{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"John E White Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":23.9,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":837869,"projectId":9548590,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to our project and helping us get games and magnetic building blocks for our Friday Fun time. The students get excited on Friday when they know they will be able to use the resources you helped us get. Some of the students love the magnetic blocks and get creative when constructing various things with them. Other students love the games. One the students loves the strategic aspect of battleship and has been teaching other students how to play it. They also lenjoy the other games like Chutes and Ladders, Trouble, Connect Four, Uno and Simon. These games require strategic thinking and help the students learn to think ahead. Thank you for getting these fun materials for our classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1755695785829,"projectUrl":"project/friday-fun-games/9548590/","projectTitle":"Friday Fun Games","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Brennan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp837869_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1534904688343","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/837869"},{"teacherId":837869,"projectId":9397219,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to our project and getting our class kazoos, laminating pouches, and chairback buddy storage. The students use the kazoos to play solos in the songs that we learn to perform for other classrooms. They love when I say, \"Get out your kazoos!\" The chairback buddies we had already been using them, but since my class size increased this year I needed a few more so each student would have one to store their books and materials. This makes it easier for them to access the materials they need throughout the day, as opposed to when we had to keep their stuff in bins on shelves and they needed to get up every time they were learning a new subject to get their books. The laminating pouches we use to laminate their artwork and other types of schoolwork they do to display it in the classroom or take it home. Thank you for helping us get these materials for our classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1754484493559,"projectUrl":"project/odds-and-ends/9397219/","projectTitle":"Odds and Ends","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Brennan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp837869_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1534904688343","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/837869"},{"teacherId":837869,"projectId":9165501,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping us get books for our classroom. We have built a respectable classroom library from all of your donations over the years. So instead of the children's books from when I started over 20 years ago (and there's nothing wrong with these), like Magic Tree House, Junie B. Jones, Zack Files, Cam Jansen, etc.., which are all excellent books, I have been able to update and get some current high-interest reading material. We now have books about Steph Curry, Bad Bunny, Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Zendaya, The Rock, Bob Marley, and many others. We also have more current series like \"Diary of a Wimpy Kid.\" The students can't wait to get their hands on some of these selections. Thank you for helping me motivate my students to read.","fullyFundedDate":1746480215095,"projectUrl":"project/high-interest-reading-material/9165501/","projectTitle":"High-Interest Reading Material","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Brennan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp837869_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1534904688343","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/837869"},{"teacherId":837869,"projectId":9267679,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping us get supplies for our classroom. These are the kind of things we use every day and should be supplied by our school or district. We use folders to hold our work in various subjects. The eraser caps are necessary because the erasers on the pencils get worn down quickly. The notebooks we use for work in different subjects. The filler paper we use for work that needs to be submitted. Glue sticks are used for various art projects. The students use post-it flags as bookmarks. Thank you for getting us all these materials. We appreciate your support.","fullyFundedDate":1747377500496,"projectUrl":"project/supplies-for-our-classroom/9267679/","projectTitle":"Supplies for Our Classroom","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Brennan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp837869_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1534904688343","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/837869"},{"teacherId":8362785,"projectId":9243258,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting my \"Better with a Book\" project. Your generous donation has made it easier for me to do my job as a counselor, supporting all of our students' academic, social, and emotional development, promoting their mental health and overall well-being, and preparing them for future success.\r\n\r\nI have used books you donated in a number of capacities. One invaluable way that I used them last year was in my classroom counseling lessons. I deliver bi-weekly counseling lessons to all PK-2nd grade students at our school. The books you provided formed a core component of several lessons. For example, I used Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to Listen in my PK and kinder lessons to explicitly teach students listening skills. Teaching listening skills to students is crucial, because it significantly impacts their academic success, social-emotional development, and overall well-being. Effective listening is essential for learning, communication, and building strong relationships, so it is important to teach this beginning at an early age. I read Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up to my first grade classes as part of a lesson on career development. Elementary school students benefit from learning about careers. It can broaden their horizons, spark their interest, increase motivation in school, and help them connect their learning to real-world applications, setting them up for future success. I used We Are All Wonders and The Empty Pot with my second graders, teaching them important character traits including integrity and non-judgement. This is important for supporting responsible citizenship and building positive relationships in our school community. I plan to continue using these wonderful books this year and in future years.