{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Pittsburgh Minadeo Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":16.3,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":4459907,"projectId":10059282,"letterContent":"Thanks so much for supporting our preschool project \"Protect our Tables!\" We love painting, glueing and creating lots of art projects! Being able to use the drop cloths and table cloths helps protect our tables from paint, glue and other art supplies! My students love knowing that their artwork does not make a mess on the tables! We were able to make a big mural without making our tables a mess! We were able to create igloos and groundhogs without making a mess!Classroom parties will be so exciting using the table covers! Thanks so much!","fullyFundedDate":1769562775092,"projectUrl":"project/protect-my-tables/10059282/","projectTitle":"Protect My Tables!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Kuglmaier","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4459907_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y733&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1647605506495","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-kuglmaier"},{"teacherId":4459907,"projectId":9965611,"letterContent":"Thanks so much for supporting our preschool project \"Mo More Mess!\" My students loved how we are able to clean our classroom and make our classroom smell so good! I showed them the hand held vacuum and told them anytime we see a mess to tell the teacher and we can vacuum it up! We had paint on the floor and we were able to use the swiffer to clean up the paint from the floor! My one student started saying \"Clean up, Clean up, everybody everywhere!\" My students were excited to have items that the teacher can use to clean up our classroom! Thanks so much!","fullyFundedDate":1768416738857,"projectUrl":"project/no-more-mess/9965611/","projectTitle":"No More Mess!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Kuglmaier","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4459907_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y733&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1647605506495","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-kuglmaier"},{"teacherId":4459907,"projectId":9959310,"letterContent":"My students were very excited to receive the new art materials for our preschool project \"Mini Masters!\" Our students have enjoyed the stories and artwork in the stories of artists Degas, Van Gogh, Matisse and Monet! The stories also are written with many rhyming words and students were able to identify the rhyming words, for example, clack and track and bright and white! My students loved painting their creations just like the artists artwork! They were very excited! \"Look! I made a train just like Monet! and Look! I made a ballerina just like Degas!\" I cannot wait for my students to use all the other art materials to create a work of art!","fullyFundedDate":1765980304850,"projectUrl":"project/mini-masters/9959310/","projectTitle":"Mini Masters!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Kuglmaier","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4459907_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y733&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1647605506495","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-kuglmaier"},{"teacherId":4459907,"projectId":9966517,"letterContent":"Thanks so much for supporting our preschool project \"One Love!\" Our preschool students loved listening to the stories and music that go with the stories! Our preschool students loved using the musical instruments to follow patterns and beats in the music and following along to the stories! We shared the musical instruments and took turns using the different instruments! Our students were able to also apply using the musical instruments to different stories such as \"Maria Had A Little Llama\" and used the instruments with different music!","fullyFundedDate":1766943966572,"projectUrl":"project/one-love/9966517/","projectTitle":"One Love!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Kuglmaier","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4459907_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y733&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1647605506495","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-kuglmaier"},{"teacherId":4459907,"projectId":9944503,"letterContent":"Thanks so much for supporting our preschool project \"Let's Pretend!\" We had so much fun with the puppet and lemonade stand! We used the farm and zoo puppets for the stage and sang fun songs like Old McDonald and The Wheels on the Bus! The audience clapped and then we sang more songs! We used the lemonade stand to take turns making orders, taking orders and paying for the order! Students learned their shapes and colors using the cupcakes! A new shape was introduced \"hexagon\" and students got the pretend to eat the cupcakes! Thanks so much!","fullyFundedDate":1765202821896,"projectUrl":"project/lets-pretend/9944503/","projectTitle":"Let’s Pretend!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Kuglmaier","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4459907_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y733&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1647605506495","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-kuglmaier"},{"teacherId":4459907,"projectId":9936405,"letterContent":"Thanks so much for supporting our preschool project \"Light it Up!\" My students are so excited! When it was introduced one student exclaimed \"Wow! That is so cool!\" My students started sorting on their own! They exclaimed things like \"I found a butterfly! I found a bow! A circle! Purple! Oooh I have a teddy bear! I found another bear!\" I asked \"what shape is this?\" Had the students count the sides of a shape they counted 8 and learned the shape octogon! I had them add 5 bows plus 2 bows equals 7 bows! Then I had them look inside the shape and sort by holes in the shape! Thanks so much!","fullyFundedDate":1764609119724,"projectUrl":"project/light-it-up/9936405/","projectTitle":"Light It Up!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Kuglmaier","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4459907_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y733&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1647605506495","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-kuglmaier"},{"teacherId":4459907,"projectId":9771764,"letterContent":"Thanks so much for supporting our preschool project \"Let's Pretend to be a Doctor!\" Our students were so excited and could not wait to read the stories, try on the doctor outfits and play \"Doctor\" with stuffed animals! One said \" I am a doctor!