{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Lafayette Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":21.6,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":9232921,"projectId":9472327,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your incredible generosity! Thanks to you, every child in the Kindergarten grade level has a nature journal kit! The kids love their tools, and they are taking great pride in the journal entries that they make. We have used them during both whole group and independent work times.\r\n\r\nWith these kits, we have been able to provide cross-curriculuar learning opportunities. For example, this fall we collected leaves and measured them using unifix cubes. The kids drew the leaves, and we used partner share to describe our leaves to our partners. This allowed us to work on adjectives that we later used during writing, and addressed one of our Math standards related to measurement! \r\n\r\nWe are so excited to continue our learning journey with our nature journals and all of the wonderful tools that you have provided for us! Thank you for encouraging us to continue connecting students with nature and real-world experiences!","fullyFundedDate":1759845209578,"projectUrl":"project/building-content-connections-with-nature/9472327/","projectTitle":"Building Content Connections with Nature Journaling.","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Kallsen","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9232921_orig.jpg?crop=1328,1328,x0,y53&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1693262920532","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9232921"},{"teacherId":9236668,"projectId":7886282,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom by funding our bulletin boards. Your generous gift allows us to proudly display student work throughout the year, celebrating creativity, effort, and academic growth. \r\n\r\nSeeing their work showcased builds students' confidence, motivates them to take risks, and reinforces the value of persistence and excellence. We will use the boards to highlight writing, artwork, projects, and examples of strong academic work.\r\n\r\nFamilies who visit will see a classroom alive with student thinking, which strengthens home–school connections and encourages meaningful conversations about learning. Your investment sends a powerful message to our students that their work matters and that the community supports their learning. \r\n\r\nWe are deeply grateful for your kindness and will put these materials to excellent use—thank you for making our classroom brighter and for helping our students feel proud of their achievements.","fullyFundedDate":1695600008846,"projectUrl":"project/home-for-student-work-to-be-displayed-n/7886282/","projectTitle":"Home for Student Work to be Displayed Needed","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Irene","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9236668_orig.jpg?crop=946,946,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1693603439646","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9236668"},{"teacherId":9232921,"projectId":9613455,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting our first Cougars Care Day of Service at Lafayette Elementary. Students in grades K-5 partnered with a buddy class (K/3, 1/4, 2/5) and went through three stations. The stations included building Snuffle Balls, creating hygiene and snack kits with Chai for Charity, making ornaments and bookmarks, and planting gardens and painting rocks to beautify our school grounds with Garden To Table. Pre-school also participated by painting rocks for school gardens.\r\nOver 450 students and 100 volunteers participated in our Day of Service. Three community organizations were positively impacted by our work. These four include: Meals on Wheels, Broomfield FISH, and Luvin' Arms. Our very own Lafayette Elementary school also benefited from the students' hard work improving our school grounds.\r\nThis fall, Natasha Wright and Nicole Kallsen led a Fall Service Club for 50 students. Over four weeks, the service Club participated in four community service projects. These projects included: Birthday Bags for local food banks (cake mix, frosting, candles, birthday banner, balloons), Holiday Cookie Making Kits for local families in need, No-Sew Blankets for Childrens' Hospital, Seed Bombs to support native pollinators and Thank You cards for community helpers.\r\nEarly civic engagement fosters leadership, resilience, and social-emotional skills that benefit students far beyond K–12 while strengthening families and communities, making this event an investment in the lifelong civic and personal development of our children. Research shows that youth who volunteer are 19% more likely to graduate from college and have 27% higher odds of employment (Youth.gov), are 97% more likely to be flourishing (California Youth Commissions, 2023), and experience better physical and mental health, including 25% lower rates of anxiety (Time, 2023).\r\nThank you for supporting us in this amazing experience! We are confident that this project will have a lasting impact on our community and our students!","fullyFundedDate":1755827180310,"projectUrl":"project/cougars-care-service-club-cougars-care/9613455/","projectTitle":"Cougars Care Service Club & Cougars Care Day of Service","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Kallsen","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9232921_orig.jpg?crop=1328,1328,x0,y53&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1693262920532","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9232921"},{"teacherId":9232921,"projectId":9316854,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping me create a world of imagination and creativity for my students! It was wonderful to see how excited my students were to see the play spaces that I created for them this year with the generous donations I received through this project. \r\nOur playhouse area has been transformed to accommodate more students and give them purposeful activities to do while in the playhouse area. They take care of babies by changing their clothes, giving them baths, washing and ironing clothes, and feeding them. They create imaginative combinations of foods to serve to each other, and are learning how to sort foods into their individual food groups.\r\nI am looking forward to transforming our playspaces throughout this school year, introducing the market and the ice cream cart. They will have the opportunity to experience a Dinosaur Dig, a Pumpkin Market, and a Bakery. These donations are going to allow me to keep these areas fresh and exciting year round!\r\nDramatic play has a profound affect on students' social emotional learning opportunities and growth. We have daily real-world opportunities to solve problems through conversation, negotiation, and compromise. We practice and build our language skills and vocabulary as students pretend they are parents, babies, puppeteers, cashiers, chefs, archeologists, and more! As the incredible Mr. Rogers once said, \"Play is not just about having fun, for children play is serious learning. 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Everything in our classroom has a home, which will help keep our materials in good condition for years to come.\r\nThe students are very excited to have personal bags for their headphones. They absolutely love the three tier cart that holds all of our baby items for our dramatic play house. They know where everything goes, and make sure to put it back at the end of playtime. The bins for the food in the kitchen have helped students keep our refrigerator and play cupboards organized. An added bonus, is that the bins have helped students learn how to sort foods by their food groups! The colored baskets makes finding centers so easy. This allows greater independence for students. \r\nI am excited to see how the organization continues to support students as new playtime stations are rolled out each month. Having an organized classroom makes everything run smoother. 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