{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Winnetka Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":28.1,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":7861559,"projectId":9585872,"letterContent":"First of I want to start off by saying thank you for your generous donation for our classroom. The students love the classroom atmosphere especially with the lights off and having our fairly lights on. One other thing that has been helpful has been the anchor charts that help my students visually understand our lessons. This project has help a lot in the classroom especially the hdmi cords that help me connect my computer to the srceen to that the studetns can follow along the lesson or even watch a video to help undersntaf what is happening. All that being said I want to say thank you for taking your time and money to donate to our classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1756081903194,"projectUrl":"project/welcome-3rd-graders/9585872/","projectTitle":"Welcome 3rd Graders","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hernandez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7861559_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1650630679153","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-hernandez-munoz"},{"teacherId":7861559,"projectId":9121482,"letterContent":"I have to say thank you so much for this amazing donation. My kids had so much fun making their own bags with their names. I have to admit it was hard at first, but after many tries, we were able to understand how to use the heat press. The students were able to make their own pencil bags so they could use them during the summer or even the next school year. Each student was able to get 3 pencils and 2 erasers. This was a nice project for my students to be ready for the next school year. Once again I want to say thank you for their generous donation to our classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1746785771635,"projectUrl":"project/level-up/9121482/","projectTitle":"Level Up!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hernandez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7861559_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1650630679153","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-hernandez-munoz"},{"teacherId":7861559,"projectId":9265506,"letterContent":"I want to start off by saying thank you so much for this wonderful experience for my students. They really loved to see how their own plants were growing. Some of my students even started to plant their own plants at home during the summer. I cannot wait to start this project once again with my new classroom and see their excitement. Once again, I want to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts. I know my students will always remember this classroom experience, and it's all thanks to your generous donation.","fullyFundedDate":1745895814879,"projectUrl":"project/welcome-little-one/9265506/","projectTitle":"Welcome Little One","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Hernandez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7861559_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1650630679153","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-hernandez-munoz"},{"teacherId":2527401,"projectId":9541450,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation of garden beds, soil, and a grow light to our school. Your support will allow our students to experience the joy of planting, growing, and caring for their own vegetables and flowers. \r\n\r\nYour contribution has turned our garden dreams into reality and created a hands on learning space where children can explore science, responsibility, and teamwork in a meaningful way. We're so grateful for your kindness and commitment to helping our students grow both in the garden and beyond.","fullyFundedDate":1761853636097,"projectUrl":"project/every-seed-planted-today-is-tomorrows-h/9541450/","projectTitle":"Every Seed Planted Today Is Tomorrow's Harvest","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Guerrero","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2527401_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1473698209641","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2527401"},{"teacherId":2527401,"projectId":9386521,"letterContent":"On behalf of our school and students I want to sincerely thank The Loft for your generous support of our garden and music initiative. I want to express our heartfelt thanks to The Loft because your contribution has already made a tremendous impact. Our students were so excited to see the boxes arrive and they cannot wait to have the instruments installed. They are looking forward to being able to play in our garden and enjoy the musical instruments. Our school grounds had to have inspections of the grounds done to make sure that when we dig we aren't hitting any water, gas, or electric lines. We are just waiting on final approval before the district will send the grounds team to dig the holes we need in order to have the instruments installed. I was just too excited that I wanted to share pictures of my PK4 students to show you their excitement when the packages arrived. I am also sharing a picture of the sketch of how the grounds will look like with the garden beds and musical instruments installed. \r\n\r\nWe would be honored if The Loft could consider donating to our future projects to continue growing our garden and adding more musical instruments to our school grounds for the students to use while outdoors. I am adding more Donors Choose projects to request insect themed instruments for our musical garden. I will be requesting a bumble bee, lightning bug, dragon fly, and set of 3 bug musical instruments to add on to our musical garden. The students and staff are so in love with the idea of our outdoor musical instruments that now we are also looking into requesting a grand floor piano. \r\n\r\nWe would love