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I also purchased homework packets to send home on the weekends, which my families have been asking for. I have many families who are looking for ways to help their child with extra work at home and these homework packets came in clutch!\r\n\r\nThank you again!","fullyFundedDate":1760553235289,"projectUrl":"project/buying-resources/9794204/","projectTitle":"Buying Resources","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Proescholdt","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5963250_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1539122826414","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/carlye-proescholdt"},{"teacherId":3824939,"projectId":9646047,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity in funding this project and investing in my scholars' success. Because of you, my students now have headphones with microphones that allow them to focus, listen, and fully engage in both literacy and math learning without distractions. These tools make a meaningful difference during phonics instruction, read-alouds, guided reading, and interactive math lessons, helping scholars learn at their own pace with confidence.\r\n\r\nYour support also strengthens oral language development and self-expression. With microphones, scholars can practice reading fluency, record responses, participate in speech-to-text activities, and explain their mathematical thinking aloud—an especially powerful opportunity for my English language learners. The personal storage bags further encourage responsibility, organization, and care for their learning tools, supporting both hygiene and equity in our classroom.\r\n\r\nI am deeply grateful for your kindness and belief in my students. Your generosity helps create a focused, supportive learning environment where scholars can grow academically, build confidence, and take ownership of their learning each day. Thank you for making such a lasting and meaningful impact.","fullyFundedDate":1757423425132,"projectUrl":"project/listen-learn-succeed-headphones-and-s/9646047/","projectTitle":"Listen. Learn. Succeed: Headphones and Storage for Student Success","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Olson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3824939_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1512447212841","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/g-olson"},{"teacherId":3824939,"projectId":9593455,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity in funding this project and supporting my second grade scholars. Because of you, my students now have equitable access to the digital tools that are essential to their learning. These headphone adapters may seem small, but they have made a powerful difference—allowing scholars to fully engage with phonics programs, math apps, and language-learning platforms that rely on audio to support understanding and growth.\r\n\r\nYour kindness has helped remove a barrier that too often limits students in under-resourced classrooms. By ensuring every scholar can access individualized, audio-based instruction, you are supporting focus, confidence, and personalized learning for each child. I am deeply grateful for your belief in my students and for helping close the digital divide. Your support has truly empowered my scholars to learn, grow, and succeed.","fullyFundedDate":1755742826196,"projectUrl":"project/the-right-connection-headphone-adapters/9593455/","projectTitle":"The Right Connection: Headphone Adapters for All","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Olson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp3824939_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1512447212841","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/g-olson"},{"teacherId":3824939,"projectId":9473265,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support in funding this project and helping our school year get off to a strong and successful start. Because of you, our classroom has been a cleaner, healthier place to learn. The Clorox wipes have played an important role in preventing the spread of illness, allowing students to stay focused and present. \r\n\r\nYour generosity has also provided my students with some of the most essential tools for their academic growth. The primary composition notebooks have given them a special space to express their creativity and develop foundational writing skills during our writing block. The half-size composition notebooks work beautifully for small group instruction, giving students an accessible way to record their learning each day.\r\n\r\nAdditionally, my students use the calming strips to not only calm down, but to satisfy their sensory needs which in turn, helps them focus on the tasks at hand. We also use the dry erase markers every day. I am incredibly grateful for your support and the meaningful difference you have made in our classroom. 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Every teacher was responsible to get the correct headphones or dongles to connect the headphones. \r\n\r\nBecause of you we are now able to use our iPads for all of the learning we need them for! Students have their own dongle attached to their headphones. We use iPads for math, reading, phonics, and so much more! \r\n\r\nYour donation made it possible for us to get accurate student assessment data, give students the materials they need for successful learning, and made our lives easier as teachers who don't have to worry about iPad and headphone connections. \r\n\r\nThank you!","fullyFundedDate":1758822437443,"projectUrl":"project/little-learners-headphones/9721839/","projectTitle":"Little Learners Headphones!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wigdahl","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8121411_orig.png?crop=272,272,x107,y20&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1646233488690","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8121411"},{"teacherId":10103049,"projectId":9520128,"letterContent":"We are now a few months into the school year and we are already celebrating our success! This year our school provided new iPads for our students. These new iPads required usb-c adapters for our headphones, which we did not have. Now that we have received some adapters, my students can work on their personalized reading lessons, and listen to stories as well!