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Our classroom looks a lot more organized and beautiful now that we have new bookshelves and storage units. New technology is used during our P. E. class. Students dance daily for 40 minutes. We use our brand-new speakers to dance. Students have received incentives that keep them motivated to come to school and participate in class. New headphones have replaced old headphones. Students received all materials with emotion. A special moment was we unpacked trophies that will be given to the best performing students in academic, social, athletic, and other areas at the end of the school year. Students are motivated to achieve high and do their best at school. We cannot thank you enough for your contribution to our classroom. Thank you again.","fullyFundedDate":1772569738272,"projectUrl":"project/gfs-donation/10113032/","projectTitle":"GFS Donation","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Palomino","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3063110"},{"teacherId":10428745,"projectId":10083433,"letterContent":"Our classroom is using the new book shelves to house all of our classroom library books. Students can now easily reach books (and we have more classroom space due to the shelves having wheels to move around). When students first saw the shelves they were happy to see all of the books neatly organized. They were very excited to start using the shelves and read books! \r\n\r\nMy next steps are to teach my students how to tell book genres apart in order to be able to place the books back in the shelves in the correct category. That is where the book dividers will come in handy. 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All the materials in this project have been so useful. I use the pointer every single day. The water bottles were distributed. The double sided tape was used in our door decoration. The stamps were used by students to send out winter positive letters to their families. The flags for Latin American countries arrived a little too late after Hispanic heritage month, but we will certainly use them in this upcoming school year. Thank you so much.","fullyFundedDate":1760670395730,"projectUrl":"project/need-it-have-it/9803678/","projectTitle":"Need It! Have It!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Sandoval","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1161460_272x272.png?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1450596936161","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1161460"},{"teacherId":2453299,"projectId":9638028,"letterContent":"We are so happy with the headphones that you help get for our class. We were working with headphones that were too old and the sound wasn't clear. The headphones that you gave or class have made a huge difference in how well students are working, especially right now during diagnostic season. Students are spenging 30-45 minutes a day completingmath and reading diagnostics and having these new headphones have helped them tremendously to hear the directions, and the clear pronounciation of words.\r\nWe are so appreciative of your generosity!","fullyFundedDate":1758410940741,"projectUrl":"project/no-more-crackling-sound/9638028/","projectTitle":"No More Crackling Sound","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Beleche","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2453299_orig.jpg?crop=742,742,x0,y98&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1687566446184","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2453299"},{"teacherId":2453299,"projectId":9167890,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donation of diverse books for my studetns. These books have helped my students see that other diverse groups have similar experiences as the. My students have had the chance to read and discuss stories about African Americans, Asians American and Native Americans. They have had an opportunity to relate to the experiences they are reading about and make connections to their own experiences. These books have made my students more aware of the commonalites that exists amonge diverse groups and the importance that these commonalites are to understanding each other.\r\nThese books have given my students a new window in which to see the world through.","fullyFundedDate":1745496333186,"projectUrl":"project/diverse-books-to-read/9167890/","projectTitle":"Diverse Books to Read","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Beleche","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2453299_orig.jpg?crop=742,742,x0,y98&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1687566446184","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2453299"},{"teacherId":2453299,"projectId":9167910,"letterContent":"The books from this project have been so well received by the students. My students have been so excited to read the books. \r\nCurrently, we are reading the books in groups, in form of book clubs. This allows for all students to be able to read the most books as possible. 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All the items have arrived and have already been put into usage. \r\n\r\nI really appreciate your support. It makes such a difference to keep the fish in a clean, healthy environment. I've posted some photos so that you can see what the fish tank looks like. As you can see in the photos, the before and after cleaning the fish tank it's a big difference in how the fish tank looks. The water definitely needs to be kept clean and filtered to keep our pet fish healthy.","fullyFundedDate":1758231975746,"projectUrl":"project/classroom-fish-bowl/9387681/","projectTitle":"Classroom Fish Bowl","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Sandoval","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1161460_272x272.png?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1450596936161","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1161460"},{"teacherId":1161460,"projectId":9785229,"letterContent":"The water bottles have arrived and every student in my classroom was able to receive one. 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I want to let you know that all the supplies have arrived and many have already been put to use. I have included some photos. The first picture shows all the items that were funded. The next one shows our classroom schedule which was taped using the double sided tape that I asked for. The third picture shows our class headsets, and we were able to keep using a lot of them by replacing the wire. The last picture is of our classroom door. 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Global Family Elementary School is
an urban public school
in Oakland, California that is part of Oakland Unified School District.
It serves 440 students
in grades Pre-K - 5 with a student/teacher ratio of 25.9:1.
Its teachers have had 460 projects funded on DonorsChoose.
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95%
of students are Black, Latino, Native
American, or Asian
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Global Family Elementary School
$264,876
raised using DonorsChoose
460
projects
funded
35
teachers
funded
583
donors
37
projects
for
basic supplies
100
projects for
technology
94
projects for
books
24
projects
for
art supplies
Global Family Elementary School has received support from
446 individuals from California and
137 individuals out-of-state.