{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Waipahu Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":36.8,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":8364448,"projectId":10103842,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donations to our classroom! Your support helped my students successfully complete their golf-themed Project-Based Learning (PBL) and presentation. The kids had an amazing time learning. This project involved a lot of planning, team work, and hands-on building. They focused on engineering standards such as defining a problem within their golf course, and worked together to analyze and compare different solutions. We could not have done this without your help. The supplies you provided were put to great use right away:\r\n\r\nFoam boards: Used to create different obstacles to add to the theme of each golf course such as a castle, dinosaurs, and different characters from Disney and Super Mario.\r\n\r\nPool noodles: The students realized that they needed something to contain the ball within the course. They experimented with the placement of the pool noodles so that the ball will remain on the course.\r\n\r\nGlue dots & hot glue sticks: Kept all of our obstacles and materials securely attached.\r\n\r\nMicrophone & speaker: Used by the students during our final presentation day to confidently share and explain their designs to their families and school staff. The students continue to use the microphone and speaker daily as they read sight word sentences.\r\n\r\nThis project taught the students a lot about planning, teamwork, and problem-solving. Seeing their excitement when presenting and as their families golfed on the courses was truly wonderful. Your kindness made a real difference in their learning. Thank you again for supporting our education and making this project possible!","fullyFundedDate":1771678064658,"projectUrl":"project/learning-fun-in-e1/10103842/","projectTitle":"Learning Fun in E1","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Natividad","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8364448"},{"teacherId":8659278,"projectId":10107149,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our Choose Love activity. Your generosity helps create meaningful opportunities for our students to learn and practice courage, gratitude, forgiveness, and compassion in action.\r\n\r\nBecause of your donation, our students & staff are able to participate in hands-on activities that encourage kindness, reflection, connection, and emotional well-being. These experiences help build a positive classroom and school community where students feel valued, supported, and empowered to care for others.\r\n\r\nWe truly appreciate your kindness and willingness to invest in our students and school community. Your support is making a lasting impact on the hearts of our children and staff.","fullyFundedDate":1771642959414,"projectUrl":"project/fill-their-cups-with-aloha-strengthenin/10107149/","projectTitle":"Fill Their Cups With Aloha: Strengthening Choose Love Connections School-Wide","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Chinen-Pascual","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8659278"},{"teacherId":9468949,"projectId":10105910,"letterContent":"Thank you for the amazing prizes for my tier 2 students. My students loved to get the prizes every week. They had to keep up with their reading everyday with their parents. Then their parents would have to sign their reading log. I truly believe this helped them with their reading.\r\n\r\nReading everyday with their parents I believe this truly helps them become better readers. Looking back at their test results all the tier 2 students raised their reading level with some reaching their grade levels. Thank you again in helping my tier reading students to improve their reading.","fullyFundedDate":1771606280377,"projectUrl":"project/tier-2-reading-incentives/10105910/","projectTitle":"Tier 2 Reading Incentives","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Nagaishi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9468949"},{"teacherId":8829489,"projectId":10108765,"letterContent":"Mahalo for your generous donation! I wish you could have seen the excitement in the classroom when the desktop whiteboards arrived. My students were absolutely thrilled to dive in and start using them.\r\n\r\nThese boards have transformed our daily routines. My students especially enjoy the freedom to brainstorm complex solutions, knowing they can quickly erase extraneous information and refine their ideas without the stress of \"messy\" paper.\r\n\r\nBeyond individual work, these tools have sparked a new level of collaboration. During our gallery walks, students take great pride in displaying their strategies and solutions for their peers to see. Your kindness has significantly boosted the engagement and confidence in my classroom. We are so grateful for your support!","fullyFundedDate":1771701279290,"projectUrl":"project/modeling-math-building-sixth-grade-succ/10108765/","projectTitle":"Modeling Math: Building Sixth Grade Success","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Yamamoto","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8829489_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1701392414423","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8829489"},{"teacherId":8823909,"projectId":10106897,"letterContent":"Thank you again for the generous donation. The Eagle Store is popular with students from youngest (kindergarten) to our oldest (6th grade). As an incentive portion of our schools PBIS it can be challenging to have interesting and motivating reward items to support students as they achieve their academic/behavioral/SEL goals. \r\n\r\nWith this donation we were able to purchase some new and exciting materials for students to purchase. I always think our 6th graders can be the hardest to please, so seeing the excitement on their faces and interest in the items when they entered was so rewarding. \r\n\r\nYour donations allow us to continue supporting student success.","fullyFundedDate":1771642481082,"projectUrl":"project/eagle-store/10106897/","projectTitle":"Eagle Store","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kaneaiakala","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8823909"},{"teacherId":2682934,"projectId":10103472,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for the generous supplies. We are extremely grateful for your kindness! My students light up with smiles and laughter whenever they're given new supplies from your generous donations. \r\n\r\n\"Today is a great day!