{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Horace Mitchell Primary School","outOfStateSupporters":70.6,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":7755884,"projectId":9509251,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting my project. You helped to supply my classroom with everyday needs like white board erasers, card stock, pencils, soap, and more. These supplies help me to keep my classroom running, and they also help me to create engaging activities for my students. I used the card stock to make word spinners where kids spin a wheel to practice reading word families. I also set up a jobs list so kids could help to keep the classroom organized and clean. The supplies help with projects that help kids learn to read, write, and also help them to learn about contributing to our little community. Thank you so much for helping!!","fullyFundedDate":1753928205350,"projectUrl":"project/supplies-for-a-great-beginning/9509251/","projectTitle":"Supplies for a Great Beginning","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Williams","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7755884_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1657586052156","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7755884"},{"teacherId":350034,"projectId":9214606,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping me to ensure that all of my incoming kindergarten students have the tools that they need for a successful start to our school year! We are in our third week of school, and have already accomplished so much!\r\n\r\nWe have been using our whiteboards and dry erase markers to practice forming letters, and are already experts at writing letters t, b, f, n and m with our dry erase markers! My students love to color with their markers and crayons, and are learning to use just the right amount of glue.\r\n\r\nEach of my students has a pencil box in their desk, and thanks to you, they are able to store their twistable crayons, dry erase markers, scissors, pencils and glue sticks. Having individual supplies to use for projects really helps my students learn to be responsible for their materials. They are also getting better at staying organized! \r\n\r\nThank you for supporting my class, and helping us get our year off to an amazing start!","fullyFundedDate":1746463849921,"projectUrl":"project/school-supplies-for-success/9214606/","projectTitle":"School Supplies for Success","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Verissimo","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp350034_orig.jpg?crop=960,960,x0,y35&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1562362062196","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-verissimo"},{"teacherId":3748163,"projectId":9255742,"letterContent":"As each school year comes to a close, I like to celebrate how much my students have grown during our many months together. With thanks to your donations for this project, I was able to provide some extra fun \"Countdown to Summer\" days for my class. Together we enjoyed a special Glow Day, Teddy Bear Picnic, and made class tshirts that we all wore for our Field Day and last day of school.\r\n\r\nYour donations also allowed me to be able to gift a photo album to each of my students on our last day of school. The photo albums were personalized for each student and contained photos of their learning and our class memories throughout the year. My class was all smiles when I passed out the albums and spent lots of time pouring over the pages of their albums together and \"remembering when...\". \r\n\r\nThese special countdown days and photo albums helped me to send my kindergarten class off on their way to a healthy, happy summer (and on to first grade in September!) \r\nI am so grateful for your support that allowed me to celebrate and connect with my students on our last day of kindergarten together. Thank you for your kindness and dedication to children!","fullyFundedDate":1746453943576,"projectUrl":"project/sweet-summer-send-off-part-2/9255742/","projectTitle":"Sweet Summer Send-Off! (part 2)","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Campion","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3748163_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1483470771513","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-campion"},{"teacherId":3748163,"projectId":9256142,"letterContent":"The gift of your support for this project will be one that keeps on giving! The back to school basics that your generous donations provided for our classroom will be the perfect complement to my class of kindergarten students who are bound to be creative and imaginative thinkers. We will be able to complete many hand-on projects with these supplies!\r\n\r\nThe students will be able to create with the markers and paint on a daily basis! We will use the water colors to paint the covers of our poetry and song books, and at our art easel during our daily free choice time. The golf pencils are perfectly sized for little hands. The gluesticks will be used almost daily for our maker space and various class artwork and projects. \r\n\r\nYour donations have not only helped my classroom, but have also helped to ease the financial stress that some of our school families are experiencing. Your generosity has allowed families to save more of their own money rather than spend it on school supplies.\r\n\r\nThank you for once again supporting my students, and for helping our school year get off to a fabulous start! I appreciate each and every one of you!","fullyFundedDate":1746457917652,"projectUrl":"project/back-to-basics-for-a-fabulous-fall/9256142/","projectTitle":"Back To Basics For A Fabulous Fall!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Campion","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3748163_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1483470771513","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-campion"},{"teacherId":3748163,"projectId":8472407,"letterContent":"I am so grateful to all of you for funding our classroom project for our new classroom carpets! With the recent addition of tiled floors to replace our old wall to wall carpet, I wanted to be sure that our space would still be warm and comfortable. When I returned to school for the first day of classroom setup in August, the very first thing I did was to unroll one of the classroom carpets in our classroom library. The look of the new carpet truly brightens up our space and a make our classroom feel like home. The other carpets are bringing warmth to our dramatic play and doorway areas.