{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Cedar Bluff Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":48.5,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":837461,"projectId":10214382,"letterContent":"The Volunteer State Books Award is a program in the State of Tennessee that allows students to read books and vote on their favorite. My students love this program because it gives them a voice. They take this assignment very seriously and have deep discussions about why a book is their favorite. \r\n\r\nThis program allows us to build strong readers and develop lifelong reading habits. Students will take this experience into their older years by recommending books they have read to their peers, siblings, and adults in their lives. \r\n\r\nProviding access to these books in the school library is what makes all of this happen. 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This is what we want when we add new books to the school library, to encourage students to want to read! \r\n\r\nSupporters like you are the reason I am able to give my students the books they want to read. With the challenges facing school systems, it is not always possible to fully fund the needs of extra programs. The donations I receive through Donor's Choose helps to make up the difference.","fullyFundedDate":1776897161466,"projectUrl":"project/a-book-i-cant-resist/10159718/","projectTitle":"A Book I Can't Resist!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Richardson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp837461_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1699448197897","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/nicole-richardson"},{"teacherId":8181884,"projectId":10258086,"letterContent":"My students were very excited to see these new picture books. 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Thank you for giving my bilingual students stories they can read and connect to their hearts.","fullyFundedDate":1778940905831,"projectUrl":"project/picture-books-for-bilingual-students/10258086/","projectTitle":"Picture Books For Bilingual Students","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Stansbury","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8181884_orig.jpg?crop=1030,1030,x1370,y120&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1716655693117","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/stansbury"},{"teacherId":8181884,"projectId":10212851,"letterContent":"My students love to cook. The two books Look and Cook are going to be a huge hit. My 3rd grade students were able to take a peek and several are already inspired. The big excitement of the day was the Asian Food Guide books series. We have the entire collection now thanks to you donor. I am so grateful. My students love to bake and cook and now the Asian cultures have decent representation in our collection of cookbooks. I am beyond grateful for this kind gift. Now, I need to update my Latino offerings. Our Mexican food book is feeling out numbered.","fullyFundedDate":1777992589101,"projectUrl":"project/stem-whats-cooking-asian-food-and-sw/10212851/","projectTitle":"STEM - What's Cooking? Asian food and Sweets Cookbooks","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Stansbury","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8181884_orig.jpg?crop=1030,1030,x1370,y120&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1716655693117","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/stansbury"},{"teacherId":8181884,"projectId":10212711,"letterContent":"My kindergarten students were the first to read these new amazing holiday craft and STEM make your own books. They are so excited to be first grade students next year. They learned they would be permitted to take 2 books home instead of borrowing just 1 for the classroom. They are ready for this big responsibility. When they learned we had books that teacher you how to do crafts or make things like toy parachutes they were jumping off the carpet. My students were surprised to learn that we would also have make you own books in Spanish. Thank you so much for giving them something to look forward to for next school year. Our students next year are going to be quite crafty and inventive with these books to inspire them. You have given them a precious gift of creativity. 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We had a week of dress up days that matched our books. There was an additional calendar of books featured to read for every day of the month. These books arrived just in time to supply my eager readers with new books to read and devour. The books were devoured by my students. They showed off their favorite illustrations in several of the pictures. We laughed hard at \"Let's Be Bees.\" \"Pop Goes the Nursery Rhyme\" is going to be a new staple read among my kindergarten classes in the next school year. Thank you so much for making my students laugh and fall deeply in love with books.","fullyFundedDate":1773834450310,"projectUrl":"project/read-across-america-month-new-picture/10065633/","projectTitle":"Read Across America Month - New Picture Books","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Stansbury","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8181884_orig.jpg?crop=1030,1030,x1370,y120&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1716655693117","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/stansbury"},{"teacherId":8625169,"projectId":10214446,"letterContent":"These stools are awesome! They are an updated version of the older ones that I have and look amazing! I can tell they are made with high quality materials.