are grateful for your investment in our classroom and for the many ways these materials contribute to our students' growth.\r\n\r\nBecause of your support, our classroom continues to be a place where students can practice new skills, make connections, learn from their mistakes, and celebrate their progress. Every highlighted word, written response, solved math problem, and focused learning moment represents another opportunity for students to grow. Thank you for helping make those opportunities possible and for being a valuable part of our students' educational journey.","fullyFundedDate":1784918361950,"projectUrl":"project/every-marker-every-highlight-matters/10368791/","projectTitle":"Every Marker, Every Highlight Matters!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Teasley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4606246_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1679888309231","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4606246"},{"teacherId":4606246,"projectId":10368755,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity and for providing materials that support our students as they develop essential reading, phonics, and writing skills. Your donations of magnetic blue magnets, magnetic red magnets, magnetic green magnets, magnetic orange magnets, heart magnets, reading headbands, and sentence stem cardstock cards have helped us create engaging, hands-on learning opportunities for our young learners. These resources are helping us make literacy instruction interactive, meaningful, and fun while giving students opportunities to practice new skills, learn alongside their peers, and become more confident readers and writers. We are incredibly grateful for your support and for your investment in our students' learning journey.\r\n\r\nOne of the most useful resources we have begun using is the magnetic blue and red magnets during our daily phonics instruction. As first-grade students develop their understanding of how spoken sounds connect to written letters, it is important for them to have opportunities to hear, identify, and represent the individual sounds in words. The blue and red magnets allow students to build and represent consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words by separating the words into their individual phonemes, or sounds. This hands-on approach helps students see that words are made up of smaller sound units that work together to create meaningful words.\r\n\r\nDuring phonics lessons, students practice listening carefully to a word, identifying its beginning, middle, and ending sounds, and using the magnets to represent each sound. For example, when working with a word such as cat, students can identify the /c/ sound at the beginning, the short /a/ sound in the middle, and the /t/ sound at the end. They can then use the magnets to represent the sounds in the correct sequence. This process helps students connect phonemic awareness, or hearing the sounds in words, with phonics, or understanding how letters represent those sounds.\r\n\r\nThese activities provide students with a visual and tactile way to practice skills that are essential for reading and spelling. Instead of simply repeating sounds aloud or writing letters on a worksheet, students can physically manipulate the magnets as they think through each sound. This makes the learning process more interactive and gives students an additional way to demonstrate their understanding. The magnets also support small-group and partner activities, allowing students to work together, compare their answers, and explain how they know which sounds belong in a word. As students become more comfortable identifying and representing phonemes, they build a stronger foundation for decoding unfamiliar words and spelling words independently.\r\n\r\nWe are also excited about the possibilities offered by the magnetic green magnets, magnetic orange magnets, and heart magnets. Although we have not introduced these materials into our lessons yet, they will become valuable resources as we move into new areas of our phonics and literacy instruction over the next few months. Our students are continuing to develop foundational reading skills, and we carefully introduce new concepts as they are ready to learn and practice them.\r\n\r\nIn the coming months, we will begin exploring more advanced phonics patterns, including digraphs, as well as open-vowel patterns and sight-word writing. The additional magnets will help us represent these new concepts in a visual and hands-on way. As students learn about digraphs, they will need opportunities to recognize when two letters work together to represent one sound. The magnets will give us another way to help students organize letters, examine spelling patterns, and build words as they develop their understanding. As we introduce open-vowel patterns and expand our sight-word writing practice, these resources will provide additional opportunities for students to manipulate letters, recognize patterns, and reinforce their learning.\r\n\r\nAlthough we have not used these magnets yet, we are looking forward to incorporating them into upcoming lessons. Having the materials ready allows us to expand our instructional activities as students progress through the curriculum. Your generosity has helped us prepare for future learning experiences and ensures that we will have additional tools available when students are ready to explore these new skills. We are excited to see how these magnets will support students as their phonics knowledge grows and they become more independent readers and writers.\r\n\r\nAnother exciting addition to our classroom has been the reading headbands and sentence stem cardstock cards. These materials have become part of our sentence-reading and sentence-writing activities, giving students opportunities to practice reading, remembering, and writing sentences while working with their classmates. Young learners benefit from activities that allow them to move, interact, and take an active role in their learning. The reading headbands make literacy practice feel like a game while still reinforcing important academic skills.