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They are happy that they no longer get distracrted by other student Chromebooks.","fullyFundedDate":1755695186326,"projectUrl":"project/head-hugging-headphones-to-help-us-focus/9564961/","projectTitle":"Head Hugging Headphones to Help Us Focus","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Friedman-Brentlinger","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp305770_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565317972745","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-friedman"},{"teacherId":305770,"projectId":9275544,"letterContent":"One may think that a laminator is a not a necessity but, in a classroom, they truly are. Your generous support of our classroom has provided us with the tools to ensure that my Jr engineers, Jr inventors, and my Jr scientist are able to create and save graphic organizers to be used over and over throughout the school year. It has also ensured that anything that is created as a reference tool or for center activities can be reused year after year; instead of recreating the wheel.\r\n\r\nWhen I presented my Jr engineers, Jr inventors, and Jr scientist with the laminated reference tools and the center material they were so excited. They no longer needed be treat these items as delicate and fragile. Your kindness will ne be forgotten and is greatly appreciated.","fullyFundedDate":1746409309334,"projectUrl":"project/prolonging-life/9275544/","projectTitle":"Prolonging Life","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Friedman-Brentlinger","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp305770_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565317972745","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-friedman"},{"teacherId":305770,"projectId":9190441,"letterContent":"In my K-5 STEM classes each child is assigned a chromebook. In each class ther are between 22-26 studens. One can imagine how loud it would get in our classroom when everysingle child had the volume turned up on their Chromebooks. Students could not focus when they were trying to focus on coding or learning how to do a science experiemtn by watching a video.\r\n\r\nThe headphones proved to be a gamer changer. My STEM students put on their headphones. The headphones prevent so much nouised from being in my classroom when iu have these large classes. My students are excited to get on their chromebooks now. They are happy that they no longer get distracrted by other student Chromebooks.","fullyFundedDate":1742955726941,"projectUrl":"project/enhancing-students-focus/9190441/","projectTitle":"Enhancing Students' Focus","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Friedman-Brentlinger","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp305770_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565317972745","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-friedman"},{"teacherId":305770,"projectId":9257073,"letterContent":"In our STEM classroom we use STEM logs/joournals to record our thoughts and different experiments and different challenges we attempt. In our STEM logs/journals after students have writen and sketched what they have been working on they can move on to the next step. The next step is coloring their sketches. Students perfer to use pencils isntead of crayons or markers. \r\n\r\nStudents in Kindergarten -5th grade use color pencils in their STEM logs/journals. Before getting the colored pencil sharpeners students were forced to forget about colored pencils due to the fact that the colored pencils would break a regular pencil sharpener and we would be unable to sharpen colored pencils. When that happened students would do the least amount of sketching. Now that we have colored pencil sharpeners students are once again excited about recording their observations and coloring their sketches.","fullyFundedDate":1745955627683,"projectUrl":"project/sharpeners-to-keep-colored-pencils-going/9257073/","projectTitle":"Sharpeners to Keep Colored Pencils Going","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Friedman-Brentlinger","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp305770_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565317972745","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-friedman"},{"teacherId":9579585,"projectId":9251123,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting flexible seating in our classroom! Because of your generosity, my first graders now have the freedom to choose learning spaces that fit their needs, whether that's wobbling, rocking, or stretching out on a comfy cushion. Already, I've seen students focus longer, participate more, and feel proud of the choices they're making about their learning. You've given them the chance to learn in a way that matches who they are at this stage, and that gift makes a huge difference every single day.\r\n\r\nYour impact goes far beyond academics—you've helped create a classroom community where kids are more engaged, collaborative, and confident. They're learning how to respect one another's needs, share spaces, and take ownership of their work. The excitement on their faces when they get to choose their spot each morning says it all. Thank you for making our classroom a place where every student feels comfortable, included, and ready to thrive.","fullyFundedDate":1746786415492,"projectUrl":"project/flexible-seating/9251123/","projectTitle":"Flexible Seating","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Madi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9579585_orig.png?crop=581,581,x61,y123&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1724203912630","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9579585"},{"teacherId":305770,"projectId":9232287,"letterContent":"Straws they seem to be an odd material for engineering in a STEM classroom. In all honesty, they are not. They are great for bridge building and Tower building.\r\n\r\nRed building and tower building is one stem challenge that every grade level loves my students were very excited when the sets of straws arrived. They were ready to get started as soon as I took the straws \r\n\r\nAs students started to build their bridges, they were even more excited and when they were when the material right. No more need for tape no more need to try and make the tape work on the straws no more need to cut different sizes of tape. The straws arrived with connectors which made students bridge building challenges that much easier for them and allowed them to have more time instead of cutting and making the tape work. My junior engineers are very grateful for your support and very grateful for your kindness.","fullyFundedDate":1745846939729,"projectUrl":"project/constructing-with-straws/9232287/","projectTitle":"Constructing With Straws","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Friedman-Brentlinger","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp305770_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565317972745","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-friedman"},{"teacherId":305770,"projectId":9281290,"letterContent":"The stem classroom I took over as the stem teacher had a little or no supplies. As supplies started coming in through generous donations don't need to be away to keep them safe and use them here after year. The utility cards with multiple drawers was the answer.