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They understood the engineering and hard work required and would not have without this project. Additionally, we are currently working on another project. The students have been so excited to work toward this project and we are excited to build it next week. Thank you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1786074677428,"projectUrl":"project/challenge-and-choose/10436237/","projectTitle":"Challenge and Choose","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Baller","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6782911_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1605191041213","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/suzanne-baller"},{"teacherId":5899761,"projectId":10472735,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for making our project, *Dust Bowl Stories: Bringing History to Life Through Literature*, possible! Your generosity has provided our classroom with a full set of *Out of the Dust* by Karen Hesse, giving students an exciting opportunity to explore an important period in American history through literature.\r\n\r\nAs we read, students will strengthen their reading comprehension, analyze character development, identify themes, and use textual evidence to support their thinking. Beyond reading skills, this novel will help students develop a deeper understanding of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, including the challenges families faced, the importance of perseverance, and how historical events shape people's lives.\r\n\r\nIn our classroom, reading is an opportunity to ask questions, make connections, have meaningful discussions, and think beyond the pages of a book. Having a class set means students can share this experience together, discuss their ideas, and learn from one another. I am especially excited for students who love history, enjoy a good challenge, or are ready to discover how powerful storytelling can make the past come alive.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in our students and helping us create meaningful learning experiences. Your generosity will make a lasting difference in our classroom!","fullyFundedDate":1787061391730,"projectUrl":"project/dust-bowl-stories-bringing-history-to-l/10472735/","projectTitle":"Dust Bowl Stories: Bringing History to Life Through Literature","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Clarine","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5899761"},{"teacherId":10592500,"projectId":10514769,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping us celebrate our Battle of the Books readers! Your generosity provided a button maker, button-making supplies, printer ink, timers, and storage bins that give us a practical way to recognize reading accomplishments throughout the year.\r\n\r\nWe are building a collection of badges featuring the books on our reading lists. Students can earn a button for each title they finish, turning their reading progress into something they can see, collect, and proudly share. A badge for finishing Frindle or Wonder represents time spent reading, a new story discovered, and another contribution to a team's knowledge.\r\n\r\nThe supplies also help us keep the program organized. Storage bins give our materials a home, while the timers support practice rounds where students work together to recall details and answer questions.\r\n\r\nOur next steps are to continue recognizing completed books, help students prepare for team practices, and create special badges for reading milestones, teamwork, and competition achievements. 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Your generosity provided floor cushions, a soft rug, a cozy reading tent, and warm lighting—simple additions that are helping us create inviting reading spaces throughout the library.\r\n\r\nWe are using these materials to give students more choices about where and how they read. They can settle onto a cushion, share a story with a friend on the rug, or enjoy a quiet moment with a book in the reading tent. The warm lamps help make these spaces feel softer and more relaxing.\r\n\r\nIt is exciting to see our vision of a literary refuge taking shape. These spaces give students something inviting to discover when they enter the library and send an important message: this is a place for them to feel comfortable and enjoy a good story.\r\n\r\nOur next step is to make these spaces part of our regular reading routines. I'll help students explore different books, practice caring for our shared spaces, and discover the reading spot that works best for them. Thank you for giving us more ways to make reading something students look forward to!","fullyFundedDate":1787188547718,"projectUrl":"project/creating-a-literary-refuge-a-cozy-welc/10514467/","projectTitle":"Creating a Literary Refuge: A Cozy, Welcoming Library for Everyone","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Larson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10592500_orig.jpg?crop=1062,1062,x292,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1787080587054","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10592500"},{"teacherId":10592500,"projectId":10514015,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping make our library a more welcoming place to discover books! Your support provided supplies to clean and organize our shelves, along with book displays that let us put more covers where students can see them.\r\n\r\nWe now have displays featuring themes, reading competitions, and award-winning books, plus a featured book for every letter in our picture-book section. 