{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Del Olmo Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":44.2,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":666287,"projectId":9966022,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting our project for Lunar New Year material. Thank you for allowing me as an educator to provide an experience for my diverse, group of students coming from Mexico, Central America, and Bangladesh. They are eager to share their culture and learn about other cultures and traditions. They were so excited to learn about how the Lunar New Year celebration is the same and/or different than their New Year celebrations.\r\n\r\nCelebrating Lunar New Year helped my students build respect for other cultures around the world.\r\n\r\nAll of these hands-on learning experiences will make a difference in my students' learning because it will promote an understanding of diverse traditions and allow my students to appreciate the importance of family and community within different cultures. Thank you once again.","fullyFundedDate":1768002845540,"projectUrl":"project/lunar-new-year-celebration/9966022/","projectTitle":"Lunar New Year Celebration!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Slayton","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-cslayton"},{"teacherId":321417,"projectId":9985218,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity. Your donation is greatly appreciated by my students and I. We engaged in a read-aloud about Lunar New Year, and then made some lovely Lunar New Year lanterns using red and yellow construction paper. We then passed out the red envelopes, and each student gave another student a chocolate coin and a lucky horse to celebrate the year of the horse. This was an experience my little ones will remember for a long time, including learning about the zodiac animals and their significance. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Blessings to you and your loved ones.","fullyFundedDate":1768002849310,"projectUrl":"project/lunar-new-year-the-year-of-the-horse/9985218/","projectTitle":"Lunar New Year - The Year of the Horse","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. M. 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The card stock paper and wooden pegs helped to make our yearly crafts to help celebrate the new year!\r\n\r\nBy introducing these materials during our Lunar New Year learning activities, students will associate the new year with renewed focus, independence, and confidence in their learning.","fullyFundedDate":1767020421527,"projectUrl":"project/lunar-new-year-listening-station/9966021/","projectTitle":"Lunar New Year Listening Station","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Slayton","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-cslayton"},{"teacherId":321417,"projectId":9971723,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity. Your donation is greatly appreciated by my students and I. We engaged in a read-aloud about Lunar New Year, and then made some lovely Lunar New Year lanterns using red and yellow construction paper. Using the storage baskets, we were able to easily organize the materials needed. This was an experience my little ones will remember for a long time, including learning about the zodiac animals and their significance. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Blessings to you and your loved ones.","fullyFundedDate":1766834723401,"projectUrl":"project/happy-lunar-new-year/9971723/","projectTitle":"Happy Lunar New Year","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. M. Lopez, NBCT","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp321417_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1592278313311","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-m-lopez"},{"teacherId":664484,"projectId":9973401,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping to bring these wonderful resources to my students. They truly had a great day learning all about Lunar New Year. We watched videos of Lunar New Year celebrations around the world. We listened to a popular Chinese folktale that explained the twelve-year Chinese zodiac cycle, and we ate long noodles and everyone received a fortune cookie. My students learned all about the significance of the red envelopes and when it was time to go home, everyone received their very own red envelope with gold coins inside. Thank you for helping to bring this experience to my students.","fullyFundedDate":1767110616707,"projectUrl":"project/lunar-new-year/9973401/","projectTitle":"Lunar New Year","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Rivera, NBCT","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp664484_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1450484470328","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-contreras-rivera"},{"teacherId":664484,"projectId":9923492,"letterContent":"My kindergarten students were so excited when they saw the Donors Choose box arrive because they knew only good things come in the DC boxes. When I showed them the new journals, they couldn't wait to start writing in them. I made sure they were completely finished with their old journals because we do not believe in waste. Now, all of my students have received a new journal and are using it daily to practice writing a sentence with a matching illustration. I can't thank you enough for giving this generous gift.","fullyFundedDate":1766172010734,"projectUrl":"project/help-us-write/9923492/","projectTitle":"Help Us Write","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Rivera, NBCT","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp664484_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1450484470328","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-contreras-rivera"},{"teacherId":666287,"projectId":9876690,"letterContent":"Thank you to each and every donor who helped up fund this project for puzzles and more! Puzzles provide a fun and engaging way for children to learn. As they work through puzzles, they enhance their problem-solving skills, memory retention, and hand-eye coordination. These puzzles create engaging centers aimed at improving my students' fine motor skills. The doodle boards are used in our everday day activities like writing our numbers, dictation, and more!\r\n\r\nThank you in advance for your support! Your donations will not only help this year's group of students, but also years to come!","fullyFundedDate":1763990979428,"projectUrl":"project/puzzles-manipulatives-and-more/9876690/","projectTitle":"Puzzles, Manipulatives, and More!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Slayton","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-cslayton"},{"teacherId":321417,"projectId":9929394,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating to this project and bringing it to life. It was such a magical day for my first graders. They had an amazing time from the moment they walked in. Everyone was invited to dress up like they were 100 years old, so it was so much fun to see my littles dressed up with wigs, mustaches, and so much more. They made hats with 100 decorations, wore glasses with the number 100, made necklaces with 100 beads, and received certificates and stickers celebrating the 100th day of school. From the bottom of my heart, thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1764600595290,"projectUrl":"project/lets-celebrate-the-100th-day-of-school/9929394/","projectTitle":"Let's Celebrate the 100th Day of School","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. M. 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The students were so excited to open all of the materials and start exploring!","fullyFundedDate":1765695267143,"projectUrl":"project/hands-on-science-projects-for-special-le/9610154/","projectTitle":"Hands On Science Projects for Special Learners","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Rivera","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1817699_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1458682651230","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-lrivera"},{"teacherId":666287,"projectId":9888776,"letterContent":"Thank you to each and every donor who helped us fund this project to celebrate the closing of our 1st semester! Thanks to you all, my students completed a gingerbread house hands-on S.T.E.A.M. project challenge. This hands-on project allowed me the opportunity to provide each pair of students with the necessary materials to complete the challenge. Gingerbread house building is a perfect way for my students to be able to collaborate, create, build, design, and problem-solve while having fun. My students really enjoy taking their structures home, explaining the process to their families, and then taking them apart by eating all of the decorations.\r\n\r\nThis gingerbread house project always brings so much joy to my students and I really enjoy observing their creative minds at work. Thank you once again!","fullyFundedDate":1763612832063,"projectUrl":"project/gingerbread-houses-for-firsties/9888776/","projectTitle":"Gingerbread Houses for Firsties","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Slayton","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-cslayton"},{"teacherId":666287,"projectId":9746064,"letterContent":"Thank you to every donor who helped us fund this project for Comprehension Journals! These fun and engaging journals are helping my first-graders on a path to being master readers and writers! These comprehension journals will assist them in learning important skills of a great readers. The dot journals will assist my learners in solidifying other first-grade concepts. Being able to write on a daily basis in their writing journals will introduce my kiddos to the beginning concepts of writing and expressing themselves in a simple yet powerful way! \r\nThis project will help my students on a journey to becoming wonderful, amazing writers! Thank you again for supporting our first-grade classroom! 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