{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Laurel Dell Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":15.9,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":595294,"projectId":10244827,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous contribution to our project, \"Color My World.\" Our first grade students will be so excited to get their hands on their new watercolor sets!\r\n\r\nWith these art supplies our first grade learners will be able to express their experiences and emotions through the medium of watercolor. These materials are supporting the development of their creativity, fine motor skills, decision making skills.\r\n\r\nThe first day of school is fast approaching and an important part of the first few days of school is that the students see themselves reflected in their classrooms. We will use these paints to create self portraits, so the students can see themselves reflected in the classroom. This space is their space to learn, create, share, and experience!","fullyFundedDate":1777930433884,"projectUrl":"project/color-my-world/10244827/","projectTitle":"Color My World!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. O'Donoghue","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp595294_orig.jpg?crop=381,381,x9,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1586290433216","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-odonoghue"},{"teacherId":595294,"projectId":10229283,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation to our project, \"Tools to Support Home to School Connections.\" Your donation to this project will help our first grade students continue their learning at home with their families! They will be so organized with all of their at home learning tools in one place. They will receive new math manipulatives for at home learning support as well as plastic pouches to keep all of their materials organized at home. These tools help develop math skills as well as life long skills of organization. Thank you! \r\n\r\nWith gratitude,\r\nMs. O'Donoghue","fullyFundedDate":1778693017790,"projectUrl":"project/tools-to-support-home-to-school-connecti/10229283/","projectTitle":"Tools to Support Home to School Connections","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. O'Donoghue","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp595294_orig.jpg?crop=381,381,x9,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1586290433216","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-odonoghue"},{"teacherId":595294,"projectId":10228941,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to our project, \"We want to Celebrate You!\" Our first grade students get so excited on their birthdays. They can't wait to be celebrated.\r\n\r\nThe crowns, books, and bracelets make their day! They are so proud to wear the crown all day! They cherish the book, and read it over and over again both at home and at school. Their parents report that the students read their book again and again at home!\r\n\r\nThank you for your contribution to our classroom. We are grateful for your support!\r\n\r\nWith gratitude,\r\nMs. O'Donoghue","fullyFundedDate":1777989161407,"projectUrl":"project/we-want-to-celebrate-you/10228941/","projectTitle":"We Want to Celebrate You!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. O'Donoghue","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp595294_orig.jpg?crop=381,381,x9,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1586290433216","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-odonoghue"},{"teacherId":595294,"projectId":10091661,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation to our project, \"Tools to Support Home to School Connections.\" Your donation to this project will help our first grade students continue their learning at home with their families! They will be so organized with all of their at home learning tools in one place, with the plastic pouches. Their ideas will come to life with the colorful new markers. Our first grade students are just preparing for the first few days of school and they will be so excited to have tools at home to support their learning! We can't thank you enough for you support!\r\n\r\nWith gratitude,\r\nMs. O'Donoghue","fullyFundedDate":1776084318289,"projectUrl":"project/tools-to-support-home-to-school-connecti/10091661/","projectTitle":"Tools to Support Home to School Connections","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. O'Donoghue","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp595294_orig.jpg?crop=381,381,x9,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1586290433216","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-odonoghue"},{"teacherId":595294,"projectId":9361353,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous donation to our class project, \"Hands-on Manipulatives for Everyone!\" With your donation our students were able to independently use math tools to support their math understanding and conversations. Our students are working on expressing their understanding and communicating their ideas to others. They justify their responses using both the ten frames and the number grid on this tool. \r\nThe individual white boards help students have a blank slate, to solve problems with pictures, words, and math expressions. The individual white boards give them the space to work out their ideas and develop their mathematical identities! \r\nThank you for supporting our students!","fullyFundedDate":1753285065607,"projectUrl":"project/hands-on-manipulatives-for-everyone/9361353/","projectTitle":"Hands-on Manipulatives for Everyone!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. O'Donoghue","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp595294_orig.jpg?crop=381,381,x9,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1586290433216","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-odonoghue"},{"teacherId":595294,"projectId":9281872,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous donation to our project, \"Tools to Support Home to School Connections.\" Our students benefited so much by having tools at home to support the learning they were doing at school. With the crayons they were able to express their ideas in words and pictures, with the the markers they were able to create maps of their community and see themselves as important members of our community, and finally with the zippered pouches they were able to keep all of their materials organized at home, so they could find and use them easily. \r\n\r\nWe appreciate your support of our students!","fullyFundedDate":1746675402871,"projectUrl":"project/tools-to-support-home-to-school-connecti/9281872/","projectTitle":"Tools to Support Home to School Connections","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. O'Donoghue","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp595294_orig.jpg?crop=381,381,x9,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1586290433216","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-odonoghue"},{"teacherId":5528660,"projectId":9039284,"letterContent":"Every child deserves the chance to fall in love with reading, but for many of my fourth graders, that journey begins with a little extra encouragement.