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Students are using Yoto materials to share stories and calming messages, while card stock and markers are helping them create reading journals, kindness notes, and reflective activities for peers across grade levels.\r\n\r\nThis project has been especially meaningful for our multilingual learners and students who benefit from extra social-emotional support. Hearing encouraging messages from fellow students helps create a welcoming environment where students feel seen, valued, and cared for. 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Students have planted over 50 seedlings and prepared our garden beds for even more planting. They are excited to take part in hands-on learning while helping care for and improve our outdoor space.\r\n\r\nOur student Green Team is helping lead the project by working with younger students, researching gardening practices, and taking responsibility for maintaining the garden. Through this experience, students are building leadership, teamwork, and environmental stewardship skills in a meaningful and engaging way.\r\n\r\nThe garden is also creating a stronger sense of community within our school. Students are proud to grow vegetables and flowers that can be shared with local families and community members while helping create a welcoming green space for everyone to enjoy.","fullyFundedDate":1778000333157,"projectUrl":"project/rooted-in-community-student-leaders-gro/10163601/","projectTitle":"Rooted in Community: Student Leaders Growing a Greener Future","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hauser","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3231943_orig.jpg?crop=1536,1536,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1762267070789","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3231943"},{"teacherId":3231943,"projectId":9095017,"letterContent":"This project is helping make our school library an even more engaging and supportive learning space for students in Pre-K through 8th grade. With the addition of a MacBook Pro, students have more opportunities to explore technology, participate in interactive lessons, and create meaningful projects that support learning across grade levels.\r\n\r\nThe MacBook helps lessons run more smoothly by connecting to our smart board and supporting presentations, interactive read-alouds, videos, and other digital resources. Students are more engaged when they can see and interact with materials in different ways, especially during whole group lessons and collaborative activities.\r\n\r\nIt has also become a valuable tool for makerspace activities, research projects, digital storytelling, and student-created videos. 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Students are using the Yotos to explore audiobooks, calming music, mindfulness activities, and interactive stories that support both literacy and social-emotional learning throughout the school day.\r\nThese resources are especially helpful for emerging readers, multilingual learners, and students who benefit from listening while following along with text. Students are building vocabulary, comprehension, imagination, and confidence while developing a stronger connection to books and storytelling.\r\nThe Yotos are already becoming a favorite library resource during independent reading time, small groups, indoor recess, and quiet moments when students need a calm reset. Giving students another way to access stories helps make the library feel more inclusive, engaging, and supportive for all learners.\r\nWe are so grateful for the opportunity to provide students with tools that encourage curiosity, creativity, relaxation, and a lifelong love of reading.","fullyFundedDate":1777635847744,"projectUrl":"project/listen-learn-and-feel-calm-yotos-for/10010614/","projectTitle":"Listen, Learn, and Feel Calm: Yotos for Our School Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hauser","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3231943_orig.jpg?crop=1536,1536,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1762267070789","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3231943"},{"teacherId":3231943,"projectId":9094962,"letterContent":"3D pens in the library empowered students to plan and create 3D shapes while developing and applying creative problem-solving skills. 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They absolutely love using it to listen to stories, and it has made such a positive impact in our classroom. I've already seen an increase in their reading growth and engagement, which is so exciting!\r\n\r\nYour generosity is helping build a love of reading in our classroom, and we are so grateful for your support. Thank you for investing in our students! 📚✨","fullyFundedDate":1766524307419,"projectUrl":"project/listening-station/9971109/","projectTitle":"Listening Station","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Simms","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7910889_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y504&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1626874158112","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7910889"},{"teacherId":131401,"projectId":9758557,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support in donating books to our classroom through DonorsChoose. Your kindness has made a meaningful difference for my students. Because of you, our classroom library is growing, and my students now have access to new stories, ideas, and adventures that will help spark their curiosity and love for reading.\r\n\r\nBooks open doors to imagination, knowledge, and confidence. Your support helps create opportunities for my students to explore new worlds, discover characters they relate to, and build the literacy skills that will support them for years to come.\r\n\r\nMy students were incredibly excited to see the new books arrive, and they can't wait to dive into them. Your generosity reminds them that there are people who believe in them and care about their education.