{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Weil Pre-Kindergarten - 5 School","outOfStateSupporters":21.2,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":2855738,"projectId":10288627,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your support. Your donations helped make our Back to School event bigger and better than before. \r\nThe balloons and intlatable were great to welcome our scholars back for the start of the 26-27 school year.\r\nThe sharpener, erasers, and expo markers have helped to provide the tools necessary for my small group lessons. \r\nThe felt tip pens and calendar are helping to keep me organized with lessons, IEP meetings, and other school events.\r\nThank you for your support and generosity. You've helped to get us started off with some of the necessary supplies and tools to have a successful school year.","fullyFundedDate":1786307926670,"projectUrl":"project/lets-get-it-started/10288627/","projectTitle":"Let's Get it Started","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. LeFebvre","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2855738_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1773264172022","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/weilscholars"},{"teacherId":10570019,"projectId":10437570,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation to my kindergarten snack project. The students and I were so excited as we received the boxes and opened them. They love getting a choice of snacks. Their favorite has been the pop-tarts with the skittles coming in close second. They get skittles while working hard to keep them motivated. The cups work great for passing out the cereals. We have even added passing out the cups as a new classroom job. In the future I would like to complete a survey with the students to see what snacks they would like to request. Thanks again. I appreciate your support for public education.","fullyFundedDate":1786585519289,"projectUrl":"project/kindergarten-snack-time/10437570/","projectTitle":"Kindergarten Snack Time!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bartolli","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10570019"},{"teacherId":10317870,"projectId":10296201,"letterContent":"The snacks provided through this project have made a meaningful difference in my learning support classroom! My students use these snacks as positive reinforcement, incentives for reaching their goals, and support throughout the school day. For some students, having a small snack to look forward to helps them stay motivated, regulate their emotions, and return to learning when they need a break. My students were excited to see the snacks available in our classroom and love having something special to work toward! Moving forward, I will continue using these snacks to encourage positive behavior, celebrate student progress, and create a welcoming environment where every student feels supported. Thank you to our donors for helping make our classroom a place where students can feel comfortable, motivated, and ready to learn!","fullyFundedDate":1784651422891,"projectUrl":"project/snack-attack-for-student-success/10296201/","projectTitle":"Snack Attack for Student Success","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Montgomery","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10317870_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1765568067016","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10317870"},{"teacherId":10317870,"projectId":10172849,"letterContent":"The Teachers Pay Teachers gift cards have made a meaningful difference in my learning support classroom! They allow me to purchase engaging, hands-on activities, differentiated worksheets, and supplemental resources that meet my students' individual learning needs. These materials help me make lessons more accessible, reinforce important skills, and provide extra practice in reading, writing, and math. My students especially enjoy activities that make learning interactive and fun while building their confidence. Having access to these resources allows me to better support each student at their own level and create a classroom where every child has the opportunity to grow, succeed, and feel proud of their progress. Thank you for investing in my students and helping make learning more engaging for everyone!","fullyFundedDate":1784137362629,"projectUrl":"project/bringing-differentiated-instruction-to-l/10172849/","projectTitle":"Bringing Differentiated Instruction to Life","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Montgomery","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10317870_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1765568067016","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10317870"},{"teacherId":5691841,"projectId":10383707,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping bring more fun and excitement to our recess time! Thanks to your generosity, our students now have pogo sticks, Skip-Its, and a basketball hoop to enjoy during outdoor play.\r\n\r\nThese new activities have given our students more opportunities to stay active, practice coordination and balance, and build teamwork and social skills. They love having different options to choose from, and it has been wonderful to see them encouraging one another, taking turns, and trying new things.\r\n\r\nRecess is such an important part of our students' day. It gives them a chance to burn off energy, build friendships, and return to the classroom ready to learn. Your donation has made our recess time even more exciting and meaningful.\r\n\r\nThank you for putting smiles on our students' faces and giving them new ways to play, grow, and have fun. We are so grateful for your kindness and support!","fullyFundedDate":1790959526313,"projectUrl":"project/30-minutes-of-play-a-lifetime-of-benefi/10383707/","projectTitle":"30 Minutes of Play, A Lifetime of Benefits!