{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Paul E Culley Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":57.3,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":7797746,"projectId":10370494,"letterContent":"The \"Helping Reluctant Readers Shine\" project has made a wonderful difference in our classroom. Many of my students find reading challenging, and traditional books do not always capture their attention. When they first saw the new books, however, their excitement was immediate! They recognized favorite characters like Dog Man, Cat Kid, Pigeon, Narwhal and Jelly, and The Bad Guys, and they were eager to look through the books and choose what they wanted to read.\r\nThese books have helped me show my students that reading can be fun. The colorful illustrations, graphic-novel formats, humor, and familiar characters make reading feel less intimidating and more inviting. Students who were once hesitant to pick up a book are now more willing to explore the classroom library, look through the pages, talk about the characters, and spend time reading.\r\nThe materials also give us opportunities to work on important literacy skills such as vocabulary, comprehension, sequencing, identifying characters, answering WH questions, and retelling stories. The puzzle and LEGO book provide additional hands-on ways for students to make connections, problem-solve, and engage with literacy in a different way.\r\nOne of the most meaningful parts of this project has been watching my students begin to see themselves as readers. Every time a student independently chooses a book, laughs at a story, shares a favorite page, or asks to read more, it is a success worth celebrating.\r\nThank you for helping my reluctant readers discover books they can connect with and enjoy. Your generosity is helping turn hesitation into excitement, building confidence one page at a time, and giving my students the opportunity to truly shine as readers!","fullyFundedDate":1789511873061,"projectUrl":"project/helping-reluctant-readers-shine/10370494/","projectTitle":"Helping Reluctant Readers Shine","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lytle","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7797746"},{"teacherId":7797746,"projectId":10544874,"letterContent":"Our \"Small Tools, Big Possibilities\" project has brought so much excitement, comfort, and meaningful learning into our classroom. When my students first saw the new supplies, they could not wait to explore them! Their smiles and excitement reminded me that sometimes the smallest tools can open the door to the biggest possibilities.\r\nThe sensory materials have been especially helpful for my students with autism. The fidgets, sensory tubes, spinning chair, textured tiles, putty, and marble maze mats provide students with different ways to regulate their bodies and emotions. Students are beginning to recognize when they need a sensory break and are learning to choose a tool that helps them calm, refocus, and return to learning. This is helping us build self-regulation and independence, skills that are important both inside and outside the classroom.\r\nThe materials are also helping us make academics more engaging. We are using the giant alphabet beads for letter recognition, spelling, and fine-motor practice. The animal figures are wonderful for sorting, counting, vocabulary, imaginative play, and communication activities. Our puzzles and shape sorter provide additional opportunities to practice problem-solving, matching, and persistence.\r\nI have also loved watching my students use the materials to develop their social-emotional and communication skills. The Big Feelings set gives us another way to talk about emotions, while many of the sensory and play materials naturally encourage requesting, sharing, turn-taking, and interacting with classmates.\r\nThese supplies have allowed me to provide more individualized learning experiences because every student has different strengths and needs. A tool that may help one student focus can help another student communicate, practice a new academic skill, or simply feel comfortable enough to participate.\r\nThank you to everyone who helped make \"Small Tools, Big Possibilities\" a reality. You have given my students much more than toys and classroom supplies. You have given them tools to communicate, regulate, explore, learn, and become more independent. Every new skill, proud smile, and moment of success shows just how big the possibilities can be when students are given the right tools. ❤️","fullyFundedDate":1788722159235,"projectUrl":"project/small-tools-big-possibilities/10544874/","projectTitle":"Small Tools, Big Possibilities","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lytle","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7797746"},{"teacherId":7797746,"projectId":10677672,"letterContent":"The supplies from our \"Read, Regulate, and Rise!\" project have made such a positive impact on our classroom. When my students first saw all of the new materials, their faces immediately lit up. They were excited, curious, and eager to explore everything. It was wonderful to watch them discover that these special materials had been chosen just for their classroom and their individual learning needs.\r\nMy students are now using the supplies throughout the school day in many different ways. The sensory materials have become especially valuable when students need a break, feel overwhelmed, or need help regulating their bodies before returning to instruction. The lights, vibrating sensory items, and other calming tools give students appropriate choices and are helping them learn what strategies work best for them. The visual timer is helping with transitions, work completion, and understanding how long they have for an activity or break.\r\nWe are also enjoying the academic materials. The magnetic ten-frames provide a hands-on way to practice counting, number sense, addition, and subtraction. The books about soccer stars have been a wonderful way to encourage reading by connecting literacy to something that interests my students. Seeing students become excited about picking up a book is exactly what I hoped this project would accomplish.\r\nOne of the greatest impacts has been seeing my students become more independent and confident. These supplies allow me to provide instruction and support in ways that meet their unique needs. Instead of every student being expected to learn or regulate in the same way, they now have different tools available to help them be successful.\r\nThank you to everyone who supported \"Read, Regulate, and Rise!