{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Woodmere Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":64.7,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":9802497,"projectId":10357596,"letterContent":"Heartfelt Thank You to Our Generous Donor\r\n\r\nI would like to take a moment to express my sincere gratitude to the generous donor who chose to support my classroom and my students by donating highlighters, colored paper, and journals. Your kindness and willingness to invest in education mean more than you may ever realize. These supplies may seem simple, but in a classroom, they can make a meaningful difference in how students learn, participate, create, and feel about their education.\r\n\r\nAs a teacher, I believe that a classroom should be more than just a place where students complete assignments. I want my classroom to be a place where students feel welcomed, supported, encouraged, happy, and safe. Having the appropriate supplies allows me to create learning experiences that are engaging and meaningful while helping students feel prepared to participate each day.\r\n\r\nThe highlighters will be especially useful as students learn how to identify important information, key vocabulary, evidence, formulas, and concepts. Highlighting important details can help students organize their thoughts and focus on the information that matters most. Whether we are working on science, mathematics, reading, or reviewing for assessments, these highlighters will become valuable tools in our daily learning.\r\n\r\nThe colored paper will allow students to bring creativity into their academic work. Sometimes something as simple as using a different color of paper can make an assignment feel more exciting and give students another way to express themselves. We will use these materials for projects, notes, classroom activities, displays, and other learning experiences throughout the school year.\r\n\r\nThe journals are another gift that will have a lasting impact. Journaling gives students an opportunity to reflect, write, ask questions, organize their thoughts, and express themselves. It can also help students recognize their own growth throughout the school year. I hope these journals become places where students can record ideas, celebrate accomplishments, work through challenges, and see how much they have learned.\r\n\r\nYour donation is more than a collection of school supplies. It is an investment in our students. It tells them that there are people who believe their education matters and who are willing to help provide them with the tools they need to succeed.\r\n\r\nAs a teacher, I am incredibly thankful for every person who supports my classroom. I know that there are many ways people can choose to give, and the decision to give to our students is something I truly appreciate. Your generosity will directly benefit students and help make our classroom a place where learning is encouraged and possibilities are endless.\r\n\r\nFrom the bottom of my heart, thank you for supporting my students. Your generosity will not be forgotten. Every highlighter, sheet of colored paper, and journal represents an opportunity for a student to learn, create, grow, and believe in themselves.\r\n\r\nThank you for believing in our students and investing in their future! ❤️📚✏️","fullyFundedDate":1787766912977,"projectUrl":"project/interactive-notebooks-for-student-succes/10357596/","projectTitle":"Interactive Notebooks for Student Success","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Rogers","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9802497"},{"teacherId":5074194,"projectId":4254389,"letterContent":"Thank you for bringing classic literature into our classroom through \"Classic Literature to Mold Minds & Hearts.\" These books have given my students opportunities to strengthen their comprehension, analyze characters and themes, make inferences, study an author's craft, and connect timeless conflicts to their own lives. More importantly, the texts have encouraged students to think deeply about courage, choices, justice, perseverance, and what it means to treat others with empathy.\r\n\r\nReading in our classroom is active and collaborative. Students read independently and with partners, annotate important passages, discuss their thinking in small groups, and support their ideas with evidence from the text. The new books have also inspired thoughtful writing and meaningful conversations, especially when students recognize that characters from another time can experience struggles and emotions that still feel familiar today.\r\n\r\nI have especially enjoyed watching students who once viewed classic literature as difficult begin to approach these books with confidence and curiosity. They are asking stronger questions, sharing recommendations with classmates, and taking pride in understanding challenging texts. Your generosity has helped create lasting learning experiences that will shape both their academic growth and their character. Thank you for investing in my students and placing powerful stories into their hands.","fullyFundedDate":1565114517032,"projectUrl":"project/classic-literature-to-mold-minds-hear/4254389/","projectTitle":"Classic Literature to Mold Minds & Hearts","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Hawkins","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5074194_orig.jpg?crop=831,831,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1784835385318","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5074194"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_18103","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":606,"numTeachers":26,"percentFrplEligible":94,"percentAsian":1,"percentBlack":62,"percentWhite":2,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":32,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":1,"gradesServed":"Pre-K - 8","studentTeacherRatio":"23.3:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"SUBURBAN","ncesMetroType":"SUBURB_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":35.3,"schoolId":18103,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Woodmere Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Woodmere Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/louisiana/jefferson-parish-schools/woodmere-elementary-school/18103"}