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Knowing that someone else cares about my students as much as I do is extremely inspiring. \r\n\r\nYour kind and generous donation will supply the materials we need for our copycat frosty lab. 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Thanks to your kind and generous donation, my students will have a fast a nutritious snack to help their brains and their bellies. \r\n\r\nI thank you so much for providing this for my students. I appreciate you, and so do my students. I love it when other's care about my students as much as I do! It makes me so proud to be part of these student's lives.","fullyFundedDate":1762874873121,"projectUrl":"project/granola-makes-a-great-grab-and-go-snack/9852376/","projectTitle":"Granola Makes a Great Grab and Go Snack","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Jacobson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3082536_orig.jpg?crop=428,428,x76,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1554290263403","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/teachershellyd"},{"teacherId":3082536,"projectId":9852409,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your kind and generous donation. Thanks to you, my culinary students will have peaches for our peach crumble cooking lab and our smoothie lab. Teaching 200 students how to cook takes a village. I am so thankful that you are part of that village. Without wonderful donors like you, I probably would not be able to do a demonstration and cooking lab each week for my students. \r\n\r\nThanks to your help, I will now have the resources needed to make my students have a wonderful learning experience. Not only will they be able to use their skills learned for the lesson, but for the rest of their life.","fullyFundedDate":1762192831039,"projectUrl":"project/life-is-peachy/9852409/","projectTitle":"Life is Peachy","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Jacobson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3082536_orig.jpg?crop=428,428,x76,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1554290263403","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/teachershellyd"},{"teacherId":3082536,"projectId":9852394,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for contribution to my pie project. I love being able to do a Key Lime Pie demonstration for my classes. I then surprise my students the next day with their very own slice. This takes a lot of help to provide pie for almost 200 students. It is worth the hard work when you see the smiles on their faces while enjoying their pie. \r\n\r\nIt takes a village to teach students, and I am so thankful that you are part of the village my students have. I appreciate you, and so do my students!","fullyFundedDate":1761945448711,"projectUrl":"project/key-lime-pies-for-thanksgiving/9852394/","projectTitle":"Key Lime Pies for Thanksgiving","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Jacobson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3082536_orig.jpg?crop=428,428,x76,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1554290263403","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/teachershellyd"},{"teacherId":3082536,"projectId":9753071,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your kind and generous donation that helped my project reach its goal. I am so thankful for wonderful donors like you that help teachers like me. I appreciate you and so do my students! \r\n\r\nThanks to your help, we will have cutting boards to help my students learn how to properly make all of the important knife cuts. This is a skill that not only will help in my class, but students will be able to use for the rest of their lives. This is a pretty important lesson if you ask me. This is why I love my job!","fullyFundedDate":1761667969438,"projectUrl":"project/perfecting-knife-cuts-in-culinary-class/9753071/","projectTitle":"Perfecting Knife Cuts in Culinary Class","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Jacobson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3082536_orig.jpg?crop=428,428,x76,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1554290263403","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/teachershellyd"},{"teacherId":10115025,"projectId":9544564,"letterContent":"The students were so excited when I mentioned the three books we would be reading. 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