{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Nokomis Montessori Magnet School - South","outOfStateSupporters":36.0,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":5099331,"projectId":10386186,"letterContent":"My students have been enjoying the materials that you donated to my classroom. I would have to say that their favorite material is the paint sticks. They love using them to make art and I appreciate how easy they are for the children to use. The paint sticks dry quickly, do not smear and are vibrant. I recently put out the fruit cutting material and they love using the wooden knife to cut the wooden fruit. This a is a great hand-eye coordination activity for them to use. We also have enjoyed using the other materials as well. Thank you for your generous donation!","fullyFundedDate":1786542234968,"projectUrl":"project/paint-sticks-and-practical-life/10386186/","projectTitle":"Paint Sticks and Practical Life","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wente","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5099331_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1517178509492","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5099331"},{"teacherId":5099331,"projectId":10489919,"letterContent":"Thank you for making a cozy place to read and relax in my classroom. The chairs are a hit with the children. They were excited when I put the first chair together and replaced an old chair. A couple of days later I put together the second chair and they about lost their minds! They were so excited that two people could share our library space together. Since the two chairs have been available, there are always two children in there looking at books, using the calming materials or just chatting to each other! Thank you for helping us make a cozy space that all the children enjoy!","fullyFundedDate":1787158692916,"projectUrl":"project/a-relaxing-place-to-read/10489919/","projectTitle":"A Relaxing Place to Read","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wente","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5099331_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1517178509492","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5099331"},{"teacherId":8746296,"projectId":10657619,"letterContent":"An urban elementary school library like ours serves a very wide variety of readers- from preK to fifth grade and all with varying reading abilities. Books like the ones you helped provide serve ALL of those students. There are new picture books for our youngest students to have read to them, but those are also enjoyed by all ages in our school. Books like Earl and Worm by popular author Greg Pizzoli engage our transitional readers as they branch into early chapter books. And our graphic novel collection is wildly popular and new titles are continually in high demand. \r\n\r\nOur entire school community is so grateful to donors like you who step in to fill the void when district and building finances can't stretch to provide new library materials.","fullyFundedDate":1789871609173,"projectUrl":"project/cover-to-cover-books-for-every-age/10657619/","projectTitle":"Cover to cover: books for every age","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Andrea","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8746296_orig.png?crop=432,432,x0,y72&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1760040887292","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8746296"},{"teacherId":8746296,"projectId":10644617,"letterContent":"Wow! The Nokomis South students have been so thrilled with all the new Manga books you helped provide that I have been barely able to keep them on the shelf! And that is a wonderful problem to have. Finding the titles that students are excited to read is key to helping them grow into the avid bookworms we want. \r\n\r\nManga is the hot interest for our elementary kiddos right now and getting access to familiar titles like Pokemon and Animal Crossings increases the popularity of this part of our collection even more.\r\n\r\nWe are all so touched by your generosity in support of building the next generation of readers.","fullyFundedDate":1789564283924,"projectUrl":"project/manga-magic-giving-students-books-they/10644617/","projectTitle":"Manga Magic: giving students books they want to read","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Andrea","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8746296_orig.png?crop=432,432,x0,y72&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1760040887292","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8746296"},{"teacherId":8746296,"projectId":10610026,"letterContent":"Thank you for your incredible generosity in providing new high interest non-fiction books for the avid readers in our school!\r\n\r\nStudents have been enjoying the art books full of drawing lessons, origami and project ideas which help them in their understanding of how to read a procedural text (as well as providing them with fun). \r\n\r\nThey have dived into the many fact rich books like those about the solar system, vehicles and sports. It is so crucial to have books that feed into their interests and you have made that possible.","fullyFundedDate":1789397522179,"projectUrl":"project/nonfiction-that-hooks-readers/10610026/","projectTitle":"Nonfiction That Hooks Readers","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Andrea","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8746296_orig.png?crop=432,432,x0,y72&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1760040887292","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8746296"},{"teacherId":9322393,"projectId":10447149,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for all these wonderful, engaging materials! My students are using these materials daily to explore building, creating, and inventing. They are developing their fine motor movements and hand-eye coordination while having fun! They are also learning deep concentration with these materials, and how to stay with an activity and take care of it. \r\n\r\nWhen they first saw these materials, it was like Christmas, or a birthday! They oooh'ed and ahhh'ed when I opened the box and couldn't wait for me to put the materials on the shelf for them. \r\n\r\nAs we put these materials away for more challenging reading and writing works, they will come out again on \"Fun Fridays\" as something to look forward to! After a long week of lots of learning, they love to celebrate with Fun Friday manipulatives and working with friends on buildings, cars, spaceships... anything they can imagine!\r\n\r\nThank you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1789579938891,"projectUrl":"project/engaging-materials-for-public-montessori/10447149/","projectTitle":"Engaging Materials for Public Montessori!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Ashley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9322393_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1754663954337","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9322393"},{"teacherId":9322393,"projectId":10432853,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating to my project! We love these new books! I am super excited for my classroom to have its very own set to use year after year.\r\n\r\nA concept that we work on at the beginning of the year is \"making predictions\". With these books, we took a look at the front cover picture and the title, and tried to make a hypothesis, or prediction, about what the book was going to be about. This is a great skill for early readers to learn and they start to understand that books deliver us messages and information. At the end of the book, we review whether our predictions were correct or not! We also use these books to teach new vocabulary - I highlight words in the text that might be confusing, especially to English Language Learners, and put the words onto a Powerpoint we use as we read. I show pictures and gifs as examples for unknown words, and we expand our vocabulary every time we read!\r\n\r\nIn my classroom, we read each day before lunch, and then the books go into my little library corner with my comfy chair. It's a great place for my students to look at pictures close up, relax, and read their favorite stories as many times as they'd like.