{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Desert Mesa Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":29.9,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":4803485,"projectId":10524796,"letterContent":"Thank You for Supporting Our \"Wall to Wall Wonder\" Project!\r\n\r\nThank you so much for supporting our \"Wall to Wall Wonder\" project! We are incredibly grateful for your generosity and for helping us transform the front hallways of our school into welcoming, colorful, and meaningful spaces for our students, families, and staff.\r\n\r\nWith your support, we are able to decorate our hallways with beautiful bulletin paper and borders, creating polished displays that can be enjoyed throughout the school year. These spaces will allow teachers to showcase student work, celebrate student accomplishments, and highlight the creativity and learning happening in our classrooms.\r\n\r\nOur hallway displays can also be used to share important information, school reminders, learning resources, and special projects with students, families, and visitors. Most importantly, students will have the opportunity to see their hard work displayed and celebrated throughout the school.\r\n\r\nYour donation helps us create an environment where students can feel proud, valued, and excited to see their learning celebrated. A simple hallway can become a place that tells the story of our students—their growth, creativity, accomplishments, and hard work.\r\n\r\nWe are truly grateful for your generosity and for investing in our school community. Thank you for helping us make our hallways a place of wonder, pride, learning, and celebration!\r\n\r\nThank you for helping us bring \"Wall to Wall Wonder\" to life!","fullyFundedDate":1789567614105,"projectUrl":"project/wall-to-wall-wonder/10524796/","projectTitle":"Wall to Wall Wonder","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4803485_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1746040705294","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4803485"},{"teacherId":4803485,"projectId":10262251,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom by providing engaging supplies for indoor recess! Your generosity is making a meaningful difference for our students, especially during times of extreme weather when outdoor recess is not possible.\r\n\r\nThese supplies give our students the opportunity to move, play, create, problem-solve, and learn together while staying safely indoors. The games and activities allow students to manipulate materials, practice important social skills, and collaborate with their peers in fun and meaningful ways.\r\n\r\nFor our students, indoor recess is more than simply having something to do. It is an opportunity to build friendships, communicate, take turns, work as a team, and use their creativity. Having a variety of activities available helps make these indoor moments positive, active, and engaging.\r\n\r\nYour generosity helps us turn challenging weather days into opportunities for movement, collaboration, laughter, and learning. We are incredibly grateful that you chose to invest in our students and help make their school experience even more enjoyable.\r\n\r\nThank you for making a difference in the lives of our students! Your kindness and support are truly appreciated, and our students are so fortunate to have people like you cheering them on.","fullyFundedDate":1787142005787,"projectUrl":"project/indoor-recess/10262251/","projectTitle":"Indoor Recess","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4803485_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1746040705294","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4803485"},{"teacherId":5969793,"projectId":10200497,"letterContent":"My students and I are so grateful for the new headphones and privacy folders! We have been using these resources during classroom assessments and independent work. The headphones allow students to listen carefully to questions, passages, and other testing materials without being distracted by the sounds around them. The privacy folders also help students stay focused on their own work and feel more comfortable during assessments. When my students first saw the new materials, they were excited to have their own headphones and privacy folders to use, and they quickly understood how these tools would help create a quieter and more focused testing environment.\r\n\r\nAs we continue through the school year, these resources will be used regularly for classroom assessments, district testing, and independent activities. Our next steps are to continue building students' confidence and independence as they demonstrate everything they are learning. Having the right tools available helps ensure that students can focus on doing their best without unnecessary distractions. Thank you so much for supporting our classroom and providing my students with resources that will benefit them throughout the entire school year!","fullyFundedDate":1778199869652,"projectUrl":"project/testing-success/10200497/","projectTitle":"Testing Success!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Armenta","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5969793_orig.png?crop=1592,1592,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1661545626738","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5969793"},{"teacherId":3137014,"projectId":10228907,"letterContent":"We are forever thankful for providing my students with primary journals. My students were able to grow and strengthen their writing skills. Students were able to not only show their writing skills but were also able to develop their creativity. \r\n\r\nWe used the mesh bags to keep our writing materials organized during center time. \r\nThe golf sized pencils helped those students who needed to strengthen their grasp, enabling them to write neater and with ease. \r\n\r\nThank you for providing these simple yet essential materials!","fullyFundedDate":1778009142333,"projectUrl":"project/simple-yet-essential/10228907/","projectTitle":"Simple Yet Essential","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hernandez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3137014_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1644291171911","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3137014"},{"teacherId":3275125,"projectId":9332553,"letterContent":"My class and I are forever grateful for your generosity. The materials have been so helpful for my students this year. The class and I had an unboxing party to see all of the new learning tools for students. \r\n\r\nThe Play-Doh was especially helpful to build hand strength, encourage creativity, and use as a tool for math and reading. They learned through play, which is exactly how kindergarteners learn best! \r\n\r\nThe LCD tablets and pouches made our listening and writing part of our learning day more successful. The pouches protect the writing tablets and allow for easy organization; this gave us a quick and smooth transition for this learning time each day. The colorful letters made it fun and magical as they worked through our lessons. It was very helpful to have a writing tool that did not provide odor, dust, and lost pieces like we do with dry erase boards, markers, and easers. \r\n\r\nThank you for investing in my kindergarten students this year and for years to come. Your generosity created successful learning opportunities for all students in my classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1754687087066,"projectUrl":"project/keeping-it-cool-in-kinder/9332553/","projectTitle":"Keeping It Cool in Kinder!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hebebrand","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3275125_orig.jpg?crop=2400,2400,x0,y264&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1746647108077","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-hebebrand"},{"teacherId":3137014,"projectId":9817174,"letterContent":"I want to begin by thanking you for making this project possible. We use the notebooks everyday during one portion of our daily writing lessons. The journals allow my students to draw as a way to help their writing skills. They were ecstatic when they received them.\r\n\r\nThe golf sized pencils help my students that need to develop their pencil grasp, hold their pencils more appropriately. We use the large charts to create anchor charts across all subject areas. We use them interactively to make CVC words during Reading. We use it to sequence information during Science and Social Studies and record strategies during Math. \r\n\r\nThank you for helping make our learning more interactive.","fullyFundedDate":1765213970248,"projectUrl":"project/little-writers/9817174/","projectTitle":"Little Writers","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hernandez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3137014_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1644291171911","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3137014"},{"teacherId":3137014,"projectId":9609999,"letterContent":"My students had a blast celebrating the end of our ABC Bootcamp. They wore their army helmets and dog tags with pride. We continue to use the the letter manipulatives we were able to get with this project. Now they are also using them to build sight words. They are able to work on their eye hand coordination, which helps them with their writing skills. We also continue to use the chart paper to make anchor charts.\r\n\r\nAll of this learning magic would not have been possible without donors like you! 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