{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Riverview Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":69.0,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":2450437,"projectId":9933459,"letterContent":"From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for helping me create a truly unforgettable Lunar New Year celebration for my students. Because of your support, our classroom was filled with joy, curiosity, and meaningful cultural learning experiences that our students will remember for years to come.\r\n\r\nOur celebration began the day before Lunar New Year as we read \"T'was the Night Before Lunar New Year.\" Inspired by the story and the tradition of preparing for the new year, the students eagerly decided our classroom needed a deep cleaning. With festive Lunar New Year music playing in the background, they worked together to tidy and refresh our space, embracing the spirit of renewal and fresh beginnings.\r\n\r\nOn Lunar New Year, students explored ancient Chinese tangrams, creating beautiful designs while learning about this traditional seven-piece geometric puzzle. We later visited Panda Express online program, \"Let's Explore Lunar New Year\" where students learned about traditions, legends, and cultural symbols associated with the holiday.\r\n\r\nBack in the classroom, we read Amy Wu and the Patchwork Dragon and discussed themes of heritage, creativity, and family pride. Students then designed their own unique dragons and even learned elements of the traditional dragon dance — a highlight of the day.\r\n\r\nThanks to your generosity, students were also able to try new foods and traditions. They practiced using chopsticks, sampled rice and seaweed, enjoyed rice cakes with honey, read their fortunes, and learned about the symbolism of mandarin oranges for prosperity and good luck. Each child received a red envelope (lai see) containing school store money and traditional coins, reinforcing the importance of generosity and good fortune in the new year.\r\n\r\nTo commemorate the Year of the Horse, every student received a stuffed horse keychain. The next day, many student had them on their backpacks, purses, and even shoes. \r\n\r\nYour support made this immersive cultural experience possible. You didn't just fund activities, you helped create connections, spark curiosity, and foster appreciation for traditions beyond our own. Thank you for investing in my students and helping me bring learning to life.","fullyFundedDate":1766861255378,"projectUrl":"project/spirit-of-the-horse-lunar-new-year-fest/9933459/","projectTitle":"Spirit of the Horse: Lunar New Year Festival","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Breit","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2450437_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1533665844844","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/wendy-breit"},{"teacherId":2450437,"projectId":9272760,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting and donating to our classroom project. Your are helping to support hands-on activities through STEM to enhance learning in the classroom. \r\n\r\nThese are some of the STEM projects you supported. For Thanksgiving, we were learning about being grateful. Students wanted to make some type of Thanksgiving decoration, not just the normal turkey paper with grateful feathers. Together, we engineered a pinecone turkey using peacock feathers and googly eyes. As designing we also discussed all the parts of the turkey that was needed. \r\n\r\nThe second project was for the Christmas Holiday. It happened to be reindeer day at school for spirit week. We had to dress like reindeer. Therefore, we had to create Candy Cane Reindeers with pipe cleaners, red pom-pom and googly eyes. Then we create Magic Reindeer food too! \r\n\r\nThen our fun wasn't done! We have been travel to different countries to learn about their holiday traditions for Christmas. Unfortunately, our train derailed in Florida. Therefore we took a virtual field trip through Epcot. Well, you can't go to Disney World without Mickey and Minnie ears! Some of the plastic tablecloths were used for our treat from each country we visited and of course hot chocolate! \r\n\r\nThe rest of the supplies will be used this coming spring for flowers, insects, and creating a S'more Solar oven out of the compostable square containers. Thanks to you kindness and generosity, my students will learn more when they are active in the learning process.","fullyFundedDate":1746806351423,"projectUrl":"project/learning-through-stem/9272760/","projectTitle":"Learning Through STEM","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Breit","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2450437_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1533665844844","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/wendy-breit"},{"teacherId":2450437,"projectId":9795735,"letterContent":"A big thank-you to everyone who donated and supported our classroom! Your generosity helped us get new balls for the playground and cozy gloves to keep little fingers warm. It's wonderful to see all the kids playing together, staying active, and having fun — no one sitting against the wall! \r\n\r\nWe're learning the responsibility of taking care of the balls and gloves and sharing with others. Recess is now even more fun because of your donation. We appreciate your support in keeping our playground active, warm, and full of smiles and laughter.","fullyFundedDate":1761953488995,"projectUrl":"project/recess-tools-and-warm-fingers/9795735/","projectTitle":"Recess Tools and Warm Fingers","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Breit","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2450437_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1533665844844","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/wendy-breit"},{"teacherId":2450437,"projectId":9750319,"letterContent":"Words cannot express how thankful my students, parents and myself for your kind donation and supporting our classroom. I just completed Parent/Teacher conferences and I had a parent express how grateful he/she was for the pencil case full of need supplies at home. The pencil sharpener was the hit. Never fails, the pencil breaks as soon as you use it and the erasers usually falls off the pencil. Therefore, having the pencil sharpener and an eraser is awesome. The multicolored pen and marker works great in writing the spelling words three different ways. Their child can write in pencil, pen, and marker, thanks to your donation. \r\nMy students had fun learning how to form letters, and making sounds of the letters with the Playdoh. Playdoh is easy to roll, make straight lines, and curves. We also used the Playdoh when we were adding and subtracting. This also help with their counting skills since they had to make balls for the larger number. The boys loved smashing the ball when we were subtracting numbers. \r\nThank you again for your donation. These simple supplies have help my students enhancing their learning process.","fullyFundedDate":1758928168567,"projectUrl":"project/shortage-of-basic-supplies-for-the-class/9750319/","projectTitle":"Shortage of Basic Supplies for the Classroom and Home","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Breit","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2450437_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1533665844844","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/wendy-breit"},{"teacherId":2450437,"projectId":9520958,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom project for creating memories. \r\n\r\nWe have already started creating memories with the construction paper, black permanent markers, card stock and pens. With these items were create a picture of ourselves on card stock. We then cut ourselves out and pasted onto construction paper. We then took rectangular card stock pieces and wrote adjective s that describe ourselves. This was a great way to use adjectives that we had learned and express what adjectives pertain to ourselves. Of course, we need to clean our desk with the Lysol wipes that we also received. We use these daily, especially at the end of the day to kill germs and keep healthy. \r\n\r\nOur notebooks have been very handy to practice writing our alphabet and numbers. We used the highlighters to highlight our best letters. Further more to help us form our letters, we are using our dry erase markers to practice writing our sounds and spelling words. Mrs. Breit has dry erase pocket sleeves that has lined paper inside and we use for practicing. \r\n\r\nMy student will be grateful when I get the modeling clay and card stock later this year. With these supplies we will be creating our landforms and learn about the formation of caves. We will also be creating volcanoes with these supplies. \r\n\r\nThank you for donating and support to our supplies need to create these memories and many more. 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