{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Sampit Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":39.1,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":439489,"projectId":9589868,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating shirts and heat transfer vinyl (HTV) to help us create special spirit shirts for our intervention students! Your generosity is helping us build a positive, encouraging, and inclusive learning environment where every student feels valued and celebrated.\r\n\r\nThese spirit shirts will give our intervention students an opportunity to proudly show their school spirit and feel a strong sense of belonging within our school community. Wearing shirts they helped create will help build confidence, encourage school pride, and remind students that their hard work and growth are worth celebrating.\r\n\r\nYour support goes beyond providing materials—it sends our students the message that they matter and that their efforts are noticed. Thank you for helping us make learning, growth, and school spirit something our intervention students can be proud of!","fullyFundedDate":1767051329751,"projectUrl":"project/creating-spirit-and-unity-with-custom-sh/9589868/","projectTitle":"Creating Spirit and Unity With Custom Shirts!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Alford","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp439489_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1688001876923","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/joni-alford"},{"teacherId":439489,"projectId":10231832,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting my students by providing hands-on math manipulatives for our intervention classroom! Your generosity is giving my students the opportunity to explore mathematical concepts in meaningful, engaging ways.\r\n\r\nTools such as fraction tiles and numeral dice help transform abstract math ideas into tangible learning experiences. Instead of simply looking at numbers or completing problems on paper, my students can touch, move, build, compare, and visualize mathematical concepts. These manipulatives provide the concrete practice they need to develop a stronger understanding of skills and build confidence as mathematicians.\r\n\r\nIn our intervention classroom, these resources are especially valuable because they allow me to provide students with multiple ways to access and practice challenging concepts. Whether students are building fractions with fraction tiles, using numeral dice to practice computation, or working collaboratively to solve problems, these materials make learning more interactive and purposeful.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in my students and helping create a classroom where they can learn by doing. Your generosity is making a meaningful difference in their mathematical understanding, confidence, and success!","fullyFundedDate":1787153618568,"projectUrl":"project/math-magic-turning-numbers-into-tangibl/10231832/","projectTitle":"Math Magic: Turning Numbers into Tangible Tools","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Alford","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp439489_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1688001876923","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/joni-alford"},{"teacherId":439489,"projectId":10001337,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation of a new reading rug for my intervention classroom! Your kindness is providing my students with a bright, welcoming space where they can learn, grow, and build confidence as readers.\r\n\r\nThe rug will become an important part of our daily learning environment. My students will gather on it for small-group reading instruction, phonics practice, read-alouds, vocabulary activities, and opportunities to share their thinking with one another. Having a comfortable and inviting space will help create a positive atmosphere where students feel safe taking risks, practicing new skills, and celebrating their progress.\r\n\r\nFor students who receive reading intervention, every opportunity to engage with learning in a supportive environment matters. Your donation is doing more than providing a new rug—it is helping create a classroom space that communicates to my students that they are valued, capable, and worthy of a beautiful place to learn.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in my students and helping make our reading intervention classroom a more welcoming and engaging place to learn. Your generosity will make a lasting difference in the lives of my students and their journey toward becoming confident, successful readers!","fullyFundedDate":1777312196220,"projectUrl":"project/snuggle-in-and-read-a-rug-for-our-inter/10001337/","projectTitle":"Snuggle In and Read: A Rug for Our Intervention Room","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Alford","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp439489_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1688001876923","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/joni-alford"},{"teacherId":10556634,"projectId":10390077,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping grow our classroom library and making our classroom a more comfortable and engaging place to learn! My students have been loving the \"Dog Man\" books, and it has been especially exciting to watch them explore genres and series they may not have picked up before. With our library now having more variety, students are finding books that match their individual interests while also discovering new types of stories. These books give us opportunities to practice skills like making predictions, understanding characters, and making connections while students are reading books they genuinely enjoy.