\" Or \"This is the best day ever!\" Are comments I receive from students when they use the new supplies. Observing the students happiness and motivation from using the supplies is always worth it. Every child (over 700 students) was given the opportunity to use the donated materials\r\n \r\n\r\nEvery lesson the students are given the new supplies to design, innovate, and create original art. With your support, many students from kindergarten to 6th grade were able to express themselves. Thank you so much for the opportunity and generosity.","fullyFundedDate":1771439252037,"projectUrl":"project/molding-creativity-with-fine-arts-and-cl/10103472/","projectTitle":"Molding Creativity with Fine Arts and Clay!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Ramirez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/aloha"},{"teacherId":8824422,"projectId":9785482,"letterContent":"I am writing to express my heartfelt gratitude for your generous support in providing educational materials for my classroom. Your kindness and commitment to education have made a meaningful difference in the daily experiences of my students.\r\nBecause of your contributions, our classroom now has access to resources that enrich learning, spark curiosity, and support a variety of learning styles. The new materials have already had a positive impact—students are more engaged, excited to participate, and better able to understand and apply what they are learning. These tools have helped create a more dynamic, inclusive, and inspiring learning environment.\r\nYour generosity has not only provided essential supplies but has also shown my students that there are people who believe in their potential and care about their success. That message alone is incredibly powerful.\r\nThank you for investing in our classroom and in the future of these students. Your support is truly appreciated and will continue to make a lasting difference.\r\nAttached are some pictures of my students engaging with a wooden floor puzzle and an alphabet mystery game. They were challenging themselves to beat each other! They had so much fun and they got better with every round. The wooden puzzle is used during after school club, kindergarten and special education classrooms. The students learn while being engaged and having fun! The little ones learn by manipulating the puzzle pieces to fit in the correct order.\r\n\r\nAfter school club students challenged themselves to see who can correctly sort the mystery items with the corresponding letter.\r\n\r\nAfter school club students were using a floor puzzle to review the letters of the alphabet, just for fun! Some of the students were playing Connect Four and using their problem solving skills to beat one another.\r\n\r\nSpecial education students are reinforcing their knowledge of the alphabet by practicing on a large table puzzle. The students are also using their communication skills to speak clearly and to answer questions about each letter.\r\n\r\nA special education student is reinforcing his knowledge of the colors by matching each color and saying the name of each using an education busy book.\r\n\r\nAgain, we appreciate your support and the students are excited to learn with new materials. You really make an impact in our community and in the lives of our students.\r\n\r\nEL Support Teacher, Waipahu Elementary\r\nWaipahu, Hawaii","fullyFundedDate":1769177437052,"projectUrl":"project/voices-united/9785482/","projectTitle":"Voices United","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Lovesee","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8824422"},{"teacherId":8659278,"projectId":9874917,"letterContent":"Our staff reviewed and applied the Choose Love pillars of courage, gratitude, forgiveness, and compassion-in-action. These teachings help guide how we interact with one another and support students. Staff members are intentionally modeling these pillars so that students can see and practice these values in their daily learning and interactions. In upcoming lessons and activities, students will have opportunities to practice these skills through writing, reflection, and discussion.\r\n\r\nThe materials served as a meaningful reminder that both school staff and students can model and practice these important character traits together. It sparked conversations about how we can show courage, gratitude, forgiveness, and compassion in our classrooms and throughout our school community.\r\n\r\nWe will continue sharing and reinforcing the Choose Love pillar focus areas with our students so that these practices can be sustained throughout the school year. In upcoming lessons, activities will include:\r\n\r\n1) Writing and sharing courage goals\r\n2) Writing forgiveness statements\r\n3) Writing a gratitude thank-you card\r\n4) Having conversations using sentence stems aligned to each Choose Love pillar\r\n\r\nThrough these activities, students will continue building positive relationships, empathy, and thoughtful communication within our school community.","fullyFundedDate":1769177443501,"projectUrl":"project/refilling-their-hearts-with-aloha-conti/9874917/","projectTitle":"Refilling Their Hearts With Aloha: Continuing Student SEL Growth","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Chinen-Pascual","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8659278"},{"teacherId":9361627,"projectId":9895660,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom and helping bring these social-emotional learning resources to my students. As a fifth-grade teacher, I see every day how important it is for students to feel safe, understood, and emotionally supported in order to learn and grow.