{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Jim Thorpe Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":43.3,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":7188948,"projectId":10006041,"letterContent":"Please accept my sincere apologies for the delay in sending this note. The end of the school year is always a whirlwind, but I wanted to make sure I took the time to properly thank you for your incredibly generous donation of the PlayStation 5 for our school game room.\r\n\r\nThe impact of your gift has already been wonderful to see. Many of our fourth graders have absolutely loved getting the chance to use it, and it has quickly become a massive highlight of their week. Because it arrived later in the school year, a few of our students didn't get a chance to try it out just yet, but they are already incredibly enthusiastic and looking forward to getting their turn when they return next year!\r\n\r\nYour generosity has provided a wonderful space for our students to relax, socialize, and reward themselves for their hard work in the classroom. We are deeply grateful for your support of our students and our school community.\r\n\r\nThank you once again for making such a positive difference.","fullyFundedDate":1768225618309,"projectUrl":"project/gaming-for-success/10006041/","projectTitle":"Gaming for Success","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Walker","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7188948_orig.png?crop=1539,1539,x0,y15&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1656721957774","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-walker1"},{"teacherId":8541072,"projectId":9997567,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity and support of our classroom. Your donations will make a meaningful difference in our students' learning experience every day.\r\n\r\nThe whiteboard table will help increase student engagement during small group instruction by giving students an interactive space to collaborate, practice skills, and share ideas together. The book about the 50 states will be a wonderful resource to help students learn geography, state facts, and build excitement about exploring our country. The two-pocket folders will help keep student worksheets and class materials organized so students can stay prepared and successful throughout the school year.\r\n\r\nYour kindness and support help create a more engaging, organized, and positive learning environment for my students. Thank you for investing in their education and future. We truly appreciate your generosity!","fullyFundedDate":1768672334127,"projectUrl":"project/making-social-studies-fun/9997567/","projectTitle":"Making Social Studies Fun!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Auna","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-7_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8541072"},{"teacherId":8433390,"projectId":9998377,"letterContent":"Thank you very much for the generous donation through the state of Nevada's Department of Education. As a STEM specialist, my class is a favorite destination for many of our students as it is considered a preferred activity. \r\n\r\nI chose to purchase more LEGOs as they are a favorite manulative of our students. Many students don't have LEGO blocks at home, so this is a real treat for them. \r\n\r\nThis year, I decided to take a chance a two types of STEM blocks as well as \"straw structure\" sets. These were a hit with the students. As you can see from the photos, the possibilities were endless.","fullyFundedDate":1768155091980,"projectUrl":"project/stem-manipulatives-for-learning-through/9998377/","projectTitle":"STEM Manipulatives for Learning Through Play","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Hoffman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8433390"},{"teacherId":4929283,"projectId":10194106,"letterContent":"Thanks to your support through Donors Choose, our students now have outdoor toys that make recess more active, engaging, and inclusive. These new play materials encourage teamwork, creativity, and healthy physical activity while giving students a positive outlet to recharge during the school day. The toys have helped students build social skills, practice cooperation, and return to the classroom more focused and ready to learn. Your generosity has created joyful opportunities for movement and connection that our students look forward to every day.","fullyFundedDate":1777654158037,"projectUrl":"project/learning-through-play-outdoors/10194106/","projectTitle":"Learning Through Play Outdoors","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Preston","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4929283"},{"teacherId":4929283,"projectId":9971266,"letterContent":"Our new classroom organization bins have already made a huge difference for our students. Supplies now have designated spaces, which helps students stay organized, independent, and ready to learn. Classroom transitions are smoother, materials are easier to find, and the overall learning environment feels calmer and more structured. These resources may seem simple, but they have had a meaningful impact on our daily routines and student success. Thank you for supporting our classroom through Donors Choose!","fullyFundedDate":1774894305766,"projectUrl":"project/classroom-organization/9971266/","projectTitle":"Classroom Organization","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Preston","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4929283"},{"teacherId":9352072,"projectId":10196115,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support of my preschool outdoor learning project. Because of your kindness, my students will have exciting new equipment like balance stones, bean bag toss boards, and colorful sidewalk chalk to use during outdoor play and learning time. Your donation is helping to create a fun, active, and engaging environment where young learners can build confidence, practice coordination, and enjoy hands-on experiences outside the classroom.\r\n\r\nThe balance stones and bean bag toss boards will encourage my preschoolers to strengthen their gross motor skills, improve balance, and learn teamwork through play. The sidewalk chalk will spark creativity and imagination as students practice drawing, writing, counting, and playing interactive games together outdoors. These materials will make a meaningful difference in our daily activities and provide opportunities for learning that are both educational and joyful.\r\n\r\nI am truly grateful for your generosity and belief in my students. Your support helps create memorable experiences that encourage growth, exploration, and happiness for every child in my classroom. Thank you for investing in my preschoolers and helping me provide enriching outdoor opportunities that they will enjoy for years to come.","fullyFundedDate":1776822441334,"projectUrl":"project/prek-move-and-learn/10196115/","projectTitle":"PreK Move and Learn","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Felicia","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-7_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9352072"},{"teacherId":5110619,"projectId":9994470,"letterContent":"Thank you to my donors for helping create a healthier and more comfortable speech room for my students. The new air purifiers have helped provide a cleaner learning environment during speech and language sessions, and the office chair has improved my ability to comfortably support students throughout long therapy days, evaluations, and meetings.\r\n\r\nMy students were excited and curious when the materials arrived, especially the air purifiers. We use these resources daily during articulation, language, and social communication activities. A clean, calm, and supportive environment helps students stay focused, engaged, and ready to learn.