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It is a carpet that can be used for years and years!","fullyFundedDate":1787196513241,"projectUrl":"project/my-classroom-carpet/10460084/","projectTitle":"My Classroom Carpet","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Buono","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-3_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10582985"},{"teacherId":3165102,"projectId":10198200,"letterContent":"Teaching students with special needs means you often need more than just papers, pencils, and crayons. There are so many different sensory needs by students have and you try to meet them. All my own is impossible.\r\n Thank you to your kindness and generosity for being able to fill my classroom with amazing things that truly help my students learn each and every day. \r\n They deserve to thrive, introduce, so they need more than school items. You can just find in the bookshop. Having my students happy and regulated is such a gift.","fullyFundedDate":1778000130666,"projectUrl":"project/sensory-for-success/10198200/","projectTitle":"Sensory for Success","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Salvatore","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3165102_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1629151159584","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-salvatore"},{"teacherId":10564716,"projectId":10446593,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting my classroom and helping make this project possible! My 5th grade students were so excited to receive the new resources. In a self-contained classroom, having hands-on materials that students can see, touch, and use makes such a difference in their learning and engagement.\r\nWe have already begun incorporating the new materials into our daily lessons. My students have been excited to work together, explore the resources, and use them to show what they know. One of my favorite moments was seeing their excitement when they first saw everything that had arrived. They immediately wanted to open the materials, explore them, and ask questions about how we were going to use them. Their curiosity and enthusiasm reminded me just how meaningful access to new learning tools can be.\r\n\r\nThese resources are helping my students become more active participants in their learning. Instead of simply reading about a concept or listening to a lesson, they are able to learn through hands-on experiences, collaboration, and exploration. I have already noticed increased participation from students who sometimes need a little extra encouragement to get involved.\r\n\r\nOur next step is to continue using these materials as we build on our current lessons and projects. Students will have opportunities to work together, apply what they have learned, and use the new resources to complete activities and demonstrate their understanding.\r\n\r\nI am incredibly grateful to the donors who made this possible. Your generosity has given my students new opportunities to learn, explore, and feel successful in the classroom. Thank you for investing in my students and helping make our classroom a more engaging and exciting place to learn!","fullyFundedDate":1787166738113,"projectUrl":"project/growing-great-minds-in-fifth-grade/10446593/","projectTitle":"Growing Great Minds in Fifth Grade","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Sacchetti","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10564716"},{"teacherId":10564716,"projectId":10417422,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting my classroom and helping make this project possible! My 5th grade students were so excited to receive the new resources. In a self-contained classroom, having hands-on materials that students can see, touch, and use makes such a difference in their learning and engagement.\r\n\r\nWe have already begun incorporating the new materials into our daily lessons. My students have been excited to work together, explore the resources, and use them to show what they know. One of my favorite moments was seeing their excitement when they first saw everything that had arrived. They immediately wanted to open the materials, explore them, and ask questions about how we were going to use them. Their curiosity and enthusiasm reminded me just how meaningful access to new learning tools can be.\r\n\r\nThese resources are helping my students become more active participants in their learning. Instead of simply reading about a concept or listening to a lesson, they are able to learn through hands-on experiences, collaboration, and exploration. I have already noticed increased participation from students who sometimes need a little extra encouragement to get involved.\r\n\r\nOur next step is to continue using these materials as we build on our current lessons and projects. Students will have opportunities to work together, apply what they have learned, and use the new resources to complete activities and demonstrate their understanding.\r\n\r\nI am incredibly grateful to the donors who made this possible. Your generosity has given my students new opportunities to learn, explore, and feel successful in the classroom. Thank you for investing in my students and helping make our classroom a more engaging and exciting place to learn!","fullyFundedDate":1785885854697,"projectUrl":"project/ms-sacchettis-classoom/10417422/","projectTitle":"Ms. Sacchetti’s Classoom","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Sacchetti","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10564716"},{"teacherId":3165102,"projectId":10198083,"letterContent":"It was so amazing being able to celebrate my students at their stepping up ceremony. I wouldn't have been able to do that without your generosity and kindness.\r\n Being a teacher is so much more than just focused on academic content and workload. It's really giving these children's moments. They can remember forever.\r\n Thank you again for all you have done for my students. I really appreciate more than you know. They were so excited to be celebrated and loved each and every single thing about that day.","fullyFundedDate":1778007068849,"projectUrl":"project/stepping-up-and-stepping-out/10198083/","projectTitle":"Stepping up and Stepping Out!