{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Morningside Community Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":36.2,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":10271037,"projectId":9734325,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generosity, my students are now using the Toobaloo reading phones during fluency practice and assessments. During fluency reads, students read aloud while wearing the phones so they can clearly hear their own voices. This has helped them slow down, notice their mistakes, and self-correct—something many of them struggled to do before. I've already seen students reread passages with more confidence and improved expression.\r\n\r\n When the reading phones first arrived, the excitement was immediate! Students were eager to try them and loved how \"fun\" and special they felt. Even reluctant readers were motivated to participate, and several students who usually avoid reading aloud asked for extra turns.\r\n\r\n Your support has given students a safe, low-pressure way to practice reading aloud, which has been especially helpful during test preparation and fluency checks. Next, students will continue using the reading phones during small-group instruction and independent reading to build accuracy, fluency, and confidence. These tools are helping students take ownership of their reading and move toward becoming stronger, more independent readers.\r\n\r\nThank you for giving my students the tools they need to succeed—your support truly makes a difference in our classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1764788065656,"projectUrl":"project/ring-in-reading-success/9734325/","projectTitle":"Ring in Reading Success","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Christman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10271037_orig.jpg?crop=480,480,x84,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1758846470818","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10271037"},{"teacherId":10271037,"projectId":9741778,"letterContent":"I want to take a moment to sincerely thank you for your generous support of my project. Thanks to your contribution, my students now have access to the reading paddles, which have already proven to be an invaluable tool in our classroom.\r\nThe students are using the paddles every day to enhance their reading skills. These hands-on resources have been especially effective during small group sessions, where students work together to decode and blend sounds, making the learning process both interactive and enjoyable. The paddles are giving my students the opportunity to practice in a more engaging way, and I can already see improvements in their confidence and fluency.\r\nWhen the students first saw the paddles, their excitement was evident. They were eager to dive right in, and it didn't take long for them to realize how much fun learning could be with these tools. The added excitement and motivation have created a positive atmosphere in the classroom, and the students are now more enthusiastic about tackling new reading challenges.\r\nAs we move forward, we will continue using the paddles to work on building fluency, especially with longer, multisyllabic words. These next steps will help my students gain greater confidence and independence in their reading, allowing them to approach even more challenging texts with a sense of accomplishment. I am excited to watch them continue to grow and progress with these resources.\r\nOnce again, thank you for your generosity. Your support is making a lasting difference in my students' learning, and I am so grateful to have you as part of their educational journey.","fullyFundedDate":1764615162652,"projectUrl":"project/building-strong-readers-one-sound-at-a/9741778/","projectTitle":"Building Strong Readers, One Sound at a Time","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Christman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10271037_orig.jpg?crop=480,480,x84,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1758846470818","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10271037"},{"teacherId":6654240,"projectId":9915878,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation to my classroom. My students were so excited to open up the boxes with me and see all of the new treasures for our classrooms. The look and excitement on their faces was priceless!\r\n\r\nThe many books we received are going to make great additions to our classroom library. The Narwhal and Jelly books are definitely a class favorite and have already been selected by many students to use as their silent reading book. The multiplication games have made great resources for our math centers and are a new fun and exciting way for my students to practice their multiplication facts. \r\n\r\nThank you again for believing in my students and providing them with materials to become successful learners.","fullyFundedDate":1764722121486,"projectUrl":"project/books-games-and-indoor-recess-oh-my/9915878/","projectTitle":"Books, Games, and Indoor Recess, Oh My!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Trivilino","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6654240_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1667167341670","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-trivilino"},{"teacherId":10271037,"projectId":9763437,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generous support, our classroom is becoming a brighter, more welcoming space for learning—literally! My students are bright, curious, and full of energy, and they thrive when our environment supports their focus and comfort. Many of them, especially students with ADHD or on the autism spectrum, learn best in a calm and inviting space. The fluorescent lights in our classroom, while practical, can be harsh and overstimulating. With your support, we were able to add light covers to soften the glare and bring in a lamp that provides warm, focused lighting.