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My students were ecstatic to see the pile of boxes delivered to our classroom. They were quite literally cheering when we opened the large boxes. Seeing the joy these students exhibited over the the multitude of classroom engineering games was heartwarming. These items would have never gotten into my students hands without your donation.\r\n\r\nOur class is working on taking care of another and learning to share kindness. These products do exactly that. 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This resource would have never gotten into my students hands without your donation.\r\n\r\nOur class is working on taking care of another and learning to share kindness. These products do exactly that. Thank you again for your generosity.","fullyFundedDate":1761924099907,"projectUrl":"project/breakout-fun/9862733/","projectTitle":"Breakout Fun","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Brost","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1874805_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y463&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1596483271795","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/shannon-brost"},{"teacherId":7881234,"projectId":9305061,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping make my classroom project a reality! 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They work so incredibly hard on our gifted curriculum, I love to reward them with a \"game day\". These card games are relatively easy to learn with maximum fun as the outcome. My students will be so excited to play these new games very soon. Thank you so very much for choosing our project to donate to.","fullyFundedDate":1758636676587,"projectUrl":"project/card-games-galore/9731595/","projectTitle":"Card Games Galore","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hardwick","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp179656_orig.jpg?crop=1324,1324,x60,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1758043659061","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/bhardwick"},{"teacherId":179656,"projectId":9716014,"letterContent":"I am so excited to bring these magnetic cubes into the classroom. My students are going to have so much fun engineering these cubes into lots of different things. 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