\" and another said \" I am a nurse!\" The one student was playing with the dog and doctor toys and told another student to \"check the heartbeat!\" of the stuffed dog! Another student said \"Hurry! The Cat needs help!\" and the doctor checked out the cat! Wait another animal is hurt and a student said, \"Oh The doctor is here!\" \"You are a doctor! You can do it!\" Thanks so much for the doctor materials our classroom had so much fun!","fullyFundedDate":1764601895519,"projectUrl":"project/lets-pretend-to-be-a-doctor/9771764/","projectTitle":"Let's Pretend to Be a Doctor!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Kuglmaier","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4459907_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y733&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1647605506495","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-kuglmaier"},{"teacherId":4459907,"projectId":9938454,"letterContent":"Thanks so much for supporting our preschool project \"Lets Learn About Animals!\" This was very exciting to have such interactive books for my preschoolers to learn about animals! Students got to feel how some animals feel Farm animals and learned fun facts about the animals! They got to feel a pig and learned pigs have an amazing sense of smell! they got to feel a horse and learned horses can sleep standing up! They got to feel a duck and learned ducks have great eyesight! They got to feel a cow and learned cows can live 20 years! This and many other learning activities were a wonderful way for students to learn about animals! Thanks so much!","fullyFundedDate":1764676992667,"projectUrl":"project/lets-learn-about-animals/9938454/","projectTitle":"Let’s Learn about Animals!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Kuglmaier","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4459907_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y733&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1647605506495","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-kuglmaier"},{"teacherId":4459907,"projectId":9939666,"letterContent":"Thanks so much for supporting our preschool project \"Game Night!\" Our class was very excited to play some of the games! We were very excited to play twister and learned our left from our right! We were very happy to take turns playing Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders! It was great to hear the students count and recognize colors when playing those games! The students thought the game Cooties was fun to play and make the bugs while following the directions! The game of Trouble will be the students winter gift and I cannot wait to have them play and share in game night fun with their families! Thanks so much!","fullyFundedDate":1764765924076,"projectUrl":"project/game-night/9939666/","projectTitle":"Game Night!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Kuglmaier","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4459907_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y733&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1647605506495","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-kuglmaier"},{"teacherId":4459907,"projectId":9842974,"letterContent":"Thanks so much to donating to our preschool project \"Blast Off!\" My students were in awe when the packages were opened and they saw the rover, astronauts, astronaut puppet, and astronaut costumes! They all said oooohhhh! They were so excited! Some of the language and new vocabulary they used while playing was \"I command the spaceship to stop!\" and \"Blast off!\" They used the astronauts and said \"Hey wait open the door to the rover let me in!\" Lots of sharing and turn taking occurred which is excelling a preschool classroom! Thanks!","fullyFundedDate":1764599092650,"projectUrl":"project/blast-off/9842974/","projectTitle":"Blast Off!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Kuglmaier","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4459907_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y733&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1647605506495","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-kuglmaier"},{"teacherId":4459907,"projectId":9936332,"letterContent":"Thanks so much for supporting our project \"Play Ball!\" Our students were very happy to play ball today! Today we thought we were able to go the gym for gross motor but unexpectedly we were not able to so we played ball instead and had a blast! It was great to have my students read a wordless book with their words while they learned new vocabulary about balls! After reading the story students learned the new ball vocabulary of golf balls, volleyball, ping pong ball, bocce ball and they enjoyed seeing the picture of a ball pit and were excited to talk about their time in a ball pit! They also enjoyed playing throw and catch and with the bouncy balls! Thanks!","fullyFundedDate":1764714049097,"projectUrl":"project/play-ball/9936332/","projectTitle":"Play Ball!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Kuglmaier","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4459907_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y733&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1647605506495","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-kuglmaier"},{"teacherId":4459907,"projectId":9928096,"letterContent":"Thanks so much for supporting our preschool project \"Can You Hear that Sound!\" Our students are very excited to have new musical instruments to play! We played the bells while singing the song Jingle Bells and had a blast! We played the tambourines to count how many students came to school! We also played the bells to count how many days we have been in school! We have played all the musical instruments along with instrumental winter music to create an orchestra! We had such a fun time with musical instruments! 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Pittsburgh Minadeo Elementary School is
an urban public school
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania that is part of Pittsburgh Public Schools.
It serves 296 students
in grades Pre-K - 5 with a student/teacher ratio of 10.2:1.
Its teachers have had 295 projects funded on DonorsChoose.
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68%
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Pittsburgh Minadeo Elementary School
$132,229
raised using DonorsChoose
295
projects
funded
24
teachers
funded
1,256
donors
19
projects
for
basic supplies
36
projects for
technology
61
projects for
books
18
projects
for
art supplies
Pittsburgh Minadeo Elementary School has received support from
1,051 individuals from Pennsylvania and
205 individuals out-of-state.