\" Your generosity has created moments of excitement, comfort, learning, and accomplishment in our classroom. My students' reactions when they first saw the supplies—and the smiles I continue to see as they use them—are a wonderful reminder of how much your support means to us. These are more than classroom supplies; they are tools that are helping my students read, regulate, grow, and rise every day.","fullyFundedDate":1790445189704,"projectUrl":"project/read-regulate-and-rise/10677672/","projectTitle":"Read, Regulate, and Rise!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lytle","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7797746"},{"teacherId":9496712,"projectId":10685243,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity and support with this project. We have already begun to receive some of the books and my students are excited to begin using them during their reading time. \r\n\r\nAll of the books from this project are highly engaging in various ways. Some have sounds associated with words or actions in the story, and some have different textures for the students to feel. Some of the books are about characters that they know and love and because they are familiar with them, they love to listen and look at books with those characters. All of these books help make reading fun for the students in my class and allow them to engage in reading and looking at books. \r\n\r\nStorytime in my classroom is loud. We sing songs that are made into books and that helps these students engage in listening, as well as read, or sing, the words later. They can interact with the book by pointing to their favorite character, touching the cat, or pressing the pig button to hear the sound a pig makes. Thank you so much again for your support.","fullyFundedDate":1790819274913,"projectUrl":"project/learning-to-love-books/10685243/","projectTitle":"Learning to Love Books!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McGaughey","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9496712_orig.jpg?crop=907,908,x0,y33&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1710970949981","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9496712"},{"teacherId":9364825,"projectId":10136446,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping us Fill Every Shelf in Our Kindergarten! Your generosity has put beautiful, engaging books directly into the hands of young readers who are learning that books are not only something we use for school—they are something we can love.\r\n\r\nThese new books are helping us build important early literacy skills every day. We use them to practice identifying characters and settings, retelling stories in order, making predictions, answering questions about key details, learning new vocabulary, and using pictures and text together to understand meaning.\r\n\r\nBecause of you, our shelves are no longer simply classroom furniture—they are filled with invitations to imagine, learn, laugh, wonder, and READ. Thank you for giving our kindergarteners books they are excited to pick up and helping us build a classroom full of growing, confident readers!","fullyFundedDate":1783362097549,"projectUrl":"project/fill-every-shelf-in-our-kindergarten/10136446/","projectTitle":"Fill Every Shelf in Our Kindergarten","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Crawford","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9364825_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y123&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1700457304374","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9364825"},{"teacherId":9496712,"projectId":10530114,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for the sports equipment to help my students work on their gross motor skills and learn sports moves that may help them play sports. We have already used the basketballs and are working on dribbling. Some of the students have it and some are still working on it. They seem to like dribbling the ball and when I'm doing it, several of them always want to join in which gives them more practice. \r\n\r\nWe've also began working on kicking using the soccer balls and soccer goals. This one is harder for the autistic children as they've had difficulty understanding to use their feet. This is exactly why we needed some equipment. We will keep practicing a little bit each day and eventually they'll get it. The playground balls have been a big hit for learning and practicing tossing and a bounce pass to a friend. \r\n\r\nThank you again for your support and these materials for my students. We love learning with them and using them to practice.","fullyFundedDate":1789393387971,"projectUrl":"project/learning-skills-for-playing-sports/10530114/","projectTitle":"Learning Skills for Playing Sports","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McGaughey","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9496712_orig.jpg?crop=907,908,x0,y33&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1710970949981","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9496712"},{"teacherId":9496712,"projectId":10455865,"letterContent":"Thank you again for your support with this project and the resources it has provided my classroom. We are already using the magnetic letters to identify and match letters, learn letter sounds, and build words. Each student in my primary autism classroom has their own unique learning goals that they are working on and materials like these help so much. My students need to be able to touch and manipulate and move around the materials in order to learn. They also need constant reinforcers to stay engaged in their learning and working one-on-one. \r\n\r\nThe spinning chair and paw patrol finger puppets, the hand fidget, rubber chickens, and other toys are very desirable reinforcers and help me so much in getting my students to work on tasks that help them learn. The cardstock is already being used in making matching game tasks that help each one of my students learn at their own level. Thank you again so much. I truly appreciate your support.","fullyFundedDate":1788494733200,"projectUrl":"project/engage-reinforce-and-learn/10455865/","projectTitle":"Engage, Reinforce, and Learn!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. McGaughey","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9496712_orig.jpg?crop=907,908,x0,y33&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1710970949981","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9496712"},{"teacherId":9364825,"projectId":10088483,"letterContent":"Thank you for all of the much needed writing supplies for the class. We refreshed our writing center and our bookmaking project. The new writing supplies jumpstarted the students excitement and interest in writing. \r\n\r\nIt was wonderful to watch the students explore the new materials and become excited about putting their ideas on paper. Having fresh markers, pencils, paper, and other writing supplies made our writing center feel new again and has encouraged students to spend more time creating, drawing, labeling, and writing their own stories.","fullyFundedDate":1774122478327,"projectUrl":"project/winter-writing-refresh/10088483/","projectTitle":"Winter Writing Refresh!