\r\n My class would like to give a huge thank you for your support with our headphone adapters! Our class can now work independently without disruption in the classroom!","fullyFundedDate":1757033674686,"projectUrl":"project/usb-c-adapters-for-achievement/9520128/","projectTitle":"USB-C Adapters for Achievement","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kinziger","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10103049_orig.jpg?crop=1365,1365,x0,y86&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753931484973","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10103049"},{"teacherId":4684425,"projectId":9817702,"letterContent":"It is such a relief to finally have the supplies we've been missing—reliable ways to hang student work, more than just a single black dry-erase marker, and crayons for students who aren't able to bring their own. Because of you, we now have all of these things, and they are already making a huge difference in our classroom.\r\n\r\nI can't tell you how many mornings I've walked into school after proudly displaying student work the night before, only to find everything scattered across the hallway floor. They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results—and that was me, using the same tape every time and hoping it would magically work. With the Alien Tape, I can finally display student work without fear and use my time more efficiently. Thank you!\r\n\r\nThe students are thrilled about the variety of whiteboard markers and crayons. Being able to color-code information on the board is such a powerful tool for helping them remember their learning, and now I have so many options to enhance my teaching.\r\n\r\nThank you again—I appreciate you more than you know.","fullyFundedDate":1762267628614,"projectUrl":"project/random-supplies-to-make-our-classroom-li/9817702/","projectTitle":"Random Supplies to Make our Classroom Lives Efficient!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Gerten","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4684425_orig.png?crop=419,419,x168,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1558619648738","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4684425"},{"teacherId":7156821,"projectId":9165628,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for all the help in completing this project. While I'm not personally at Frost Lake anymore, I'm so happy that these kiddos get to enjoy the fruits of your donations. And I'm happy for the librarian who doesn't have to constantly say, \"Sorry, all the Dog Man books are checked out.\" \r\n\r\nAw, who am I kidding? That will still happen. But it will happen LESS, and that's a win in my book.\r\n\r\nImagine being a kid who is struggling to learn to read, seeing these books and knowing that there is a world of limitless JOY and SILLINESS waiting for them at the end of that long hard struggle. You helped put books that kids WANT to read for FUN in the library, and that's SUPA COOL!","fullyFundedDate":1754276998834,"projectUrl":"project/two-words-dog-man/9165628/","projectTitle":"Two Words: Dog Man","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Al","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7156821_orig.jpg?crop=648,648,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1699026647337","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mr-al-nowatzki"},{"teacherId":5963250,"projectId":9677412,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for contributing to this project! I was so excited to see that it had gotten funded because I knew our classroom library would get a much-needed refresh! With a kindergarten class of mostly bilingual students, it is important to me to have books in their native languages. When I have read these books to them this fall, their eyes widen in surprise and delight to hear me reading in Spanish! It gives them a sense of pride and representation, and reaffirms that our classroom is a place of belonging for each and every student.\r\n\r\nNew books are exciting in general but these bilingual and high-interest books have been an absolute HIT with my tiny humans!\r\n\r\nThank you!","fullyFundedDate":1758821016969,"projectUrl":"project/bilingual-high-interest-books/9677412/","projectTitle":"Bilingual & High Interest Books","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Proescholdt","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5963250_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1539122826414","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/carlye-proescholdt"},{"teacherId":5963250,"projectId":9650608,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting our classroom! We absolutely love our new book boxes! Each kindergartener has their own book box with high-interest books for independent reading. Instead of \"silent reading,\" in my class we call independent reading \"cozy reading\" and my students LOVE getting out their book boxes and looking through books. While they don't yet know how to read, they love to look at the pictures and look for words they know, such as \"the\" or \"can\" or \"like.\" Having individual book boxes is a game changer for this time of day in terms of classroom management and for that I am GRATEFUL!\r\n\r\nThank you again!","fullyFundedDate":1756399691330,"projectUrl":"project/new-year-organization/9650608/","projectTitle":"New Year Organization","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Proescholdt","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5963250_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1539122826414","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/carlye-proescholdt"},{"teacherId":2506926,"projectId":8337926,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generosity and providing this sensory table and supplies for my students. The sensory center is a huge hit and kids absolutely love it when it's their turn to work there! 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Frost Lake Elementary School is
an urban public school
in Saint Paul, Minnesota that is part of Saint Paul Public Schools.
It serves 593 students
in grades Pre-K - 5 with a student/teacher ratio of 15.6:1.
Its teachers have had 615 projects funded on DonorsChoose.
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84%
of students are Black, Latino, Native
American, or Asian
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Frost Lake Elementary School
$221,508
raised using DonorsChoose
615
projects
funded
61
teachers
funded
912
donors
45
projects
for
basic supplies
63
projects for
technology
113
projects for
books
23
projects
for
art supplies
Frost Lake Elementary School has received support from
604 individuals from Minnesota and
308 individuals out-of-state.