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Thank you to the DonorsChoose Community for helping us meet this demand and giving more children access to a way of reading they already love!","fullyFundedDate":1790777620771,"projectUrl":"project/playaway-audiobooks-for-the-k-6-library/10674261/","projectTitle":"Playaway Audiobooks for the K-6 Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lay","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8355939_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1755025570891","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-lays-library"},{"teacherId":8355939,"projectId":10495828,"letterContent":"Adding Wonderbook editions of The One and Only series to our Title I K–6 library gives students an inviting way to experience these heartfelt stories. With built-in audio, students can listen while following along with the printed text, supporting vocabulary, comprehension, and confidence as they explore longer books.\r\n\r\nThese books make shared reading experiences more accessible to students with different reading abilities, including those who benefit from hearing fluent reading modeled. The memorable animal characters also offer opportunities to discuss friendship, kindness, and empathy. Thank you for helping us bring stories to our shelves that students can enjoy with greater independence!","fullyFundedDate":1790777444082,"projectUrl":"project/wonderbooks-for-the-k-6-library/10495828/","projectTitle":"Wonderbooks for the K-6 Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lay","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8355939_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1755025570891","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-lays-library"},{"teacherId":8355939,"projectId":10633022,"letterContent":"Adding picture books by popular, engaging authors to our Title I K–6 library helps us connect more students with stories that spark curiosity, laughter, and a love of reading. With memorable characters, expressive illustrations, and inviting storytelling, these books offer opportunities to build vocabulary, practice comprehension, and explore different perspectives.\r\n\r\nThis project also expands the books available for engaging read-alouds, helping me and other teachers bring meaningful conversations and reading lessons to life. Whether students are discovering a favorite author, sharing a story with classmates, or checking out a book to enjoy at home, these new additions help make our library a place where every reader can find something to love. Thank you for investing in our students and the joy of reading!","fullyFundedDate":1789583010197,"projectUrl":"project/big-names-beloved-stories-for-our-scho/10633022/","projectTitle":"Big Names & Beloved Stories for our School Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lay","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8355939_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1755025570891","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-lays-library"},{"teacherId":8355939,"projectId":10286733,"letterContent":"Adding popular, engaging beginning reading books to our K–6 library gives our youngest readers more opportunities to find books they are excited to read and feel successful reading. Familiar characters, appealing illustrations, and accessible text help students practice essential reading skills while enjoying a story.\r\n\r\nFor students in our Title I school, access to these books at school and through library checkout helps create more opportunities to read beyond the classroom. This project supports growing confidence, independence, and reading stamina, helping children move from \"I can't read that\" to \"I want to read another!\" Thank you for helping us build a collection that encourages our beginning readers and makes reading something to look forward to.","fullyFundedDate":1789152663133,"projectUrl":"project/high-interest-beginning-reading-books/10286733/","projectTitle":"High Interest Beginning Reading Books","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lay","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8355939_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1755025570891","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-lays-library"},{"teacherId":8355939,"projectId":10452798,"letterContent":"Thanks to this project, our activity teachers and students will have a much-needed classroom essential available every day—tissues! With hundreds of students rotating through library, art, music, PE, and GTE each week, tissues are something we go through quickly, especially during cold and allergy season.\r\n\r\nHaving a reliable supply means our activity teachers can focus on teaching, creating, reading, moving, and making music instead of worrying about running out of basic supplies. It also helps us keep our shared learning spaces cleaner and more comfortable for every student who walks through our doors.\r\n\r\nIt may seem like a simple item, but providing tissues for all of our activity classrooms is a practical way to support both our students and teachers throughout the entire school year. We are so thankful for the donors who helped stock our classrooms and take one more expense off our teachers' plates!","fullyFundedDate":1787160058881,"projectUrl":"project/helping-every-student-one-tissue-at-a-t/10452798/","projectTitle":"Helping Every Student, One Tissue at a Time","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lay","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8355939_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1755025570891","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-lays-library"},{"teacherId":8355939,"projectId":10685015,"letterContent":"This project will make a huge impact on our K–6 library by putting books students are genuinely excited to read into their hands! Graphic novels are some of the most requested and most frequently checked-out books in our library, and they have an incredible ability to reach all kinds of readers—including reluctant readers, developing readers, and students who are already passionate book lovers.\r\n\r\nThese new graphic novels will help students build reading confidence, strengthen vocabulary and comprehension, and develop visual literacy skills while enjoying stories they love. Most importantly, they will give more students the opportunity to experience the feeling of finding a book they simply cannot put down. When students are excited about what they are reading, they read more—and every book they finish helps build stronger, more confident lifelong readers.\r\n\r\nThanks to this project, our shelves will be filled with more of the books our students are asking for, and hundreds of children will have new opportunities to discover the joy of reading.","fullyFundedDate":1790777533431,"projectUrl":"project/graphic-novels-for-the-k-6-library/10685015/","projectTitle":"Graphic Novels for the K-6 Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lay","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8355939_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1755025570891","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-lays-library"},{"teacherId":8355939,"projectId":10638760,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your support! Adding popular books in Spanish to our K–6 library will help make our collection more welcoming, accessible, and inclusive for all students. These books will give Spanish-speaking students the opportunity to enjoy familiar, high-interest stories in a language they feel comfortable reading while also supporting literacy development and a love of reading.