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Salvatore","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3165102_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1629151159584","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-salvatore"},{"teacherId":3165102,"projectId":8928456,"letterContent":"Having students on the autism spectrum makes learning a little different from a general education classroom. Having items to fulfill their sensory needs are a huge game changer and let my student succeed in all aspects of academic and social tasks.\r\n Thank you to your generosity and kindness. My students are able to keep regulated while participating in academic endeavors with their peers. Self regulation is a hard task, especially for students with disabilities. Sometimes school looks a little different for them, which means needing objects and items that are not always readily available in a typical school.\r\n Without you, this would not be possible. Thank you so very much.","fullyFundedDate":1735132685450,"projectUrl":"project/sensory-seekers-seeking-sensory-tools/8928456/","projectTitle":"Sensory Seekers Seeking Sensory Tools","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Salvatore","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3165102_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1629151159584","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-salvatore"},{"teacherId":3840400,"projectId":9688380,"letterContent":"My students and I are so grateful for your generosity. Thanks to your support, our STREAM lab has been enhanced to offer further opportunities for creativity and connection. Your contribution has brought a world of possibilities to our students.\r\n\r\nWhen I revealed the contents of the boxes to my classes and the students saw the Minecraft-inspired blocks, they were ecstatic! Students excitedly focused on the bocks and started clicking the magnets together with huge grins, so proud of the creations they were able to make. Seeing a theme they recognize and love helped add to their feeling of true belonging in the classroom.\r\n\r\nOur next step is to integrate these kits into our CS Game Design unit. They will be able to use the blocks to help them visualize and plan the game experience that they're building inside a digital block-based world. These sets also have been helping my students' social-emotional growth, through sharing resources and working together through build challenges. Your gift is the foundation for our future engineers to think critically about the world around them.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in our students and giving them the tools to literally build their dreams!","fullyFundedDate":1757651085283,"projectUrl":"project/positively-pixelated/9688380/","projectTitle":"Positively Pixelated!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lugo","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3840400_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y211&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1745887909278","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/rebecca-lugo"},{"teacherId":334429,"projectId":9714857,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supplying the snacks for my students. Their eyes lit up seeing all the boxes of snacks for them. Believe it or not food impacts a lot of emotions in students and the littlest treat went a long way for a lot of the kids. \r\nIf a student didn't have their own snack for the day they were allowed to take one from our snack bin. They then knew they had to work hard throughout the day. \r\nYou were able to supply snacks for students in need until December. \r\nHopefully I will be able to create another project like this to get me to the end of the school year.","fullyFundedDate":1758723555143,"projectUrl":"project/fueled-for-learning/9714857/","projectTitle":"Fueled for Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Berntsen","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp334429_orig.jpg?crop=719,719,x0,y170&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1590679186739","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/334429"},{"teacherId":3165102,"projectId":9069188,"letterContent":"It so important to make sure kids are fed and focused to have a successful school day. Unfortunately, some of my students suffer from food insecurity and rely on school meals and snacks to fuel them throughout the day. This is so true, especially in light of recent events, food has become a scarcity to some students. It's so important to show them love and grace in times of need. Having snacks available to them so they know they won't go hungry and that they are loved is so important for their success. Thank you so much for your generosity.","fullyFundedDate":1746877224939,"projectUrl":"project/little-snacks-for-little-minds/9069188/","projectTitle":"Little Snacks for Little Minds","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Salvatore","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3165102_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1629151159584","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-salvatore"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_103599","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":399,"numTeachers":65,"percentFrplEligible":94,"percentAsian":2,"percentBlack":40,"percentWhite":4,"percentIndigenous":1,"percentLatinx":49,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":0,"gradesServed":"Pre-K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"6.1:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":67.3,"schoolId":103599,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about PS 78 the Stapleton Lighthouse Community School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"PS 78 the Stapleton Lighthouse Community School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/new-york/new-york-city-dept-of-ed/ps-78/103599"}