{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Kihei Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":54.8,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":10294125,"projectId":10108380,"letterContent":"Your generous gift of the two storage shelves has provided our classroom with an organized and efficient system for storing class materials, current lessons and activities, assessments, and other essential resources.\r\n\r\nIt is refreshing to walk into the classroom knowing that my co-workers, students, and I can easily find what we need. An added benefit is having dedicated shelf space to prepare and organize lesson activities in advance. Every second counts when working with three-year-olds and their understandably short attention spans, so having materials readily accessible helps our day run much more smoothly.\r\n\r\nYour thoughtful support has made a meaningful difference in our daily learning environment and has enhanced our ability to focus on what matters most—supporting our students' learning and growth.\r\n\r\nThank you for your generosity and support!","fullyFundedDate":1771691310117,"projectUrl":"project/organize-access-learn-repeat/10108380/","projectTitle":"Organize, Access, Learn, Repeat!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Laura","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-3_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10294125"},{"teacherId":8364116,"projectId":10111045,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donations to our classroom. Your kindness and support help create a positive and enriching learning environment for our students. Because of your contributions, we are able to provide valuable resources, engaging activities, and meaningful opportunities that enhance our students' educational experience.\r\n\r\nThank you Hawaii Department Of Education for helping create a positive learning environment for our students. We are truly grateful for your continued support and commitment to our students' success. Thank you for being an important part of our classroom community.\r\n\r\nWe truly appreciate your investment in our classroom and your commitment to helping our students succeed. Thank you for making a difference!","fullyFundedDate":1771778460156,"projectUrl":"project/essentials-for-next-school-year/10111045/","projectTitle":"Essentials for Next School Year","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. M","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8364116"},{"teacherId":4825181,"projectId":10208562,"letterContent":"Anyone can hand a child a book, but teaching them how to read it strategically hands them the keys to the entire library. By blending strategy instruction with the freedom of library exploration, I am equipping students with the confidence to tackle any text, anytime, anywhere.\r\n\r\nThis year, our K–5 students are diving deep into reading comprehension through a program I developed specifically for our library. During our time together, I model key reading strategies using engaging read-alouds, and students practice these skills using custom graphic organizers. It's been incredible to watch their confidence and understanding soar!\r\n\r\nA complete set of books is not just a resource; it is an invitation to continuity. It tells a young student that their curiosity doesn't have to pause, their momentum matters, and their learning environment is fully invested in their long-term success.","fullyFundedDate":1778109145835,"projectUrl":"project/missing-pieces-matching-stories-comple/10208562/","projectTitle":"Missing Pieces, Matching Stories: Completing Our Library Collections","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Pau","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4825181_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y504&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1722585019560","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4825181"},{"teacherId":7941123,"projectId":10202878,"letterContent":"Wow, thank you for your generous donation in helping me provide a clean, organized, reading storage for my Title-1 Third graders. With your support, we can now use these resources to easily access our reading books. This was such a big change in our classroom because now students can grab the specific unit they want to read and easily read in shared gorups.\r\n\r\nStudents were so excited to see this change in our classroom because before, it was so unorganized and did not have easy access to find books. Now with this project, students can easily find their books and read!\r\n\r\nOur next steps are to continue to read and use compare and contrast with the the stories by supporting their reasoning with text evidence.","fullyFundedDate":1778266631637,"projectUrl":"project/reading-organization-for-paired-shared-r/10202878/","projectTitle":"Reading Organization For Paired Shared Readers","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. L","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/missnunez"},{"teacherId":8825244,"projectId":10107152,"letterContent":"Our new classroom carpet has truly transformed our daily learning environment. It provides a warm, comfortable space where students love to gather for singing, playing educational games, and diving deep into Hawaiian culture and history. Beyond enhancing our lessons, the rug serves a fantastic practical purpose by muffling the harsh noise of stools scraping against the bare floor. Thank you so much for your incredible generosity; this gift has created a much quieter, cozier, and more focused space for us to thrive.","fullyFundedDate":1771638861273,"projectUrl":"project/a-gathering-place/10107152/","projectTitle":"A Gathering Place","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kama","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-3_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8825244"},{"teacherId":7928172,"projectId":9418675,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom project! Because of your generosity, my students are already using these materials to participate in engaging, hands-on learning experiences that make learning more meaningful and accessible.\r\n\r\nAs a Deaf Education teacher, I work with students who benefit greatly from visual, interactive, and language-rich instruction. These resources are helping students build communication, problem-solving, literacy, math, and teamwork skills through real experiences instead of passive learning.\r\n\r\nThe excitement these materials brought into our classroom was immediate. Students were eager to explore, create, experiment, and discuss their learning with one another. Your support is helping create an environment where students feel successful, included, and excited to learn.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in my students and helping provide opportunities that will continue to make a lasting impact long after this project is complete.","fullyFundedDate":1757258622180,"projectUrl":"project/hands-on-thematic-learning/9418675/","projectTitle":"Hands-On Thematic Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Horwitz","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7928172_orig.png?crop=1238,1238,x282,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659901969963","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7928172"},{"teacherId":6578379,"projectId":9776345,"letterContent":"May 16, 2025\r\n\r\nDear Donors Choose Community and Generous Donors,\r\n\r\nOn behalf of my students and myself, I want to express my deepest gratitude for your incredible support. As a first-year teacher (returning from retirement), to my own classroom was both exhilarating and humbling — and thanks to you, we made a great year of it.