\r\n\r\nStudents will be able to see their language represented on our library shelves, share favorite books with their families, and build confidence as readers. These books will also give all students opportunities to explore another language and culture. Most importantly, this project will help ensure that every child who walks into our library can find books that feel like they belong there—and that they belong there, too.","fullyFundedDate":1789583247366,"projectUrl":"project/spanish-books-for-the-k-6-library/10638760/","projectTitle":"Spanish Books for the K-6 Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lay","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8355939_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1755025570891","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-lays-library"},{"teacherId":8355939,"projectId":10281317,"letterContent":"These books will give my K–6 students engaging, age-appropriate stories and resources that will help them understand and express their feelings, build empathy, manage big emotions, and develop positive social-emotional skills. Students will be able to see themselves and their experiences reflected in books while also learning how to better understand the feelings and perspectives of others. These titles will become valuable resources in our library for read-alouds, classroom lessons, small-group conversations, and independent reading. By adding more books focused on feelings, friendship, kindness, resilience, and self-regulation, our library will provide students with stories that support not only their academic growth as readers, but also their emotional and social development.","fullyFundedDate":1782854960668,"projectUrl":"project/helping-students-navigate-big-feelings-t/10281317/","projectTitle":"Helping Students Navigate Big Feelings Through Books","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lay","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8355939_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1755025570891","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-lays-library"},{"teacherId":10036091,"projectId":9870616,"letterContent":"THANK YOU so much for your donation to our STEM centers. Because of your support, our students now have access to high-quality, hands-on resources that bring Science, technology, engineering, and math concepts to life right at their desks. Thank you for investing in our students' learning. These new resources have already transformed our daily routine; students are highly motivated to finish their primary assignments just to earn dedicated engineering and free-build time with the new STEM bins.","fullyFundedDate":1768518637663,"projectUrl":"project/the-magic-of-magnets-and-blocks/9870616/","projectTitle":"The Magic of Magnets and Blocks","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hodges","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10036091_orig.jpg?crop=1938,1938,x0,y226&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1747245893475","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10036091"},{"teacherId":9187309,"projectId":10505324,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for making our \"Money Smart: Building Financially Savvy Future Leaders\" project possible! These new books, activities, and workbooks have given our students an engaging, age-appropriate way to learn financial skills that they can use throughout their lives. Students are learning about earning, saving, spending, budgeting, needs versus wants, making thoughtful financial choices, and even the basics of entrepreneurship. Concepts that can sometimes feel complicated become much easier to understand when students can explore them through stories, examples, and hands-on activities.\r\n\r\nOne of the best parts of this project has been seeing how naturally the books spark conversations. Students love sharing what they would save for, discussing whether something is a need or a want, and thinking about how they might earn and manage their own money someday. The activities and workbooks allow us to take those conversations a step further by giving students opportunities to practice making real-world financial decisions in a safe and fun environment.\r\n\r\nYour generosity has helped us teach much more than dollars and cents. These resources are helping our students develop responsibility, goal-setting, problem-solving, and decision-making skills that will benefit them well beyond the classroom. 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Your generosity is helping place engaging survival and hunting books into the hands of students who are eager to read about adventure, resilience, outdoor skills, and real-world challenges.\r\n\r\nThese high-interest books will motivate reluctant readers, encourage independent reading, and help students build literacy skills through topics that capture their attention and spark their curiosity. Many of our students have limited access to books outside of school, and your support will provide opportunities for them to discover new interests and develop a lifelong love of reading.\r\n\r\nBecause of your contribution, our library will be able to offer a wider variety of books that reflect students' interests and experiences. These books will inspire meaningful conversations, increase reading engagement, and help students grow as confident, capable readers.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping us create a library collection that will encourage every child to explore, learn, and succeed.","fullyFundedDate":1778261968478,"projectUrl":"project/engaging-survival-books-for-the-k-6-libr/10165711/","projectTitle":"Engaging Survival Books for the K-6 Library!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lay","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8355939_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1755025570891","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-lays-library"},{"teacherId":8355939,"projectId":10161620,"letterContent":"These books will transform our K–6 library into a place where students are excited to read and eager to return for their next book. By adding high-interest graphic novels and engaging picture books, this project will help students discover stories they simply cannot put down.\r\n\r\nIn our diverse Title I school, many students need books that immediately capture their attention and help them experience success and joy as readers. Graphic novels and highly engaging picture books will provide accessible, visually rich stories that support comprehension, vocabulary development, and reading confidence for students at a variety of reading levels. These books will especially encourage reluctant readers, emerging readers, and students who may struggle with traditional chapter books.\r\n\r\nStudents will build stronger reading habits as they become invested in characters and stories that feel fun, exciting, and relatable. 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