\r\nWhen the students first saw the new lighting, they immediately noticed the difference. They said it felt \"calmer\" and \"easier to read under,\" and it helped some students settle more quickly into independent work and small-group activities. I've also noticed that students seem more comfortable and focused throughout the day.\r\nNext, we will continue to build on this improved environment by using it to support our current classroom lessons. Students will engage in independent reading, writing, and group projects with more sustained attention and focus. Your support is helping every student feel safe, supported, and ready to learn—allowing creativity, curiosity, and joy to flourish every day.\r\nThank you for making this possible.\r\nWarmly,","fullyFundedDate":1762266374811,"projectUrl":"project/lighting-the-way-to-focus-and-comfort/9763437/","projectTitle":"Lighting the Way to Focus and Comfort","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Christman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10271037_orig.jpg?crop=480,480,x84,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1758846470818","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10271037"},{"teacherId":10271037,"projectId":9734262,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generosity, our classroom now has a copy of James and the Giant Peach for each student, and it has truly captured our students' imaginations. This book isn't just a fun adventure—it's helping students build important reading skills. Through this text, students are practicing identifying key ideas and details, making predictions, exploring character motivations, and using context to understand new vocabulary. It also introduces lessons about friendship, bravery, and problem-solving, which spark meaningful class discussions.\r\nReading in our classroom is lively and interactive. Students are engaged in reading, annotating the text with questions and thoughts, and they are practicing comprehension strategies while enjoying the story, making reading both fun and instructional.\r\nWe've noticed that several students are especially drawn to this book. Some finish chapters early and are eager to read ahead, while others are using notes to track interesting passages and reflections. Overall, the book is fostering a genuine love of reading—students are excited to share predictions, favorite moments, and even draw scenes inspired by the story.\r\nYour support has provided more than a book—it has given our students an opportunity to grow as readers, thinkers, and storytellers. Thank you for making this possible.\r\nWarmly,","fullyFundedDate":1758882211935,"projectUrl":"project/help-my-students-build-a-love-of-reading/9734262/","projectTitle":"Help My Students Build a Love of Reading","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Christman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10271037_orig.jpg?crop=480,480,x84,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1758846470818","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10271037"},{"teacherId":6654240,"projectId":9793542,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your donation to my classroom. Our new rug is a focal point in the classroom; it is used during morning meeting, ELA lessons, math lessons, and as a quite and calm place to sit and learn. My students were so excited when they walked into the classroom and saw this bright, new spot for them to sit and learn on. \r\n\r\nMy students and I had a long talk about how thankful we are to have the community support from all of you and how wonderful it is to have people who believe in them and want them to have nice things for their classroom, to help them become successful learners.","fullyFundedDate":1761952825992,"projectUrl":"project/new-rug-happy-students/9793542/","projectTitle":"New Rug, Happy Students","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Trivilino","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6654240_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1667167341670","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-trivilino"},{"teacherId":8638149,"projectId":9436511,"letterContent":"I want to sincerely thank you for your generous donation to my classroom project. Your support means so much to both me and my students. Because of your kindness, my students now have access to the materials they need to learn, grow, and stay engaged every day. Seeing their excitement when we opened the new resources was absolutely priceless — they couldn't wait to dive in and start using everything right away!\r\n\r\nYour contribution is helping make our classroom a more interactive and supportive place to learn. The students are already showing more confidence and enthusiasm, and I know that the impact of your generosity will last far beyond this school year. Thank you again for believing in our classroom and helping us create a brighter future for these amazing kids.","fullyFundedDate":1756077092671,"projectUrl":"project/its-just-the-class-necessities/9436511/","projectTitle":"It’s Just the Class Necessities","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Sumy","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8638149_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1751025590049","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-sumy"},{"teacherId":8438038,"projectId":9434705,"letterContent":"We are loving our new class resources! We have used them for our engineering and matter units so far this year and are already looking forward to how we will use them in our upcoming unit. One standout project is when we used our art supplies to deepen our understanding of the states of matter. Students learned new techniques with watercolor and crayon. Then use those techniques to create solid, liquid, and gas particle models. Using art to show and explain our thinking helps all the learners in my classroom. These materials help deepen the learning every day. \r\n Our creativity blooms in my science classroom. I have the privilege to teach many students with amazing, creative minds. They LOVE having access to so many art materials. Every day, students are looking for new ways to add art to our learning environment. \r\n Our next science journey is going to be diving into the water cycle. Students are going to use the materials to help support their narrative writing. They will be writing as a water droplet in its water cycle journey and using our art materials to deeply understand the journey water takes.