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Crawford","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9364825_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y123&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1700457304374","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9364825"},{"teacherId":9408413,"projectId":10575596,"letterContent":"My students have been so excited to use the new materials in our classroom! We are using the hands-on literacy, math, writing, and sensory resources throughout the school day during small-group instruction, independent work, and learning centers. The letter, CVC word, sentence, number, and tracing activities are giving my students additional opportunities to practice important foundational skills in an engaging and interactive way. The sensory seating and fidgets are also being used to provide movement and sensory input when students need support regulating their bodies and preparing to learn.\r\n\r\nIt has been wonderful watching my students explore the materials and become excited about learning. Because many of my students learn best by seeing, touching, moving, and practicing skills repeatedly, these resources allow them to actively participate instead of relying only on traditional paper-and-pencil activities. I have already seen how motivating it can be for a student to complete a hands-on activity, recognize that they were successful, and want to do it again.\r\n\r\nOur next step is to continue building on these foundational skills as students become more independent. We will continue working on letter sounds, CVC words, early reading and comprehension, number recognition, counting, pre-writing and writing skills, communication, appropriate choices, and self-regulation. Thank you for giving my students resources that allow them to learn in ways that work for them and for helping me create a classroom where they can grow, gain confidence, and experience success every day!","fullyFundedDate":1788561043180,"projectUrl":"project/ready-to-learn-sensory-support-meets-ha/10575596/","projectTitle":"Ready to Learn: Sensory Support Meets Hands-On Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Ramirez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9408413_orig.jpg?crop=811,811,x8,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1702320195966","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9408413"},{"teacherId":5357426,"projectId":9725458,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation. Your donation has improved my students overall feeling of safety. Students were not afraid to try and catch the ball. They improved their tracking of the ball and looked the ball into their hands instead of turned their head. Because, nerf balls are softer, my students were more confident they could practice a skill presented to them without the fear of heading to the nurses office with a bloody nose. \r\n\r\nOverall, my students made great strides in improving their football throwing and catching skills. Hopefully in the next school year, my students will be more proficient at their football skills and they can learn more complex tasks to improve their abilities.","fullyFundedDate":1759086726530,"projectUrl":"project/hand-eye-coordination-using-nerf-footbal/9725458/","projectTitle":"Hand Eye coordination using Nerf Footballs","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Powers","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5357426"},{"teacherId":6811677,"projectId":5117862,"letterContent":"I cannot adequately express my gratitude for your generous support in bringing BrainPOP Jr. to our classroom. Because of your kindness, my students now have daily access to an incredible educational tool that makes learning both accessible and genuinely fun.\r\n\r\nThe impact of this resource was immediate. Whenever the iconic theme song plays, the entire room lights up. My students are completely captivated by the animated videos, which do a brilliant job of breaking down complex subjects—from tricky math concepts to foundational science lessons—into engaging, bite-sized adventures. Instead of struggling through a dense textbook explanation, my kids are eagerly taking the interactive quizzes, drawing connections to the world around them, and actually laughing while they learn.\r\n\r\nHaving this subscription has transformed our daily routine. It provides the perfect visual hook to introduce new units and serves as a fantastic, interactive center for independent learning. You have given these young learners a resource that builds their academic confidence and turns challenging topics into exciting discoveries.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in my students' education and for bringing so much joy into our daily lessons. We are so incredibly grateful for your generosity!\r\n\r\nWith deep appreciation,","fullyFundedDate":1599781859776,"projectUrl":"project/please-help-me-pop-some-brains/5117862/","projectTitle":"Please Help Me Pop Some Brains!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Grigg","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6811677_orig.jpg?crop=272,272,x173,y160&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1690675954589","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/grigg"},{"teacherId":7797746,"projectId":10356494,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support of our DonorsChoose project, \"Opening Doors in Autism.\" Your kindness has made such a wonderful difference in our classroom!\r\n\r\nThe students have been enjoying all of the new materials and fun activities you helped provide. It has been so rewarding to see their excitement as they explore, learn, and engage with these new resources. They especially love the playground equipment! It has given them new ways to be active, play together, and enjoy time outdoors.\r\n\r\nYour donations have helped create more opportunities for our students to learn, play, communicate, and grow in ways that meet their individual needs. Seeing their smiles and excitement is a wonderful reminder of just how meaningful your generosity is.\r\n\r\nThank you for believing in our students and helping us create a classroom where they can be successful, have fun, and feel supported. 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