{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"PS 235 Janice Knight School","outOfStateSupporters":41.7,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":4376485,"projectId":9498220,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generosity, our students now have access to Scholastic News and Science Spin, and these texts have already made a meaningful impact in our classroom.\r\n\r\nStudents are learning how to identify the main idea and key details, ask and answer questions about a text, and use text features such as headings, captions, photographs, and diagrams to deepen understanding. The nonfiction format also supports vocabulary development and helps students learn how to read for information, compare ideas, and make connections between reading, science, and the real world.\r\n\r\nReading in our classroom is active and engaging. We read together as a whole group, discuss articles using turn-and-talks, and revisit texts during small groups for close reading and skill practice. Students highlight important information, make predictions, and share their thinking aloud. These texts have also sparked rich discussions and curiosity, especially during science-related topics.\r\n\r\nThank you for making this opportunity possible. Your support is helping our students grow as readers, thinkers, and learners every day.","fullyFundedDate":1758202642639,"projectUrl":"project/exploring-the-world-through-reading-and/9498220/","projectTitle":"Exploring the World Through Reading and Science","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Ore","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4376485_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1755715420898","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4376485"},{"teacherId":19842,"projectId":9872888,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project. My students are fabulous and we love to celebrate our accomplishments. Hard work, dedication and devotion to our school work is now rewarded by special treats. We set up a sticker store for instant rewards. Students are invited to shop for their favorite sticker and adhere it to their device, notebook or water bottle. Lolly pops, candy bracelets and potato chips are earned for outstanding effort and outstanding work. Thank you for allowing my students to earn special treats.","fullyFundedDate":1763554353985,"projectUrl":"project/rewards-celebrated-and-earned/9872888/","projectTitle":"Rewards Celebrated and Earned","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Zysberg","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp19842_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1450347133878","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/19842"},{"teacherId":4665,"projectId":9100886,"letterContent":"I truly appreciate the generous donation of headphones. The students were extremely happy and were very focused when using their headphones during small group instruction and independent computer time. The use for personal devices have become so used during the class instruction so much that these headphones were the best thing that my class needed . You donors \"listened\" and now I have a group of students that are so content, engaged and focused. \r\n\r\n\r\nMy student's scores went up 8% because they were able to zone in and focus of every question annd actiivies. In. addition, some of my parents could not believe that their child received a free headphone. \r\n\r\n\r\nA special thank you to Ripple for the donated headphones! The various colors were so vibrant so much that the children can't stop talking about them!.","fullyFundedDate":1746699622345,"projectUrl":"project/listen-listen-headphones/9100886/","projectTitle":"Listen, Listen, Headphones","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Dixon- Forde","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4665_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1620173831135","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4665"},{"teacherId":1712997,"projectId":9725335,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation of laminating paper and copy paper. Your support has truly set us up for success for the entire school year! These supplies may seem simple, but they make a huge difference in our classroom.\r\n\r\nMy students were especially excited to use the materials for our first big project — a fun and colorful fall bulletin board. They loved writing sentences describing the season, and it was such a joy to see their creativity come to life. Thanks to your kindness, their work is proudly displayed and preserved for everyone to enjoy.\r\n\r\nYour generosity helps create meaningful learning experiences, and we are so grateful to you for making that possible.\r\n\r\nWith heartfelt thanks,","fullyFundedDate":1758898978713,"projectUrl":"project/laminating-sheets-a-copy-paper/9725335/","projectTitle":"Laminating Sheets a Copy Paper","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Dinkevich","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1712997_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464731014793","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1712997"},{"teacherId":1712997,"projectId":9703434,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating ink for our speech classroom. Your generous gift arrived just in time, as our printer was running low. You've made our lives so much easier—we no longer have to worry about printing activities for our students.\r\nWe used your gift to print out our homework and our class work. We have learned about things that go fast and slow using adoptive books that were printed with ink you gifted to us. \r\n\r\nWe truly appreciate your support!\r\n\r\nWarm regards,\r\nMs. Dinkevich and the Speech kids!","fullyFundedDate":1758899084313,"projectUrl":"project/emergency-we-need-ink/9703434/","projectTitle":"Emergency! We Need Ink!