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So believe me when I say, your donation has helped not just my students, but everyone that my students are in contact with, haha.\r\n\r\nBut in all seriousness, your donation has helped my students feel confident and prepared to face the day.\r\n\r\nFrom everyone in room 225, we thank you.","fullyFundedDate":1740014398062,"projectUrl":"project/high-five-for-hygiene/8891734/","projectTitle":"High Five for Hygiene!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Cornibe","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7566435_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1718801568259","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7566435"},{"teacherId":7566435,"projectId":9430235,"letterContent":"Thank you, thank you, thank you for your thoughtfulness and generosity. \r\n\r\nYour donation will help supply my classroom SOAR store. 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This project has impacted many within our school community already. We recently used the Cricut machine to make school t-shirts as an incentive and to encourage student and parent participation in monthly meetings. Students are learning alongside myself as we explore various projects to use in the math classroom and in some of our extra-curricular activities.\r\n\r\nFor an upcoming unit on surface area, I plan to incorporate the Cricut by having students use it to create nets of three-dimensional figures. 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He recently released a new song \"Tarde\" that had scaffolded activities for each level of my classes, making it very easy for me to adapt to the different grades and classes that I teach. \r\n\r\nIt is so fun to have students request games or songs, share theories about the wild world of Wooly. It creates joy and happiness in the classroom.\r\n\r\nFinally, these are useful websites to use when I am absent. 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They are learning to apply graphic design techniques, along with the mass skills to scale a design to the correct size. The first project the students created were T-shirts for our new house system. We also have been creating new uniforms for both are wrestling and our basketball teams.\r\nWithout your support, we would not have the necessary supplies for students to have this wonderful opportunity. Thank you so much.","fullyFundedDate":1758599125758,"projectUrl":"project/htv-vinyl/9439728/","projectTitle":"HTV Vinyl","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Festa","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2963052_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1522275288591","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/fantasticfesta"},{"teacherId":7883179,"projectId":9638311,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your support for my students and our classroom. We really appreciate your support and the students really appreciate the snacks that they have the opportunity to earn. Being able to provide some food to students who are hungry is a huge deal as well. \r\nThe speakers have come in handy for our school wide film festival that we have coming up. In addition, it is nice to be able to control the speakers from anywhere around the room since it is Bluetooth. \r\nThe card stock paper is helping to make word walls that can be laminated to be reused each year. The students and I appreciate all of your support with supplies and food! Thank you again! It truly takes a village and I am forever grateful that I have you apart of mine.","fullyFundedDate":1764716611477,"projectUrl":"project/organized-energized-and-fed/9638311/","projectTitle":"Organized, Energized, and Fed","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Cancino","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7883179_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1630708588823","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7883179"},{"teacherId":3615459,"projectId":9506612,"letterContent":"You have made the difference to allow my students to come into a sanitized classroom. You have made the difference to allow my students to have writing utensils to complete their work. You have given them a chance to worry about one less thing they may not have had readily available.\r\nI appreciate you for helping a teacher who often uses her own money to get what is needed for my classroom. 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