\r\n\r\nThese resources will continue supporting meaningful speech and language learning for students from preschool through elementary school, and I am so grateful for the generosity that made this possible.","fullyFundedDate":1768172290594,"projectUrl":"project/materials-for-speech-therapy-room/9994470/","projectTitle":"Materials for Speech Therapy Room","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. R.","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5110619_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1516731289690","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5110619"},{"teacherId":8433390,"projectId":9929388,"letterContent":"I want to take this time to thank you for your generosity. The marble runs and magna-tiles have been a hit with my students, especially the my primary grades (K-2), and especially with our three primary autism classes. Due to you you being able to help me purchase new marble runs as well as magna-tiles, my classroom was a favorite of our primary autism classes. \r\n\r\nOur neurodivergent students often would have contests to see who could make the tallest marble run. With the magna-tiles, students were able to explore patterns and make three-dimensional shapers. There were times I would send marble runs to other specialists' classes to keep our students with primary autism calm. Words alone can't express how grateful I am that you donated funds for this very important project to me and my students.","fullyFundedDate":1766249373309,"projectUrl":"project/marble-runs-and-magna-tiles-for-stem-man/9929388/","projectTitle":"Marble Runs and Magna-Tiles for STEM Manipulatives","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Hoffman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8433390"},{"teacherId":9350636,"projectId":10054013,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping fund our lit lab for ELL students! We now have many fun and engaging ways to build English language skills for a variety of learning levels and grades.\r\n\r\nThe kids were so excited to see the new materials and have a chance to explore them. The \"10 Things\" and the \"Guess who?\" games have been especially entertaining. These games given confidence to students that have been hesitant to practice their English.\r\n\r\nYou have made a huge difference in the level of support the lit lab is able to provide. These materials will last for several years and impact many students in the future. I greatly appreciate your donation and your support!","fullyFundedDate":1771370033444,"projectUrl":"project/literacy-lab-for-english-language-learne/10054013/","projectTitle":"Literacy Lab for English Language Learners","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Carson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9350636"},{"teacherId":2997962,"projectId":10033952,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support in providing sensory items and social-emotional learning (SEL) materials for our kindergarten classroom. Your kindness has made a meaningful and lasting impact on our students, and we are incredibly grateful.\r\n\r\nWith the addition of these resources, our classroom has become a more supportive, inclusive, and engaging environment for all learners. The sensory tools have helped students regulate their emotions, stay focused during lessons, and feel more comfortable throughout the school day. Many of our students are still learning how to manage big feelings, and having access to these materials has given them safe and effective ways to calm their bodies and minds.\r\n\r\nThe SEL materials have also played a vital role in strengthening our classroom community. Through daily use, students are learning how to identify their emotions, practice empathy, solve problems, and build positive relationships with their peers. We have seen noticeable growth in students' ability to communicate their needs, work collaboratively, and show kindness toward one another.\r\n\r\nBecause of your generosity, our students are not only growing academically, but also developing the essential life skills they need to be successful both in and out of the classroom. You have helped create a space where every child feels supported, valued, and ready to learn.\r\n\r\nThank you again for believing in our students and investing in their future. Your support truly makes a difference each and every day.","fullyFundedDate":1768714893946,"projectUrl":"project/learning-emotional-regulation/10033952/","projectTitle":"Learning Emotional Regulation","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hancock","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2997962"},{"teacherId":4929283,"projectId":10175280,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation of Clorox wipes and hand sanitizer to our classroom. Your support is truly appreciated and makes a meaningful difference in helping us maintain a clean and safe learning environment for our students.\r\n\r\nBecause of your kindness, we are able to regularly disinfect equipment and high-touch surfaces, which helps keep our students healthy and ready to learn and stay active. These supplies are especially important as we continue to promote good hygiene habits and ensure that all students feel safe during physical activities.\r\n\r\nWe are incredibly grateful for your generosity and for thinking of our students. Your contribution helps us create a positive and secure space where children can focus on learning, growing, and staying active.\r\n\r\nThank you again for your support!","fullyFundedDate":1775601297097,"projectUrl":"project/healthy-hands-healthy-learners/10175280/","projectTitle":"Healthy Hands, Healthy Learners!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Preston","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4929283"},{"teacherId":2481167,"projectId":10021656,"letterContent":"I want to send a sincere thank you as the materials donated, especially for the paint materials. The paint markers are perfect for primary autism inclusion classes that are working on fine motor skills while keeping the mess under control. When the students saw the gallons of paint, boxes full of it, delivered to my classroom their eyes popped open wide, and their mouths hit the floor with audible gasps of delight. You would have thought it was a special holiday by their reaction. \r\n\r\nThese supplies are more than just materials. They are an invitation to explore, to learn new processes, to create new brain neuro connections, to connect on a deeper human level with one another and with famous artist from the present and the past. They enable me as their educator a tool to implement the endurring idea that art is a means to a positve well-being. They now can understand the art critique process because they are actively involved in the making. That concept is no longer abstract and is transferable to other domains like revising their writing, improving their perfomance on the field, or ability to articulate what went well, or what needs to be improved. You helped me do this. You have impacted my campus' student body. Truly, thank you.","fullyFundedDate":1768666694522,"projectUrl":"project/lets-paint/10021656/","projectTitle":"Let's Paint!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lopez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2481167_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1634774723380","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/lopez-arts-help"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_59360","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":455,"numTeachers":32,"percentFrplEligible":95,"percentAsian":4,"percentBlack":24,"percentWhite":14,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":43,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":2,"percentMultiracialImputed":10,"gradesServed":"Pre-K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"14.2:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":56.7,"schoolId":59360,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Jim Thorpe Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Jim Thorpe Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/nevada/clark-county-school-district/jim-thorpe-elementary-school/59360"}