\r\n\r\nThese classroom carpets provide places where my students and I gather for new learning, sharing of ideas, read alouds, writing and reading partner work, math and literacy activities, and so much more. The carpeted areas are providing great memories of numerous teachable moments!\r\n\r\nThank you for your kindness and generosity in supporting our classroom project and giving us the opportunity to have more teachable moments in a comfortable space!","fullyFundedDate":1724600544586,"projectUrl":"project/snug-as-a-bug-with-a-classroom-rug-par/8472407/","projectTitle":"Snug As a Bug with A Classroom Rug! (Part 2)","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Campion","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3748163_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1483470771513","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-campion"},{"teacherId":3748163,"projectId":8099907,"letterContent":"What a wonderful gift to our classroom you have provided with your generous donations! A previously funded project provided our classroom with a sturdy storage shelf. Thanks to your kindness, we now have twenty storage bins to perfectly fit the shelving unit! Our daily free choice and center materials in our kindergarten classroom are now organized and easily accessible. The bins are transparent, making it easy for the children to see what it is inside and quickly make their choice of what to play with. Our blocks, legos, vehicles, pattern blocks, and other materials all are accessible for learning and fun! The clear bins are also perfectly designed for the children to put away the materials independently. Some of the bins are also helpful for storing some of our small group reading books and are easy for me to access for my work with small groups of readers. \r\n\r\nI am so grateful for your support of my students and our classroom. Thank you for helping us make our classroom an organized place to play, grow, and learn!","fullyFundedDate":1705553327939,"projectUrl":"project/i-can-see-clearly-now-with-bins/8099907/","projectTitle":"I Can See Clearly Now (With Bins)!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Campion","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3748163_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1483470771513","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-campion"},{"teacherId":350034,"projectId":9219300,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project; because of you, my kindergarten class has had so much fun in our final days of school!\r\n\r\nOver the past two weeks, we have participated in so many special activities. On Glow Day, students came to school to find the classroom lit up with black lights and decorated with neon balloons that glowed in the dark room! Throughout the day, we did activities with highlighters, stacked neon cups, made glow in the dark necklaces with beads and had fun with our glow sticks!\r\n\r\nOn another day, we tie dyed t-shirts! The tie dye kits, t-shirts and drop cloths helped this to be a successful and reasonably tidy adventure! Students then wore amazing and colorful shirts for our field day, and we were able to enjoy our popsicles when it was over!\r\n\r\nSome of our other special days included making homemade lemonade, which we drank with our special straws, making sparkly blue slime, having a teddy bear picnic where we graphed gummy bears, and having a movie with popcorn! \r\n\r\nI love being able to celebrate all of their hard work, and I wouldn't be able to do it without so many amazing supporters. Thank you for helping us finish off this school year with a bang!","fullyFundedDate":1743826484147,"projectUrl":"project/celebrating-a-successful-year-in-kind/9219300/","projectTitle":"Celebrating... a Successful Year in Kindergarten!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Verissimo","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp350034_orig.jpg?crop=960,960,x0,y35&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1562362062196","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-verissimo"},{"teacherId":3748163,"projectId":9232238,"letterContent":"Your donations have made it possible to give each of my students the gift of the book, \"The Invisible String\" at the end of the school year (which is now only six weeks away!) We read this book often in our class as a message of love and support for each other and it has a permanent place on our classroom library shelf.\r\n \"The Invisible String\" is one way I am able to connect my students to me, each other, and the world around them during the many challenges they face in this ever changing world of ours. As our school year has gone on, the book has begun to take on special meaning for us as a class. We read the book when someone is feeling very sad, when a classmate moves away during the school year, and anytime we need to feel connected and safe. Most recently, we read the book when a beloved staff member experienced a painful loss. \r\n\r\nWith thanks to your donation for this project, I will be able to provide a copy of this book to each of my students, and send them off on their way to a healthy, happy summer and on to first grade in June. These books will provide a very meaningful gift with a powerful message. It is a book that I hope the children will pick up and revisit whenever they feel the need throughout their lives.\r\n\r\n I am so grateful for your support that will allow me to celebrate and stay connected to my students on their last day of kindergarten and beyond.","fullyFundedDate":1744199906553,"projectUrl":"project/sweet-summer-send-off-with-books/9232238/","projectTitle":"Sweet Summer Send-Off With Books!