{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Elysian Heights Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":34.6,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":5845737,"projectId":9245313,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for these wonderful donations of new graphic novels for our first grade classroom! We are so incredibly grateful for your generosity and support for our classroom and the books we have inside. My students absolutely loved these new books and at least one of each of these series was read almost every day this past school year. My students even asked to take these books home and read them over the weekend! These books instilled quite a love of reading in my students and I and the whole class are forever grateful.","fullyFundedDate":1746481524056,"projectUrl":"project/graphic-novels-for-pals/9245313/","projectTitle":"Graphic Novels for Pals!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Courtney","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5845737_orig.jpg?crop=600,601,x0,y16&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1558393389930","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/courtney-diedrich"},{"teacherId":5845737,"projectId":9222145,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your incredibly generous donation of new space books for my first grade classroom! We are so grateful for your wonderful donation towards our learning about space and science fiction. For our last writing unit of the school year, we learned about science fiction, and we read and wrote fictional stories that featured space in some way as the setting. My students absolutely adored these books and the stories featured within, and it was an absolute highlight of the school year for all of us. Thank you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1743570535013,"projectUrl":"project/stories-in-space/9222145/","projectTitle":"Stories in Space!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Courtney","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5845737_orig.jpg?crop=600,601,x0,y16&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1558393389930","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/courtney-diedrich"},{"teacherId":5845737,"projectId":9212000,"letterContent":"Thank you so much donors for your generous donation of new art supplies for my first grade classroom! We are so incredibly grateful for your generosity and support of our learning! We used these materials throughout the school year to both guide our learning and show our work, and we also used them to have fun! We used the art materials to tell stories, build machines, put on theatrical performances, and create pieces of artwork. As an art school, we are so grateful your donation allowed us to learn this way.","fullyFundedDate":1746637392624,"projectUrl":"project/arts-supplies-for-artists/9212000/","projectTitle":"Arts Supplies for Artists!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Courtney","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5845737_orig.jpg?crop=600,601,x0,y16&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1558393389930","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/courtney-diedrich"},{"teacherId":5845737,"projectId":9068003,"letterContent":"Thank you so much donors for this incredibly generous donation of new chapter books for my first grade classroom! We have used these books the past two years to support my students becoming successful readers! They were so excited to get to the end of the school year and be able to read a variety of chapter books, and to be able to choose chapter books that look interesting to them! With these new books, my students were able to read chapter books at their level and that interest them, and they even checked out the other books in these series from the library to read at home!","fullyFundedDate":1737404801018,"projectUrl":"project/chapter-books-for-eager-readers/9068003/","projectTitle":"Chapter Books for Eager Readers!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Courtney","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5845737_orig.jpg?crop=600,601,x0,y16&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1558393389930","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/courtney-diedrich"},{"teacherId":5845737,"projectId":9019830,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation of new chapter books for my first grade classroom! I have used these books the past two years at the end of the school year, as my first graders were becoming readers! They were so incredibly excited to have access to a variety of engaging books at their reading level that they could read and choose from. They each chose a chapter book, and together with their book club, they read and discussed the books. They then summarized the books in writing to help them remember what they read. We are so grateful for your support!","fullyFundedDate":1737399177496,"projectUrl":"project/book-clubs-for-buddies/9019830/","projectTitle":"Book Clubs for Buddies!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Courtney","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5845737_orig.jpg?crop=600,601,x0,y16&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1558393389930","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/courtney-diedrich"},{"teacherId":4591290,"projectId":10082244,"letterContent":"My students and I love these word building magnet boards and decodable books! We have been using these amazing word building boards during our Literacy Center rotations. The picture magnets are eye catching and hunting for the right letters to make and build the words are super fun for the kids. The kids also read the decodable books during Literacy Centers and are great choices for them any time we free read. Your generous donation, to get these incredible materials to help my students on their learning-to-read journey, will help many kids for years to come!","fullyFundedDate":1773236706306,"projectUrl":"project/light-up-literacy-with-high-impact-mater/10082244/","projectTitle":"Light Up Literacy With High Impact Materials","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Trevino","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4591290_orig.png?crop=499,499,x22,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1686968732774","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-trevinokinder"},{"teacherId":4591290,"projectId":10155600,"letterContent":"My students and I cannot thank you enough for helping to fund this piano keyboard and bench set for our classroom. It arrived today and we opened it up together in class. The kiddos were so excited when they saw it! I put together the stand and bench while they were at theater class so that when they returned they could start making music right away during our Explore Time (our purposeful play time). We were excited, too, to see that it came with headphones we could plug in so they could play away without uninterrupted. They each had a blast getting their own time to \"tickle the ivories!