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Laminating these resources ensures they remain cleanable, hygienic, and usable year after year. Your support helps us build an organized, welcoming classroom where students can engage in hands-on learning, practice healthy habits, and gain confidence using materials designed to last. We are incredibly grateful for your investment in our students.","fullyFundedDate":1765543484090,"projectUrl":"project/laminating-for-learning-durable-health/9839433/","projectTitle":"Laminating for Learning: Durable Health Resources for Our Students","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Martes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5849650_orig.jpg?crop=1570,1570,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1689481160646","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-gilden"},{"teacherId":8070177,"projectId":9767351,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous support of our school library. 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Read-aloud time sparks rich conversations, builds vocabulary, and helps children make meaningful connections between stories and their own experiences, whether sledding down a hill, building snowmen, or watching the world change under a blanket of white. The playful tone and engaging illustrations keep little listeners captivated while gently encouraging curiosity about nature, seasons, and community life.\r\n\r\nYour generosity is helping create a classroom library that reflects students' lives and inspires their imaginations. By giving our children stories that honor their local world, you are helping make winter days brighter, joyful, and full of wonder. 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These materials provide hands-on opportunities for exploration and play, helping children build fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and sensory awareness while encouraging problem-solving, creativity, and imaginative thinking.\r\n\r\nMany of our students do not have access to these kinds of materials at home, so having them in the classroom gives every child a chance to tinker, experiment, and discover in fun and engaging ways. Students can explore independently or collaborate with friends, sparking curiosity, wonder, and a sense of accomplishment as they twist, turn, and invent new shapes and patterns.\r\n\r\nYour generosity is helping create a classroom environment where creativity and critical thinking come alive. By providing these tools, you are giving our students the chance to move, build, and imagine in their own way—planting the seeds for a lifelong love of learning.","fullyFundedDate":1768161558205,"projectUrl":"project/hands-on-wonder-tinker-twist-and-turn/9982701/","projectTitle":"Hands-On Wonder: Tinker, Twist, and Turn","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Race","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9319645_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1696800120917","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9319645"},{"teacherId":9319645,"projectId":9982649,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous gift of books to our classroom. Your support provides our students with fresh, engaging stories that capture their interest and inspire them to read. For many of our young learners, these books offer a chance to discover themselves as readers, take risks, and develop confidence in a joyful, low-pressure way.\r\n\r\nBy bringing new titles into our classroom library, you are helping create a welcoming space where children can explore books that reflect their interests and spark curiosity. Students are excited to pick up these stories, share them with friends, and return to their favorites again and again—building reading habits that will grow with them for years to come.\r\n\r\nWe are deeply grateful for your generosity. Your support not only enhances our library but also shows our students that reading can be fun, empowering, and full of adventure.","fullyFundedDate":1768146194163,"projectUrl":"project/books-that-bounce-giggle-and-grow-mind/9982649/","projectTitle":"Books That Bounce, Giggle, and Grow Minds","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Race","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9319645_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1696800120917","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9319645"},{"teacherId":9319645,"projectId":9982591,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support of our Title I classroom. Your gift of Pokémon books is already making a meaningful difference for our students, many of whom are still learning to see themselves as readers. Because these characters are familiar and exciting, students feel more confident picking up a book, taking risks, and reading independently.\r\n\r\nThese engaging stories motivate children to read through favorite characters and fun adventures, encouraging them to reread, share with friends, and talk about what they've learned. This joyful, low-pressure reading builds confidence, vocabulary, and comprehension while helping create a welcoming classroom environment where students feel excited to read every day. Thank you for helping show our students that reading can be fun, empowering, and full of adventure.","fullyFundedDate":1767889556052,"projectUrl":"project/pokmon-pages-powerful-readers/9982591/","projectTitle":"Pokémon Pages & Powerful Readers","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Race","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9319645_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1696800120917","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9319645"},{"teacherId":8070177,"projectId":9883999,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project and investing in our K–5 Title I library. My students love time to create, and they are deeply curious about history and culture—especially when they can see how ideas travel, discoveries begin, and creativity connects to both science and everyday life. Your generosity brings fresh, engaging titles into our library that enhance our CKLA curriculum and help keep our collection current, exciting, and reflective of a wide range of interests and perspectives. I can't wait to see my students unbox these titles and hurry me along to get them ready for checkout!\r\n\r\nBecause of you, students will have access to books that spark curiosity, celebrate innovation, and show how imagination can solve real problems across places and cultures. These stories help make learning come alive, strengthen early geography skills, and invite students to see themselves as inventors, thinkers, and creators. Thank you for helping us build a library that encourages exploration, honors curiosity, and inspires students to imagine what they might one day create.","fullyFundedDate":1767990838992,"projectUrl":"project/books-for-big-thinkers-inspiring-young/9883999/","projectTitle":"Books for Big Thinkers: Inspiring Young Inventors","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Jena","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8070177"},{"teacherId":8070177,"projectId":9891284,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our elementary library and helping us expand access to stories through audiobooks. Our students love listening while following along or using their own devices, and audiobooks give them another meaningful way to engage with reading at their own level. 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