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Sending you lots of joy, peach and happiness!","fullyFundedDate":1757955386828,"projectUrl":"project/kindergarten-wiggles/9671218/","projectTitle":"Kindergarten Wiggles!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Ontiveros","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp771586_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1470607850918","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrsontiveros"},{"teacherId":771586,"projectId":9651574,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating to our project and helping us to fund Brain Pop Jr. for Kindergarten! This website is such a valuable resource for our little ones and really helps them to understand various concepts. There are many videos, worksheets and games that are geared for the. younger students. We are learning about math concepts, science, language arts, history and health. \r\nThe students love watching the videos and applying them to the topics we are learning in class. 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It has been such a pleasure to watch how excited the students get when they realize that we are having our Classroom Store and they get to use the points that they have earned to go shopping!\r\nThe students loved all the new prizes and as predicted the slime and fidget toys were a big hit!! There were prizes in lots of point ranges so that the students could all have something to choose from or they could choose multiple items. It is so cute to watch how they spend their points and how some of them even selected items for siblings to share at home with. I asked the students which prizes they want to continue seeing at the next store and they all want more slime and squishy balls!! \r\nThank you once again for helping me help my students! It is so important for them to see their worth and know how special they are! It has been a great incentive to keep them on task, remember the rules and teach them responsibility by creating our PBIS store in the classroom! Have a great day and thanks again from the bottom of my heart for believing in my Tiny Tigers too!","fullyFundedDate":1761932368158,"projectUrl":"project/pbis-and-kindergarten-part-2/9854679/","projectTitle":"PBIS and Kindergarten Part 2","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Ontiveros","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp771586_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1470607850918","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrsontiveros"},{"teacherId":771586,"projectId":9615096,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping fund Knick Knacks for Kindergarten! This has been such a fun project to help my class get some much needed materials. The rugs have been a great hit and the students love having a little library section. They constantly want to sit on the comfy chairs so we had to set up some rules to help keep them safe and be more fair with them. \r\nThe magnets and dot markers have come in handy in doing some fun Art projects and in creating a keepsake that they could keep at home to remember their first day of Kindergarten. The batteries have come in handy to keep our timers, clock and smart pens working and in order. The pencil sharpener has also been the coolest addition to our classroom. We use it to exclusively sharpen our new colored pencils and if you have never seen it action then I strongly encourage you to! It is automated and we place the pencil in and it sharpens it to perfection! 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Since the books have been on the shelves, they have hardly been put back for long. The students have enjoyed the titles and have even appreciated the Spanish version being available as well.\r\n\r\nThe students who were a bit reluctant to read have started to check these books out when they can because they are so popular. I have already been asked if I will be adding more books based off video games in the future. I am more surprised to see even one volume on the shelf when I know that my students keep raving about the books and it's all thanks to you.","fullyFundedDate":1735662151352,"projectUrl":"project/five-nights-at-freddys-trilogy-for-libr/9001643/","projectTitle":"Five Nights at Freddy's Trilogy for Library","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mendoza","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8793294_orig.jpg?crop=1798,1798,x154,y309&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1695257560155","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8793294"},{"teacherId":771586,"projectId":9743478,"letterContent":"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! The magic that this PBIS project created in my classroom was awesome! The students loved coming to our store to use their points and buy prizes! They said it was the best day ever!\r\nIt was so cute to see what they wanted to \"spend\" their points on and what they wanted to save to purchase for next month. \r\nThe stickers were a big hit and the lowest point value because I wanted all the students to have an opportunity to be able to get items! They also liked the plushies a lot! Play-Doh was a big item that they wanted and I will have to get some more for next month. \r\nThank you again for such a wonderful project to be funded. It made my heart so happy to be able to have a PBIS store in our classroom so that my Tiny Tigers could be rewarded for all their hard work and feel special! 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Telfair Avenue Elementary School is
an urban public school
in Pacoima, California that is part of Los Angeles Unified School District.
It serves 558 students
in grades Pre-K - 5 with a student/teacher ratio of 17.4:1.
Its teachers have had 473 projects funded on DonorsChoose.
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of students receive free or reduced price lunch
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96%
of students are Black, Latino, Native
American, or Asian
Data about school demographics comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. The numbers in this chart may not add up to 100% because of limitations in the available data.
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Telfair Avenue Elementary School
$214,352
raised using DonorsChoose
473
projects
funded
57
teachers
funded
1,142
donors
56
projects
for
basic supplies
84
projects for
technology
47
projects for
books
48
projects
for
art supplies
Telfair Avenue Elementary School has received support from
940 individuals from California and
202 individuals out-of-state.