\r\n\r\nDuring these activities, one student wears a headband displaying a sentence for a peer to read. The partner reads the sentence displayed on the headband and then attempts to write the sentence independently. This requires students to pay close attention to the words they read, remember the order of the words, and use their developing spelling skills to recreate the sentence. Students must also think about spaces between words, letter formation, capitalization, and punctuation as they write. These are important skills that help young learners move from reading individual words to understanding and producing complete sentences.\r\n\r\nOnce students have written their sentences, they are allowed to look back at the original sentence displayed on their partner's headband. They compare their writing with the model to see which parts they recorded correctly and identify any mistakes they may have made. Students can then make corrections, add missing words, fix spelling errors, and adjust capitalization or punctuation as needed. This process gives students an opportunity to check their own work and understand that mistakes are a natural part of learning. Rather than simply being told whether an answer is correct, they can discover the differences for themselves and practice making improvements.\r\n\r\nThe sentence stem cardstock cards provide another layer of support during these activities. Sentence stems give students helpful starting points for reading, writing, and expressing their ideas. By using these cards alongside the reading headbands, we can provide structured practice that supports students as they develop their confidence with sentences. The cards also allow us to prepare activities that match students' current skills and gradually introduce more complex language and writing expectations.\r\n\r\nThese sentence-reading and writing activities encourage students to work collaboratively, listen carefully, remember information, and take responsibility for checking their work. They also provide meaningful opportunities to practice foundational literacy skills in a way that feels enjoyable and purposeful. Students are not only practicing how to read and write sentences; they are learning how to notice mistakes, reflect on their work, and make corrections independently. These habits will continue to support them as they grow into more confident and capable readers and writers.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping us create a classroom where students can learn through exploration, collaboration, and hands-on practice. Your donations have already supported our phonics instruction and sentence-reading and writing activities, and several of the materials will help us introduce exciting new concepts in the coming months. Each item contributes to our goal of making learning accessible, engaging, and meaningful for every student.\r\n\r\nWe truly appreciate your generosity and your willingness to invest in the growth of our young learners. Your support provides more than classroom supplies; it gives students additional opportunities to build skills, discover their strengths, learn from their mistakes, and celebrate their progress. Thank you for helping us build a strong foundation for lifelong learning and for making a positive difference in our classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1785124846519,"projectUrl":"project/building-strong-readers-one-sound-at-a/10368755/","projectTitle":"Building Strong Readers, One Sound at a Time!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Teasley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4606246_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1679888309231","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4606246"},{"teacherId":4606246,"projectId":10368723,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity and for providing materials that help make our classroom a welcoming, organized, and engaging place to learn. Your donations of clear vinyl table covers, mint green ribbon, bulletin board border, and magnetic bulletin board border have made a meaningful difference in our learning environment. These materials may serve different purposes, but each one helps us create a classroom where students can work together, practice important academic skills, access helpful learning tools, and take pride in their progress. Your support allows us to make the most of our classroom space while creating opportunities for students to learn in interactive and meaningful ways.\r\n\r\nOne of the most exciting additions to our classroom has been the clear vinyl covers for our tables. These covers have transformed our tables into interactive learning spaces where students can practice their reading and math skills directly on the surface in front of them. By using Expo markers on the vinyl, students can write, draw, solve problems, and show their thinking without needing a separate piece of paper for every activity. This simple change has created more opportunities for hands-on learning and collaboration during partner work and small-group instruction.\r\n\r\nIn math, the table covers allow students to use pictures and visual representations to solve addition and subtraction problems. Students can draw objects, dots, circles, or other models to represent quantities and demonstrate how numbers change when amounts are combined or taken away. For example, when working on an addition problem, students can draw one group of objects, draw a second group, and then count the total. When practicing subtraction, they can draw a set of objects and cross out the amount being taken away. These visual representations help students make sense of mathematical concepts instead of simply memorizing procedures or answers.\r\n\r\nThe ability to draw directly on the tables also encourages students to explain their mathematical thinking to a partner. One student might solve a problem using a picture, while another describes the steps or offers a different strategy. Together, they can compare their work, ask questions, and learn from one another. This kind of collaboration builds mathematical understanding while strengthening students' communication and problem-solving skills. Because the table covers can be wiped clean, students can try different strategies, correct mistakes, and solve new problems without worrying about using too much paper. Mistakes become opportunities to learn, and students can confidently experiment with their ideas.