\r\n\r\nThe materials you funded have made a tangible difference in our daily learning environment. Our accountability tracking tools and consumable workbooks have helped my students stay organized and take ownership of their progress. The binders and lamination system mean that our hard work and resources stayed in great shape all year long — a small thing that makes a big difference when supplies are precious.\r\n\r\nYou might smile to hear what my students are most excited about: the thinking putty. We have made it a classroom tradition — whenever we tackle something hard, out comes the putty. It gives little hands something to work with while young minds wrestle with big ideas, and it has become a symbol in our room that struggling with something difficult is not only okay, it is celebrated.\r\n\r\nThe magic tricks have been a delightful surprise as well — a perfect way to spark curiosity and reward effort. And the simple basics, a working stapler and tape dispenser, mean that our project ideas are no longer limited by what we have on hand. We can build, create, and collaborate freely.\r\n\r\nThis classroom became an enthusiastic learning environment, and that is because of you. Your generosity told my students that people beyond our school walls believe in them — and that message matters more than any single supply.\r\n\r\nWith heartfelt thanks,\r\n\r\nAaron Goldstein","fullyFundedDate":1769088809642,"projectUrl":"project/classroom-supplies/9776345/","projectTitle":"Classroom Supplies","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Goldstein","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6578379"},{"teacherId":6578379,"projectId":10110610,"letterContent":"May 16, 2025\r\n\r\nDear Donors Choose Community and Generous Donors,\r\n\r\nThank you from the bottom of my heart — and from the enthusiastic hands and minds of my students — for funding our \"Games and Manipulatives\" project. What you have made possible goes far beyond fun. You have given my students a pathway to mastery.\r\nMy students are hands-on learners. They come alive when they can touch, move, and interact with what they are studying. I have watched children who struggle to stay focused during traditional instruction become completely absorbed the moment a game or manipulative is placed in front of them. That concentration is something special — and it is exactly the environment where real learning happens.\r\n\r\nThe games and materials you funded are specifically designed to target skills that some of my students have not yet fully mastered. Rather than drilling the same concepts in the same ways, these tools give students a fresh approach — one built on repetition they actually enjoy. Friendly competition with peers creates a natural motivation to practice, and before long, those repeated practice moments quietly become mastery.\r\n\r\nJust as importantly, these materials encourage cooperation. Students are learning not only academic skills but also how to work together, support one another, and celebrate each other's growth. Those lessons will carry them far beyond our classroom.\r\nYour generosity has filled our classroom with energy, engagement, and possibility. Thank you for believing that every child deserves the tools that work best for them — and for helping us find the joy in learning together.\r\n\r\n\r\nWith sincere gratitude,\r\n\r\nAaron Goldstein","fullyFundedDate":1771778086904,"projectUrl":"project/games-and-manipulatives-make-learning-fu/10110610/","projectTitle":"Games and Manipulatives Make Learning Fun","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Goldstein","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6578379"},{"teacherId":7941123,"projectId":10186730,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for these essential items for our classroom. We now have a dedicated area where I can collect student works by helping students stay organized. We use the file holder to turn in work and for students to collect their graded work. The marble paper was used in our back sink to enhance our classroom environment, and students were so excited to see this! It had made the sink area a lot easier to clean and studnets enjoy the change. The duck tape has been a big help in keeping all of our markers together and ensuring that all students get a set of markers for the classroom. \r\nStudents were excited to see the new materials and loved having an area for easy access for expos for math practice. The magnetic charts have been great for peer work on the white board and our classroom sounds like a leadership community with these materials. \r\n\r\nThank you so much for these essential items for our classroom. You have made a HUGE difference in our class community.","fullyFundedDate":1776157643832,"projectUrl":"project/title-1-basic-classroom-supplies-for-org/10186730/","projectTitle":"Title-1 Basic Classroom Supplies for Organization and Success","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. L","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/missnunez"},{"teacherId":7941123,"projectId":10179375,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donations in helping my students become better writers. Printed writing paper is not provided by our school and students must get more practice with handwriting. One classroom project that we just completed was research on a career. Students looked up the career and wrote a paragraph on it.\r\n\r\nWhen students first saw these materials, they were excited to write and draw pictures to their writings. My students need more opportunities like this, and with your support, this was possible. The practice sentence building materials have also been very helpful, is supports for my special needs students. \r\n\r\nMy next steps for this project are to review on how to make capital and lower case letters since this is still a struggle for our classroom. I will have the classroom practice rewriting their paragraphs after this review.","fullyFundedDate":1775751545522,"projectUrl":"project/writing-materials-for-letter-formation-a/10179375/","projectTitle":"Writing Materials for Letter Formation and Paragraph Building","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. L","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/missnunez"},{"teacherId":6478466,"projectId":9939420,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating to our classroom! My students were so happy to see all of the snacks arrive to our class. They were quickly picking out which snack they'd want to eat first. We truly appreciate your kindness and generosity. My students were able to fill their hungry stomachs and fuel their brains. These snacks also taught students the importance of picking up after themselves. At the beginning, there was trash left all over the field. We had a talk about why it's important to not litter and where trash should go instead. It was a great learning moment for them. Mahalo!","fullyFundedDate":1767295684323,"projectUrl":"project/restocking-our-snacks/9939420/","projectTitle":"Restocking our Snacks","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Parker","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6478466_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1700198706681","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-hannahmeiparker"},{"teacherId":6478466,"projectId":10103009,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating to our classroom! My students were so happy to see all of the snacks arrive to our class. They were quickly picking out which snack they'd want to eat first. We truly appreciate your kindness and generosity. My students were able to fill their hungry stomachs and fuel their brains. These snacks also taught students the importance of picking up after themselves. At the beginning, there was trash left all over the field. We had a talk about why it's important to not litter and where trash should go instead. It was a great learning moment for them. 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