\" :-)","fullyFundedDate":1773667473802,"projectUrl":"project/the-piano-keys-are-black-and-white-but/10155600/","projectTitle":"The Piano Keys Are Black And White, But...","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Trevino","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4591290_orig.png?crop=499,499,x22,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1686968732774","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-trevinokinder"},{"teacherId":4591290,"projectId":9261217,"letterContent":"My students and I love these 4-letter word building magnet boards and decodable books! We have been using these amazing 4-letter word building boards during our Literacy Center rotations. The CVC word picture magnets are eye catching and hunting for the right letters to make and build the words are super fun for the kids. The kids also read the decodable books during Literacy Centers and are great choices for them any time we free read. Your generous donation, to get these incredible materials to help my students on their learning-to-read journey, will help many kids for years to come!\"","fullyFundedDate":1746767671214,"projectUrl":"project/word-building-boards-and-books-and-benef/9261217/","projectTitle":"Word Building Boards and Books and Benefits, Oh My! 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Thank you so much for your donations!","fullyFundedDate":1754654283249,"projectUrl":"project/kindergarten-life-scientists-who-axolotl/9449014/","projectTitle":"Kindergarten Life Scientists Who Axolotl Questions","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Trevino","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4591290_orig.png?crop=499,499,x22,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1686968732774","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-trevinokinder"},{"teacherId":4591290,"projectId":9401474,"letterContent":"As an arts magnet school teacher, I love to incorporate music, dance, and performance into our classroom as often as I can. It is always so exciting to find songs that are not only fun, but also help my students learn about topics we are covering in our academic subjects. For example, we are currently learning about neighborhoods in social studies so we have had fun singing the Sesame Street song \"Who are the People/Heroes in Your Neighborhood?\" and giving the kids a chance to insert their own community helper into the song. The kids have loved getting to sing into the microphones on our mini karaoke machine, and we love to dance every chance we get to the music coming out of our new JBL speaker.","fullyFundedDate":1752586354200,"projectUrl":"project/music-and-song-help-make-kindergarten-ev/9401474/","projectTitle":"Music and Song Help Make Kindergarten Even More Magical","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Trevino","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4591290_orig.png?crop=499,499,x22,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1686968732774","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-trevinokinder"},{"teacherId":4591290,"projectId":9261202,"letterContent":"My students and I love these 3-letter word building magnet boards and decodable books! We have been using these amazing 3-letter word building boards during our Literacy Center rotations. The CVC word picture magnets are eye catching and hunting for the right letters to make and build the words are super fun for the kids. The kids also read the decodable books during Literacy Centers and are great choices for them any time we free read. Your generous donation, to get these incredible materials to help my students on their learning-to-read journey, will help many kids for years to come!","fullyFundedDate":1746570344055,"projectUrl":"project/word-building-boards-and-books-and-benef/9261202/","projectTitle":"Word Building Boards and Books and Benefits, Oh My!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Trevino","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4591290_orig.png?crop=499,499,x22,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1686968732774","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-trevinokinder"},{"teacherId":154404,"projectId":9576273,"letterContent":"My students were so thrilled to see the hand drums and rainbow sticks when they arrived to the class. We have been counting and drumming on our laps. We have been able to use the drums instead of our laps to count and follow along songs as we move and dance around. Students have been exploring the different sounds they are able to make and present songs with their friends. We are practicing different beats and will soon pick a song or two to work on to present to our families during the spring. Thanks you again for your generous gift.","fullyFundedDate":1755740731871,"projectUrl":"project/lets-find-the-rhythm/9576273/","projectTitle":"Let's Find the Rhythm","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Villamarin","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-3_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/154404"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_7331","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":400,"numTeachers":13,"percentFrplEligible":40,"percentAsian":3,"percentBlack":2,"percentWhite":34,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":38,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":20,"gradesServed":"Pre-K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"30.8:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":65.4,"schoolId":7331,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Elysian Heights Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Elysian Heights Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/california/los-angeles-unified-school-district/elysian-heights-elementary-school/7331"}