{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Sand Lake Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":21.3,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":827028,"projectId":9950370,"letterContent":"I believe in more music for more kids. This is the driving philosophy behind my time as an elementary school music teacher. With your donation that helped bring us stands for barred instruments, I can confidently say that we have acheived this goal. Your donation made these instruments not only easier to move around for classes and rehearsals, but they made the instruments more playable for more children. The kids are also playing with better technique, and while most of them will not play mallets professionally, playing with improved technique allows them to keep away from injuries and physically feel better while they are playing music. This is an amazing gift we have been given, and I know we will not take it for granted. \r\n\r\nSince your amazing donation, I can confidently say that over 80% of our entire school population (every grade level except for kindergarten) has made use of these instruments stands. They make the instruments easier particularly for the younger students, who are still developing their fine motor skills. You have truly given a gift that all of our students can enjoy, and that will not be forgotten. Thank you so much, and I hope you are able to take beautiful music with you wherever you go.","fullyFundedDate":1765498747676,"projectUrl":"project/raising-the-barred-instruments/9950370/","projectTitle":"Raising the Bar(red Instruments)!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Langerholc","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp827028_orig.jpg?crop=750,750,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1763151865426","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/langerholc"},{"teacherId":827028,"projectId":9895977,"letterContent":"Our students have gone recorder mad this year! Now that we have everybody playing recorders, we have been plowing through lessons, learning new notes and new songs, improvising, and having a great time. All of our students are now learning fine motor skills, increased dexterity in their fingers, and controlled breathing, which are wonderful skills that have multiple benefits far beyond just playing music. Music does not just teach humanity and creativity, but when we get into the weeds and play instruments like the recorder, it assists tremendously with skill development. Very few other curricular classes work with fine motor development and related skills at the elementary school level, so your donation has helped make this a reality for all of our students here at Sand Lake Elementary. \r\n\r\nAdditionally, your donation has made it so that recorder is not just an optional thing to learn, but something all students can participate in. This helps to bring equitable music education to every student at our school and assists in leveling the skill development playing field. Although we have a lot of advantages here, there are still many students who have great needs. As you know, a good deal of federal and state funding is drying up for music education, and although we are well supported in Orange County Public Schools, it becomes hard for one district alone to buck the patterns within a larger system. Our kids who have not played recorder before have been overjoyed to get their own, and some of them spend spare time in class hugging their recorders. Do not trust people who talk about the recorder as though it is not beneficial to a child's education – they are so wrong. These kids are so happy to be playing their recorders. Your donations help to ensure we can provide continual, equitable services for all of our students at this school, and that means more than you know. \r\n\r\nI have been teaching here at SLES for three years. I started my career teaching middle school band, which had its own challenges, but after 12 years of being the band director, I wanted to make a change. I wanted to teach where we ensured every kid had access to music education, not just the ones who selected band as their elective. Teaching elementary school has given me the opportunity to teach every student the fundamentals (and the fun!) of music, and your donation has propped that up, allowing every third and fourth grade student here at SLES to play recorder. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and I hope that you have music in yours.","fullyFundedDate":1764355737522,"projectUrl":"project/root-tootin-good-time-with-recorders/9895977/","projectTitle":"Root-Tootin' Good Time with Recorders!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Langerholc","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp827028_orig.jpg?crop=750,750,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1763151865426","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/langerholc"},{"teacherId":9399411,"projectId":9743108,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity in helping create lasting experiences for my students. With these donations, I was able to help students explore number sense with decimals and fractions. The magnetic models allowed students to practice abstract concepts with concrete visuals. The human body models allow students to explore what is happening inside their body in a visual way. The models allow students to picture things that they otherwise wouldn't have access and as we talk about the processes going on in the body, they can follow it from organ to organ in the model. Again, thank you for your contributions to my classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1759617638943,"projectUrl":"project/science-and-math-restock/9743108/","projectTitle":"Science and Math Restock","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bailey","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9399411"},{"teacherId":9399411,"projectId":9605647,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity. With