{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"James P. Lee Early Childhood Learning Center","outOfStateSupporters":33.8,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":9021201,"projectId":10165859,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom! The materials from this project have quickly become valuable parts of our students' everyday learning and development.\r\n\r\nOur toy shopping cart is used every day and has become much more than a pretend-play toy. We have been able to place light weights inside the cart so students can push it around the classroom while working on building their strength and mobility. The students love having a meaningful and fun way to practice these important skills.\r\n\r\nThe Theraputty has also been a huge success! All of our students enjoy using it, and it has been a valuable addition to our classroom activities. Our occupational therapist especially appreciates having this resource available to support our students' fine-motor and hand-strengthening goals.\r\n\r\nThe bean bag has been another very special addition. It provides comfortable, supportive seating that allows one of our students to participate in circle time with classmates. Being able to comfortably join the group has been a huge win for this student and for our classroom.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping us provide materials that allow our students to participate, strengthen their bodies, learn through play, and be included alongside their classmates. Your generosity is making a difference every day!","fullyFundedDate":1778032255140,"projectUrl":"project/building-strength-stability-and-indepe/10165859/","projectTitle":"Building Strength, Stability, and Independence","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Carrie Ribeiro","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9021201"},{"teacherId":9021201,"projectId":10123102,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping bring the Baby Doll Surprises into our classroom! They have been such a wonderful addition, and our students have found so many ways to learn and play with them.\r\n\r\nWe have watched children pretend to feed and care for the babies, practice identifying body parts such as eyes, noses, and mouths while \"washing\" them, and even place the babies in our toy grocery cart and take them for walks around the classroom. These simple play experiences are encouraging communication, pretend play, nurturing skills, and an understanding of everyday routines.\r\n\r\nIt has been wonderful to see how engaged our students are with the dolls and how naturally learning has grown out of their play. Thank you for providing our students with materials that make learning meaningful, playful, and fun. Your generosity has truly made a difference in our classroom!","fullyFundedDate":1778247195216,"projectUrl":"project/caring-hands-building-nurturing-skills/10123102/","projectTitle":"Caring Hands: Building Nurturing Skills Through Play","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Carrie Ribeiro","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9021201"},{"teacherId":9021201,"projectId":10201746,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support of our Emotions Project! Your donations provided our students with wonderful new materials that have helped make learning about emotions, self-awareness, and pretend play fun and engaging.\r\n\r\nOne of our favorite additions has been the set of soft foam blocks featuring photographs of children showing different emotions, with mirrors on the back. Our students love looking at the different faces, identifying emotions, and then looking at themselves in the mirrors. These have been especially fun to use while singing \"If You're Happy and You Know It,\" giving students a hands-on way to connect facial expressions, feelings, music, and movement.\r\n\r\nWe also received a soft foam wedge mirror that has been especially helpful for students who benefit from tummy time. The mirror encourages them to lift their heads, look at themselves and others, and stay engaged while working on important developmental skills.\r\n\r\nThe pretend haircutting and barber kits have also been a big hit! They have encouraged imaginative play, social interaction, communication, and opportunities for students to practice familiar real-life experiences in a safe and playful way.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping us create meaningful, engaging learning experiences for our preschool students with special needs. Your generosity has brought so much learning, interaction, and fun into our classroom!","fullyFundedDate":1777988754021,"projectUrl":"project/learning-about-me-self-care-and-emotion/10201746/","projectTitle":"Learning About Me: Self-Care and Emotions Through Play","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Carrie Ribeiro","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9021201"},{"teacherId":9021201,"projectId":10138685,"letterContent":"The touch-and-feel books, lift-the-flap books, and felt-board songs have had a wonderful impact on our students' early literacy skills. These interactive materials encourage students to explore books with their hands, attend to pictures and words, and participate in familiar stories and songs.\r\n\r\nThe felt-board songs have been especially engaging, with \"The Wheels on the Bus\" quickly becoming a classroom favorite. Students enjoy choosing and placing the felt pieces while singing along, which helps build vocabulary, sequencing, listening, participation, and an understanding that pictures and words can represent ideas.\r\n\r\nThese materials have made early literacy more accessible, interactive, and enjoyable for our preschool students with special needs. They give our students meaningful opportunities to engage with books, songs, and stories while building the foundational skills they will need as developing readers.","fullyFundedDate":1782341086389,"projectUrl":"project/little-hands-big-learning-interactive/10138685/","projectTitle":"Little Hands, Big Learning: Interactive Books for Emerging Communicators","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Carrie Ribeiro","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9021201"},{"teacherId":9021201,"projectId":10117985,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support of our STEM project! Because of your donations, our preschool students with special needs now have exciting new materials including a shopping cart, activity cube, musical drum, TheraPutty, light carousel, and a mushroom light-and-music toy.