\r\n\r\nIn addition to using the books in my classroom counseling lessons, I also incorporated them into my small groups and 1:1 counseling sessions. For example, I regularly read Angry Ninja and Just Now I Feel Angry to help students learn to identify and process their emotions in a healthy, positive manner, instead of blowing up and hurting themselves or others. These books equip children with coping strategies, emotional regulation skills, and problem-solving techniques to deal with anger constructively. Through relatable stories and engaging activities, they learn to identify triggers, express their feelings appropriately, and develop self-control. These are vital, lifelong skills.\r\n\r\nThank you again for your support. My students, school staff, and I appreciate it!","fullyFundedDate":1744235353318,"projectUrl":"project/better-with-a-book/9243258/","projectTitle":"Better with a Book","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Nastia","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8362785_orig.jpg?crop=999,999,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1651268633039","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-nastia"},{"teacherId":837869,"projectId":9109838,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to our project and getting us goalie masks and several sets of gloves for street hockey. The students loved learning and playing real games with uniforms (pinnies that were donated by the local minor league hockey team the Tucson Roadrunners), line changes every few minutes and a scoreboard. They really learned the basics quickly and some really took to it. They were always often asking me, \"Can we play hockey?\" Now it is getting a little warm, so I will resume playing again next year with a new group of students. But again, I have planted the seed in this year's group and they have been exposed to one of my favorite sports, hockey.","fullyFundedDate":1740077740259,"projectUrl":"project/teaching-my-students-to-play-hockey/9109838/","projectTitle":"Teaching My Students to Play Hockey","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Brennan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp837869_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1534904688343","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/837869"},{"teacherId":837869,"projectId":8986253,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to our project for art supplies and other classroom materials. I have been laminating the students' artwork, but I have had to be selective because of the pouches. Now, I can let them bring more laminated work home.\r\nWe also have been using the black sharpies for outlining artwork we have been doing in class. The posterboard we use so our \"Bulldog of the Week\" can create their poster to present to the class. The students have also been enjoying learning about Rosetta Tharpe the \"godmother of rock and roll\" from the books you helped us get. They use the post-it-flags for bookmarks. Thank you for donating to our project and helping us get all of these classroom materials. We appreciate your support.","fullyFundedDate":1739373212290,"projectUrl":"project/art-supplies-and-more/8986253/","projectTitle":"Art Supplies and More","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Brennan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp837869_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1534904688343","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/837869"},{"teacherId":837869,"projectId":9031230,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to our classroom project and helping us get 2 bluetooth speakers. The small one we have started using to plug in to my computer so we can go over the passages we are reading The app reads it out loud to them and without the bluetooth, it is not loud enough when only using the computer speakers. Ater they have read the passage independently or with a partner, I have the app read it aloud to them so they can associate the words they are seeing with the words they are hearing. We stop after every 2 or 3 sentences to go over unfamiliar words by using context clues, interpret figures of speech, determine character traits (for narratives), and I ask comprehension questions.\r\nThe larger bluetooth we use for listening to music in the classroom. We listen to songs they learn to perform when we go to other classrooms on Fridys for our \"gigs.\" I also let them hear some of the music I like and grew up hearing. They ask if they can \"get the Led out\" and hear some Led Zeppelin. They like the Grateful Dead too. Today we listened to a couple of Aretha Franklin songs after I read them a book about her life for African-American History Month.\r\nThank you for helping us get these speakers to help with our reading class and so we can have music in our classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1738074041745,"projectUrl":"project/let-there-be-songs-to-fill-the-air/9031230/","projectTitle":"Let There Be Songs to Fill the Air","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Brennan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp837869_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1534904688343","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/837869"},{"teacherId":837869,"projectId":8526152,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to our project and getting us frisbees to play disc golf. We already have the basket from a previous project, and we were using the larger frisbees that are for freestyle, which doesn't work too well. Now we have a disc golf frisbee for each student, and backpacks to carry them around. We also have plenty of the larger frisbees for playing catch.