your donations, we were able to create a successful learning experience where students could interact with critical content but in an engaging and fun way. Students were able to don their animal masks, and explore reading, writing, math, and science through an engaging jungle theme that left students remembering critical content and creating lasting memories as they finish off their final year of elementary school. Again, thank you for your help in being able to create this experience for our 5th grade students.","fullyFundedDate":1755724193514,"projectUrl":"project/roar-into-learning/9605647/","projectTitle":"Roar into Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bailey","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9399411"},{"teacherId":9399411,"projectId":9339749,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for all of your generosity. With your donations and support, I was able to set my students up with an organizational system they will be able to maintain. So far, students have been able to keep their class notes, planners, data trackers, and other important information in their binders and organized with the dividers. They have been doing a great job learning responsibility and organization. I hope this continues through the year and they will have learned some skills they can carry into middle school where organization will be their own responsibility.","fullyFundedDate":1752203099430,"projectUrl":"project/keep-it-organized/9339749/","projectTitle":"Keep it Organized","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bailey","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9399411"},{"teacherId":9554592,"projectId":9299854,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for providing Scholastic News for my students this year. It is a full color magazine type resource that has several articles that are kid-friendly, and timely with current events. We are using this resource as part of our Social Studies curriculum. Each week the students read the Scholastic News (cover to cover) and complete a quiz that is on the back of the magazine. It requires students to go back to the text and look for the answers to the questions. Not all questions are as simple as finding a word definition or answering a yes or no question. Students are often given multiple choice questions that require them to go back and physically identify or eliminate certain answers.\r\n\r\nOne thing that we have added to our lesson plans this year is to use the Scholastic News to help students identify text features, text structures, themes, etc. This make using Scholastic News not only a social studies resource based on content, but an ELA resource as we analyze the texts from an ELA point of view. Students work together in small groups to complete the Scholastic News and I try to get them graded before the end of the week. Then, when there are errors, I give them back to students to correct their work so that they are learning from their mistakes. Over time, they get better at completing the quiz because they are learning to analyze the text more closely, while they are learning about current events.\r\n\r\nThank you again for providing this engaging and fun resource. My students are loving it, and I appreciate the opportunity to provide them a resource they enjoy using. Your support in this meaningful way is very encouraging to me as a teacher.","fullyFundedDate":1746316589360,"projectUrl":"project/social-studies-doesnt-have-to-be-boring/9299854/","projectTitle":"Social Studies Doesn’t Have to Be Boring!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Morris","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9554592_orig.jpg?crop=2560,2560,x0,y110&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1721584494770","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9554592"},{"teacherId":10030586,"projectId":9339378,"letterContent":"WOW! I am so grateful to all of you for your generous donations. We were able to add 76 new books, 7 new series, and tons of new adventures to our classroom library. The books were all covered with the contact paper and are ready to last for many reads. The students were so excited to see new copies of old favorites, and have already began diving into some new series! \r\n\r\nSome of the books now have a second copy and their are a few student who have been enjoying their \"book clubs\" with those books! I am excited to see how much they read this year as they track their books in Accelerated Reader and earn points for comprehension. Thank you again from the bottom of my heart. Here's to many adventures and life long readers.","fullyFundedDate":1752203033729,"projectUrl":"project/refresh-and-renew/9339378/","projectTitle":"Refresh and Renew","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Daglis","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10030586_orig.jpg?crop=591,591,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1746796917220","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10030586"},{"teacherId":9399411,"projectId":9272184,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity. With your donations, these materials have allowed my to give incentives to my students and encourage positive growth in the classroom. My students have been excited to earn new prizes. Combined with our digital classroom economy, students are learning the value of money, how to save, the appropriate time to spend, and they have prizes to get excited about. Again, thank you for all of your generosity and support with purchasing these materials to help my students.","fullyFundedDate":1746272138089,"projectUrl":"project/class-store/9272184/","projectTitle":"Class Store","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bailey","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9399411"},{"teacherId":9399411,"projectId":9131259,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for