\r\n\r\nOur new cushions have also become a favorite part of our classroom. We use them almost every day during independent reading rotations, giving students a comfortable place to settle in with a book and focus. The games have been a big hit during free time as well, giving students opportunities to have fun, work together, practice taking turns, and build relationships with their classmates. Thank you for helping make our classroom a place where students can read, relax, explore, and enjoy learning together!","fullyFundedDate":1786968728970,"projectUrl":"project/ms-stroms-first-classroom/10390077/","projectTitle":"Ms. Strom's First Classroom!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Strom","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10556634_orig.png?crop=672,672,x0,y120&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1786653858199","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10556634"},{"teacherId":2089763,"projectId":10063902,"letterContent":"The students are so excited about the items that you helped provide for our school. We have a cabinet in the counselors classroom that provides items for the students. They know that they can come in at any time and get what they need. \r\nThe counselor likes to provide items for the boys and girls. \r\nAs a counselor I understand that sometimes students have needs that can only be met while being at school. \r\nThe students are able to get their supplies with confidence. \r\nThank you so much for providing these items for the Students.","fullyFundedDate":1778679922791,"projectUrl":"project/if-a-student-needs-it-i-want-to-provide/10063902/","projectTitle":"If A Student Needs it, I Want to Provide it","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Annie Baxley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2089763_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1536965606675","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2089763"},{"teacherId":4900423,"projectId":10173948,"letterContent":"We are so very grateful for your generous and thoughtful donation to our classroom. Your donation has helped increase student engagement and has given them more of a zeal and zest for learning! When the learning games first arrived the students were bursting with excitement! They were so happy and eager to review all of their math and reading concepts with our new engaging classroom games.\r\nAdditionally, the students beamed with joy when they saw the classroom incentive snacks that were donated! These snacks really motivated the students to do their best during testing. They were elated to get to enjoy their favorite snack in class with their friends.","fullyFundedDate":1774994536700,"projectUrl":"project/review-games-and-incentives-to-strengthe/10173948/","projectTitle":"Review Games and Incentives to Strengthen Literacy and Math Mastery!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hicks-Foy","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4900423_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1508194679330","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4900423"},{"teacherId":8823138,"projectId":10016367,"letterContent":"I am writing to express my sincere gratitude for your generous support of our recent DonorsChoose project. Because of your kindness, our classroom was fully stocked with essential supplies such as crayons, markers, pencils, tissues, and hand sanitizer—items that truly made a difference as we approached the end of the school year.\r\n\r\nYour contributions ensured that every student had access to the tools they needed to stay engaged, creative, and prepared for learning each day. Simple supplies like crayons and markers sparked creativity and excitement, while pencils supported daily academic tasks and independent work. Tissues and hand sanitizer helped us maintain a clean and healthy classroom environment, which is especially important during a busy and often exhausting time of year.\r\n\r\nMany of our students rely on the classroom for these basic necessities, and your support removed barriers that might otherwise have impacted their ability to participate fully. Because of you, our students were able to focus on learning, collaborating, and finishing the year strong with confidence and pride.\r\n\r\nYour generosity has had a direct and meaningful impact on our classroom community. Thank you for investing in our students and helping create a supportive, well-equipped learning environment where they can thrive.","fullyFundedDate":1774298101840,"projectUrl":"project/supplies-to-finish-strong/10016367/","projectTitle":"Supplies to Finish Strong","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Altman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8823138_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1757705444126","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/caltman"},{"teacherId":4231763,"projectId":10090243,"letterContent":"Students can learn and have fun with all the items in the gift bag. Encouraging students to work with their hands and stay off tablets, or phones will help with focusing and make better brain connetions. Students need to help their brain make connections in order for them to impove their education. The items in the gift bag: the kinetic and play dough with play dough scissors, fidget spinner, puzzle, ball, watercolor paint, water squirtter, abc pop it, wax yarn sticks are all items to help them be creative, use their fingers, and encourages them to play instead of sit and watch a device. Students will improve their eye hand cordiation while practicing bouncing the ball, putting the puzzle together and using the wax yarn sticks to make things. \r\n\r\nStudents can make up stories as they paint with water colors, make creatures with yarn sticks, play dough, or the fidget spinners. The pop it will keep the colors, numbers, and abcs in their memory as they play bingo and help with focusing. \r\nThey can practice counting, saying the days of the week or the abcs while bouncing the ball. The water squirter can make the letters, numbers or sight words disappear. \r\n\r\nCreating this bag of activities and sending them home will keep them entertained while helping them improve their thinking and focusing skills. Children have been excited to work with the items and are sharing what they are doing with the items when they are at home. Thanks so much for making this possible.","fullyFundedDate":1771379022812,"projectUrl":"project/learning-can-be-fun/10090243/","projectTitle":"Learning Can Be Fun!