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It's wonderful to have the students be able to practice and hear themselves comfortably.\r\nThe students say that these are the most comfortable headphones they've ever used at school and some have even asked where they could buy their own. \r\nThank you again for donating, the students and I all appreciate it so much.","fullyFundedDate":1743004937798,"projectUrl":"project/ear-ye/9164928/","projectTitle":"'Ear Ye!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Todd","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9013839_orig.jpg?crop=1679,1679,x0,y22&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1682365113672","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9013839"},{"teacherId":1499503,"projectId":9695090,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating computer mice, stickers and racks to our classroom. The racks will help the students to organize their computers more easily for charging. The computer mice will help them to be able to click, drag and perform other computer skills more easily. This will be especially helpful for the youngest children. The stickers will go on the mouse button to help the children know which button to click. Learning these essential skills will help the children to build their knowledge and be able to more easily use their computers. Thank you again!","fullyFundedDate":1757524982863,"projectUrl":"project/computer-science-made-simple/9695090/","projectTitle":"Computer Science Made Simple","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Mana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1499503_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1451592845846","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/rmana"},{"teacherId":1499503,"projectId":9695023,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous and kind donation to our classroom. Your donation will help all of the children, despite the challenges they may face, to learn about computer science and how computers work. The students are going to enjoy being able to create electronics and to build while doing robotics. Thank you again for your donation of the early childhood circuits to our classroom. Without the kindness of donors like you, these special projects would not be possible. The students and I truly appreciate you.","fullyFundedDate":1757374956325,"projectUrl":"project/equal-opportunity-computer-science/9695023/","projectTitle":"Equal Opportunity Computer Science","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Mana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1499503_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1451592845846","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/rmana"},{"teacherId":1499503,"projectId":9420233,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating simple birthday items to the children in my school. Their eyes light up when they get a card, special birthday pencil, sticker badge to wear and bracelet. It's the simple things that make the children so happy. \r\n\r\n Everyone likes to be special on their birthdays, and getting recognized makes every child feel special. Thank you again for helping me to make the children that I teach happy.\r\n\r\n Your generous donation makes a big difference in our school! Thank you again for your support.","fullyFundedDate":1750898827561,"projectUrl":"project/birthday-classroom-gifts/9420233/","projectTitle":"Birthday Classroom Gifts","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Mana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1499503_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1451592845846","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/rmana"},{"teacherId":1499503,"projectId":9382932,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating to our classroom so that the children can have a supply of batteries for the electronics that they use for learning robotics in our Computer Science classroom. The AA and AAA batteries power Beebots, Robo Mice, wireless mice, and a variety of other learning activities that students engage with. One of the favorites is an earthquake simulator tool in which the students need to engineer a structure that can withstand the base shaking. These learning opportunities wouldn't be possible without donors like you. Thank you again!","fullyFundedDate":1748695595823,"projectUrl":"project/charge-it-up/9382932/","projectTitle":"Charge It Up!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Mana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1499503_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1451592845846","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/rmana"},{"teacherId":1499503,"projectId":9221454,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating cleaning supplies such as paper towels, cleaning rags and spray to our classroom. These items will help to kill germs on surfaces and materials and to maintain a clean classroom environment. Thank you also for donating tissues and hand sanitizer to our classroom. These items will help to keep the children healthy. Healthy kids are happier and are able to learn more. Being healthy also helps the children's attendance to improve. Thank you again for supporting our classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1744224639376,"projectUrl":"project/clean-and-healthy-classroom/9221454/","projectTitle":"Clean and Healthy Classroom","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Mana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1499503_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1451592845846","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/rmana"},{"teacherId":1499503,"projectId":9217322,"letterContent":"Simple supplies such as anchor chart paper, glue sticks, notebook paper and glue sticks will help to enhance the education of the students that come to my STEM classroom each week. They will be able to use the play doh and the glue sticks to complete all sorts of engineering and design projects. The notebook paper is great for them to complete their reflective journals on that help them to work on writing skills. The chart paper will enable me to make posters for the classroom with important information that the students are learning.\r\n\r\nThank you again for supporting our classroom! It means a lot to both myself and the students.","fullyFundedDate":1744053809741,"projectUrl":"project/simple-supplies/9217322/","projectTitle":"Simple Supplies","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Mana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1499503_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1451592845846","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/rmana"},{"teacherId":1499503,"projectId":9216892,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating to our classroom so that every child in our school can have their own folder to bring to STEM class each week. These folders will give the students a place to keep their vocabulary work, log in information for their computers and online accounts that we use for learning, blueprint drawings for their engineering projects and journal entries to reflect on what they have learned.\r\n\r\nSupport from the community is so important for the students at my school. Thank you again for caring about their success and helping the future scientists and engineers that I teach to learn organizational skills along with STEM skills!","fullyFundedDate":1744032882342,"projectUrl":"project/folders-for-future-engineers-and-scienti/9216892/","projectTitle":"Folders for Future Engineers and Scientists","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Mana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1499503_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1451592845846","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/rmana"},{"teacherId":1499503,"projectId":9070448,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating to my classroom. Having books about STEM helps the children to be able to learn about various topics in science, technology, engineering and math. It inspires them to delve deeper into learning about these topics. There are also lots of cool activities that the students can complete in the books. 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Having these items on hand in case of an emergency will help us to be able to keep everyone safe and uninjured during a lock down, or other safety issue at the school.\r\n\r\nThank you again for your generous donation to our classroom of materials that will help to keep the children safe and calm during the time of an emergency.","fullyFundedDate":1734892389550,"projectUrl":"project/the-project-i-hope-we-never-have-to-use/9015459/","projectTitle":"The Project I Hope We Never Have to Use","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Mana","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1499503_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1451592845846","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/rmana"},{"teacherId":1499503,"projectId":9013242,"letterContent":"The students love learning about people that look like themselves. Both the boys and girls in the class love using the dolls to act out scenes from diverse books in the classroom library. 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