all of your generosity. This supply restock has allowed for a good start to the school year. Students have plenty of dry erase makers and the new white board have made it so each student has access to the materials they need to learn and practice. The magnetic grids have allowed me to teach students difficult concepts. I was able to provide materials to students who don't have the ability to bring their own. Again, thank you for your generosity and support in helping give my students what they need.","fullyFundedDate":1746316841631,"projectUrl":"project/supply-restock/9131259/","projectTitle":"Supply Restock","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bailey","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9399411"},{"teacherId":9604149,"projectId":9149833,"letterContent":"I want to sincerely thank you for your generous support of my classroom through DonorsChoose. Because of your kindness, we received much-needed supplies—writing journals, crayons, headphones, and more—that are already making a meaningful difference in our daily learning.\r\n\r\nThese materials have brought both joy and structure to our classroom. The journals are helping my students grow as writers, giving them a special space to express their thoughts and ideas. The crayons have sparked creativity and color in their work, allowing them to bring their learning to life in fun and engaging ways. And the headphones have been a game-changer for focused learning during independent work time, especially for students using technology and educational apps.\r\n\r\nThanks to you, each of my students has the tools they need to succeed and feel confident in their learning environment. Your generosity has not only supplied physical materials—it has reminded my students that there are people out there who believe in their potential and care about their education.\r\n\r\nThank you again for your kindness and support. Your impact reaches far beyond the supplies themselves—it's seen in the smiles, the growth, and the pride my students feel each day.","fullyFundedDate":1746273364512,"projectUrl":"project/school-supplies-refresh/9149833/","projectTitle":"School Supplies Refresh","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Baenen","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9604149_orig.jpg?crop=2000,2000,x0,y173&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1721757459771","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9604149"},{"teacherId":9604149,"projectId":9219001,"letterContent":"I am writing to extend my heartfelt thanks for your generous support of my DonorsChoose project. Because of you, our classroom now has a beautiful, comfortable rug—and it has truly transformed our learning space.\r\n\r\nThis rug has become so much more than just a piece of classroom decor. It's now the heart of our room—a place where we gather for small group lessons, and quiet moments of reflection. My students absolutely love having a cozy, welcoming space where they can sit together and feel a true sense of community.\r\nYour kindness has helped create an environment where my students feel safe, engaged, and excited to learn. It's amazing how something as simple as a rug can make such a big difference in how students experience their classroom. They now have a dedicated space that supports collaboration, focus, and joy—and that's all thanks to you.\r\n\r\nWhether you gave a little or a lot, your generosity has made a lasting impact. Thank you for believing in my students and in the importance of creating a warm, inclusive learning environment.","fullyFundedDate":1746785872425,"projectUrl":"project/help-us-join-together/9219001/","projectTitle":"Help Us Join Together!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Baenen","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9604149_orig.jpg?crop=2000,2000,x0,y173&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1721757459771","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9604149"},{"teacherId":8543999,"projectId":9498505,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your incredible generosity! The biggest impact was the Scholastic Weekly and Science Weekly. The class LOVES them!! They are fun stories and we really appreciate the change in our curriculum. This makes learning fun again! I also really like the birthday crowns which the kids really like wearing and I use the organizational bags and baskets every day for our supplies. \r\n\r\nIt truly takes a village to ensure a safe, collaborative classroom and I cannot have made this happen by myself. Thank you for thinking of me and helping me out this year! We truly appreciate you!","fullyFundedDate":1754338439933,"projectUrl":"project/help-give-my-second-graders-a-successful/9498505/","projectTitle":"Help Give my Second Graders a Successful Year!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hadley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8543999_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1715135103320","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-hadley2024"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_32421","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":733,"numTeachers":49,"percentFrplEligible":37,"percentAsian":9,"percentBlack":7,"percentWhite":33,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":46,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"Pre-K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"15.0:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"SUBURBAN","ncesMetroType":"SUBURB_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":78.7,"schoolId":32421,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Sand Lake Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Sand Lake Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/florida/orange-county-public-schools/sand-lake-elementary-school/32421"}