\r\n\r\nThe clear vinyl covers have also been valuable during literacy instruction. Our students can use Expo markers to practice spelling and decoding consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words, which are essential building blocks for early reading. Students can listen for sounds in a word, write the corresponding letters, and practice blending the sounds together to read the word. During partner activities, one student can say a word while the other writes it, or students can take turns reading and spelling words from a teacher-provided list. They can practice identifying beginning, middle, and ending sounds, make changes to letters to create new words, and reinforce the connection between sounds and written letters.\r\n\r\nThese activities make reading and spelling practice more interactive and engaging. Instead of completing every task on a worksheet, students can work together at their tables, practice repeatedly, and receive immediate feedback from a partner or teacher. The reusable surfaces allow us to provide frequent opportunities for practice while reducing the need for disposable materials. Your donation has helped us turn an everyday classroom table into a valuable learning tool that supports both literacy and math.\r\n\r\nThe mint green ribbon has been another helpful addition. We have used the ribbon to tie the clear vinyl covers securely to the tables, helping keep them in place as students write, draw, erase, and collaborate. Keeping the covers secure makes it easier for students to use the tables comfortably and safely during learning activities. The ribbon also adds a lovely touch of color to our classroom. Its soft mint green shade contributes to a calm, coordinated, and welcoming atmosphere. These small details help us maintain an organized classroom while creating a space where students feel comfortable and excited to learn. The ribbon is both practical and decorative, helping us combine functionality with classroom beauty.\r\n\r\nThe bulletin board borders have also helped us create a classroom environment that supports learning throughout the day. We have used the borders to decorate the areas around our alphabet and sound walls, which are important resources our students access during reading and writing activities. These displays provide visual references that students can use when identifying letters, connecting letters to sounds, decoding unfamiliar words, and practicing spelling. By framing these resources with bulletin board borders, we make the displays look neat, organized, and inviting while helping distinguish important learning areas in the classroom.\r\n\r\nOur alphabet and sound walls encourage students to become more independent learners. Rather than relying on the teacher for every answer, students can refer to these visual supports when they need help remembering a letter, identifying a sound, or figuring out how to spell a word. Having these resources displayed clearly and attractively reminds students that they have tools available to help them work through challenges. The bulletin board borders help us maintain these learning spaces so that students can easily recognize and access the information they need.\r\n\r\nThe magnetic bulletin board border has served an especially important purpose in highlighting our learning objectives and success criteria. These displays help students understand what they are learning and why the lesson matters. By using the magnetic border to frame our objectives and success criteria, we create a clear, organized space where students can focus on the purpose of each lesson and the skills they are working toward.\r\n\r\nWhen students can see the learning objective and success criteria, they have a reference point for understanding what successful learning looks like. They can discuss the goal with a partner, explain what they are practicing, and reflect on whether they can demonstrate the skill. For example, students might identify the reading strategy they are using, describe how they know they have solved a math problem correctly, or explain what they need to do to meet the goal of a lesson. These conversations help students take greater ownership of their learning and develop the ability to talk about their progress.\r\n\r\nThe magnetic border also allows us to organize and update these displays as our lessons and learning goals change. This flexibility helps us keep important information visible and relevant for students. By making objectives and success criteria easy to find, we reinforce the idea that learning has a purpose and that students can recognize the steps they are taking toward success.\r\n\r\nTogether, these donations have helped us create a classroom that is not only beautiful and organized but also designed with student learning in mind. The clear vinyl covers encourage hands-on practice, the mint ribbon keeps those covers secure while adding a decorative touch, the bulletin board borders highlight essential reading resources, and the magnetic border draws attention to our learning objectives and success criteria.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in our classroom and believing in the importance of creating meaningful learning experiences for young students. Your generosity helps us make everyday classroom spaces more useful, encourages collaboration between partners and groups, and provides students with visual tools that support independence and confidence. We are grateful for your kindness and for the difference these materials make in our students' daily learning. Because of your support, our classroom continues to be a place where students can explore, practice, communicate, and celebrate their growth.","fullyFundedDate":1785329529208,"projectUrl":"project/mint-to-learn-refreshing-our-classroom/10368723/","projectTitle":"Mint to Learn: Refreshing Our Classroom Spaces!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Teasley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4606246_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1679888309231","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4606246"},{"teacherId":4606246,"projectId":10227589,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity and for investing in our classroom and our students' learning. Your support through the donation of laminating pouches, printing ink, and percussion instruments has made a meaningful difference in our classroom. These materials may seem like simple supplies, but they have become valuable tools that help us create engaging learning experiences, provide students with the resources they need to succeed, and make learning more interactive, enjoyable, and accessible. Your kindness helps us build a classroom where students can learn, collaborate, explore new ideas, and grow in confidence every day.