\r\n\r\nOur classroom Reading Incentive Store transforms reading from something students *have* to do into something they genuinely look forward to. Throughout the year, students earn points by reading independently, meeting personal reading goals, trying new genres, and demonstrating perseverance. Those points can be exchanged for small prizes, books, school supplies, and other rewards that celebrate their hard work.\r\n\r\nWhile the prizes are exciting, the true reward is the confidence my students gain. I've watched hesitant readers pick up books they never would have chosen before. I've seen students recommend favorite novels to classmates, eagerly discuss characters, and celebrate one another's accomplishments. Children who once counted the minutes until reading time now ask for \"just one more chapter.\"\r\n\r\nFor many of my students, these rewards are more than simple treats. They represent recognition, success, and the feeling that their effort matters. The Reading Incentive Store helps create a classroom culture where perseverance is celebrated and every reader—whether they're racing through chapter books or working hard to finish a single page—feels valued.\r\n\r\nYour generosity makes these moments possible. Every donation helps stock our Reading Incentive Store with meaningful rewards that inspire students to keep turning pages, building vocabulary, strengthening comprehension, and developing a lifelong love of reading.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in my students and showing them that their hard work is worth celebrating. Your support doesn't just provide prizes—it helps create confident readers who believe in themselves and discover that books can take them anywhere.\r\n\r\nIf this is for a DonorsChoose project, I can also tailor it to fit their style, which tends to perform best when it's around **250–350 words** and includes a few specific classroom examples.","fullyFundedDate":1736826132185,"projectUrl":"project/reading-rewards/9039284/","projectTitle":"Reading Rewards!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wilson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5528660_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1531518809345","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5528660"},{"teacherId":662437,"projectId":10091691,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our project, \"Supporting First Grade Learning Everyday.\" Your generosity provided essential classroom supplies that were used daily across all subject areas to support meaningful, hands-on learning for our first-grade students.\r\n\r\nBecause of your support, our classroom is stocked with important learning tools such as dry erase markers, erasers, cardstock, sentence strips, scissors, and colorful markers. These materials are used throughout the school year in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies to help students actively engage in their learning. Students are able to practice skills in interactive ways, receive immediate feedback, and participate in activities that build both independence and confidence.\r\n\r\nOne special highlight from this year was during our \"Patterns in the Sky\" science unit. Students used black cardstock to create their own constellation art. They designed creative constellations using images of themselves in different poses—some crouched like a cat, others standing like a ninja or striking imaginative shapes in the sky. This activity helped bring science to life in a fun and personal way while reinforcing their understanding of patterns in the night sky.\r\n\r\nAcross the year, these supplies have supported learning in every subject and have helped create a classroom environment where students can learn by doing, creating, and exploring. From literacy centers to math practice to creative science projects, these materials are an essential part of our daily instruction.\r\n\r\nWe are deeply grateful to all of you for investing in our students and helping make everyday learning more engaging, interactive, and meaningful. Your support truly makes a difference in the lives of our first graders.","fullyFundedDate":1770895374997,"projectUrl":"project/supporting-first-grade-learning-every-da/10091691/","projectTitle":"Supporting First Grade Learning Every Day","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nunez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp662437_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565014954264","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-nunez"},{"teacherId":662437,"projectId":10091704,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our \"Organize and Ready to Learn\" project. Your generosity helped us create a more organized, efficient, and engaging learning environment for our first-grade students.\r\n\r\nBecause of your support, we were able to provide students with color-coded plastic folders that help them stay organized across all subject areas. These folders have made a big difference in helping students take ownership of their learning materials and feel confident about where to find and store their work.\r\n\r\nYou also helped us purchase sheet protectors for our many reusable learning tools. These have become an essential part of our daily instruction in both math and reading. By placing printed resources on cardstock into sheet protectors, students are able to use whiteboard markers to interact with the materials again and again. This has made learning more hands-on, engaging, and sustainable, while also reinforcing key skills through repeated practice.\r\n\r\nIn addition, your support provided name badge stickers, which were especially helpful during our exciting first-grade field trips. Students proudly wore their name stickers as we explored new places in our community, including a trip to the zoo, a visit to the lake to release rainbow trout, and a joyful experience watching a children's theater performance of their favorite character, Pete the Cat. These experiences helped students connect classroom learning to the real world in meaningful and memorable ways.