\r\n\r\nThank you again for investing in my students and helping create a classroom where reading can thrive.","fullyFundedDate":1766886932477,"projectUrl":"project/we-love-books/9758557/","projectTitle":"We Love Books","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hartman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/131401"},{"teacherId":3034017,"projectId":9960626,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project! I truly appreciate it. Your generosity contributed to our students being able to fully experience the excitement and pride that comes with participating in both our National History Day school-wide fair and our Science and Engineering Fair. \r\n\r\nThe awards and ribbons we received thanks to this Donors Choose project helped us celebrate student effort, creativity, and critical thinking in a meaningful way. It was great watching students stand proudly next to their projects. The materials helped us create a professional, authentic experience that made students feel like real historians and scientists.\r\n\r\nMany of our National History Day participants went on to the district competition, and a groups of students are off to the Morgan Science and Engineering competition. These next steps are helping students understand that learning is an ongoing process, and your support has made that journey even more meaningful.\r\n\r\nHave a good one. Thanks again.","fullyFundedDate":1766540235137,"projectUrl":"project/celebrating-students-nhd-and-science-an/9960626/","projectTitle":"Celebrating Students' NHD and Science and Engineering Fair Projects","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Thomas","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3034017_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1507081320358","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/thatteachersid"},{"teacherId":6597807,"projectId":9960214,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support of our project, \"Catch a Dream!\" Because of your kindness, our classrooms were transformed into a studio of creativity and cultural discovery. We also invited families into the classroom to share this experience with our students, creating a core memory for life!\r\n\r\nStudents engaged in creating tactile art while learning about Native American history and culture. Before making their dreamcatcher, students learned about the origins of the dreamcatcher within the Ojibwe (Chippewa) nation and how the tradition spread across various Indigenous cultures.\r\n\r\nWe also discussed the symbolism of the dreamcatcher—filtering out the bad and letting the good thoughts through—which sparked a beautiful conversation about mental well-being and positivity.\r\n\r\nThank you for being a champion for my students and for helping them see the world through a more colorful, culturally aware lens.","fullyFundedDate":1767208604390,"projectUrl":"project/catch-a-dream/9960214/","projectTitle":"Catch a Dream!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Randazzo","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6597807_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y504&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565229408901","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6597807"},{"teacherId":9650050,"projectId":9955876,"letterContent":"Because of your generosity, our students have had the opportunity to use light trace boards in the art studio, and they have quickly become one of the most requested tools in the room.\r\n\r\nStudents ask to use them the moment they walk in. The boards invite curiosity and immediately lower the barrier to getting started, especially for students who may feel unsure of their drawing abilities. By allowing students to see and follow lines, shapes, and forms, these tools support the development of hand control, spatial awareness, and fine motor skills in a way that feels engaging rather than intimidating.\r\n\r\nAs an art teacher in a Baltimore City public school with a fully inclusive classroom, I work with students who have a wide range of learning styles and needs. The light trace boards have been especially impactful for students who benefit from additional visual and tactile support. They allow students to practice dexterity and coordination while still producing work that reflects their own effort and creativity.\r\n\r\nMost importantly, these tools empower students to create projects they are proud of with their own hands. They are not just completing an assignment. They are building confidence, independence, and a willingness to try new artistic challenges.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping make this possible for our students and for supporting their growth as creative thinkers and makers.","fullyFundedDate":1765652429443,"projectUrl":"project/help-us-shed-some-light-on-drawing-confi/9955876/","projectTitle":"Help Us Shed Some Light On Drawing Confidence","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Sitaras","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9650050_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y285&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723630763330","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9650050"},{"teacherId":9347277,"projectId":9946618,"letterContent":"Our students were very grateful to receive the new coats graciously provided by your donation. They were given a brand new, very warm winter coat right after the largest snowfall Maryland has seen in over 10 years! This historic snow storm was difficult for students without a proper coat and their joy and excitement upon receiving them was beyond evident. There is still plenty more cold days to come in Maryland this year!\r\nStudents were also able to enjoy a hot chocolate bar while they picked up and tried on their coats. 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