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I have also chosen two books as compliments to the curriculum to dive deeper into concepts. \r\n\r\nThank you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1765318885428,"projectUrl":"project/girl-power-rocks/9936335/","projectTitle":"Girl Power Rocks","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Voss","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8946841_orig.png?crop=669,669,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1676305015413","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8946841"},{"teacherId":8946841,"projectId":9983304,"letterContent":"I want to start off by saying thank you so much for your incredible generosity! This is the first year I am working with preschool students in a self-contained special education setting. I was so excited to receive our Teachers Pay Teachers gift cards to purchase our new materials. As I wrote in my project, I utilized TPT gift cards to purchase a curriculum for preschool that focuses on Social and Emotional Learning that is at an appropriate educational level for my students. We will be increasing our SEL literacy and working with art as well. We have already started our first lesson, and it was a hit! \r\n\r\nThank you again for your amazing impact on our school!","fullyFundedDate":1767725729002,"projectUrl":"project/pre-k-peaks-sel-literacy/9983304/","projectTitle":"Pre-k Peaks SEL Literacy","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Voss","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8946841_orig.png?crop=669,669,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1676305015413","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8946841"},{"teacherId":8946841,"projectId":9710184,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your incredible generosity! We are so excited to be using these new materials. I selected protective headbands and a vestibular sensory rolling tube for sensory input. I selected these items to use with my students when they are dysregulated. I chose the headband to help my students who hit their head when upset, and I chose the rolling tube for vestibular sensory input to help students calm down when upset. \r\n\r\nThank you for helping us reach our goal, we appreciate you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1761959826155,"projectUrl":"project/sensory-soothing/9710184/","projectTitle":"Sensory Soothing","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Voss","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8946841_orig.png?crop=669,669,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1676305015413","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8946841"},{"teacherId":8946841,"projectId":9696261,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your incredible generosity! We are so excited to be able to have extra toner ink to print our projects, visual supports, and activities. Having the document printed in color creates more engagement, attention to task, and just all around more fun. I have already started making colorful stories, activities, and behavior trackers with the items. It is so much fun having everything in color! My students are so excited, and love all the colors. \r\n\r\nThank you so much for helping us meet our goal!","fullyFundedDate":1761935818016,"projectUrl":"project/learning-in-color/9696261/","projectTitle":"Learning in Color","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Voss","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8946841_orig.png?crop=669,669,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1676305015413","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8946841"},{"teacherId":8946841,"projectId":9756557,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your incredible donation! We are so excited to have our new snacks! I chose granola bars, cheez-its and fruit snacks for my students. I chose these snacks to help fuel my kids throughout the day to help them better regulate themselves, increase attention, and increase energy. When hungry - learning comes second, so I wanted to ensure that my students have the supplies they need to be the best learners they can be! My students are already so excited. \r\n\r\nThank you so much for helping us reach our goal!","fullyFundedDate":1761935818037,"projectUrl":"project/snack-time/9756557/","projectTitle":"Snack Time","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Voss","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8946841_orig.png?crop=669,669,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1676305015413","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8946841"},{"teacherId":8946841,"projectId":9241498,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your incredible generosity! These items were selected to help my students calm themselves, learn regulation skills, and feeling identification for my younger students. I will be able to use the yoga items, mindfulness cards, and calming book to support emotional regulation, and I will use the daily emotional check-in, feeling boards, feeling magic board, and the feeling mirrors to support emotional identification. \r\n\r\nWe are so excited to start using these items, thank you so again!","fullyFundedDate":1753217440510,"projectUrl":"project/intermediate-learning/9241498/","projectTitle":"Intermediate Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Voss","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8946841_orig.png?crop=669,669,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1676305015413","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8946841"},{"teacherId":8946841,"projectId":9509830,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your incredible generosity! We are so excited to start using our new materials that include a guide for reinforcing social and emotional skills, a guide for using media to teach social and emotional skills, and cards that have de-escalation tools for students to try. These materials will better help me to teach my students emotional regulation, social interactions and communication, as well as decision making. I am excited to use these interactive supports that are relevant to my students as well. \r\n\r\nThank you again, we appreciate you!","fullyFundedDate":1756088720100,"projectUrl":"project/guide-to-sel/9509830/","projectTitle":"Guide to SEL","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Voss","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8946841_orig.png?crop=669,669,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1676305015413","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8946841"},{"teacherId":8946841,"projectId":9237830,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your incredible generosity! We are so excited to start using our new social and emotional curriculum and activities! I was able to purchase a full K-5 curriculum, and several extending activities to teach lessons on emotional regulation, feeling identification, social interactions and language, how to be a good friend, how to take responsibility, and how to make safe choices. These interactive lessons and activities will ensure my students learn and reinforce these important skills. \r\n\r\nThank you so much for making our project a reality!","fullyFundedDate":1749910400990,"projectUrl":"project/current-curriculum/9237830/","projectTitle":"Current Curriculum","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Voss","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8946841_orig.png?crop=669,669,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1676305015413","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8946841"},{"teacherId":8946841,"projectId":9509761,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your incredibly generous donation! I am so excited to add these new resources at the beginning of the year, so we can hit the ground running with our learning. For this project, I selected the Tweens and Teens Bundle, which includes six books, teaching frameworks for social skills and a game. These materials will be used to teach and reinforce social skills such as empathy, taking turns, perception-taking, social communication, as well as many others! These are important skills to a successful education. \r\n\r\nThank you so much for making our project a reality!","fullyFundedDate":1755716200406,"projectUrl":"project/s-in-sel/9509761/","projectTitle":"S in SEL","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Voss","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8946841_orig.png?crop=669,669,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1676305015413","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8946841"},{"teacherId":8946841,"projectId":9472641,"letterContent":"I want to wholeheartedly thank you for your generous donations! I wrote this project to get a curriculum, activities, and supports for social skills for older students. 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I wrote this project to get a curriculum, activities, and supports for social skills for my youngest students. We'll be using the materials to work on empathy, being a good friend, how to be a community member, active listening, body in group, and social communication skills. I am so excited to be able to start the year with these materials, so we can hit the ground running on learning and reinforcing these skills. \r\n\r\nThank you so much for making our project a reality, we appreciate you!","fullyFundedDate":1754690259667,"projectUrl":"project/big-social-skills-for-small-students/9472503/","projectTitle":"Big Social Skills for Small Students","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Voss","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8946841_orig.png?crop=669,669,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1676305015413","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8946841"},{"teacherId":8946841,"projectId":9241566,"letterContent":"I want to thank you for your incredibly generous donation! I wrote this project for books that support social and emotional learning. 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