{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Kawaikini New Century Public Charter School","outOfStateSupporters":30.0,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":8974662,"projectId":8301379,"letterContent":"Mahalo nui to your support in providing the mobile wheels and organizational tools to help keep the classroom supplies organizes our materials, supplies, manipulatives, stationary items, tablets, and booklets for students. Having the right tools for the job helps us keep the classroom space clean, orderly, and situated where every item has a house or space to live in. Now, our classroom can have a more clear creative space and area where students can focus on their academics. With these materials we can effectively maintain productive working time and build better habits in the classroom. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMahalo nui,","fullyFundedDate":1712779288328,"projectUrl":"project/organization-on-wheels-keeping-the-clas/8301379/","projectTitle":"Organization on Wheels: Keeping The Classroom In Order","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kiele Harada","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8974662_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x510,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1721982639321","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kumukiele"},{"teacherId":8974662,"projectId":8306429,"letterContent":"Mahalo nui for your contribution to my classroom with these much needed supplies to maintain and create an amazing student workspace. Having these materials gives our classroom the right tools to ensure a productive and engaging learning environment for our students. Knowing that you have what you need and it is right within the reach of your fingertips helps to inspire creative outlets and realistic outcomes for optimal learning. Your generosity is valuable and met with much gratitude and appreciation for our students. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMahalo nui,","fullyFundedDate":1714421805224,"projectUrl":"project/preparing-for-next-school-year-needed-s/8306429/","projectTitle":"Preparing for Next School Year: Needed School & Classroom Supplies","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kiele Harada","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8974662_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x510,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1721982639321","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/kumukiele"},{"teacherId":9109188,"projectId":8458137,"letterContent":"Mahalo for providing the math manipulative to help facilitate engaging and effective hands-on learning skill mastery within our classroom. Having these tools will allow for each students to have their own classroom set of math manipulative to exercise and practice the math concepts of adding, subtracting, grouping, and visualizing these mathematical concepts that can be very vague and too broad for students to grasp a tangible connection too. Having these tools will bring an interactive element that co-aligns with my vision for the math learning infused with ʻāina-based curriculum concepts that are culturally relevant and easy to build upon when trying to add it all up together. \r\n\r\nI look forward to these materials sustaining and growing our math activities and furthering a positive relationship to numbers that students can build upon as their first foundational year of math education. \r\n\r\n\r\nMahalo nui,","fullyFundedDate":1723566510775,"projectUrl":"project/it-all-adds-up/8458137/","projectTitle":"It All Adds Up!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kaohu Harada","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9109188"},{"teacherId":9109188,"projectId":8458145,"letterContent":"Having big books for students to read from and visualize the content of a story is so vital for a young audience like a kindergarten class. Large, visually appealing words and pictures bring stories to life in a more engaging and inviting way, helping all students see clearly and make stronger connections to the text. This is especially important compared to reading from an average-sized book, where students may struggle to see the pictures clearly or, even more limiting, where they only hear the words without the visual support.\r\n\r\nThese books also ensure that the first experiences with text are positive and exciting, sparking enthusiasm for language acquisition through exposure to diverse stories and literary narratives. Having these materials helps create the right environment for me as an educator to bring stories to life, express the emotions within them, and share the same joy of storytelling that I grew up loving. I am excited to continue using these materials for many years to come, fostering a love of reading in the next generation of young learners.\r\n\r\nMahalo nui,","fullyFundedDate":1726518566332,"projectUrl":"project/big-books-bigger-imagination-an-engagi/8458145/","projectTitle":"Big Books, Bigger Imagination! An Engaging Reading Time Station","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kaohu Harada","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9109188"},{"teacherId":9109188,"projectId":8480621,"letterContent":"Having access to dry-erase writing boards, dry-erase pens, and lined whiteboards provides me with the necessary materials to continue my curriculum practice of daily morning exercises. These exercises allow each student to showcase their understanding and skill mastery such as identifying the weather by drawing what they observe and following the direction of the assigned student leader, who reports on the weather during morning exercises.\r\n\r\nStudents also use these materials to write the date in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, practicing both their familiarity with and written form of the language to track the days. Each portion of the morning exercises is led by the assigned student, with the rest of the class following along in sequential order as part of their daily routine. This structured, systematic approach to beginning the school day helps students develop healthy and consistent routines rooted in skill mastery and language acquisition for ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language).\r\n\r\nThank you for providing our students with the literacy materials necessary to ensure their success and productivity in acquiring a second language within our Hawaiian immersion kindergarten classroom and school environment. These foundational tools are crucial for helping young learners sustain their language skills and meet the immersion expectations of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (speaking Hawaiian).","fullyFundedDate":1726518566006,"projectUrl":"project/increasing-our-writing-power-engaging/8480621/","projectTitle":"Increasing Our Writing Power! Engaging Student Literacy","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kaohu Harada","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9109188"},{"teacherId":9109188,"projectId":8488073,"letterContent":"Creativity in a kindergarten classroom is essential for engaging students and allowing them to showcase their expressive ideas and artistic style. Purchasing these oil pastels, watercolors, and acrylic paints will enable my students to enhance their learning through hands-on, engaging art assignments and fun activities that highlight their talents, skills, and creative perspectives—all while learning about ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) and the nuanced meanings and references embedded in ʻāina-based learning.\r\n\r\nʻĀina-based learning incorporates culturally relevant aspects and traditional customary practices that are significant to this place here on Kauaʻi. It connects to the culturally rooted mediums of learning that surround our ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi such as: hula, chants, mele, places, heiau (sacred places), weather, fishing, farming, natural ecosystems, and the symbiotic relationships that all these elements share with us as kānaka maoli (the aboriginal people and culture of Hawaiʻi).\r\n\r\nI am so excited to have the right tools that will allow my students to connect to this place we call home, expressing the deeper meanings and nuanced context of Hawaiian thought and perspective through the art supplies provided by this project. Through these materials, my students will be able to engage more deeply with hands-on elements of art while also strengthening their understanding of the cultural significance and traditions of Kauaʻi\r\n\r\nMahalo nui for your gracious and generous support to my students and to our classroom,","fullyFundedDate":1726518566363,"projectUrl":"project/art-creativity-and-expression-inspir/8488073/","projectTitle":"Art , Creativity, and Expression! Inspiring Student Imagination in Kindergarten","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kaohu Harada","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9109188"},{"teacherId":9109188,"projectId":8488147,"letterContent":"When my students saw the incentive cards , stickers, and all the cool prize possibilties they were so excited to do their work and earn their incentive to a prize. Just looking at their cards and looking forward to earning on different kinds of reward cards got them just ecstatic and eager to achieve!\r\n\r\nThe incentive project that you donated to has given my students great motivation and excitement in our class. Having these amazing options for incentives have given my students the motivation to get on board in class, engage in their work, complete task, and correct their behavior. \r\n\r\nWe use the Whole group reward jar to help with behavior in transition times , mainly for their routine when coming back from their recess time as we work toward a whole group goal and reward.\r\n\r\nThe amount of rewards that I can cycle through to gives students multiple options to choose from gives me an opportunity to change it up and give them things to look foward to and work towards.\r\n\r\nNothing beats the smile they have when they earn stickers or when they get a chance to choose a reward!\r\n \r\nWe use charts on a daily/weekly basis to give students opportunity to lead morning work and everyday jobs. 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