{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Washington Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":17.8,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":999489,"projectId":9744369,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generosity in supporting my 1st grade classroom. The OSMO coding kits and the Fire Tablets are helping teach my students how to work independently, problem solve, use critical thinking skills and introduces them to Engineering and other STEAM components. My students LOVE when it is OSMO day!\r\n The impact these resources has on all my students is evident by their excitement and focus during OSMO time. But the greatest impact is for those struggling readers as they are now able to navigate learning and feeling successful since reading and pencil/paper tasks are not part of the activity. \r\n I love seeing the students that are mastering OSMO helping each other out to problem solve when they are stuck.","fullyFundedDate":1759321372918,"projectUrl":"project/creativity-and-critical-thinking-using-t/9744369/","projectTitle":"Creativity and Critical Thinking Using Technology While Working Independently!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nichols","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp999489_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1456183765771","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/999489"},{"teacherId":9901832,"projectId":9104102,"letterContent":"We are so grateful for your generous support! Because of you, our classroom is now filled with engaging, hands-on learning tools that are helping students grow academically and creatively every single day.\r\n\r\nWhen the students first saw the new materials, their eyes lit up with excitement and wonder. It felt like Christmas morning! They were especially drawn to the Lakeshore Trace & Draw Projectors—many immediately began tracing animals , proudly showing off their drawings and saying, \"I'm an artist now!\"\r\n\r\nOne of our favorite moments so far was during a STEM exploration time. Using the Create-A-Chain Reaction Kit, students worked together to build their own mini chain reactions. Watching them experiment, revise, and cheer each other on when their designs finally worked was such a powerful example of teamwork, problem-solving, and perseverance. It was a perfect way to introduce early STEM thinking in a fun and approachable way.\r\n\r\nThe Alphabet Learning Locks and CVC Word Builders have become go-to centers during our literacy block. Students love the independence these tools give them as they explore letters, sounds, and word building at their own pace. One student who's been hesitant with letters has now started racing to the lock center each morning—it's been amazing to witness that confidence grow!\r\n\r\nNext steps: We're incorporating the Dough Stampers, Alphabet Mats, and Number Centers into our weekly literacy and math rotations. These tactile resources are supporting letter and number recognition, fine motor skills, and early writing development in ways that worksheets simply can't. We're also planning a classroom \"word-building challenge\" where students will use the Word Puzzles and Snap & Build CVC kits to create and read new words with partners.\r\n\r\nBecause of your kindness, our classroom is now a more joyful, interactive, and student-centered space. You've given my students opportunities to explore, create, and thrive in ways that will have a lasting impact.","fullyFundedDate":1746785447277,"projectUrl":"project/steam-makes-learning-fun/9104102/","projectTitle":"STEAM makes learning fun!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Ponce","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9901832_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1737433080725","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9901832"},{"teacherId":9901832,"projectId":9104549,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous contributions to our project! We've been using the \"Flex-Space for Everyone\" resources, and they've already made a big impact on our classroom environment and learning experiences.\r\n\r\nWhen the students first saw the new materials—especially the Lakeshore Sensory Play Set—their faces lit up with excitement and curiosity. They immediately gathered around the table, exploring the materials. It was such a joy to see them engaging with learning in such a hands-on, meaningful way.\r\n\r\nOne memorable moment with the Wobble Cushions happened during our morning literacy block. A student who often struggles to stay seated during reading time grabbed the green wobble cushion, sat down, and said, \"This feels better!\" Since then, it's become a favorite tool not only for him but for several students who benefit from the gentle movement while staying focused. The cushions have given them the freedom to choose what works best for their bodies while still staying engaged in learning.\r\n\r\nThe Flex-Space Wobble Cushions have truly been a game changer. Students who need extra movement throughout the day are now better able to focus while seated. They love choosing the cushion that fits them best, whether it's the orange, green, or blue one. The added flexibility has truly supported a more inclusive and comfortable learning environment.