\r\n\r\nOne of the most helpful resources has been the laminating pouches. In our classroom, we use a variety of materials to support students during partner activities, small-group instruction, and collaborative learning experiences. Many of these activities involve practice with reading, writing, vocabulary, sentence stems, and other important academic skills. With the laminating pouches, we have been able to protect these resources so that students can use them repeatedly over time. Rather than printing new copies every time we introduce an activity, we can laminate materials and use them again and again.\r\n\r\nThis has been especially helpful during partner and group activities. Students can work together using reusable learning materials, allowing them to practice skills, share their thinking, and learn from one another. For example, laminated activity cards, graphic organizers, sentence stems, and other visual supports can be used by multiple groups of students throughout the school year. These resources help students stay engaged and focused while giving them opportunities to practice important skills in a hands-on way. Students can revisit activities as they develop their understanding, build independence, and become more confident learners.\r\n\r\nThe laminating pouches have also helped us make better use of our classroom resources. By protecting materials from everyday wear and tear, we can preserve them for future lessons and future students. This allows us to recycle and reuse resources rather than constantly creating replacements. It saves valuable preparation time and helps us use our classroom supplies more efficiently. Most importantly, it means that a single resource can continue supporting student learning long after it is first introduced. Your donation has helped us create learning materials that are durable, practical, and useful throughout the year.\r\n\r\nThe printing ink has also played an important role in preparing our students for success. As teachers, we continually work to provide learning materials that meet students' needs and support the skills they are developing. Having printing ink available allows us to print and prepare the activities, practice pages, visual supports, and instructional resources that students use during their daily lessons. These materials help us make learning goals clear, provide opportunities for meaningful practice, and give students resources they can refer to as they work.\r\n\r\nOne particularly important use of our printing ink has been creating sentence stems and other supports that help students express their thinking. Sentence stems give students a starting point when they are sharing ideas, responding to questions, discussing a text, or working with a partner. For young learners, knowing how to begin a response can make a tremendous difference in their willingness to participate. Printed sentence stems provide a visual reminder that students can use as they develop their language, organize their thoughts, and communicate their ideas more independently.\r\n\r\nWe also use printed materials to prepare activities for small groups, partner work, and whole-class instruction. Having these resources ready allows us to provide students with opportunities to practice new skills in different ways. We can prepare materials that encourage collaboration, reinforce important concepts, and offer additional support when students need it. The ability to print and organize these resources helps us create a classroom environment where students have the tools they need to participate meaningfully in learning. Your donation of printing ink helps turn lesson plans and learning goals into practical resources that students can see, touch, read, and use.\r\n\r\nThe percussion instruments have brought another exciting dimension to our lessons. Music, rhythm, and movement can be powerful ways to engage young learners, and these instruments have helped us make learning more active and memorable. We have used the percussion instruments during lessons to support learning through song, rhythm, and steady beats. These experiences give students opportunities to participate in a different way while reinforcing important concepts through listening, movement, repetition, and sound.\r\n\r\nUsing percussion instruments helps create an energetic and welcoming learning environment. Students can tap along to a steady beat, follow a rhythm, and participate in songs that support the lesson. These activities encourage students to listen carefully, pay attention to patterns, coordinate their movements, and work together as a group. Keeping a steady beat also provides opportunities to practice focus, timing, and cooperation. When students make music together, they learn to listen to one another and contribute to a shared experience.\r\n\r\nIncorporating music into lessons can also help students remain engaged and enthusiastic about learning. A song or rhythm can make a concept easier to remember and provide a fun way to revisit information. The percussion instruments allow students to become active participants rather than simply listening to instruction. They can respond to the beat, join in with their classmates, and experience learning through multiple senses. These musical experiences help bring variety to our lessons and create opportunities for students with different interests and learning preferences to connect with the material.\r\n\r\nTogether, these donations have supported our classroom in meaningful and lasting ways. The laminating pouches help us preserve and reuse learning resources, the printing ink allows us to prepare activities and instructional supports, and the percussion instruments help us bring lessons to life through music and rhythm. Each item serves a different purpose, but all three contribute to the same goal: providing students with engaging opportunities to learn, practice, collaborate, and grow.\r\n\r\nYour generosity reaches beyond the supplies themselves. It helps us spend more time focusing on student learning, create materials that can benefit many students over time, and offer experiences that encourage participation and curiosity. Every reusable activity, printed sentence stem, and classroom rhythm represents another opportunity for a student to build a skill, share an idea, or experience success.