{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Jim Thorpe Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":43.2,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":8433390,"projectId":9998377,"letterContent":"Thank you very much for the generous donation through the state of Nevada's Department of Education. As a STEM specialist, my class is a favorite destination for many of our students as it is considered a preferred activity. \r\n\r\nI chose to purchase more LEGOs as they are a favorite manulative of our students. Many students don't have LEGO blocks at home, so this is a real treat for them. \r\n\r\nThis year, I decided to take a chance a two types of STEM blocks as well as \"straw structure\" sets. These were a hit with the students. As you can see from the photos, the possibilities were endless.","fullyFundedDate":1768155091980,"projectUrl":"project/stem-manipulatives-for-learning-through/9998377/","projectTitle":"STEM Manipulatives for Learning Through Play","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Hoffman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8433390"},{"teacherId":4929283,"projectId":10194106,"letterContent":"Thanks to your support through Donors Choose, our students now have outdoor toys that make recess more active, engaging, and inclusive. These new play materials encourage teamwork, creativity, and healthy physical activity while giving students a positive outlet to recharge during the school day. The toys have helped students build social skills, practice cooperation, and return to the classroom more focused and ready to learn. Your generosity has created joyful opportunities for movement and connection that our students look forward to every day.","fullyFundedDate":1777654158037,"projectUrl":"project/learning-through-play-outdoors/10194106/","projectTitle":"Learning Through Play Outdoors","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Preston","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4929283"},{"teacherId":4929283,"projectId":9971266,"letterContent":"Our new classroom organization bins have already made a huge difference for our students. Supplies now have designated spaces, which helps students stay organized, independent, and ready to learn. Classroom transitions are smoother, materials are easier to find, and the overall learning environment feels calmer and more structured. These resources may seem simple, but they have had a meaningful impact on our daily routines and student success. Thank you for supporting our classroom through Donors Choose!","fullyFundedDate":1774894305766,"projectUrl":"project/classroom-organization/9971266/","projectTitle":"Classroom Organization","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Preston","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4929283"},{"teacherId":9352072,"projectId":10196115,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support of my preschool outdoor learning project. Because of your kindness, my students will have exciting new equipment like balance stones, bean bag toss boards, and colorful sidewalk chalk to use during outdoor play and learning time. Your donation is helping to create a fun, active, and engaging environment where young learners can build confidence, practice coordination, and enjoy hands-on experiences outside the classroom.\r\n\r\nThe balance stones and bean bag toss boards will encourage my preschoolers to strengthen their gross motor skills, improve balance, and learn teamwork through play. The sidewalk chalk will spark creativity and imagination as students practice drawing, writing, counting, and playing interactive games together outdoors. These materials will make a meaningful difference in our daily activities and provide opportunities for learning that are both educational and joyful.\r\n\r\nI am truly grateful for your generosity and belief in my students. Your support helps create memorable experiences that encourage growth, exploration, and happiness for every child in my classroom. Thank you for investing in my preschoolers and helping me provide enriching outdoor opportunities that they will enjoy for years to come.","fullyFundedDate":1776822441334,"projectUrl":"project/prek-move-and-learn/10196115/","projectTitle":"PreK Move and Learn","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Felicia","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-7_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9352072"},{"teacherId":5110619,"projectId":9994470,"letterContent":"Thank you to my donors for helping create a healthier and more comfortable speech room for my students. The new air purifiers have helped provide a cleaner learning environment during speech and language sessions, and the office chair has improved my ability to comfortably support students throughout long therapy days, evaluations, and meetings.\r\n\r\nMy students were excited and curious when the materials arrived, especially the air purifiers. We use these resources daily during articulation, language, and social communication activities. A clean, calm, and supportive environment helps students stay focused, engaged, and ready to learn.\r\n\r\nThese resources will continue supporting meaningful speech and language learning for students from preschool through elementary school, and I am so grateful for the generosity that made this possible.","fullyFundedDate":1768172290594,"projectUrl":"project/materials-for-speech-therapy-room/9994470/","projectTitle":"Materials for Speech Therapy Room","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. R.","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5110619_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1516731289690","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5110619"},{"teacherId":8433390,"projectId":9929388,"letterContent":"I want to take this time to thank you for your generosity. The marble runs and magna-tiles have been a hit with my students, especially the my primary grades (K-2), and especially with our three primary autism classes. Due to you you being able to help me purchase new marble runs as well as magna-tiles, my classroom was a favorite of our primary autism classes. \r\n\r\nOur neurodivergent students often would have contests to see who could make the tallest marble run. With the magna-tiles, students were able to explore patterns and make three-dimensional shapers. There were times I would send marble runs to other specialists' classes to keep our students with primary autism calm. Words alone can't express how grateful I am that you donated funds for this very important project to me and my students.","fullyFundedDate":1766249373309,"projectUrl":"project/marble-runs-and-magna-tiles-for-stem-man/9929388/","projectTitle":"Marble Runs and Magna-Tiles for STEM Manipulatives","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Hoffman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8433390"},{"teacherId":9350636,"projectId":10054013,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping fund our lit lab for ELL students! We now have many fun and engaging ways to build English language skills for a variety of learning levels and grades.\r\n\r\nThe kids were so excited to see the new materials and have a chance to explore them. The \"10 Things\" and the \"Guess who?\" games have been especially entertaining. These games given confidence to students that have been hesitant to practice their English.\r\n\r\nYou have made a huge difference in the level of support the lit lab is able to provide. These materials will last for several years and impact many students in the future. I greatly appreciate your donation and your support!","fullyFundedDate":1771370033444,"projectUrl":"project/literacy-lab-for-english-language-learne/10054013/","projectTitle":"Literacy Lab for English Language Learners","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Carson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9350636"},{"teacherId":2997962,"projectId":10033952,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support in providing sensory items and social-emotional learning (SEL) materials for our kindergarten classroom. Your kindness has made a meaningful and lasting impact on our students, and we are incredibly grateful.