\r\n\r\nNext, we plan to incorporate the sensory materials into our storytelling and literacy centers. \r\n\r\nThank you again for helping bring this vision to life. Your support has created a more engaging, inclusive, and joyful classroom for all of us.","fullyFundedDate":1746785691002,"projectUrl":"project/flex-space-for-everyone/9104549/","projectTitle":"Flex-Space for Everyone","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Ponce","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9901832_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1737433080725","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9901832"},{"teacherId":459856,"projectId":9195900,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generosity and support of my class project! With your help I was able to receive two gift cards to Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT). TPT is a website that sells teacher created resources.\r\n\r\nI have already put the gift card to good use and purchased lots of different activities and resource worksheets to use with my students. I created an independent work period called 1st, 2nd, 3rd and used worksheets purchased on TPT to use as fun activities during this time... my students love it! They are having fun while learning.\r\n\r\nI also used to the gift card to purchase engaging Math journal worksheets. My students love their Math journal pages and can't wait to do them each morning... they actually get disappointed if we have to skip a day. \r\n\r\nI am so appreciative- thank you for your help in funding engaging and fun activities and worksheets for my students!","fullyFundedDate":1742924588117,"projectUrl":"project/engaging-and-fun-work/9195900/","projectTitle":"Engaging and Fun Work!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Rossi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp459856_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1617129621474","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-rossi2"},{"teacherId":459856,"projectId":9053647,"letterContent":"Our appreciation for your support of our classroom project. Thanks to your generosity, Team Work and Number Sense provided new math board games for my students to use to practice their number sense skills. I am always on the look out for ways to make learning fun and these games added some excitement to our Math learning. They also provided a great opportunity for my students to practice their cooperation and team work skills. The games were able to be modified to meet the needs of all of my classroom learners, which provided a fun time for all.","fullyFundedDate":1737661767193,"projectUrl":"project/team-work-and-number-sense/9053647/","projectTitle":"Team Work and Number Sense!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Rossi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp459856_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1617129621474","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-rossi2"},{"teacherId":9496801,"projectId":9109051,"letterContent":"This project has made such a difference for my students. Since we started using the new social skills games and activity kits, I've seen so much growth in how they interact with each other. They're more willing to open up, work through problems together, and really listen to one another. It's been amazing to watch them build confidence in themselves and in their relationships. These resources have given them the space to practice being kind, thoughtful, and supportive—and they're having fun while doing it!\r\n\r\nWhat I love most is seeing students feel like they belong. They're learning that it's okay to make mistakes, to ask for help, and to be themselves. The classroom feels more connected, and students are showing real care and empathy for one another. It's clear that these tools are helping them grow not just socially, but emotionally too. As a school counselor, that's exactly what I hope for—a space where kids feel safe, seen, and excited to keep growing together.","fullyFundedDate":1741994955508,"projectUrl":"project/growing-social-skills-for-lifelong-succe/9109051/","projectTitle":"Growing Social Skills for Lifelong Success","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Antongiovanni","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9496801_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y564&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1724789837176","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9496801"},{"teacherId":9901832,"projectId":9070197,"letterContent":"Thank you for giving my students the tools to continue to learn and grow. My students are using the kinetic sand when they need a break or feel overstimulated. My students are also learning to write letters and numbers with the small magnetic boards. My students were excited to able to use all the materials as they were arriving. \r\n\r\nSome students have really enjoyed writing letters and numbers. Some of them are able to fully write their names and numbers. I can not Thank you enough for providing this tools that have been a great addition to my students learning. The emotion play-duh mats have been helping my students better be able to identify feelings.