\r\n\r\nThank you for recognizing the importance of supporting our classroom and for helping us provide the resources our students need. Your kindness reminds us that a strong learning environment is built through the support of a caring community. We are grateful for your investment in our students and for the difference you are making in their everyday learning experiences. Because of your generosity, we can continue creating a classroom filled with meaningful practice, collaboration, creativity, music, and joyful learning.","fullyFundedDate":1784786879053,"projectUrl":"project/drumming-up-the-lessons/10227589/","projectTitle":"Drumming Up the Lessons!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Teasley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4606246_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1679888309231","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4606246"},{"teacherId":4606246,"projectId":10385578,"letterContent":"One of the most helpful additions to our classroom has been the velcro bands. These bands have provided students with a simple sensory option that they can use while working at their tables. For some young learners, sitting for a lesson, listening to directions, and completing an activity can require a great deal of concentration. Students sometimes benefit from having an appropriate way to keep their hands busy while their minds remain focused on the task in front of them. The velcro bands give students an opportunity to engage their sense of touch without interrupting the learning taking place around them.\r\n\r\nWe have placed the velcro underneath tables so students can glide their fingers across its textured surface during lessons and activities. This provides a quiet, accessible sensory outlet that students can use while listening to instruction, working independently, or participating in partner and group activities. Rather than becoming distracted by the need to move their hands or find something to touch, students have a designated option available right at their workspace. This small adjustment helps us create a more supportive learning environment in which students can use strategies that work for them while continuing to participate in classroom routines.\r\n\r\nThe velcro bands have been especially useful because students can access them without needing to leave their seats or stop working. During reading, phonics, writing, and mathematics lessons, students are often expected to listen carefully, think through problems, and demonstrate their understanding. Having a quiet sensory option available can help some students manage restlessness and remain engaged in these activities. It also gives students an opportunity to learn which strategies help them feel comfortable and ready to learn. By providing this resource, you have helped us make our classroom more responsive to the different ways students focus and participate.\r\n\r\nIn addition to their sensory benefits, the velcro bands have also been useful during group activities. We have used velcro to attach items together, helping us organize materials and create interactive learning experiences for students. Group activities often require students to handle cards, visual supports, and other instructional resources as they work together to solve problems or practice academic skills. Velcro can help keep these materials connected and make it easier for students to manipulate resources during collaborative tasks. This allows us to prepare activities that encourage students to communicate, share ideas, and work together toward a common learning goal. Your donation has supported both individual student needs and the collaborative experiences that are an important part of our classroom.\r\n\r\nThe laminating sheets have also made a significant difference in the way we prepare and use classroom resources. Throughout the school year, we create a variety of activities, visual supports, graphic organizers, and learning materials to reinforce the skills students are developing. Many of these resources are used during partner practice, small-group instruction, and whole-class lessons. With the laminating sheets, we can protect these materials so they can be reused over time rather than needing to print new copies every time an activity is introduced.\r\n\r\nFor example, laminated word cards, sentence stems, learning organizers, and practice activities can be used by multiple students across different lessons. Students can revisit familiar resources as they build confidence, strengthen their understanding, and practice skills that require repetition. Laminating materials helps protect them from everyday wear and tear, allowing us to keep useful resources available for future activities and future students. This also helps us reduce unnecessary paper waste and make better use of the supplies available in our classroom.\r\n\r\nReusable materials are particularly valuable in a classroom where students benefit from repeated opportunities to practice. Young learners often need to see, hear, and apply a concept several times before they feel comfortable using it independently. Having durable resources allows us to bring an activity back into a lesson whenever students need additional practice. We can adjust our instruction, provide extra support, and create new opportunities for learning without starting from scratch each time. Your donation of laminating sheets helps us build a collection of resources that can continue supporting students throughout the school year.\r\n\r\nThe printing ink has been another essential resource in our daily classroom preparation. As teachers, we regularly prepare worksheets, activities, lesson materials, and instructional supports that help students understand and practice new concepts. Having printing ink available allows us to turn our lesson plans into materials that students can use during the school day. Whether we are preparing phonics activities, reading passages, writing practice, mathematics problems, or visual reminders, printed resources help us organize instruction and provide students with clear opportunities to demonstrate their learning.\r\n\r\nPrinting ink also allows us to prepare materials as students' needs and learning goals change. Throughout the school day, we may need to print an additional activity, create a new set of practice materials, or provide students with resources that reinforce a skill introduced during a lesson. Having the supplies available helps us respond to these needs in a timely manner. We can prepare activities for different groups, offer additional practice when a concept is challenging, and provide materials that support students as they work toward greater independence.