\r\nThank you for your generosity and helping me get my students resources so they can try different things that they have never tried before. People like you enrich my class academically, be helping me get resources to complement the curriculum I am provided and that helps me teach in innovative ways, as well as helping me get a lot of sports equipment, like street hockey equipment and frisbee golf equipment. Most of my students had never tried either of these activities, but have now tried them thanks to your donations. Thank you for helping me be able to provide these opportunities to my students.","fullyFundedDate":1733607122407,"projectUrl":"project/playing-golf-with-frisbees/8526152/","projectTitle":"Playing Golf With Frisbees","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Brennan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp837869_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1534904688343","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/837869"},{"teacherId":9736848,"projectId":8750119,"letterContent":"The students and I would like to extend our warmest gratitude for the donations that have been provided to us this year. When the students first saw the boxes I brought in they were so curious to know what we were helped with. Once open and the donated items were made available to the students then they were able to start working on the different projects that we had planned.\r\n\r\nThe art materials alone have provided a large amount of joy, creativity, and self-expression whether it be for random coloring sheets or follow-along art projects. The headphones have allowed the students to work and listen to the interactive material without worrying about disrupting their neighbors. The books have provided the students not just with reading materials but have helped them to learn more about the animals they are written about. The pencils and gluesticks have allowed there to be an ample amount of materials available to the students at all times so there is no worry about them not being prepared to do their work.\r\n\r\nThese donations have been a major help, and the students and I are grateful beyond words. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1727976072750,"projectUrl":"project/new-teacher-looking-to-get-supplies-for/8750119/","projectTitle":"New Teacher Looking to Get Supplies for Room","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Bennett","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrbennetts"},{"teacherId":837869,"projectId":8891072,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to our project and helping us update our classroom library. The students can read these books in the classroom when they finish their work, or they can also take them home to read to fill in their weekly reading log. I like to get them books on a variety of subjects and topics, some familiar, some unfamiliar. I have music playing when they enter the classroom, so they have heard Bob Marley's music and know his name and know a little about him from what I've told them (he briefly lived in my hometown with his mother), so they wanted to know more about him, so some of them have already read the book and made an illustration of him for the thank you card, but he was pretty much unfamiliar to them before they met me. Of course, many of the girls are familiar with Taylor Swift and her music, so they were excited when the book arrived (we had to discuss some conflict resolution as many wanted to check it out immediately, so it was a good learning experience for them). Thank you so much for supporting our students and literacy in our classroom and giving me the opportunity to have such a wide variety of books in our classroom that motivate my students to want to read.","fullyFundedDate":1730554429384,"projectUrl":"project/updating-our-classroom-library/8891072/","projectTitle":"Updating Our Classroom Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Brennan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp837869_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1534904688343","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/837869"},{"teacherId":837869,"projectId":8420778,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to our project and getting us a variety of classroom supplies. We have 2 new pencil sharpeners, one for lead pencils, one for colored pencils. When we use the lead pencil sharpener for colored pencils, they always break. Thank you for getting us both.\r\nTeachers ALWAYS need dry erase markers, and they're not cheap! We also now have fine point markers the students can use with their whiteboards. Thanks also for the glue sticks, which is another item that is a necessity in any classroom for art projects. We appreciate your support and for helping us get these basic classroom supplies.","fullyFundedDate":1726687984391,"projectUrl":"project/she-comes-in-colors-everywhere/8420778/","projectTitle":"She Comes In Colors Everywhere","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Brennan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp837869_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1534904688343","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/837869"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_63138","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":626,"numTeachers":29,"percentFrplEligible":87,"percentAsian":0,"percentBlack":1,"percentWhite":4,"percentIndigenous":9,"percentLatinx":82,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"Pre-K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"21.6:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"UNCLASSIFIED","ncesMetroType":"SUBURB_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":76.1,"schoolId":63138,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about John E White Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"John E White Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/arizona/tucson-unified-school-district/john-e-white-elementary-school/63138"}