\r\n\r\nThese books really do impact my whole classroom. Since I have a mixed classroom of PreK and Kindergarten students, my Kindergarteners get to hear books they love again, and my PreKs get to hear them for the first time. Read aloud is our favorite time!","fullyFundedDate":1787167930732,"projectUrl":"project/giggle-worthy-read-alouds-to-say-welcom/10432853/","projectTitle":"Giggle-Worthy Read-Alouds To Say \"Welcome to Kindergarten!\"","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Ashley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9322393_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1754663954337","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9322393"},{"teacherId":9322393,"projectId":10436774,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating these much-needed materials to my classroom! The cylinder blocks, pink tower, brown stair, and binomial cube are taken out every single day! We even have a special procedure when a student wants to do the pink tower and needs the tiniest cube; they have to ask myself or my assistant, and it's kept in a special beautiful container on the side of my little workspace. When I open the little container, it's this \"awww\" moment as I carefully hand them the tiniest cube, which they lovingly cup in their hands on their way over to their work rug. When they're finished, they bring it back to me and so carefully place it in my palm. It's adorable!\r\n\r\nWhen my students first saw our new materials, it was like Christmas or a birthday; their eyes were big, and spontaneous, excited chatter erupted! We talked about how beautiful and precious our new materials are, and how to take care of them. They've been so respectful and loving to our new materials. \r\n\r\nAs they grow, these materials get used in new ways; they'll learn how to combine the pink tower and brown stairs, growing a sense of size discrepancy between two different objects, and use cards to help guide them to explore creating different designs with these materials. The cylinder blocks have multiple lessons to them as well, and they've been working on taking out all four blocks at a time and mixing up all the pieces to notice very tiny differences! The binomial cube itself is a physical representation of mathematics, and they'll use this knowledge later on in fourth and fifth grades!\r\n\r\nThank you again for your generous donation!","fullyFundedDate":1787168154931,"projectUrl":"project/stem-montessori-materials/10436774/","projectTitle":"STEM Montessori Materials!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Ashley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9322393_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1754663954337","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9322393"},{"teacherId":5024506,"projectId":10201259,"letterContent":"Our students are so excited to have all the amazing new toys for the outdoor class room. We opened the outdoor space this past week and they have been so busy. They are using trucks to move materials around the space. Creating imaginary play with making food in their mud kitchen and creating memories. The frisbees are a huge hit! They are so easy for this age to throw and catch without anyone getting hit in the head with a hard frisbee. I am so appreciative of the on going support we have received by Donors Choose.","fullyFundedDate":1778787131954,"projectUrl":"project/outdoor-experiences/10201259/","projectTitle":"Outdoor Experiences","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Chuhel","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5024506_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1516493956213","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5024506"},{"teacherId":5099331,"projectId":10200586,"letterContent":"The new materials that were purchased for this project were introduced to the students today. They were so excited to use the new mud kitchen! Right away, they figured out how to open the oven and pretend to cook things on the stove. I received the mud kitchen at the end of the school year, last year and I was able to modify the kitchen and give it a couple of coats of poly on it so that it will last even longer! \r\nThe children also enjoy using the brooms and wheelbarrow that were part of this project. They are going to have a blast using these materials as the leaves fall. Thank you for your generosity.","fullyFundedDate":1779292332633,"projectUrl":"project/mud-kitchen-magic/10200586/","projectTitle":"Mud Kitchen Magic","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wente","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5099331_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1517178509492","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5099331"},{"teacherId":5024506,"projectId":10201338,"letterContent":"The generous donation of books, slides, puzzles and specimens for our frog, bee and flower life cycle unit will have a tremendous impact on our students' learning. As a inner-city school, many of our students have limited opportunities for hands on science experiences. These materials will bring learning to life by allowing students to see, touch and explore the concepts they have studied.\r\nThe books will build background knowledge and support literacy development, while the slides and specimens wil give students a close-up look at the stages of life cycles and the natural world. The puzzles will reinforce learning through interactive play and problem solving. Together, these resources will help students make a meaningful connections, increase engagement, and deepen their understanding of science. \r\nWe are incredibly grateful for this donation. It will inspire curiosity, encourage discovery, and create memorable learning experiences that are students will carry with them for years to come.","fullyFundedDate":1776712137568,"projectUrl":"project/life-cycles/10201338/","projectTitle":"Life Cycles","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Chuhel","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5024506_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1516493956213","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5024506"},{"teacherId":5024506,"projectId":10117031,"letterContent":"Receiving these supplies from a generous donor will have an impact on my students learning. New materials often spark curiosity and excitement over learning. When students have access to quality learning materials, they are more likely to feel prepared and capable of succeeding.\r\nThe donations help that all students, regardless of their circumstances, have access to the resources they need to thrive in their learning. \r\nWe are incredibly grateful for this support and the positive difference it has made in our classroom. \r\nDonors Choose has always been so supportive to the teachers in the the St. Paul Public Schools. Your match to the donations was extremely helpful. Thank you.","fullyFundedDate":1772551020161,"projectUrl":"project/classroom-supplies/10117031/","projectTitle":"Classroom Supplies","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Chuhel","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5024506_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1516493956213","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5024506"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_107880","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":257,"numTeachers":16,"percentFrplEligible":74,"percentAsian":41,"percentBlack":13,"percentWhite":23,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":9,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":11,"gradesServed":"K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"16.1:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":64.0,"schoolId":107880,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Nokomis Montessori Magnet School - South on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Nokomis Montessori Magnet School - South","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/minnesota/saint-paul-public-schools/nokomis-montessori-magnet-school-s/107880"}