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Thank you for helping us make that possible!","fullyFundedDate":1787188547320,"projectUrl":"project/bringing-books-to-life-creating-a-more/10514015/","projectTitle":"Bringing Books to Life: Creating a More Inviting, Student-Friendly Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Larson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10592500_orig.jpg?crop=1062,1062,x292,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1787080587054","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10592500"},{"teacherId":3162275,"projectId":10537914,"letterContent":"My students are so excited about the science lessons this year. We loved investigating leaves, apples, and pumpkins. We have explored weather and seasons, personal hygiene, holidays and traditions and much more! \r\nSo far the favorite has been pumpkins! We loved weighing and measuring, describing, writing about the life cycle and even tasting pumpkin flavored foods. \r\nThey have loved reading the books and using the many tools that you provided to help them investigate and learn about the world around them. We are looking forward to future lessons about popcorn, states of matter, light and magnets. It has been an excited year.\r\nAs a speech therapist, I have really enjoyed hearing the spontaneous communication that is generated in the their excitement to explore. I am watching these students grow and develop essential skills in ways that are fun for all of us. \r\nThank you for making these lessons possible.","fullyFundedDate":1789593342857,"projectUrl":"project/light-and-color-and-weather-oh-my/10537914/","projectTitle":"Light, and Color, and Weather, Oh My!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Harris","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3162275_orig.png?crop=398,398,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1625861968495","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3162275"},{"teacherId":3162275,"projectId":10330643,"letterContent":"My students have been so excited to see the new sensory bins each week in our speech room! the very first one was a Minecraft sensory bin that we created to support our theme for class rules and school expectations. They were all inspired by the theme and this particular sensory bin inspired a great deal of spontaneous conversation. \r\nWe have also enjoyed sensory bins supporting other weekly themes such as fall, apples, pumpkins, friendships, pirates, weather, and Halloween! Every week students are exploring the contents while supporting emerging communication, speech sounds and language development. \r\nWith your help, these students are learning communication skills and practicing their use in natural ways that will contribute significantly to their ability to generalize. Every week is a new celebration. Thank you for making this happen!","fullyFundedDate":1787061402887,"projectUrl":"project/play-is-the-work-of-the-child-sensory/10330643/","projectTitle":"Play Is the Work of the Child - Sensory Bins of Discovery","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Harris","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3162275_orig.png?crop=398,398,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1625861968495","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3162275"},{"teacherId":8635182,"projectId":10535553,"letterContent":"We love to describe seasonal items at school that can then be shared in conversations with families at home!\r\n\r\nBy providing these fun materials, my students better understand why communicating with others is so fun and meaningful! Many of my students are emerging communicators, and these open-ended activities allow a safe space to model meaningful phrases and to make connections!\r\n\r\nWe had so much fun talking about \"creepy crawly bugs\" and searching for \"pirate treasure\". My students used adjectives, verbs, and prepositions to describe to their peers what they found! Thanks so much!","fullyFundedDate":1788886613592,"projectUrl":"project/group-lesson-manipulatives/10535553/","projectTitle":"Group Lesson Manipulatives","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Mybree Allred","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8635182_orig.jpg?crop=1987,1988,x0,y337&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1742482423083","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mybree-allred"},{"teacherId":10592500,"projectId":10484836,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping bring \"Every Question an Adventure\" to life in our library! Your generosity has given our students tools to follow their curiosity and a place to make their thinking visible. Their Explorer Field Journals hold questions, sketches, discoveries, and ideas for future reading. More importantly, the journals have created a sense of belonging and inclusion in the library that extends to every student - regardless of their interest level in reading. Having a journal of their own helps make this adventure personal.\r\n\r\nThis personal adventure was on display when we used the ink pads provided to have each student \"have a hand\" in building our library - we did handprints of every student and hung that poster up as our first library decoration. I let the students know that this was THEIR adventure to guide, and we were working on it together. \r\n\r\nAs the students move forward with their journals, they will enter into new adventures and have the chance to question, explore, wonder and learn from the books, from their own notes, and from each other as they work together. Thank you for helping our library become a place where students' questions can lead to meaningful learning adventures.","fullyFundedDate":1787061374787,"projectUrl":"project/every-question-an-adventure-building-y/10484836/","projectTitle":"Every Question an Adventure: Building Young Explorers","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Larson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10592500_orig.jpg?crop=1062,1062,x292,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1787080587054","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10592500"},{"teacherId":3145277,"projectId":10494050,"letterContent":"I truly appreciate you sharing Scholastic News magazine with my class all year long. This publication has been wonderful for building reading skills like finding main ideas and key details, recognizing text features, and deepening comprehension. What I love most is the incredible variety of topics—there's always something to spark curiosity. 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