\r\n\r\nThese materials have been instrumental in helping us engage our students through hands-on exploration, movement, music, light, and play. The lighted and musical toys have been especially valuable for our students with visual impairments because they provide accessible ways to explore, interact, and participate alongside their classmates.\r\n\r\nEach of these items gives our students new opportunities to build important early learning skills while experiencing the joy of discovery. We are so grateful that you chose to invest in our classroom and help create meaningful learning experiences for our students.\r\n\r\nThank you for making a difference in our classroom!","fullyFundedDate":1778341777087,"projectUrl":"project/tiny-actions-big-reactions-stem-for-ou/10117985/","projectTitle":"Tiny Actions, Big Reactions: STEM for Our Smallest Learners","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Carrie Ribeiro","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9021201"},{"teacherId":9021201,"projectId":9938499,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation of construction paper for our school-wide arts and crafts activities. This gift will be used by so many students and will help support creativity across our campus.\r\n\r\nConstruction paper may seem like a simple supply, but in our classrooms it becomes so much more. It becomes collages, holiday projects, fine motor practice, classroom decorations, student artwork, and hands-on learning activities. Our students learn so much by creating, cutting, gluing, designing, and sharing their work.\r\n\r\nArts and crafts are a wonderful way for our students to express themselves, build confidence, practice important skills, and learn in a joyful and meaningful way. Your donation helps make those experiences possible for many children throughout our school.\r\n\r\nThank you for supporting our students, our teachers, and the creative learning that happens every day in our classrooms. We are very grateful for your kindness and generosity.","fullyFundedDate":1772207519178,"projectUrl":"project/rainbow-paper-for-our-whole-school/9938499/","projectTitle":"Rainbow Paper for Our Whole School","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Carrie Ribeiro","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9021201"},{"teacherId":9021201,"projectId":10148044,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support of our interactive rainbow wall. This new addition is going to be such an amazing part of our classroom, and we are so grateful for your kindness in helping make it possible.\r\n\r\nWe will be installing the rainbow wall over the summer so that it is ready for our students next school year. We are already imagining how excited the children will be to explore it, interact with it, and use it as part of their daily play and learning.\r\n\r\nWe were also so impressed by what an amazing product it is. The rainbow wall is thick, sturdy, and beautifully made. It is clear that it will hold up well in a busy classroom and surely last for years of learning, play, and therapy.\r\n\r\nOur physical therapist and occupational therapist are especially excited about this new classroom area. It will give them a wonderful way to engage students in a play-based manner while also working on important goals such as movement, coordination, motor planning, reaching, balance, sensory exploration, and communication.\r\n\r\nThis rainbow wall will be more than just a colorful classroom feature. It will be a meaningful space where students can learn through play, build confidence, and work toward their individual goals in a joyful and engaging way.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping us create a classroom environment that is bright, interactive, therapeutic, and full of opportunities for our students.","fullyFundedDate":1775226166183,"projectUrl":"project/stand-play-and-grow-with-an-interactiv/10148044/","projectTitle":"Stand, Play, and Grow with an Interactive Rainbow Wall!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Carrie Ribeiro","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9021201"},{"teacherId":9021201,"projectId":10087412,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous gift of toddler-safe light table sensory fillers for our classroom. The children absolutely love using them, and we are so grateful to have materials that are not only engaging and fun, but also safe for our youngest learners.\r\n\r\nThese sensory fillers give our students a wonderful opportunity to explore color, light, texture, and movement in a hands-on way. They encourage curiosity, communication, and shared play while helping us feel confident that the materials are appropriate and safe for our students.\r\n\r\nWe are also especially excited because we will have students with vision impairments joining us, and our vision teachers were thrilled to see these new additions for the upcoming school year. These materials will help make our light table even more meaningful and accessible for all of our learners.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping us create a safe, joyful, and inclusive sensory learning space for our students.","fullyFundedDate":1776169223236,"projectUrl":"project/shining-a-light-on-social-skills-and-sen/10087412/","projectTitle":"Shining a Light on Social Skills and Sensory Play","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Carrie Ribeiro","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9021201"},{"teacherId":9021201,"projectId":10088526,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous sponsorship of our new playground sandbox and sand toys for our Community Kindness Initiative. Your gift is already bringing joy, imagination, and connection to our students.\r\n\r\nWe are still waiting for the district to fill the sandbox with sand, but the children are already drawn to it. They have been sitting together, pretending to share a meal, and using the space for sweet cooperative play. It has been very cute to watch, and it is exactly the kind of social interaction and kindness we hoped this project would encourage.