{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Cherokee Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":56.6,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":10418830,"projectId":10217519,"letterContent":"Thank You for Helping Our Students Grow! \r\n\r\nThank you so much for supporting our project, From Basics to Brilliance in Our Classroom! Your generosity has helped provide my second-grade students with important classroom supplies, including primary journals, writing materials, and other everyday essentials that support their learning.\r\n\r\nMy students use their primary journals to practice handwriting, write sentences, respond to reading activities, and share their ideas on paper. These resources help students strengthen their writing skills while building confidence in their abilities. Having the supplies they need makes it easier for every student to participate, practice, and show what they know. My students enjoy having the materials they need to bring their ideas to life!\r\n\r\nAs we continue through the school year, we will use these resources during our daily writing lessons, phonics practice, reading responses, and creative classroom activities. Our next steps are to continue developing complete sentences, improving handwriting, and encouraging students to express their thoughts through writing.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in my classroom and helping create opportunities for my students to learn, grow, and succeed. Your generosity reminds us that even the basic supplies can make a big difference in a child's education. We are so grateful for your support!","fullyFundedDate":1784486094247,"projectUrl":"project/from-basics-to-brilliance-in-our-classro/10217519/","projectTitle":"From Basics to Brilliance in Our Classroom","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bates","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10418830_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1769295627295","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10418830"},{"teacherId":10418830,"projectId":10194744,"letterContent":"Thank You for Helping Our Students Shine! \r\n\r\nThank you so much for supporting our project, Supplies for Smiles and Success! Your generosity has helped provide my second-grade students with essential classroom supplies, including crayons, colored pencils, paper, and other materials they use every day to learn and grow.\r\n\r\nMy students use these supplies across all subject areas, from illustrating their writing and creating colorful projects to showing their understanding of what they learn in reading, math, and science. Having these materials readily available helps students participate in activities, express their creativity, and complete their work with confidence. Seeing their excitement when they get to use new supplies is a wonderful reminder that even the simplest resources can make learning more enjoyable!\r\n\r\nWe will continue using these supplies for our daily lessons, writing activities, hands-on projects, and creative learning stations. As we move forward, these materials will help my students share their ideas, practice important skills, and celebrate their progress throughout the school year.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in my students and helping make our classroom a place where they can learn, create, and succeed. Your kindness helps bring smiles to our classroom and makes a meaningful difference in our students' learning experiences!","fullyFundedDate":1784486094801,"projectUrl":"project/supplies-for-smiles-and-success/10194744/","projectTitle":"Supplies for Smiles and Success","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bates","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10418830_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1769295627295","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10418830"},{"teacherId":10418830,"projectId":10188769,"letterContent":"Thank You for Supporting Our Young Writers! \r\n\r\nThank you so much for supporting our project, Writing Tools for Independent and Confident Learners! Your generosity has helped provide my second-grade students with valuable tools to practice their phonics, handwriting, spelling, and writing skills in a fun and engaging way.\r\n\r\nMy students are using their new whiteboards during our writing stations to practice letter formation, sound patterns, spelling words, and writing simple sentences. These hands-on activities give students the opportunity to practice, erase, try again, and build confidence as independent learners. My students love having their own tools to use during stations, and these resources help make learning more interactive and exciting!\r\n\r\nNext, we will continue building our foundational literacy skills by practicing phonics patterns, strengthening handwriting, and using what we learn to write words and sentences. These tools will continue to support my students as they grow into stronger, more confident readers and writers.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in our classroom and helping my students learn, grow, and believe in themselves. Your kindness makes a difference in our classroom every day!","fullyFundedDate":1784486094104,"projectUrl":"project/writing-tools-for-independent-and-confid/10188769/","projectTitle":"Writing Tools for Independent and Confident Learners","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bates","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10418830_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1769295627295","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10418830"},{"teacherId":10011424,"projectId":10201424,"letterContent":"Thank you for making me a difference in my classroom. My students have loved strengthening their hands through playing with Play-Doh. I'm going to post pictures of some of my students at play. The tools of they use hope to strengthen their fine motor skills. Their handwriting is improving, both with instruction as well as playing with the Play-Doh.\r\n\r\nThe great thing about students learning through play is they don't realize anything is changing or that they are learning because they're having fun and that is the best way for students to be able to practice and be able to internalize habits to become second nature.\r\n\r\nOnce again, thank you so much for investing in my students.","fullyFundedDate":1784486094169,"projectUrl":"project/pat-roll-and-cut/10201424/","projectTitle":"Pat, Roll and Cut","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Pruett","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10011424_orig.jpg?crop=480,480,x0,y142&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1746232111634","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10011424"},{"teacherId":6606596,"projectId":10394013,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting my project and my classroom! Your generous donation arrived at the perfect time—just in time for our classroom apple unit and assessment window. Because of your support, I was able to print materials for our students' Glow & Grow folders, which helped me keep families informed about their child's academic progress. The copier paper and cardstock also allowed me to print and create materials for our hallway display, where we proudly showcase our students' hard work and accomplishments. Having these materials available may seem like a small thing, but in a classroom, they make a BIG difference. They allow me to spend more time creating meaningful learning experiences, celebrating student growth, and keeping families connected to what their children are learning. It is donors like you who truly make a difference in the lives of both students and teachers. Your generosity reminds us that there are people in our community who believe in our children, support education, and want to see our students succeed. From my classroom family to you, thank you for investing in our students and helping us continue to learn, grow, and shine! Your kindness and generosity are sincerely appreciated.","fullyFundedDate":1787583116967,"projectUrl":"project/communication-is-the-key-lets-unlock/10394013/","projectTitle":"Communication Is the key. Let's Unlock the Fun!