\r\n\r\nPrinted resources are an important part of creating a structured and supportive learning environment. Worksheets and activities give students opportunities to apply what they have learned, while visual supports and lesson materials help make expectations clear. Your donation of printing ink helps us maintain these instructional routines and prepare the materials students need to participate meaningfully in their learning. It supports the behind-the-scenes preparation that makes engaging, organized lessons possible every day.\r\n\r\nThe clothespins have introduced another valuable strategy into our classroom through our opportunity-to-respond activities. Throughout the school day, students encounter questions during reading, phonics, writing, mathematics, and other lessons. It is important for every student to have opportunities to think about a question, formulate a response, and participate in the learning process. The clothespins help us make these opportunities more interactive and provide a simple way to involve students throughout the day.\r\nThank you so much again for supporting our classroom with these meaningful materials!","fullyFundedDate":1784754307738,"projectUrl":"project/print-protect-engage/10385578/","projectTitle":"Print, Protect, Engage!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Teasley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4606246_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1679888309231","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4606246"},{"teacherId":4606246,"projectId":10368847,"letterContent":"I'm so excited to share the impact with you on this project! The metal carts have given my students access to manipulatives and resources during group work, and partner work time. In each cart, we have cubes, chips, dice, and talking chips that help students engage with classroom, discussions, and conversations throughout the school day. On the other shelves of the carts, I place math sentence frames, as well as reading sentence frames so students can structure their discussions with support. It also houses story mats, that students use for comprehension time. The toner has come in handy with our classroom printer! It allows us to print off math, worksheets, and reading materials so students can have access to extra resources during the school day. Last but not least, we want to thank you for the storage bins. They store all of our classroom resources during the school day, and give students a place to access the resources they need for all subject areas. We are very grateful for these resources, and they have made a huge impact on classroom, discussions and conversations so far the school year! Thank you so much again!","fullyFundedDate":1784549524889,"projectUrl":"project/keeping-learning-within-reach/10368847/","projectTitle":"Keeping Learning Within Reach!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Teasley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4606246_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1679888309231","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4606246"},{"teacherId":4606246,"projectId":10034142,"letterContent":"My students and I are very blessed to have received these book resources this school year! Students have expressed how engaging it has been to read books at home, and how it has helped them cement the reading objectives they are learning in class. I have also had parents express how great the books have been, and that seeing how much their children have grown in reading has made a significant impact on them. Parents have asked if we can keep the program next year, because it has allowed them to connect with their children after school. \r\nStudents have loved the various genres, subject areas, and plots that each book has to offer. It has been wonderful to also pair students with books that are at their literacy levels. I have noticed a change in confidence in the classroom since implementing this program. We are so excited to continue to use these books next school year, and cannot thank you enough for supporting us with this project!","fullyFundedDate":1773613859429,"projectUrl":"project/books-beyond-the-classroom/10034142/","projectTitle":"Books Beyond the Classroom!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Teasley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4606246_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1679888309231","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4606246"},{"teacherId":4606246,"projectId":10029741,"letterContent":"My students and I are very blessed to have received these book resources this school year! Students have expressed how engaging it has been to read books at home, and how it has helped them cement the reading objectives they are learning in class. I have also had parents express how great the books have been, and that seeing how much their children have grown in reading has made a significant impact on them. Parents have asked if we can keep the program next year, because it has allowed them to connect with their children after school. \r\nStudents have loved the various genres, subject areas, and plots that each book has to offer. It has been wonderful to also pair students with books that are at their literacy levels. I have noticed a change in confidence in the classroom since implementing this program. We are so excited to continue to use these books next school year, and cannot thank you enough for supporting us with this project!","fullyFundedDate":1772224488133,"projectUrl":"project/opening-books-one-page-at-a-time/10029741/","projectTitle":"Opening Books: One Page at a Time","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Teasley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4606246_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1679888309231","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4606246"},{"teacherId":4606246,"projectId":10027006,"letterContent":"My students and I are very blessed to have received these book resources this school year! Students have expressed how engaging it has been to read books at home, and how it has helped them cement the reading objectives they are learning in class. 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