\r\n\r\nStudent is no longer needed to jump up or attempt to stand on a chair to reach materials on high bookshelves. All the stem material is nicely located in the drawers of the well made utility cards. Each of the cards has been labeled for it is easy access for each and every student.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes time to do a STEM challenge independently, students are able to walk over to one of the utility carts read the label and pull out the material that they need. No more hunting and wasting time no more finding damaged or ruined.STEM material material. This allows students to start their stem challenge quickly and allows them as much time as possible to do the challenge.","fullyFundedDate":1746471575766,"projectUrl":"project/continuing-to-stockpile-stem/9281290/","projectTitle":"Continuing to Stockpile STEM","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Friedman-Brentlinger","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp305770_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565317972745","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-friedman"},{"teacherId":305770,"projectId":9212044,"letterContent":"Picture books have always been a fantastic way to help students grasp different ideas and concepts. The storybook and STEM books will be using that now.\r\n\r\nMy stem students from kindergarten through fifth grade enjoy read aloud, even if it is about STEM. They listen avidly to the story and try to figure out how it connects to STEM. They get excited when their guest about how it connects to them is correct.\r\n\r\nAfter the storybook is read to the class, there are STEM activities that are connected to each and every storybook which meets one of our areas of STEM whether that be science, technology, engineering, or math.","fullyFundedDate":1744058588413,"projectUrl":"project/storybook-and-stem/9212044/","projectTitle":"Storybook and STEM","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Friedman-Brentlinger","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp305770_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565317972745","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-friedman"},{"teacherId":305770,"projectId":9138529,"letterContent":"My students are very excited to receive a new microscopes. They have heard about microscopes. They have seen pictures of microscopes, but never had them in our stem classroom. \r\n\r\nNow that these microscopes have arrived, students are very excited to put them to use. Fortunately, we have prepared slides that we can use with our microscopes for students can learn how to use them and how different parts of animals and plants look.\r\n\r\nAs they become more familiar with the microscopes, our next step will be each didn't create their own slides to under the microscopes.","fullyFundedDate":1741316350745,"projectUrl":"project/microscope-for-all/9138529/","projectTitle":"Microscope for All","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Friedman-Brentlinger","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp305770_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565317972745","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-friedman"},{"teacherId":305770,"projectId":9030257,"letterContent":"My junior engineers were so excited at the supplies that you helped to proved our STEM classroom. The moment they saw them they began to discuss ideas of what they could build as junior engineers. Once they got to explore the material their excitement grew and grew.\r\n\r\nAfter a little time for exploring we got down to business. I discussed with each STEM class about what we could build and what is the process of designing and then building the structures they chose. After students understood their task they got down to business.\r\n\r\nIn our STEM classrooms students can work at a table or on the floor to plan and build their design. Some students chose buildings. Some students chose bridges. Some students chose plan and design airplanes. Students were so engaged they did not want to stop designing or building.","fullyFundedDate":1736963054975,"projectUrl":"project/engineering-is-excellent/9030257/","projectTitle":"Engineering Is Excellent","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Friedman-Brentlinger","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp305770_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565317972745","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-friedman"},{"teacherId":305770,"projectId":9069975,"letterContent":"When the box arrived of the pocket microscopes students were waiting in antiicpation for me to open the box. They kept trying to guess what was in the box. Finally after making them wait long enough the box was opened and I shared with students what was in the box and how they were going to be used. They were very intrigued since they never heard of pocket microscopes until the day the box was opened. Once they realized what they were used for they were ready to put them to use. \r\n\r\nWe headed outside and around our school to start discovering interesting things on our schools campus. Students were excited to each have their own pocket microscope to use. After we were done with the first use they asked to use them again over the next few days. My students interest in discovering new things was so wonderful to see. Thank you so very much for you generosity. My junior scientists are very grateful for your wonderful donation.","fullyFundedDate":1740452478366,"projectUrl":"project/powerful-pocket-microscopes/9069975/","projectTitle":"Powerful Pocket Microscopes","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Friedman-Brentlinger","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp305770_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565317972745","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-friedman"},{"teacherId":9634498,"projectId":8948804,"letterContent":"I created this project with a hopeful attitude, but did not entirely expect to have it fully funded at least not as quickly as it was. I am so grateful for the generosity of those that supported me in my first year as a school psychologist. The intention of this project was to provide my students with an inviting space and lots of treats for them when they are testing, as I often notice that my relatively brief interactions can be stressful for those who get anxiety when testing. That, or there are often students I work with who need a little extra incentives to put forth their best effort. \r\n\r\nMostly, my students have loved to grab a quick treat before/after/during a testing session, like Cheez-its or fruit snacks! They're always very appreciative that I have the snacks ready for them when they need it. I have found it easy to build rapport with my students when we share a brief moment of respite with a snack during long testing sessions. 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