{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Holmes Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":32.4,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":2019374,"projectId":9495291,"letterContent":"Please accept my deepest and most enthusiastic thanks on behalf of all of my students in my 4th grade classes! I am absolutely thrilled to share the incredible impact your donations have had on our daily learning environment; you didn't just give us supplies, you gave us tools for success that have fundamentally transformed how my students access their education. The centerpiece of this transformation is the document camera and its rolling desk, which has been nothing short of a game-changer for our math lessons. 4th grade math introduces some pretty abstract and challenging concepts such as multiplying multi-digit numbers, long division, and navigating the world of fractions—and for many students, these concepts can feel like guesswork without a clear visual aid. The document camera instantly solves this problem by allowing me to project a student's scratch paper, a physical math manipulative, or a demonstration of a complex algorithm onto the large screen for everyone to see in vivid detail. This real-time visualization is crucial because it helps me deconstruct the thinking process, allowing students to follow the exact steps, compare their strategies with a classmate's, and pinpoint where misconceptions might occur, turning a confusing moment for one child into a powerful learning opportunity for the rest of the class. The camera's companion, the rolling desk, ensures this powerful technology is completely mobile. \r\n\r\nYour generosity, however, reached far beyond math. You helped us with some of our essential needs in literacy. The leveled readers are tailored to specific students' current reading level, which builds their reading stamina, confidence, and fluency, which is instrumental in closing achievement gaps. \r\n\r\nTo support our small-group work and transform practice into play, you provided playing cards and card holders. Math is now more fun and hands on.\r\n\r\nFinally, the large, highly visible magnetic timer has become our favorite classroom management tool. Placed front and center on the whiteboard, it acts as a silent guide for the whole class, helping students visually track their time during transitions, independent practice, and center work. The mechanical pencils are a necessity to ensure that no student is ever distracted by a broken pencil tip, an empty sharpener, or low-quality supplies, allowing them to stay focused on the demanding work of 4th grade. \r\n\r\nYour donations are not just things; they are solutions that address key challenges in our classroom every single minute of the school day. On behalf of every student who can now see the math, read the right book, and manage their time like a pro, thank you, thank you, thank you. Your thoughtfulness is truly making a lasting impact.","fullyFundedDate":1755749009359,"projectUrl":"project/make-math-visual/9495291/","projectTitle":"Make Math Visual","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. M.","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2019374_orig.jpg?crop=1358,1358,x0,y217&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1581801571501","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2019374"},{"teacherId":5000149,"projectId":9727962,"letterContent":"I am continually surprised at how many people are so willing to support my school and our students! Thank you so much for your generosity in helping us provide new copies of some of our most beloved titles. \r\n\r\nWe are getting these new copies out on the shelf as quickly as we can, and it looks like everything has arrived just in time for fall break. I know our students are going to be SO surprised and thrilled when they come back and see all these beautiful new books! I can't wait to check these shiny, fresh copies out to students to be read and enjoyed.","fullyFundedDate":1758831718424,"projectUrl":"project/refresh-our-favorites/9727962/","projectTitle":"Refresh Our Favorites","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Heather","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5000149_orig.jpg?crop=1960,1960,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1627090086515","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/holmeslibrary"},{"teacherId":5000149,"projectId":9130962,"letterContent":"I can't overstate what a HUGE impact these supplies have had for our students and their engagement in our lunchtime STEAM Lab (pun intended because of all the oversize games we received)! We introduced them to students at our end-of-year book fair last school year, and now they are so excited to celebrate the opening of this year's STEAM Lab with oversized games and stem activities. These items have rejuvenated our makerspace offerings and gotten students newly invested in exploring their creativity and learning new things. Thank you for supporting them in their learning journey!","fullyFundedDate":1740831945513,"projectUrl":"project/stemtastic-learning/9130962/","projectTitle":"STEMtastic Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Heather","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5000149_orig.jpg?crop=1960,1960,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1627090086515","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/holmeslibrary"},{"teacherId":5000149,"projectId":9476896,"letterContent":"With the supplies we received from this project, we'll be able to set up rotating bulletin boards for each quarter featuring affirmations, communication tips, and encouragement. Students were very excited to assist with putting up our first set of bulletin boards, and we are eager to see what acts of kindness they will add to our interactive \"choose kindness\" board! These supplies have brightened our library and boosted student enthusiasm to actively look for ways to be kind to each other throughout their school day. Thank you for being a part of this project and helping our students grow their sense of compassion and connection to their school community!","fullyFundedDate":1754955254924,"projectUrl":"project/creating-a-culture-of-compassion/9476896/","projectTitle":"Creating a Culture of Compassion","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Heather","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5000149_orig.jpg?crop=1960,1960,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1627090086515","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/holmeslibrary"},{"teacherId":5000149,"projectId":9619053,"letterContent":"We received our new table yesterday, I assembled it this morning before classes started, and students are already so excited when they see it! It fits perfectly into our lesson area, and now we have space for students to sit more comfortably instead of crowding together at the other tables. It also gives us the flexibility in our smaller classes to seat kids in configurations that work best with their personalities in order to minimize conflict and disruption during learning time. Thank you for your support!","fullyFundedDate":1755707091061,"projectUrl":"project/grow-our-seating-with-our-class-sizes/9619053/","projectTitle":"Grow our Seating with our Class