{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"P 36K @ PS 224 ","outOfStateSupporters":31.0,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":7707191,"projectId":9812897,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project! The resources in this project gave my students so many hands-on opportunities to practice skills that they are working on to develop their social skills and emotion regulation strategies. They love building animal habitats with the new Magnatiles sets. My students have really been working well together. The play-doh stamps are an engaging way to learn new emotional vocabulary and help students to get some of their sensory needs met. I have students that love pretending to run a restaurant. We really needed pots, pans, and dishes and they have been having so much fun with these supplies. One student even organized a pretend \"seafood boil.\" All of the new toys add a lot of purpose to our pretend play activities, role plays, and play therapy. With our growing school community, it is more important than ever to have tools that support a wide range of developmental needs—and your support has made that possible. Thank you so very much for your generosity!!!","fullyFundedDate":1766446594258,"projectUrl":"project/the-power-of-play-in-school-counseling/9812897/","projectTitle":"The Power of Play in School Counseling","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Allison","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7707191_orig.jpg?crop=1512,1512,x0,y226&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1663088874648","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7707191"},{"teacherId":8649887,"projectId":9304027,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting my classroom. I CAN NOT thank you enough! With your support and donation, I am able to assure my students have access to supplies they need. \r\nThe dividers I was able to receive because of you has allowed my rotations to run smoother, my classroom to be more productive and I am able to structure my classroom for my students needs. Autism is something we are learning more and more about every day and your support allows me to continue to learn while teaching my students as well.","fullyFundedDate":1752505317086,"projectUrl":"project/awesome-classroom-needs-help-focusing-on/9304027/","projectTitle":"Awesome Classroom Needs Help Focusing on Activities!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. White","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8649887_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1732997559422","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8649887"},{"teacherId":7707191,"projectId":9730057,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for making this project a reality and getting these important resources into the hands of our students. My students absolutely LOVE the MagnaTiles. They request to play with them all of the time. Students worked together to build towers, homes for the animals, and imaginative structures. These moments naturally created opportunities to practice cooperation, sharing materials, and problem-solving when a structure fell or when students had different ideas about what to build. Instead of becoming frustrated, many students practiced the strategies we've been learning—taking a deep breath, asking for help, and working together to find a solution. Students also love playing with the toy food and dishes. They take turns cutting the vegetables and serving the food. During these sessions, students practice communication, role-playing in different scenarios, and negotiating challenging situations with one another. These playful interactions help students strengthen their language, social awareness, and interpersonal skills. These toys are such an important part of our play therapy sessions. Thank you so much for making sure that my students have access to these resources for our counseling sessions.","fullyFundedDate":1759189656129,"projectUrl":"project/building-connections-one-tile-at-a-time/9730057/","projectTitle":"Building Connections, One Tile at a Time","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Allison","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7707191_orig.jpg?crop=1512,1512,x0,y226&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1663088874648","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7707191"},{"teacherId":7707191,"projectId":9665796,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for making this project happen. The supplies in this project have helped my students participate in meaningful counseling activities for the first half of our school year. We have been using the cardstock to make visuals for students, breathing boards that they can finger paint, and interactive bear puppets so that they can demonstrate \"bear breathing\" for emotion regulation. My students use the dot markers every day to complete social emotional learning activities. The headphones and seat cushion allows us to adapt the environment for our students' sensory needs, making the counseling office a calm and safe space for them. The resources in this project are tools that get daily use. We are so grateful to have access to these resources for our students, thank you so very much!","fullyFundedDate":1758847274265,"projectUrl":"project/from-fidget-to-focus-a-multi-sensory-co/9665796/","projectTitle":"From Fidget to Focus: a Multi-Sensory Counseling Project","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Allison","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7707191_orig.jpg?crop=1512,1512,x0,y226&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1663088874648","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7707191"},{"teacherId":7707191,"projectId":9538782,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our counseling program and making this project possible. Because of your generosity, my students were able to explore their five senses through hands-on, calming activities that help them better understand mindfulness 🧘‍♀️ and learn how to stay present in the moment. ☺️ \r\n\r\nThe books you provided quickly became favorites during our read-aloud time. Students were engaged, curious, and excited to talk about what they were learning. These stories helped introduce important information about our 5 senses, mindfulness, and coping skills in ways they could truly understand. The books are interactive and many have buttons that the students love to press to hear different sounds.\r\n\r\nMy students' favorite activity was creating their own rain sticks. They carefully decorated them to make them personalized. Once the rain sticks were finished, we had fun creating our own \"rainstorm\" - starting with a soft drizzle and then exploding into a downpour. 