{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"West Side High School","outOfStateSupporters":21.4,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":4093224,"projectId":10191780,"letterContent":"These new art supplies have already made a wonderful impact on my students by giving them more opportunities to experiment, explore new techniques, and make meaningful creative choices. Having a well-stocked art classroom allows students to focus on developing their ideas instead of being limited by the materials available to them.\r\n These materials will not be used for just one project. They will support many different lessons and classes throughout the school year. The variety of supplies also makes it easier to meet the needs of students with different interests, abilities, and learning styles. \r\n Your generosity has provided much more than paint, paper and tools. You have given my students choices and opportunities. These supplies allow them to experiment, make mistakes, revise their ideas, solve problems, and experience the satisfaction of turning an idea into something they can see and share.\r\n Thank you so much for your support of our artistic journey.","fullyFundedDate":1776437775639,"projectUrl":"project/an-exciting-year-of-art-making/10191780/","projectTitle":"An Exciting Year of Art Making","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lanelda Caples","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4093224_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1502167504452","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4093224"},{"teacherId":4093224,"projectId":10178889,"letterContent":"My students were so excited about the new water soluable media. They are creating 2-point and 3-point perspective drawings, that they will then ink the lines, and color using the water soluable media. The first student to get her drawing inked began the experimenting with the Neocolor II, Inktense blocks and the Inktense pencils today and couldn't wait to try them out. The excitement could be felt in the room.\r\n After they have applied their wet-media and it has dried, they will finish up any last details with colored pencils. \r\n Thank you so much for your help in providing this opportunity for my students.","fullyFundedDate":1776437849814,"projectUrl":"project/mixed-media-with-water-soluable-pastels/10178889/","projectTitle":"Mixed Media With Water Soluable Pastels","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lanelda Caples","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4093224_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1502167504452","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4093224"},{"teacherId":9815952,"projectId":9830044,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for the generous donation for the project for my band classroom. The students and I greatly appreciate it. My students were in great need of these quality instruments and materials.\r\n\r\nWhen they received their better quality instruments, they were beaming with pride. They were so excited about their new instruments! We were amazed at the difference in the better quality sound that they helped make. These new materials gave the students more confidence and enjoyment in their playing. You really helped make a difference in the lives of these students.","fullyFundedDate":1762535699052,"projectUrl":"project/making-music-with-quality-instruments-an/9830044/","projectTitle":"Making Music with Quality Instruments and Materials","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Cossey","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-7_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9815952"},{"teacherId":4093224,"projectId":9700527,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your help in providing my students with an opportunity to hone their drawing skills and strengthen their creativity while using artist-grade colored pencils. Due to the cost of these materials and the tightness of budgets, I would never have been able to give my students this experience without your help.\r\n I wish you could have seen the excitement on their faces when I started unpacking the shipments. With every box they were excited to see what was arriving. One even said that it felt a little like Christmas morning. \r\n So far, my students have mostly used the pencils with their sketchbook assignments, testing them and seeing how they behave differently from our usual Crayola pencils. Later in the semester we will use them in a project where we use colored pencils in a drawing project to create contrast with the surrounding graphite drawing.\r\n Thank you again for all your help.","fullyFundedDate":1762534154072,"projectUrl":"project/adding-color-with-colored-pencils/9700527/","projectTitle":"Adding Color with Colored Pencils","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lanelda Caples","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4093224_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1502167504452","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4093224"},{"teacherId":4093224,"projectId":9524045,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping provide my students with the clay, glaze and additional tools they needed to learn how to create with ceramic clay. \r\n\r\nOver the last several weeks, my students have been practicing making pottery using the slab method, the coil method and throwing on the wheel. Through this practice, they have learned how to work with the nature of the clay instead of fighting against it. They have learned how to adjust and adapt as the clay changes as it dries. Several have even had opportunities to practice persistence when cracks or breakage has occurred at different stages of the process.\r\n\r\nSince my students also learn about recycling our clay scraps and broken clay pots, we have been able to use the recycled clay for a demo about throwing on the wheel as well as share a small bit of clay each with a group of about 30 5th graders in our school who are reading a book in class about a boy who learns pottery. Even our scraps provided extension activities for our 5th graders, community service opportunity for my high school students and connections between both sides of our district campus. \r\n\r\nAll this was only possible because of your generosity. Again, thank you.","fullyFundedDate":1756408020098,"projectUrl":"project/sculpting-with-ceramic-clay/9524045/","projectTitle":"Sculpting With Ceramic Clay","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lanelda Caples","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4093224_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1502167504452","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4093224"},{"teacherId":4093224,"projectId":8911935,"letterContent":"With these resources, my students have been able to design and create pendants and earrings and learn how to fuse them with glass. They also learn and practice art room safety while working with cut glass. \r\n\r\nWhen the supplies first arrived - especially the kiln, the students were so curious. It is always so much fun to watch students go from \"I didn't know people could do that!\" to \"Look what I just did!\" They are now excited to make more.\r\n\r\nIn the future, the kiln will also allow us to create glaze test tiles more energy efficiently than in the big kiln. 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