{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Kingsley Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":28.3,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":1614472,"projectId":10059014,"letterContent":"We are so grateful for your generous donation of a new iMac computer for our 5th grade classroom. Your support has already made a meaningful difference in our students' daily learning experiences. The students were incredibly excited to begin using the new device, and it has quickly become an important tool for creativity, collaboration, and academic growth. Thank you for investing in our classroom and helping provide opportunities that inspire our learners every day.\r\nThe new iMac has allowed students to engage more deeply with technology-based learning activities across all subjects. Students are using the computer to research topics, create presentations, practice keyboarding and writing skills, and explore educational programs that strengthen math and reading comprehension. The larger screen, speed, and reliability of the device have made it easier for students to work independently and confidently. Your generosity is helping our students build valuable technology skills that will benefit them far beyond the 5th grade, and we truly appreciate your kindness and support.","fullyFundedDate":1778160455197,"projectUrl":"project/tech-savvy-students/10059014/","projectTitle":"Tech Savvy Students","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Badawy","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1614472_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1657469712121","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1614472"},{"teacherId":7109607,"projectId":9872398,"letterContent":"Thank you so so much for helping us fund this gigantic project for our school Winter Festival. Our students had the most unique song choice and choreography, made several, beautiful props from scratch, and got to wear the cutest, most ravishing costumes. This performance was truly something magical- something our students had never experienced before. Thanks to your support, it all came together so beautifully. We are so proud of all the time and effort invested and are truly grateful that we were able to make our vision a reality. Our cuban-themed holiday performance was certainly one for the books!","fullyFundedDate":1764959564505,"projectUrl":"project/winter-holidays-in-havana/9872398/","projectTitle":"Winter Holidays in Havana","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Clark","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7109607_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1673659371420","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7109607"},{"teacherId":5895019,"projectId":9780601,"letterContent":"Hello, thank you for choosing to contribute to our STEM and music project. The materials form this project arrived in time for our music performance. Most of our students learned to keep a steady beat and enjoyed using their jingles stick both indoors and outdoors. \r\nThe STEM materials are one of the most used materials in our classroom. Our young students especially like the textures. They have been creating many interesting designs with their materials and have learned to mix materials to make their designs more interesting.\r\nThank you for generously contributing to our project.","fullyFundedDate":1760693617927,"projectUrl":"project/parts-for-future-engineers-and-jingle-st/9780601/","projectTitle":"Parts for Future Engineers and Jingle Sticks for Future Musicians","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Juarez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-juarez-teachersrock"},{"teacherId":5895019,"projectId":10141065,"letterContent":"Hello and thank you for funding our project. It was challenging not having a color printer in the classroom. We are now able to print materials for the new units that were added this school year. We have printed materials for our whole group and small group instruction and have been seeing a drastic increase in student drive and engagement.\r\nThank you for investing in the education of the students in our beautiful and diverse community.\r\nYou have impacted our students ' motivation and learning.\r\n*Blessings*","fullyFundedDate":1776140330888,"projectUrl":"project/print-investigate-and-solve/10141065/","projectTitle":"Print, Investigate and Solve","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Juarez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-juarez-teachersrock"},{"teacherId":5895019,"projectId":10086091,"letterContent":"Hello and thank you for helping us achieve our goal. We have been busy laminating different resources for our student to use during small group time. Our kiddos have enjoyed their new games. We have noticed that there is more focus. Student have been using more academic language and our parents volunteers are also enjoying the materials. Thank you again for investing in the education of our beautiful and diverse community. We will use these laminated materials for years to come. \r\nWe appreciate your generosity.\r\n*Blessings*","fullyFundedDate":1774963662273,"projectUrl":"project/write-on-wipe-off/10086091/","projectTitle":"Write On, Wipe Off","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Juarez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-juarez-teachersrock"},{"teacherId":5895019,"projectId":9938506,"letterContent":"Hello and thank you for your generous support. Our young students were excited when their items arrived and they agreed to take care of their new materials.\r\nThe materials you have provided have turned our sensory table into a space where students have the autonomy to learn through play by engaging multiple senses, which has helped them improve problem-solving, and enhance language through descriptive play. They asked if a few of the items could be added to their Zen zone and have put them to use.\r\nThank you for investing in the education of our intelligent, beautiful and diverse learners","fullyFundedDate":1769177734267,"projectUrl":"project/what-is-in-our-sensory-table/9938506/","projectTitle":"What Is in Our Sensory Table?","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Juarez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-juarez-teachersrock"},{"teacherId":10300505,"projectId":9790765,"letterContent":"The moment my students realized that we have new materials to work with, their engagement and motivation towards learning new skills and practicing current ones increased. These new materials have allowed my students to work on teamwork, turn-taking, self-advocating, active listening, and inferencing. The materials do the perfect job of turning mundane tasks into what feels like simply playing although they are always actively learning. \r\n\r\nI am are currently starting to introduce the \"Guess who\" game as a team game where students have to actively use their language skills to ask questions, use targeted focus, use collaboration, and practice patience. I am currently transitioning from retelling stories with the story cards to students building their own stories using the visual to maintain story structure. \r\n\r\nThank you again for contributing to their learning!","fullyFundedDate":1765072290762,"projectUrl":"project/language-and-science/9790765/","projectTitle":"Language and Science","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Ramirez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-3_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10300505"},{"teacherId":1614472,"projectId":10031922,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for