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Colon","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5691841_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1534260234151","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5691841"},{"teacherId":2855738,"projectId":10264804,"letterContent":"Thanks to the generosity of our you a, we were able to host a fun and exciting PBIS Color Run for our students! The donated supplies helped us create a memorable experience that celebrated positive behavior, and brought our school community together.\r\n\r\nOur students were thrilled to participate! The Color Run provided an opportunity to recognize students for demonstrating our schoolwide expectations while reinforcing the importance of making positive choices.\r\n\r\nWe are so grateful for your generosity and for helping us make positive behavior celebrations exciting and memorable for our students!","fullyFundedDate":1785167572909,"projectUrl":"project/color-our-run-brighten-our-day/10264804/","projectTitle":"Color Our Run, Brighten Our Day!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. LeFebvre","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2855738_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1773264172022","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/weilscholars"},{"teacherId":5691841,"projectId":10171600,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our \"Warm Meals, Ready Minds\" project! Your generosity provided our students with warm, nourishing meals to enjoy during the school day and, when needed, meals to take home with them.\r\n\r\nFor some children, knowing where their next meal will come from is a very real concern. Because of your support, our students could focus less on an empty stomach and more on learning, playing, growing, and being a kid. A warm meal can make such a difference in a child's day—it helps them feel cared for, supported, and ready to learn.\r\n\r\nThe meals we were able to provide also gave families peace of mind. When a child could take food home, they didn't have to worry as much about when they would eat next. Something as simple as having a meal waiting at home can bring comfort to a child and their family.\r\n\r\nYour donation did more than provide food. You helped remove a worry, fill a hungry belly, and create an environment where children could come to school ready to learn. You reminded our students that their community cares about them and wants them to succeed.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping us create warm meals and ready minds! We are incredibly grateful for your kindness and for the difference you have made in the lives of our students and their families.","fullyFundedDate":1784816828402,"projectUrl":"project/warm-meals-ready-minds/10171600/","projectTitle":"Warm Meals, Ready Minds","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Colon","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5691841_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1534260234151","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5691841"},{"teacherId":5691841,"projectId":10188101,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support in helping fund our project and getting our classroom ready for a brand-new school year! Your kindness has already made such a difference. Our room smells wonderful thanks to the plug-ins, and our beautiful, colorful Post-it Notes are ready to help us create visually appealing anchor charts together beginning on the very first day of school!\r\n\r\nI already know my students will be excited about the chance to chew their Big League Chew in class, too! These fun touches, along with the classroom supplies you helped provide, will make our learning environment welcoming, organized, and exciting from day one.\r\n\r\nThank you for believing in our students and helping us create a classroom where learning can begin with smiles, creativity, and enthusiasm. We are so grateful for your generosity and support!","fullyFundedDate":1781547164084,"projectUrl":"project/stocking-up-for-success-small-items-bi/10188101/","projectTitle":"Stocking Up for Success: Small Items, Big Difference","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Colon","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5691841_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1534260234151","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5691841"},{"teacherId":5896432,"projectId":7721770,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generous donation, my students now have a full set of boomwhackers, and they've quickly become one of the most exciting parts of music class. We've been using them to explore pitch and rhythm in a hands-on way — students work in small groups, each holding a different colored boomwhacker, and together they build simple melodies and rhythmic patterns by striking them in sequence. One of my favorite moments was watching a group of students figure out, completely on their own, how to play a familiar tune just by trial and error and listening carefully to each pitch.\r\n\r\nMy students' reaction when they first saw the boomwhackers was pure excitement — lots of wide eyes, big smiles, and immediate requests to \"play the colorful ones!\" Because boomwhackers are so visual and tactile, even students who are usually hesitant to participate were eager to grab one and join in. The color-coding also made it easy for students to start connecting sound to pitch almost instantly, which is a concept that can otherwise be tricky to grasp.\r\n\r\nLooking ahead, I'm planning to use the boomwhackers to introduce basic music notation by having students match colors to notes on a staff, and eventually build up to playing short group compositions. Thanks to your support, my students have a fun, engaging tool that's helping them build real musical understanding while having a great time doing it.","fullyFundedDate":1696944161343,"projectUrl":"project/everyone-gets-a-boomwhacker/7721770/","projectTitle":"Everyone Gets a Boomwhacker!