\r\nThe photos I will upload are going to show you how they can fit under the variety of tables that I have in my room. They are the perfect height and size.\r\nThank you so much for supporting my project. These stools will be used by thousands of students by the time they need to be replaced. Hopefully that will be at least 20 years from now. We really appreciate your kindness!","fullyFundedDate":1777980359735,"projectUrl":"project/4-new-art-stools/10214446/","projectTitle":"4 New Art Stools","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Eng","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8625169_orig.jpg?crop=2741,2741,x537,y282&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1673010272588","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8625169"},{"teacherId":8625169,"projectId":10091767,"letterContent":"My students have enjoyed using the new watercolor paint sets this past week! The theme was their favorite video game, or they could make up a video game. I hope you can feel their joy through their art. \r\nNext we will be using the metallic sharpies/markers. We have been using the paper for regular drawing projects as well. Rest assured that the materials you have purchased are being used by all of my students in grades K-5. It is more than enough to get us through this school year and into the next one. We appreciate your kindness donation so much! Have a great day!","fullyFundedDate":1776459350048,"projectUrl":"project/new-art-supplies/10091767/","projectTitle":"New Art Supplies","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Eng","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8625169_orig.jpg?crop=2741,2741,x537,y282&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1673010272588","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8625169"},{"teacherId":9709149,"projectId":10100021,"letterContent":"Thank-you so much for funding our project! Not only will this help my students learn about important people in history it will also help the kiddos that are on the cusp of reading chapter books to take the plunge! \r\n This is a perfect end of the year project! It will help my student's in their reading confidence to realize that all of their hard work this year is paying off because they can read chapter books now! This is truly one of my favorite things about teaching!\r\n This will also help to reiterate to my students that knowledge is power! When you can read you can do anything! This is an amazing thing to be able to teach a child!\r\n Thank-you SO much for being a part of this project! You are truly helping inspire the next generation in so many ways!","fullyFundedDate":1776459350255,"projectUrl":"project/we-love-biographies/10100021/","projectTitle":"We Love Biographies!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Holloway","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9709149_orig.jpg?crop=1203,1203,x114,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1786213469778","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9709149"},{"teacherId":8181884,"projectId":9784554,"letterContent":"We are so grateful for the signs. Our books are so much easier to locate and find. We have managed to finish our main section of nonfiction books. I still have Languages and fairy tales to add signs for in the next few weeks. Plus, we will be adding signs in Fiction identifying where each letter starts. We will also add series pictures or signs for shelves that feature fiction series to help friends find their favorite books. \r\n\r\nOur second grade students completed the bridging to third grade lesson this week. They visited the nonfiction books shelves and identified their favorite shelf among the shelves of a given bookcase. They were delighted to discover how to build Lego books, countries around the world, planets, cryptids, ghosts, biographies of famous people, and joke books. Our students were reminded that the books in this section can be quite challenging as some books are written at a much higher reading level than they might have read this school year. Then, our second grade friends perused several of our most popular books in the section that were written at a reading level that most could access with success. We are so grateful you have helped us find our books and bridge to successful nonfiction reading of our favorite science, social studies, and hobby books.","fullyFundedDate":1767241206632,"projectUrl":"project/nonfiction-signage-empowers-students-to/9784554/","projectTitle":"Nonfiction Signage Empowers Students to Find Favorite Books (Project 3)","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Stansbury","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8181884_orig.jpg?crop=1030,1030,x1370,y120&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1716655693117","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/stansbury"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_92781","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":1053,"numTeachers":79,"percentFrplEligible":61,"percentAsian":2,"percentBlack":9,"percentWhite":55,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":22,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":1,"percentMultiracialImputed":7,"gradesServed":"K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"13.3:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"SUBURBAN","ncesMetroType":"SUBURB_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":51.5,"schoolId":92781,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Cedar Bluff Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Cedar Bluff Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/tennessee/knox-county-schools/cedar-buff-elementary-school/92781"}