\r\n Thank you for your support of our learning community. I know that it has and will continue to make a big impact on my students.","fullyFundedDate":1755696542631,"projectUrl":"project/experiments-in-creativity-our-science-/9434705/","projectTitle":"Experiments in Creativity: Our Science & Art Wishlist","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hodge","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8438038_orig.jpg?crop=2208,2208,x0,y338&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1752595015997","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8438038"},{"teacherId":9130346,"projectId":9756312,"letterContent":"We have been excited to try to bring in more hands-on activities and sensory learning throughout our grade levels with the materials that you helped to donate. It is so essential to provide students opportunities to use materials to help them engage and learn math in a meaningful and authentic way.\r\n\r\nThis helped to provide the students with time and materials to meet the math needs that helps give students confidence, self-esteem in their math ability, and opportunities for mastery.\r\nWe have also used these materials to help reach the gap with Cross curricular activities, matching science, math, and ELA with one another.","fullyFundedDate":1758808351494,"projectUrl":"project/math-through-hands-on-learning/9756312/","projectTitle":"Math Through Hands-on Learning!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. B. Lamoureaux","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9130346_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1756397483759","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9130346"},{"teacherId":6654240,"projectId":9717032,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your kind and generous donation to my classroom. My students were delighted to see the huge box of goodies that arrived in our classroom. We unboxed everything together and students were given time to look through the new additions to our classroom.\r\n\r\nThese new math games are going to make such a different for many of my students who require manipulatives and learn through kinesthetic games and activities. The place value games have already been used in centers and small groups and have helped students to solidify what we have been learning about in class. Our next unit is multiplication and both students and myself are looking forward to the many games we now have due to your generosity.","fullyFundedDate":1758565682729,"projectUrl":"project/counting-our-way-to-success/9717032/","projectTitle":"Counting Our Way To Success","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Trivilino","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6654240_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1667167341670","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-trivilino"},{"teacherId":9130346,"projectId":9576234,"letterContent":"The immediate impact for student learning was evident. This project helped to create a math experience through hands-on learning. Magnetic items were something that our school needs more of right now. We were able to easily work in many classrooms with the materials and support students in a variety of ways.\r\n The students have loved learning about math while celebrating their creative and imaginative selves. They have amazing ideas that they have been able to have cultivated through the materials. The floor cushions, regrouping kits, and other resources have supported them with hands-on learning and give them time to work through complex math problems. The materials have given students time to engage their brains and work collaboratively. \r\nEach day they have worked with these materials and progress through their mathematical thinking; the materials in this project have been able to be used through multiple grades during several concepts. Thank you, and we are grateful for your help.","fullyFundedDate":1757086883412,"projectUrl":"project/moving-up-with-math/9576234/","projectTitle":"Moving up with Math","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. B. Lamoureaux","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9130346_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1756397483759","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9130346"},{"teacherId":9130346,"projectId":9633739,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for making this project possible. Building multiple skills at once has helped to support students. Creating a library of math books was a way that will help support and engage all different learners in the classroom. Since we have been able to support reading within math time, it has helped students make connections in their thinking. \r\n The library has also helped to engage the students in both reading and math while making cross curriculum connections. Students often ask if they can read the books during indoor recess and it creates an opportunity for fun. \r\n Thank you again for making a significant impact in student learning","fullyFundedDate":1757086883439,"projectUrl":"project/math-library-where-reading-and-math-com/9633739/","projectTitle":"Math Library; Where Reading and Math Come Together!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. B. 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