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Seeing their work together will also help me assess how students are progressing and determine where they may need more support. \r\n\r\nThank you for helping make our science classroom a place where every students' thinking can be seen and valued.","fullyFundedDate":1779297165369,"projectUrl":"project/bringing-student-thinking-to-life/10248676/","projectTitle":"Bringing Student Thinking to Life","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Portalatin","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4051961_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1635384003726","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-portalatin"},{"teacherId":1912013,"projectId":10176374,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation of materials, games, and activities to our financial literacy class. Your support is helping us create a learning environment where students can do more than simply read about financial concepts—they can experience them in meaningful, hands-on ways.\r\n\r\nThe tools you provided will give students valuable opportunities to practice real-world skills such as budgeting, saving, spending, decision-making, and understanding the consequences of financial choices. Through interactive games and activities, students will be able to apply what they learn in class to situations that mirror the financial decisions they will face in everyday life.\r\n\r\nThese hands-on experiences are especially valuable because they make financial literacy engaging, practical, and memorable. Instead of learning solely from a textbook, students can experiment, solve problems, make choices, and learn from their experiences in a safe classroom setting.\r\n\r\nYour generosity is investing in skills that students will carry with them long after they leave our classroom. We truly appreciate your commitment to helping prepare our students for a financially successful future.\r\n\r\nThank you again for making these valuable learning experiences possible!\r\n\r\nWith sincere appreciation,","fullyFundedDate":1778223730398,"projectUrl":"project/making-finance-foundations-fun/10176374/","projectTitle":"Making Finance Foundations Fun","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Misseri","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1912013_orig.jpg?crop=240,240,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1751811547251","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1912013"},{"teacherId":4051961,"projectId":9936041,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our \"Read to Me\" project and helping us bring new picture books into our Hungerford classrooms. the books you provided came from a wish list created by the students at our Hungerford School. When the books arrived, the excitement was immediate, our 8th grade student volunteers recognized titles that had been requested and could not wait for the reading program to begin. Your generosity ensured that these students had access to engaging, colorful stories for them to read aloud.\r\n\r\nThese books are making a powerful impact through a program created by one of our 8th grade teachers, Mrs. Siclari, called \"Read to Me.\" Once a week, her students volunteer their time to visit and read aloud to students with special needs, building connections through stories and shared laughter. 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Students experimented with balloon rockets by attaching balloons to strings stretched across the classroom and releasing the air to see how far and how fast the rockets would travel. They quickly discovered how air pushing backward makes the rocket move forward, which led to great discussions about action and reaction forces. We also tested balloon helicopters, dropping them from different heights and observing how the spinning blades slowed their fall. Students loved making predictions and then testing their ideas.\r\n\r\nThe Newton's cradle quickly became one of the most fascinating tools in the room. Students gathered around it to watch how energy moves from one ball to another. It sparked a lot of curiosity and questions about momentum and energy transfer, and students even started trying to explain the patterns they observed to their classmates.\r\n\r\nNext, we will continue building on these lessons by having students design their own small experiments using the materials. 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