\r\n\r\nThe next steps for my students is to learn how to better identify their own emotions and how to better communicate how they are feeling and what they can do to identify their emotions.","fullyFundedDate":1738866201887,"projectUrl":"project/equitable-learning-for-all/9070197/","projectTitle":"Equitable Learning for All","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Ponce","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9901832_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1737433080725","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9901832"},{"teacherId":999489,"projectId":9061691,"letterContent":"Thank you very much for your generosity in supporting my students. When I first introduced the individual CD players to my students, all of the students were so excited for another type of technology to use in the classroom. \r\nMy students that were readers and my students that were still learning to read started using them right away. However, it was my students that were still learning to read that I saw a difference in the way they accessed a book. In the past, when it was time to read they would choose a book and then just quickly flip through pages before getting a new book. Not being able to access the words or story was not very fun. Now they take their time and enjoy a book. I see that they are following along from the beginning to the end of a story and now are reading books they they previously could not read. I even heard a student, who is still learning to read, have a conversation with a student about a book they read while using the CD player that in the past they couldn't not have had. Now, not only can they access books but now they can actually share their thinking and knowledge about what a story was about.","fullyFundedDate":1739571512123,"projectUrl":"project/access-to-books-for-all/9061691/","projectTitle":"Access to Books for All!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nichols","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp999489_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1456183765771","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/999489"},{"teacherId":459856,"projectId":8613260,"letterContent":"My heartfelt appreciation to you for the support of my classroom project. Thanks to your generosity, I was able to receive 2 gift cards for the website Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT). This website has teacher created curriculum and materials available for purchase.\r\n\r\nIt's expensive to run a classroom and most of the money teachers spend comes from our own pocket... receiving these gift cards was such a huge relief and allowed me to get lots of worksheets and activities to use with my students.\r\n\r\nI purchased worksheets to use as a daily math review... worksheets to help reinforce word study skills... worksheets that can meet the needs of my higher learners and keep them stimulated and engaged... art activity worksheets... and lots of worksheets to use for fast finisher packets.\r\n\r\nI am so appreciative!","fullyFundedDate":1726759605292,"projectUrl":"project/making-learning-fun-part-2/8613260/","projectTitle":"Making Learning Fun- Part 2!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Rossi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp459856_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1617129621474","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-rossi2"},{"teacherId":459856,"projectId":8612750,"letterContent":"My heartfelt appreciation to you for the support of my classroom project! Thanks to your generosity, we received lots of fun games to play together.\r\n\r\nMy students are having a blast learning how to play different games as either partners or in small groups. They are learning to cooperate, which is a hard skill to teach! These games are allowing them to practice taking turns, be patient, and be a good winner / loser. My students are also learning to problem solve and ask for help BEFORE a disagreement starts.\r\n\r\nGame time in my classroom is now referred to as TEAM TIME and my students are absolutely thriving and winning with cooperation!","fullyFundedDate":1725900809018,"projectUrl":"project/help-us-cooperate/8612750/","projectTitle":"Help Us Cooperate!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Rossi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp459856_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1617129621474","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-rossi2"},{"teacherId":459856,"projectId":8765293,"letterContent":"My heartfelt appreciation to you for your support of my classroom. I am reminding my students every day to have calm bodies. We are always discussing what it looks like, sounds like, and feels like to have self control.\r\n\r\nThanks to your help I was able to create a really cool calm corner in my classroom. I have a special bin with all sorts of fidgets that can be used to keep my students hands occupied so their ears can be listening.\r\n\r\nMy students also LOVE the new selection of chapter books and find it very calming to choose a book and find a special spot to sit, read, and relax.\r\n\r\nMy students are so much calmer and able to stay focused for longer with all these new calming tools.","fullyFundedDate":1736438996188,"projectUrl":"project/calm-bodies-calm-minds/8765293/","projectTitle":"Calm Bodies, Calm Minds","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Rossi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp459856_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1617129621474","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-rossi2"},{"teacherId":459856,"projectId":8805985,"letterContent":"My heartfelt appreciation to you- thank you for helping to fund my class project. With your generosity I was able to receive some chapter books and a box of black writing pens.\r\n\r\nMy 2nd graders are at the point in the school year where they are ready for chapter books! They love the books we received and couldn't wait to check them out of my class library. It makes my teacher heart so happy to see them enjoy books!\r\n\r\nWe are also putting the black pens to good use and using them to rewrite and publish our writing. 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