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Campion","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3748163_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1483470771513","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-campion"},{"teacherId":3748163,"projectId":9205589,"letterContent":"What a wonderful gift these supplies are for our kindergarten classroom! Thanks to your generosity, we will have lots of new materials to keep our learning going strong for the remainder of the school year and beyond!\r\n\r\nThe cardstock and laminating sheets will allow me to create dozens of new learning center materials for my students. The laminating machines are crucial to preserving these materials and making each piece more durable...perfect for all the use by little hands that these new materials will be sure to get! I have already created a new game for my budding readers: students will look at the picture on the card, read the word that matches the picture, and clip the correct word with a clothespin. This is just one example of some of the materials I will now be able to make for my students. Their \"worktubs\" will be filled with new matching games, puzzles, and reading and math materials all printed, laminated, and ready to go.\r\n\r\nI appreciate your dedication and commitment to our classroom. Your support of this project has given us valuable supplies, and your kindness will certainly help make our learning fun, novel, and productive for my class. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1742990232146,"projectUrl":"project/help-us-protect-and-preserve/9205589/","projectTitle":"Help Us Protect and Preserve!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Campion","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3748163_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1483470771513","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-campion"},{"teacherId":3748163,"projectId":8350113,"letterContent":"I am so grateful to all of you for funding our classroom project for our new classroom carpets! With the recent addition of tiled floors to replace our old wall to wall carpet, I wanted to be sure that our space would still be warm and comfortable. When I returned to school for the first day of classroom setup in August, the very first thing I did was to unroll one of the classroom carpets in our classroom library. The look of the new carpet truly brightens up our space and a make our classroom feel like home. The other carpets are bringing warmth to our dramatic play and doorway areas.\r\n\r\n These classroom carpets provide places where my students and I gather for new learning, sharing of ideas, read alouds, writing and reading partner work, math and literacy activities, and so much more. The carpeted areas are providing great memories of numerous teachable moments!\r\n\r\nThank you for your kindness and generosity in supporting our classroom project and giving us the opportunity to have more teachable moments in a comfortable space!","fullyFundedDate":1715355820643,"projectUrl":"project/snug-as-a-bug-with-a-cozy-classroom-rug/8350113/","projectTitle":"Snug As A Bug With A Cozy Classroom Rug!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Campion","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3748163_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1483470771513","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-campion"},{"teacherId":3748163,"projectId":8472461,"letterContent":"One of my goals for this school year was to bring my kindergarten class outside every two weeks for outdoor lessons. Our school has been fortunate enough to be working with an outdoor learning consultant over the past two years which has given me a chance to see outdoor lessons in action as well as share ideas and materials for how to help young children to be safe and successful when we take our learning outside.\r\n Thanks to your support, I've been able to get several more warm, waterproof seats for our classroom. This makes outdoor learning available to us even in the coldest of months (and we sure have a lot of those with our Maine winters!) I am also so thankful for the many field guides that were also funded through this project. The field guides have been of great interest to the class as they look through the real photographs of birds, insects, mammals, rocks, trees, and wildflowers. These guides have led to several discussions of what animals and plants can be found in our local habitats and what kinds of things we could be on the lookout for as we take out learning outside. The guides are helpful to me as I try to teach the importance of what natural \"gifts\" are waiting to be discovered and how we can care for the world around us.\r\n Thank you for helping me to acquire more materials to make outdoor learning available for all of my students!","fullyFundedDate":1727956306965,"projectUrl":"project/take-it-outside-to-learn-part-2/8472461/","projectTitle":"Take It Outside To Learn! (part 2)","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Campion","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3748163_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1483470771513","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-campion"},{"teacherId":3748163,"projectId":7757199,"letterContent":"What a wonderful gift to our classroom you have provided with your generous donations! This new shelf replaced a yard sale find from over fifteen years ago that was falling apart and not nearly as safe and sturdy as this new one. Your generous donations have provided our kindergarten classroom with a sturdy storage shelf which has helped to make our decodable books and other literacy and math materials more organized and easily accessible. The shelf holds twenty bins of these resources for small group and center work and is perfectly designed for the children to choose their own materials and put them away independently. With ample storage, I can now quickly access materials and rotate them in and out with ease. This has been keeping my students engaged all through the year! \r\n Thank you for continuing to help us make our classroom an organized place to play, grow, and learn! 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