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Davison","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6606596_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y504&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1642981934328","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6606596"},{"teacherId":7186841,"projectId":10388355,"letterContent":"The donation you gave to my students was amazing! We are so thankful for all of the items we use daily! Thank you for choosing my students to donate to! My students were thrilled to see the packages being delivered! We had a great time unboxing and sharing the school supplies! The impact your donation made was so exciting! Thank you for providing my students the confidence of having the supplies they need to be successful! Thank Chieftain Royalty Co. v. Newfield Cy Pres Fund for creating excitement of learning in my classroom! The fonation has made my classroom a fully stocked classroom!","fullyFundedDate":1787583119280,"projectUrl":"project/supply-our-learning/10388355/","projectTitle":"Supply Our Learning","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Whitaker","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7186841_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720476124487","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7186841"},{"teacherId":2548455,"projectId":10388364,"letterContent":"My students and I will use these resources to better our learning environment. A great example would be with their writing journals they will be able to write on the lines correctly while writing stories and draw pictures with the space provided. Another example would be to use the science viewers to learn more about animals, insects, sea life, solar system, birds, etc.\r\n\r\nThe students love to see all the boxes when they come in. The first thing ask \"is that for us\"? They want me start opening the boxes right away to see what's inside. \r\n\r\nOur next steps would be to enlarge our classroom library with books on the students grade level. Also to provide storage book shelves to put the books in. Again thank you in advance for the help you have given me and my students.","fullyFundedDate":1787583116616,"projectUrl":"project/a-new-start-for-a-new-beginning/10388364/","projectTitle":"A New Start for a New Beginning","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Lee","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2548455_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1761908074688","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2548455"},{"teacherId":4511162,"projectId":10184176,"letterContent":"Each year, I always try to replace and/or repair resources from the previous year so that my incoming students have what they need. This year, I was able to receive all new resources thanks to your generous donations.\r\n\r\nI requested tablets for my students to complete their online assignments, as well as any other virtual activities they enjoy. Unfortunately, those items were not available for purchase. But, I was able to get various other resources my classroom and students desperately need to start the new year off right.\r\n\r\nI am so thankful for all that you have donated to help replenish my class with resources to help each of my students have a successful school year.","fullyFundedDate":1784486094566,"projectUrl":"project/virtual-adventures/10184176/","projectTitle":"Virtual Adventures","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Newton","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4511162_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1622982959938","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4511162"},{"teacherId":6606596,"projectId":10553454,"letterContent":"We are off to a wonderful start in Second grade and we are so excited about it! We will start our literature study this week. Everything has arrived and I am ready to put the items to use. The students were so excited to see the new books for our novel student and wanted to know if we will get more books for a winter novel study. Like I have mentioned before my students are hard workers and go getters. Studies show that book studies can play a huge role in students reading scores and that is my number one goal is to get them reading and to see gains in their reading scores as well. Once again thank you for your generosity and do know you have made an huge impact in my life and my students lives as well.","fullyFundedDate":1788053135887,"projectUrl":"project/a-fall-book-study-readers-are-leaders/10553454/","projectTitle":"A Fall Book Study: Readers are Leaders!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Davison","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6606596_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y504&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1642981934328","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6606596"},{"teacherId":4105240,"projectId":10390570,"letterContent":"If you've ever practiced yoga, you know that you can get a little sweaty! That's exactly what happens when my elementary students practice yoga during our after school program! We have been using disinfecting wipes to clean our yoga mats in between sessions, but regular disinfecting wipes can cause damage to yoga mats over time. By funding this project, you have provided safe wipes for my students to use when cleaning our mats after practicing. This will extend the lives of our yoga mats, allowing more students to participate for years to come! Thank you for your generosity!","fullyFundedDate":1787583647791,"projectUrl":"project/yoga-mat-refresh/10390570/","projectTitle":"Yoga Mat Refresh!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Gina (Teacher-Librarian)","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4105240_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1692147673137","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/msginaslibrary"},{"teacherId":4105240,"projectId":10388392,"letterContent":"My upper elementary students were ecstatic when we received our Rubik's cubes! Due to regular wear and tear, we were down to just one Rubik's cube to begin our school year. This station is a favorite among my upper elementary students, and they had requested that I get more Rubik's cubes at the end of last year. Of course, I had to write a DonorsChoose project for them! As soon as our package was delivered, my students were ready to open it and begin trying to solve the puzzles! Your generosity is very much appreciated!","fullyFundedDate":1787583119059,"projectUrl":"project/rubiks-cubes/10388392/","projectTitle":"Rubik’s Cubes","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Gina (Teacher-Librarian)","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4105240_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1692147673137","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/msginaslibrary"},{"teacherId":4105240,"projectId":10539347,"letterContent":"Our second round table with locking casters has arrived and we absolutely love it! It has made it so much easier to make my library accessible to all readers! We can move this table quickly to change our layout, allowing us to utilize our learning space in a more accessible way. I wanted to create a more flexible, accessible, and functional learning environment for my readers with this project. Now, we are able to quickly adapt our learning spaces for different activities, including classes, lessons, meetings, after-school activities (such as yoga), and collaborative learning. Our overall goal is to replace all of our older, stationary tables with new, mobile tables. Thanks to your generosity, we are a second step closer to our goal!","fullyFundedDate":1787806844281,"projectUrl":"project/they-see-me-rolling-mobile-learning-in/10539347/","projectTitle":"They See Me Rolling! 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