\r\n\r\nWe are so grateful for your investment in our classroom. Your support helped our students stay organized, engage deeply in learning, and enjoy enriching experiences beyond the classroom walls. Thank you for believing in our students and for supporting public education.","fullyFundedDate":1772040220147,"projectUrl":"project/organized-and-ready-to-learn/10091704/","projectTitle":"Organized and Ready to Learn!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nunez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp662437_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565014954264","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-nunez"},{"teacherId":662437,"projectId":9584895,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous support in helping us bring Mr. Nettell back to our school for a second day of team-building and cooperative learning activities this year. Thanks to donors like you, both first-grade classes were able to participate in another unforgettable experience focused on trust, perseverance, communication, and working together.\r\n\r\nThroughout the day, students engaged in a variety of challenges that encouraged them to think creatively, support one another, and step outside of their comfort zones. One of their favorite activities was the wooden platform challenge. Students worked together to see how many classmates they could balance on a small platform by holding on to one another and trusting their teammates. At first, many students thought only a few children would fit. Through collaboration, encouragement, and problem-solving, they were amazed when they successfully fit 12 first graders on the platform! The excitement and pride they felt after accomplishing something they initially thought was impossible was truly inspiring.\r\n\r\nAnother memorable lesson came from a simple video about baby ducks trying to climb a set of stairs to reach their mother. Mr. Nettell encouraged students to \"be the baby duck\" by taking risks, persevering through challenges, and never giving up when something feels difficult. This message resonated deeply with our students and became a phrase they continued to reference long after the program ended.\r\n\r\nExperiences like these help students develop skills that extend far beyond academics. They learn to trust one another, communicate effectively, embrace challenges, and build confidence in themselves and their classmates. We are incredibly grateful for your investment in our students and our public school. Thank you for making this meaningful experience possible and for helping our first graders grow as learners, leaders, and teammates.","fullyFundedDate":1755751572616,"projectUrl":"project/virtual-cooperative-adventures-and-chall/9584895/","projectTitle":"Virtual Cooperative Adventures and Challenges with Mr. Nettell","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nunez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp662437_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565014954264","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-nunez"},{"teacherId":662437,"projectId":9867132,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting our project and helping bring Mr. Nettell to our classroom for an unforgettable day of team building, trust-building, and cooperative challenges. Because of your generosity, both first-grade classes had the opportunity to participate in engaging activities that strengthened our classroom community and taught valuable life skills.\r\n\r\nStudents spent the day working with Mr. Nettell through a variety of exciting challenges that encouraged communication, problem-solving, perseverance, and teamwork. While every activity was meaningful, one challenge stood out as a favorite among many students: the jump rope challenge.\r\n\r\nAt first, many students were nervous about running under a moving jump rope. They were asked to take risks, trust themselves, and support one another as they worked independently, with partners, and eventually as a whole class. What seemed impossible at first became achievable when students learned to encourage one another and work together toward a common goal. Through determination and teamwork, the entire class successfully made it through the jump rope challenge. The pride and excitement they felt were incredible to witness.\r\n\r\nExperiences like these help students build confidence, develop resilience, and learn the importance of supporting others. The lessons they learned that day extended far beyond the classroom and will stay with them for years to come.\r\n\r\nWe are so grateful for your investment in our students and our public school. Thank you for making this memorable experience possible and for helping our students grow not only as learners but also as teammates, leaders, and caring members of our community.","fullyFundedDate":1764686544688,"projectUrl":"project/another-virtual-cooperative-adventures-a/9867132/","projectTitle":"Another Virtual Cooperative Adventures and Challenges with Mr. Nettell","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nunez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp662437_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1565014954264","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-nunez"},{"teacherId":662437,"projectId":10017621,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our \"3...2...1....School's Out for Summer!\" project. Your generosity helped us celebrate an incredible year of learning and growth in first grade with a special end-of-year gift for every student.\r\n\r\nThis group of first graders showed tremendous resilience, perseverance, and hard work throughout the school year. They tackled new challenges, grew as readers and mathematicians, and learned how to be kind and responsible members of our classroom community. We wanted to recognize their efforts with a fun summer surprise that would encourage creativity, learning, and family fun during the break.\r\n\r\nThanks to your support, each student received an ocean-themed bag filled with exciting items, including books to enjoy over the summer, geoboards to practice shapes and strengthen fine motor skills, rocks to paint, sunglasses, and many other fun goodies. The smiles on their faces when they received their bags were priceless!\r\n\r\nYour donations also allowed us to host a spring egg hunt in April. Students had a wonderful time searching for eggs and enjoying a memorable experience with their classmates. It was a joyful event that brought excitement and laughter to our school community.\r\n\r\nWe are deeply grateful for your investment in our students and our public school. 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