the art supplies. My after school groups were so pleased to find out we received paint markers. They were excited to create art pieces that expressed their identity and interests. They are Alison using them to create posters for fundraising events around school. These markers will also be used during our Multicultural art festival. Students can now enhance their artwork and display them around campus. Thank you again for making this possible for my kids. We greatly appreciate your generosity and kindness.","fullyFundedDate":1769177736767,"projectUrl":"project/art-materials/10031922/","projectTitle":"Art Materials","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Badawy","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1614472_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1657469712121","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1614472"},{"teacherId":5895019,"projectId":9675494,"letterContent":"Hello, we greatly appreciate your generous contributing to our loose parts STEAM project. Our TK students have been using their imagination to create many detailed designs. They have used their loose parts to make buildings, vehicles, robots, landscapes and much more. They enjoy all the loose parts but the especially like the versatility of the pavers. They like to challenge themselves as they recreate the images on the cards. \r\nThank you again for investing in the education of the students in our beautiful and diverse community,.","fullyFundedDate":1764618311236,"projectUrl":"project/loose-parts/9675494/","projectTitle":"Loose Parts","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Juarez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-juarez-teachersrock"},{"teacherId":9169149,"projectId":8697590,"letterContent":"These materials have made such a fun impact on our classroom learning. The standing desk has made it possible to project lessons with ease and our students have enjoyed taking fun brain breaks in between lessons. The wireless keyboard has helped keep up engagement during lessons as the students are excited for the chance to type out their answer. \r\nThe fish tank has changed our lot for our class. It not only brought it a real life connection for our science unit but it also brought a calming atmosphere for our students. Many of my students enjoy watching our class fish when they need a moment to relax. It has also been the subject of many sentences creating a joyful experience during our writing lessons and many hands on experiences when learning about fish in science.\r\nYour generosity has changed the excitement and joyfulness in my classroom. All these positive experiences in our young learners education wouldn't be possible without you. Mahalo","fullyFundedDate":1724624291162,"projectUrl":"project/a-new-pet-and-presentation/8697590/","projectTitle":"A New Pet and Presentation","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Archuletta","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9169149"},{"teacherId":9374522,"projectId":8320947,"letterContent":"Reading is fundamental and in my classroom we're reading constantly! Students, whether they recognize it or not, are reading 3-4 books at a time with their individual choices, our class read aloud, and novel studies. We are time travelers, adventurers, friends, but most of all, we are becoming thoughtful readers.\r\n\r\nThe two titles in this project, \"Remember Us\" and \"The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson\" are fantastic to show students what writing looks like and how a story set in Brooklyn, written in different centuries, with strong main characters can be so similar and yet approached differently.\r\n\r\nIn my class the students start any book by judging the cover (yes!). I encourage them to pour over the cover imagery, blurbs, fine print, and get a feel for the book. Once they've formed those first impressions than we can start affirming or challenging perspectives. Early in our reading I put students in small groups and provide them questions that they randomly chose from a cup to answer--who are the main characters, where are we, when are we, etc. These questions help build their identities as readers--I'm not assessing their knowledge of the story, I'm assessing if they can identify the needed basics and interpret, feel, and interact with the characters and author's voice.\r\n\r\nThese two books feature strong perspectives, engaging prose, and a story that students quickly connect to. They've followed along intently, made inferences for characters, and began figuring out how they've changed because of these books. I wouldn't have been able to do this without you, and I appreciate it deeply.","fullyFundedDate":1714429674511,"projectUrl":"project/more-diverse-books/8320947/","projectTitle":"More Diverse Books","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Rupiper","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9374522_orig.png?crop=1106,1106,x0,y29&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1713499301451","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9374522"},{"teacherId":7109607,"projectId":8455754,"letterContent":"Thank you so so much for helping us acquire such culturally rich novels. Our class has thoroughly enjoyed reading about Esperanza's story, incentivizing quite a few to read more and on their own. Sometimes, all it takes is one good book, for a child to learn the love of reading. This text has also allowed us to explore many different perspectives, as well as current and past and societal issues.\r\n\r\nIn watching my students dive into \"Esperanza Rising\", it really felt like I was seeing them undergo their own \"rising\"... as they followed Esperanza from her life of luxury in Mexico to the dusty labor camps of California. Our class wasn't just reading a story; we were practicing deep empathy. And in navigating the challenges of the Great Depression and the injustices of the migrant experience through her eyes, we were also able to develop a much deeper sense of social awareness that connects the classroom to the real world.\r\n\r\nTo us, Esperanza's story was both a \"mirror\" to our own, personal struggles, as well as a \"window\" into another life, and through it, we've discovered that books aren't just paper and ink—but tools for resilience and windows to the heart. For that, we thank you from the heart.","fullyFundedDate":1718669296791,"projectUrl":"project/esperanza-renace/8455754/","projectTitle":"Esperanza Renace","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Clark","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7109607_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1673659371420","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7109607"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_7374","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":293,"numTeachers":20,"percentFrplEligible":95,"percentAsian":1,"percentBlack":1,"percentWhite":8,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":87,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":1,"gradesServed":"Pre-K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"14.6:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":71.7,"schoolId":7374,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Kingsley Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Kingsley Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/california/los-angeles-unified-school-district/kingsley-elementary-school/7374"}