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Dinkevich","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1712997_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464731014793","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1712997"},{"teacherId":19842,"projectId":9104294,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project. Starting off a new school year with basic supplies like a notebook puts our best foot forward. Each student received a new notebook the first day of class. We are off to a fabulous start. Notebooks allow my student ownership of their work. Students can keep track of new vocabulary words, record data, draw diagrams, plan projects and write about their experiments. This year all of my students all have the ability to reach for the stars and to keep going because of donors like you.","fullyFundedDate":1742933131731,"projectUrl":"project/stem-tastic-students-need-notebooks/9104294/","projectTitle":"STEM-tastic Students Need Notebooks","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Zysberg","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp19842_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1450347133878","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/19842"},{"teacherId":19842,"projectId":9148886,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project. Starting off a new school year with basic supplies like a notebook puts our best foot forward. Each student received a new notebook the first day of class. We are off to a fabulous start. Notebooks allow my student ownership of their work. Students can keep track of new vocabulary words, record data, draw diagrams, plan projects and write about their experiments. This year all of my students all have the ability to reach for the stars and to keep going because of donors like you.","fullyFundedDate":1744033039021,"projectUrl":"project/stem-tastic-students-need-notebooks-ii/9148886/","projectTitle":"STEM-tastic Students Need Notebooks II","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Zysberg","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp19842_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1450347133878","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/19842"},{"teacherId":1712997,"projectId":9155839,"letterContent":"These few weeks we took time planting our flowers. It was so much fun! Every day, I walk into classroom and the first question I am asked is, \"Did my flower come out?\". We check our flowers and water our soil. It is so much fun! Some of the flowers already came up. We are impatiently waiting for the rest to come up. Meanwhile, we read the books about growing plants and create 'flip books\" of the steps we took to plant the flowers. We use graphic organizer to discribe flowers! There is unending excitement in the speech room. We even have teachers walking into the speech room excited to plant.","fullyFundedDate":1744377206990,"projectUrl":"project/flower-power/9155839/","projectTitle":"Flower Power!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Dinkevich","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1712997_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464731014793","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1712997"},{"teacherId":1712997,"projectId":9151593,"letterContent":"Thank you so much! The room is getting more and more organized. What great present you gave to us! Children work best in organized spaces. My students need that most of all! \r\nThe organizers you gave to us, already give the space a neater atmosphere!\r\nWe have placed our puzzles into one box. The other one is holding our puppets. They used to be in a garbage bag. And one is holding little toys. Can't wait to organize the other 5boxes. \r\nThe uniformed boxes make the room more inviting. \r\nYou are amazing! Thank you, thank you, thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1745846926756,"projectUrl":"project/organized-space-organized-brains/9151593/","projectTitle":"Organized Space! Organized Brains!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Dinkevich","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp1712997_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1464731014793","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/1712997"},{"teacherId":7538901,"projectId":9080457,"letterContent":"I currently work in a 5th grade ICT class where my co-teacher and I need to differentiate and tier activities/tasks to help meet the needs of each individual student in the class. \r\nWe do not have access to copy paper. \r\nYour donation to our class project is needed to print these individual tasks.\r\nWithout your generous donation, my co teaxher and I wouldn't be able to create or modify tasks for students to use.\r\nHaving paper and the means to print what is needed for class is a huge help and is crucial through out the school day.\r\nStudents benefit from these exrra supports. For example a student may need an anchor chart or checklist for extra support.\r\nYour thoughtful gift is appreciated.","fullyFundedDate":1742936007512,"projectUrl":"project/paper-paper-we-need-paper/9080457/","projectTitle":"Paper! Paper! We Need Paper!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Zanetakos","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-1_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7538901"},{"teacherId":9752759,"projectId":8901938,"letterContent":"the students are enthusiastic to utilize new hands on materials to help make learning interesting and engaging. The hands-on activities have provided valuable opportunity to enhance their speech goals, significantly boosting their engagement and motivation. They have utilize the materials to practice blending, taking turns and reinforcing their progress, which facilitated a more interactive and dynamic learning environment. Looking ahead, the next step is to continue to incorporating these materials to better organize students work. Additionally, we will continue to use new resources to help with phonological awareness and combine it with made materials.","fullyFundedDate":1734459118203,"projectUrl":"project/hands-on-exploration-uncovering-skills/8901938/","projectTitle":"Hands-On Exploration: Uncovering Skills Through Materials","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Suriel","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9752759_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1733800247568","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9752759"},{"teacherId":186638,"projectId":8896898,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating to our \"Arts in Action\" project which has transformed our auditorium arts space into a far more usable location for various arts programs. \r\n\r\nYour donation to help us purchase these easily movable stools has, so far, given our second graders a place to explore Cumbia from Columbia as they learned various drumming techniques. Our fifth graders are participating in an ongoing music partnership and the stools are perfect for this drumming program as well. In the spring we are looking forward to having the flexibility to move from the auditorium to the outdoors for music and theater rehearsals.\r\n\r\nAs the arts program coordinator in my school, I thank you for kindness and for your support in placing a high level of importance on the arts. 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