\r\n\r\nWith the addition of these resources, our classroom has become a more supportive, inclusive, and engaging environment for all learners. The sensory tools have helped students regulate their emotions, stay focused during lessons, and feel more comfortable throughout the school day. Many of our students are still learning how to manage big feelings, and having access to these materials has given them safe and effective ways to calm their bodies and minds.\r\n\r\nThe SEL materials have also played a vital role in strengthening our classroom community. Through daily use, students are learning how to identify their emotions, practice empathy, solve problems, and build positive relationships with their peers. We have seen noticeable growth in students' ability to communicate their needs, work collaboratively, and show kindness toward one another.\r\n\r\nBecause of your generosity, our students are not only growing academically, but also developing the essential life skills they need to be successful both in and out of the classroom. You have helped create a space where every child feels supported, valued, and ready to learn.\r\n\r\nThank you again for believing in our students and investing in their future. Your support truly makes a difference each and every day.","fullyFundedDate":1768714893946,"projectUrl":"project/learning-emotional-regulation/10033952/","projectTitle":"Learning Emotional Regulation","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hancock","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2997962"},{"teacherId":4929283,"projectId":10175280,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation of Clorox wipes and hand sanitizer to our classroom. Your support is truly appreciated and makes a meaningful difference in helping us maintain a clean and safe learning environment for our students.\r\n\r\nBecause of your kindness, we are able to regularly disinfect equipment and high-touch surfaces, which helps keep our students healthy and ready to learn and stay active. These supplies are especially important as we continue to promote good hygiene habits and ensure that all students feel safe during physical activities.\r\n\r\nWe are incredibly grateful for your generosity and for thinking of our students. Your contribution helps us create a positive and secure space where children can focus on learning, growing, and staying active.\r\n\r\nThank you again for your support!","fullyFundedDate":1775601297097,"projectUrl":"project/healthy-hands-healthy-learners/10175280/","projectTitle":"Healthy Hands, Healthy Learners!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Preston","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4929283"},{"teacherId":2481167,"projectId":10021656,"letterContent":"I want to send a sincere thank you as the materials donated, especially for the paint materials. The paint markers are perfect for primary autism inclusion classes that are working on fine motor skills while keeping the mess under control. When the students saw the gallons of paint, boxes full of it, delivered to my classroom their eyes popped open wide, and their mouths hit the floor with audible gasps of delight. You would have thought it was a special holiday by their reaction. \r\n\r\nThese supplies are more than just materials. They are an invitation to explore, to learn new processes, to create new brain neuro connections, to connect on a deeper human level with one another and with famous artist from the present and the past. They enable me as their educator a tool to implement the endurring idea that art is a means to a positve well-being. They now can understand the art critique process because they are actively involved in the making. That concept is no longer abstract and is transferable to other domains like revising their writing, improving their perfomance on the field, or ability to articulate what went well, or what needs to be improved. You helped me do this. You have impacted my campus' student body. Truly, thank you.","fullyFundedDate":1768666694522,"projectUrl":"project/lets-paint/10021656/","projectTitle":"Let's Paint!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lopez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2481167_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1634774723380","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/lopez-arts-help"},{"teacherId":7455937,"projectId":10042813,"letterContent":"My students have loved getting to use new materials in class. They especially loved the playdoh! We have been able to use playdoh to connect to learning such as building landforms in science and creating shapes in Math. It has given students the opportunity to be more engaged and hands on in their learning.\r\n\r\nAs the year continues student learning will be more visual and these materials will allow me to create charts that students can continually reference. This has been especially important as I build students' writing skills. We will next be using the easel and chart paper to model opinion writing using sentence stems. Students will be able to reference back to model writing that is posted on the chart as they practice their writing each day. Thank you for allowing me to improve my instruction for my students!","fullyFundedDate":1768871957944,"projectUrl":"project/multi-sensory-instruction/10042813/","projectTitle":"Multi-Sensory Instruction","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Sparrow","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7455937_orig.jpg?crop=720,720,x284,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1606842618952","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7455937"},{"teacherId":7751030,"projectId":10014379,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating funds to my school's library. Our school is a low income, high transient school. Students often have emotional issues so having some of these books that deal with feelings and emotions will come in handy and be helpful to reach and reassure many of these students.\r\n\r\nThe other materials that were purchased by donors like you are books that need replacing at our school. Having funds to replace well loved, lost or destroyed books can be challenging. Having donors like you, really make the difference when it comes to replacing books.\r\nThank you so much for these opportunities. Nearly 500 students will get a chance to read these great materials or have some of the materials read to them.\r\nThank you again.","fullyFundedDate":1768745048804,"projectUrl":"project/reading-to-grow-in-mindfulness-and-frien/10014379/","projectTitle":"Reading to Grow in Mindfulness and Friendship.","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Agan's Library Update","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7751030_orig.jpg?crop=1716,1716,x0,y245&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1615858785846","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/agan-library"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_59360","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":455,"numTeachers":32,"percentFrplEligible":95,"percentAsian":4,"percentBlack":24,"percentWhite":14,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":43,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":2,"percentMultiracialImputed":10,"gradesServed":"Pre-K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"14.2:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":56.8,"schoolId":59360,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Jim Thorpe Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Jim Thorpe Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/nevada/clark-county-school-district/jim-thorpe-elementary-school/59360"}