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Tisdale","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4231763_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1652806250084","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/4231763"},{"teacherId":439489,"projectId":9681156,"letterContent":"I want to express my sincere gratitude for your generous support in providing hands-on STEM materials for our students. Your contribution is making a meaningful difference in the classroom.\r\n\r\nWith these resources, our students are developing stronger number sense through engaging, interactive activities that bring abstract concepts to life. They are also building essential problem-solving skills as they explore, experiment, and think critically in real-world contexts. Perhaps most importantly, we are already seeing a boost in their confidence—students are more willing to take risks, ask questions, and persist through challenges.\r\n\r\nYour investment is helping create an environment where learning is active, meaningful, and empowering. Thank you for believing in our students and supporting their growth in such a tangible way.","fullyFundedDate":1765211331723,"projectUrl":"project/igniting-intervention-innovation-through/9681156/","projectTitle":"Igniting Intervention Innovation Through STEM","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Alford","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp439489_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1688001876923","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/joni-alford"},{"teacherId":9820481,"projectId":10160045,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generosity, our classroom has been transformed through the \"Play, Practice, Progress: Speech Therapy in Action\" project. These new resources have allowed my students to engage in hands-on, meaningful learning experiences that truly bring speech and language therapy to life.\r\n\r\nWe are using the materials daily during therapy sessions to target communication goals through play-based activities. For example, during a recent session, students used the new interactive games and manipulatives to practice requesting, labeling, and commenting. When the students first saw the materials, their faces lit up with excitement. They were immediately drawn to the bright, engaging activities and couldn't wait to start exploring. Their enthusiasm has translated into increased participation, longer attention spans, and more meaningful communication attempts during our sessions.\r\n\r\nLooking ahead, we will continue to build on these skills by incorporating the materials into structured lessons focused on expanding utterances, improving social interactions, and generalizing communication skills across settings. These resources will also support small group activities, allowing students to practice turn-taking and peer interactions in a fun, supportive environment.\r\n\r\nYour support has made a lasting impact on my students' ability to communicate and connect with others. Thank you for helping make these meaningful moments possible!","fullyFundedDate":1774994861215,"projectUrl":"project/play-practice-progress-speech-therapy/10160045/","projectTitle":"Play, Practice, Progress: Speech Therapy in Action","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Bryan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9820481_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1733569357162","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9820481"},{"teacherId":10103736,"projectId":9768600,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generosity. The additional pieces in our dramatic play area has enhanced the imagination of our students.\r\n\r\nThe market stand has become a fast favorite. Ice cream stands are open regularly and the sorting bins allow students to categorize our play food and organize the store.\r\n\r\nOur new doll cradle and mirror have turned role playing into an adventure. Our babies are fed, taken care of and rocked to sleep. With the dress up clothes we can try on new outfits and see how we look.\r\n\r\nThese children truly love having new furniture and opportunities. Without you it wouldn't have happened!","fullyFundedDate":1769450178981,"projectUrl":"project/dramatic-play-is-full-of-possibilities/9768600/","projectTitle":"Dramatic Play Is Full of Possibilities","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Pam","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10103736"},{"teacherId":8823138,"projectId":9720339,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generosity, our classroom is now equipped with a 3D printer that has completely transformed the way students learn. What was once abstract and theoretical has become tangible and hands-on. Students are no longer just imagining solutions—they are designing, creating, testing, and refining real prototypes.\r\n\r\nThe 3D printer has strengthened critical thinking, problem-solving, and perseverance. Students engage more deeply in STEM lessons because they can see their ideas come to life layer by layer. Whether designing models to demonstrate scientific concepts, creating solutions to real-world challenges, or integrating math through measurement and scale, students are applying their learning in authentic and meaningful ways.\r\n\r\nBecause of this project, I am able to incorporate more project-based learning opportunities into my instruction. Students collaborate, revise their designs based on feedback, and take ownership of their learning. The excitement and sense of accomplishment when a design successfully prints is incredible—it builds confidence and encourages innovation.\r\n\r\nThis 3D printer is more than just a piece of technology; it is a tool that empowers students to think like engineers, creators, and problem-solvers. 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