\r\n\r\nYour support is helping create a playground space where children can play side by side, imagine together, and build friendships. We are so grateful for your kindness and generosity.","fullyFundedDate":1771861467986,"projectUrl":"project/super-friend-sandbox-students-leading-k/10088526/","projectTitle":"Super Friend Sandbox: Students Leading Kindness Schoolwide","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Carrie Ribeiro","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9021201"},{"teacherId":3090322,"projectId":9923230,"letterContent":"The arrival of the magnet blocks, tiles, and magnetic people has completely transformed our morning discovery centers. It is incredible to watch my students' faces light up as they feel the physical \"pull\" of the magnets for the first time. These materials have turned abstract concepts of physics and engineering into something they can hold in their hands. Whether they are building towering skyscrapers with the tiles or creating intricate stories with the magnetic robots and people, they are constantly experimenting with balance, symmetry, and spatial awareness without even realizing they're \"learning.\"\r\n\r\nBeyond the STEM skills, these resources have become a catalyst for teamwork and social-emotional growth in our classroom. I've seen students who usually play solo start collaborating on massive structures, negotiating where the next piece should go and problem-solving when a design collapses. These materials have provided a safe space for them to fail, iterate, and ultimately succeed. Your generosity hasn't just given us \"toys\"—it has given my students the tools to think like engineers and the confidence to build their own worlds.","fullyFundedDate":1764100217899,"projectUrl":"project/magnets-in-motion-hands-on-stem-for-lit/9923230/","projectTitle":"Magnets in Motion: Hands-On STEM for Little Learners!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Jackson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3090322_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1530815174539","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3090322"},{"teacherId":9021201,"projectId":9959136,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generosity, our light table has become one of the most exciting and engaging centers in our classroom! Before this project, the light table was simply a glowing surface that students occasionally looked at. Now, with the addition of the light table tray and colorful window blocks, it has transformed into a true exploration center where students can build, sort, stack, and discover. Our students love placing the translucent blocks on the illuminated surface and watching the colors shine and overlap. Many of our students have significant developmental delays, so experiences that combine visual stimulation with hands-on learning are incredibly meaningful for them.\r\n\r\nWhen the materials first arrived, the students were immediately drawn to the bright colors and glowing blocks. There were smiles, curious hands reaching out, and lots of excited exploration. Some students carefully stacked the blocks to make towers, while others lined them up to watch the colors change when they overlapped. Moments like these are powerful because they encourage communication, joint attention, and fine motor development—important goals for our learners.\r\n\r\nWe are continuing to expand how we use the light table in our daily routines. It has become its own center during choice time where students practice sorting, color recognition, and simple building skills. Moving forward, we plan to incorporate the light table into more structured activities like pattern-making and early problem-solving games. Your support has turned a simple light into a vibrant learning space, and our students are benefiting from it every single day. Thank you for helping bring this joyful learning experience to our classroom!","fullyFundedDate":1771026027940,"projectUrl":"project/sensory-magic-using-light-to-find-our-/9959136/","projectTitle":"Sensory Magic: Using Light to Find Our \"Voice\"","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Carrie Ribeiro","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9021201"},{"teacherId":9240465,"projectId":9924899,"letterContent":"I teach in a special needs preschool. We are introducing our young students to the wonder of books. We use books for our classroom themes. This month our theme was Polar and Woodland animals, we had so much fun learning about all of these animals. The books brought them alive. \r\nWe read a book every day during circle time and the students are showing more and more interest in our stories. Many of our students are on the autism spectrum and may exhibit very short attention spans, I am seeing increased interest and the ability to tolerate a longer story and that is because the books are so intersting with their beautiful illustrations and pictures they really hold their interest.\r\n\r\nI have books on display at all times in our classroom library and students have full access to sit and look at books whenever they would like during free center play.\r\nThank you so much for your generosity and adding so many wonderful new books to our classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1764134967934,"projectUrl":"project/open-our-world-with-books/9924899/","projectTitle":"Open our World with Books","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Feeley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9240465_orig.jpg?crop=531,531,x15,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1736894447692","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9240465"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_42243","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":411,"numTeachers":null,"percentFrplEligible":33,"percentAsian":4,"percentBlack":3,"percentWhite":50,"percentIndigenous":1,"percentLatinx":34,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":5,"gradesServed":"Not specified","studentTeacherRatio":null,"demographicsDataSource":"MDR District Record","equityFocus":false,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":66.2,"schoolId":42243,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about James P. 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