\r\n\r\nWhen the materials arrived, my students were immediately curious and excited to see new tools dedicated to helping them express their feelings and support one another. Many of my students are still developing the language and confidence to talk about their emotions, so having structured SEL resources gives them a safe way to practice those skills together.\r\n\r\nThese resources will be used during our morning check-ins, classroom discussions, and reflection activities. For example, we are beginning to incorporate short SEL moments where students can identify how they are feeling, talk through challenges, and practice empathy toward their classmates. Moments like these help build a stronger classroom community and allow students to focus more fully on their learning throughout the day.\r\n\r\nThe next step for our class is continuing to build routines around emotional awareness and kindness. With these materials, students will practice identifying their feelings, reflecting on their experiences, and learning strategies to manage stress or frustration. My hope is that these tools will empower them not only in our classroom, but also in their relationships and daily lives.\r\n\r\nYour generosity has made a meaningful difference for my students, and we are so grateful for your support. Thank you for helping create a classroom environment where students feel seen, supported, and ready to learn.","fullyFundedDate":1763241616156,"projectUrl":"project/helping-students-heal-sel-tools-for-a-p/9895660/","projectTitle":"Helping Students Heal: SEL Tools for a Post-Pandemic Classroom","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Monis","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9361627_orig.jpg?crop=960,960,x0,y467&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1763096316940","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9361627"},{"teacherId":8822443,"projectId":10106371,"letterContent":"If you could only have felt the excitement and anticipation in the classroom as I revealed these awesome new STEM resources! The students were in awe with the new materials, and you could feel their energy vibrating through the classroom. They dove right into using their creativity and imagination and started to create fantastic structures and objects! They were amazed at the endless possibilities the Plus Plus and Magnetic Bars offered. \r\nIn the future, we will continue to utilize these materials as they contribute to our passion for exploration😀","fullyFundedDate":1771638441019,"projectUrl":"project/exploration-stations/10106371/","projectTitle":"Exploration Stations!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Doi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8822443"},{"teacherId":7378733,"projectId":9776630,"letterContent":"Mahalo for your donations of books, folders, and stickers. To explore fiction stories, the books from the Food Group series, Click-Clack Moo series, and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie series helped us look at master text and recognize characters and settings in a story. We were also able to use the stickers to help motivate students to explore fiction stories and connect stories in the series with each other and how they are different. \r\n\r\nWe also used the animal books as master texts for non fiction stories to help us explore how we can share information about animals with other people for our PBL project. These master texts helped us see different styles of sharing information about animals and to make it not only informative but entertaining. We also create our own class books using the plastic folders to help share our research with others in our school. \r\n\r\nThank you so much again for all you have donated to help expand our class' exploration of fiction and non fiction books.","fullyFundedDate":1759450217426,"projectUrl":"project/if-you-give-our-class-books/9776630/","projectTitle":"If You Give Our Class Books","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Advincula","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7378733_orig.jpg?crop=1808,1808,x0,y765&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1743447360793","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7378733"},{"teacherId":9799864,"projectId":9701596,"letterContent":"Thank again for your generous donation! The new resources have completely transformed our classroom. My students were gasping when they saw the carpet and immediate comments about how \"soft and comfy\" it was to sit on. It has quickly become the most beloved spot in our classroom. I've been using it as a high-value reward for students who work quietly on their iReady lessons, and it serves as a nice hub during small group rotations where students go to play Math games. It has also doubled as a favorite flexible seating option during writing time, allowing my students to sprawl out and let their creativity flow in comfort.\r\n\r\nBeyond the seating, I've used the toys as an incentive for my students. At the end of each week, we hold \"Sticker Days\" where students can earn up to two stickers by following our \"4 Be's\": Be Responsible, Be Respectful, Be Caring, and Be Honest. Earning both stickers grants them a trip to the prize area. The fuzzy worms were an absolute hit—there are only two left! The assorted snack box has also been a massive hit, with Nutella and Rice Crispy Treats disappearing fast. 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