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Willard","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5896432_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1537405544303","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/musicalwillard"},{"teacherId":5896432,"projectId":9942823,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generous donation, I now have a padded gig bag for my tuba, and it's already changed how my students experience live music at school. Before this, my tuba mostly stayed in one place because it was such a hassle to move safely — now I can bring it into every classroom, out to assemblies, and even out to the buses for family events. Recently I brought it into a 3rd grade classroom for a lesson on how sound and pitch change with instrument size, and being able to actually set the tuba down in front of the kids (instead of just showing them a picture or video) made the concept click in a way it never had before.\r\n\r\nMy students were thrilled the first time they saw the gig bag show up — a few of them gasped and asked if they could touch it, and one student said it looked like \"a spaceship for the tuba.\" Kids who had only ever seen a tuba in a video were suddenly able to see it up close, ask questions about how it works, and even try to guess how much air it takes to make a sound. That kind of hands-on curiosity is exactly what we hope for in music class, and it wouldn't have been possible without a safe way to bring the instrument to them.\r\n\r\nNext, I'm planning to use the tuba as part of a lesson connecting rhythm and New Orleans brass band traditions — showing students how the tuba carries the bass line in songs like \"When the Saints Go Marching In.\" Students will learn to identify the tuba's role in a band, clap along to syncopated rhythms, and eventually create their own simple bass line patterns. Thanks to your support, I'll be able to bring the actual instrument into every room where this lesson happens, instead of asking students to imagine it.","fullyFundedDate":1765579798242,"projectUrl":"project/it-takes-a-village-to-carry-a-tuba/9942823/","projectTitle":"It Takes A Village To Carry A Tuba!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Willard","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5896432_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1537405544303","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/musicalwillard"},{"teacherId":9239673,"projectId":10197127,"letterContent":"Thank you so very much for the supplies! The students absolutely LOVE the scooters and the misting fan! In fact, the misting fan was charging during one recess period and I had students BEGGING me to bring it out because \"it is so much fun to get sprayed\"! The scooters are a hot item on the playground and give students the ability to master their gross motor movements. The outdoor items have made the students' gross motor time so much fun and the fan is especially helpful for those extra hot days. Thank you for keeping our students \"Cool for the Summer\"!","fullyFundedDate":1777048685659,"projectUrl":"project/cool-for-the-summer/10197127/","projectTitle":"Cool for the Summer","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Keat","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9239673_orig.jpg?crop=1996,1996,x401,y51&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1695127550855","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9239673"},{"teacherId":10317870,"projectId":10093904,"letterContent":"The snack donations have made an incredible impact on our classroom each and every day. Many of our students come to school hungry or need an extra boost throughout the day to stay focused and ready to learn. When the snacks arrived, the students were so excited and grateful. Something as simple as having a snack available helped students feel cared for, comfortable, and ready to participate in learning activities. It created a sense of security for many of them, knowing they could count on having something to eat if they needed it.\r\nWe have been using the snacks during testing days, small group instruction, and throughout the school day whenever students need a quick reset or extra support to stay engaged. I have already noticed students being more focused during lessons and better able to manage long stretches of academic work without becoming distracted by hunger. The snacks have also helped build a positive classroom community because students know our classroom is a safe and supportive space where their needs matter.\r\nYour generosity goes far beyond providing food — it helps create an environment where students can focus on learning, building confidence, and doing their best each day. As we continue through the school year, these snacks will continue supporting students during important lessons, assessments, and daily classroom routines. Thank you for making such a meaningful difference in the lives of my students!","fullyFundedDate":1772550269486,"projectUrl":"project/fuel-their-minds-feed-their-futures/10093904/","projectTitle":"Fuel Their Minds, Feed Their Futures","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Montgomery","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10317870_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1765568067016","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10317870"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_88662","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":178,"numTeachers":22,"percentFrplEligible":95,"percentAsian":1,"percentBlack":89,"percentWhite":4,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":0,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":3,"gradesServed":"Pre-K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"8.1:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":78.8,"schoolId":88662,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Weil Pre-Kindergarten - 5 School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Weil Pre-Kindergarten - 5 School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/pennsylvania/pittsburgh-public-schools/pittsburgh-weil-learning-acad/88662"}