Sizes","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Heather","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5000149_orig.jpg?crop=1960,1960,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1627090086515","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/holmeslibrary"},{"teacherId":9613568,"projectId":8899323,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your help in encouraging my students to learn foundational literacy skills that will have a lasting impact on them as they continue their education. As I mentioned before, play-based learning is highly impactful for preschool-aged students, and these songbooks were the perfect merger of play-based learning and effective literacy instruction. Current research in early childhood literacy development shows that three-year-old children should be able to fill in missing words to familiar songs. Since my preschool room has a mix of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds, these books serve not only as a lesson in themselves but also as a reinforcer for students returning to preschool with this knowledge. My students enjoy the new \"pizza song\" book, and always request this song. My students and I greatly appreciate your time and generosity.","fullyFundedDate":1737432269091,"projectUrl":"project/b-i-n-g-o-learning-songs-is-our-name-o/8899323/","projectTitle":"B-I-N-G-O: Learning Songs is Our Name-O","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Megan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9613568"},{"teacherId":2019374,"projectId":8893685,"letterContent":"Thank-you SO much for funding this project for my students! Math has been more successful this year since everyone was able to have their own abacus to use. Students have used them for addition, subtraction, and multiplication. They use them during guided and independent practice and they also use them during math stations as needed. The abacuses give students another option to use for math manipulatives other than their base ten blocks and unifix cubes. They are also easier to keep track of and easier to move around. Thank-you so much for giving my students these tools. I appreciate it so much!","fullyFundedDate":1735059337338,"projectUrl":"project/abacuses-for-hands-on-math/8893685/","projectTitle":"Abacuses for Hands on Math","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. M.","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2019374_orig.jpg?crop=1358,1358,x0,y217&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1581801571501","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2019374"},{"teacherId":2019374,"projectId":8902523,"letterContent":"Thank-you so much for funding this project for my students. I really appreciate it. My students were so happy that we received new markers and chart paper for our anchor charts. The old ones were dried out and we stopped making the charts for a while, so thank-you for that. They also love being able to grab a logic puzzle from the whiteboard in the magnetic pockets. They usually get them during station time, and take them back to their seats or spread out on the floor in the classroom somewhere to solve them. I have also been able to create other math stations for them, which they love, using the white cardstock. In addition, the keychain ring pens have come in handy for the students' bathroom sign out/in sheets. Thank-you so much for you generositiy!","fullyFundedDate":1733234213477,"projectUrl":"project/math-supplies-needed/8902523/","projectTitle":"Math Supplies Needed","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. M.","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2019374_orig.jpg?crop=1358,1358,x0,y217&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1581801571501","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2019374"},{"teacherId":5000149,"projectId":9043125,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous donation to this project! We have several enthusiastic library volunteers, and they have been very excited to put our new supplies to use, from students giving the library shelves a daily dust to helping us refill bins with popular books about things like soccer, videogames, and cars. These students have a renewed connection to the library, and I love seeing the sense of ownership they have over their library space.\r\n\r\nThis project has also helped us keep things more organized and made cleanup after STEAM Lab and transitions between classes faster. Being able to store necessary materials for different activities in colorful bins and swap between them depending on what we need is a gamechanger, and our students love helping us reload the bins when it's time to clean up.\r\n\r\nThank you for your continued support of schools like mine! We couldn't do what we do as well as we do without your generosity!","fullyFundedDate":1737070734269,"projectUrl":"project/help-keep-our-library-beautiful/9043125/","projectTitle":"Help Keep Our Library Beautiful!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Heather","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5000149_orig.jpg?crop=1960,1960,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1627090086515","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/holmeslibrary"},{"teacherId":3356745,"projectId":8596368,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating in order to help my students get their hands on new, fresh titles in our classroom library! \r\nWe have a dedicated time to reading silently and the titles purchased with this grant has been some of the most circulated in the short amount of time since receiving them. Since receiving these books, I was able to weed out some older titles and copies to make room, and the students were able to take those older books home! So, in donating for these new titles, you were able to support students reading in class and at home! \r\nIt's because of people like you that our students get to build their interest in literature and reading for the love of it!","fullyFundedDate":1728312661404,"projectUrl":"project/reading-is-literature/8596368/","projectTitle":"Reading is LIT(erature)!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Evans","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3356745_orig.jpg?crop=995,995,x181,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1649971930734","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3356745"},{"teacherId":5000149,"projectId":8962608,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting schools like mine and helping get supplies and materials into classrooms and into the hands of students. This project refreshed our supply of consumables that my students go through quickly and that we usually just go without after we run out. For example, for reasons I can't fathom, we go through red colored pencils like it's nobody's business and were completely out of new ones, so my students have been coloring with tiny stubs that we could barely sharpen anymore for months! They'll be thrilled to see new red pencils!\r\n\r\nThis project also allowed us to refresh our prize collection for when students earn incentives and add so many new books to our library. They are so excited about all the new books available for checkout, and I know they're going to be over the moon when they see all the new prize options they have to choose from. 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