🌧️ ☔️ This was so much fun. It was an engaging way for students to practice paying attention to the different sounds they hear. \r\n\r\nThe skills that students learned through this project will be the beginning of many emotion regulation skills that they build on for years to come. Thank you so much for your kindness and support! ❤️","fullyFundedDate":1756241289101,"projectUrl":"project/hear-the-rain-calm-the-brain/9538782/","projectTitle":"Hear the Rain, Calm the Brain","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Allison","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7707191_orig.jpg?crop=1512,1512,x0,y226&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1663088874648","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7707191"},{"teacherId":7707191,"projectId":9767335,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for making this project a reality. Our 4th and 5th grade Student Council members worked as a team to put together food bags for families experiencing food insecurity. Together they created almost 50 food bags to distribute. This came at a time when families needed it most after losing their SNAP benefits for a period of time. We also have several families in temporary housing that requested food bags. Our Student Council was proud of their hard work and enjoyed being able to do something positive and helpful for their school community. Thank you so very much for making this possible.","fullyFundedDate":1760628563421,"projectUrl":"project/student-helpers-food-bags-for-friends/9767335/","projectTitle":"Student Helpers: Food Bags for Friends","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Allison","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7707191_orig.jpg?crop=1512,1512,x0,y226&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1663088874648","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7707191"},{"teacherId":7707191,"projectId":9316790,"letterContent":"Thank you so very much for helping us to get these resources into our counseling space. We received so many wonderful books that the kids always look forward to reading. The visuals in the Little Spot books are amazing and provide concrete explanations for kids to learn about emotions and coping skills. They also include engaging activities in the back of the books to help reinforce what the students are learning. The Good Choices Match Up activity is a great resource for kids to pair specific social skills with different situations. The Coping Skills Game is a fun way for kids to practice the emotion regulation strategies that they are learning in counseling sessions. These books, games, and activities will be resources that we value in our counseling office for years to come. Thank you so much for supporting my students!","fullyFundedDate":1747498461383,"projectUrl":"project/little-spots-big-feelings-sel-support/9316790/","projectTitle":"Little Spots, Big Feelings: SEL Support for Special Learners","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Allison","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7707191_orig.jpg?crop=1512,1512,x0,y226&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1663088874648","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7707191"},{"teacherId":7707191,"projectId":9247560,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for making this project possible. With the resources in this project, our students worked to create coping kits as part of their counseling sessions. They identified different coping strategies and practiced each strategy. Bubbles 🫧 and balloons 🎈 were included in each kit for students to practice deep breathing 😮‍💨 strategies for emotion regulation. We also included a sand timer ⏳ to help kids take a calming break and different types of stress balls for releasing tension. Students created 150 coping kits and passed them out to every classroom, ensuring that our entire school community received one to bring home. We are so excited for students and parents to become more familiar with these coping strategies and have these resources at home to support emotion regulation and mental health. Thank you so much for your support and generosity!","fullyFundedDate":1747147038756,"projectUrl":"project/promoting-wellness-schoolwide-with-copin/9247560/","projectTitle":"Promoting Wellness Schoolwide with Coping Kits","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Allison","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7707191_orig.jpg?crop=1512,1512,x0,y226&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1663088874648","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7707191"},{"teacherId":7707191,"projectId":9751220,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for making this project happen! Several of our 5th grade student leaders worked as a team to put together food bags for our families in temporary housing and any students experiencing food insecurity. They created about 40 bags of food which included easy shelf stable meals and snacks for the weekends. I know our student leaders felt very proud of themselves for helping out their school community. The timing of this project was especially important because many of our families lost the SNAP benefits that they rely on during the beginning of November. They were so grateful and appreciative to receive this extra assistance. Our students have expressed so much gratitude, even sharing what their favorite meals have been (ramen!). Thank you for helping us bridge the gap for when schools are closed and students aren't able to get the meals that they rely on in school. Your support has truly gone a long way. ❤️","fullyFundedDate":1760474348734,"projectUrl":"project/meals-to-fuel-young-minds/9751220/","projectTitle":"Meals to Fuel Young Minds","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Allison","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7707191_orig.jpg?crop=1512,1512,x0,y226&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1663088874648","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7707191"},{"teacherId":7707191,"projectId":8997635,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project and helping to get these important resources into our counseling office. Most of my students started off the year by reading The Color Monster which introduces emotion regulation and teaches kids how to identify emotions. With the resources in this project, I was able to get supplemental Color Monster worksheets for extra practice and my students are making their own Color Monster books. I've also been able to create adaptive books that introduce mindfulness and coping skills in a more concrete and child-friendly way. We were able to laminate these resources to make them extra durable for repeated use. Additionally, the dot markers make it possible for my students that are still developing fine motor skills to participate in coloring and writing activities. We are so appreciative of the donors that support us. Thank you so very much!","fullyFundedDate":1743087398003,"projectUrl":"project/creative-counseling-tools-for-extraordin/8997635/","projectTitle":"Creative Counseling Tools for Extraordinary Learners","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Allison","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7707191_orig.jpg?crop=1512,1512,x0,y226&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1663088874648","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7707191"},{"teacherId":7707191,"projectId":9017236,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project! The new games and pretend play materials have already brought so much joy and excitement into our counseling sessions. My students are practicing turn-taking, sharing, problem-solving, and following directions while having fun with one another in meaningful ways. They are building connections with each other and developing important skills. The toy food sets have sparked wonderful pretend play scenarios that let students try out new roles, build confidence, and strengthen their social skills. One of their favorite new games is One Trick Pony. The Talking, Feeling, and Doing game has been a great beginning of the year assessment tool for counseling services. These are resources that will last for years to come. 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