to place the piano in our front courtyard. The piano is an in-ground piano with 25 notes, it has a large footprint, big enough for a group of four or five friends to play comfortably together. They can jump, stamp, wheel, or push down on the 'piano' notes to play their favorite tunes. These outdoor instruments would make our music-based learning choice campus more enriching and engaging for our students. The additional instruments would give our students daily opportunities to create, collaborate, and express themselves through music during recess and outdoor learning. These instruments will not only create an inclusive, joyful environment but it will also make music accessible to all children not just during class, but throughout their school day. \r\n\r\nYour partnership continues to inspire both our young musicians and our community as a whole. When the installation is completed and the musical instruments are unveiled we will make sure to recognize The Loft's generosity in our school's social media and newsletter as a way of showing how much your support means to us. Thank you again for your ongoing commitment to enriching students' lives through the arts.","fullyFundedDate":1752586601848,"projectUrl":"project/outdoor-music-garden-daisy-petal-drum/9386521/","projectTitle":"Outdoor Music Garden- Daisy Petal Drum","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Guerrero","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2527401_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1473698209641","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2527401"},{"teacherId":2527401,"projectId":9386505,"letterContent":"On behalf of our school and students I want to sincerely thank The Loft for your generous support of our garden and music initiative. I want to express our heartfelt thanks to The Loft because your contribution has already made a tremendous impact. Our students were so excited to see the boxes arrive and they cannot wait to have the instruments installed. They are looking forward to being able to play in our garden and enjoy the musical instruments. Our school grounds had to have inspections of the grounds done to make sure that when we dig we aren't hitting any water, gas, or electric lines. We are just waiting on final approval before the district will send the grounds team to dig the holes we need in order to have the instruments installed. I was just too excited that I wanted to share pictures of my PK4 students to show you their excitement when the packages arrived. I am also sharing a picture of the sketch of how the grounds will look like with the garden beds and musical instruments installed. \r\n\r\nWe would be honored if The Loft could consider donating to our future projects to continue growing our garden and adding more musical instruments to our school grounds for the students to use while outdoors. I am adding more Donors Choose projects to request insect themed instruments for our musical garden. I will be requesting a bumble bee, lightning bug, dragon fly, and set of 3 bug musical instruments to add on to our musical garden. The students and staff are so in love with the idea of our outdoor musical instruments that now we are also looking into requesting a grand floor piano. \r\n\r\nWe would love to place the piano in our front courtyard. The piano is an in-ground piano with 25 notes, it has a large footprint, big enough for a group of four or five friends to play comfortably together. They can jump, stamp, wheel, or push down on the 'piano' notes to play their favorite tunes. These outdoor instruments would make our music-based learning choice campus more enriching and engaging for our students. The additional instruments would give our students daily opportunities to create, collaborate, and express themselves through music during recess and outdoor learning. These instruments will not only create an inclusive, joyful environment but it will also make music accessible to all children not just during class, but throughout their school day. \r\n\r\nYour partnership continues to inspire both our young musicians and our community as a whole. When the installation is completed and the musical instruments are unveiled we will make sure to recognize The Loft's generosity in our school's social media and newsletter as a way of showing how much your support means to us. Thank you again for your ongoing commitment to enriching students' lives through the arts.","fullyFundedDate":1752586602308,"projectUrl":"project/outdoor-musical-garden-poppy-petal-drum/9386505/","projectTitle":"Outdoor Musical Garden-Poppy Petal Drum","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Guerrero","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2527401_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1473698209641","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2527401"},{"teacherId":2527401,"projectId":9386490,"letterContent":"On behalf of our school and students I want to sincerely thank The Loft for your generous support of our garden and music initiative. I want to express our heartfelt thanks to The Loft because your contribution has already made a tremendous impact. Our students were so excited to see the boxes arrive and they cannot wait to have the instruments installed. They are looking forward to being able to play in our garden and enjoy the musical instruments. Our school grounds had to have inspections of the grounds done to make sure that when we dig we aren't hitting any water, gas, or electric lines. We are just waiting on final approval before the district will send the grounds team to dig the holes we need in order to have the instruments installed. I was just too excited that I wanted to share pictures of my PK4 students to show you their excitement when the packages arrived. I am also sharing a picture of the sketch of how the grounds will look like with the garden beds and musical instruments installed. \r\n\r\nWe would be honored if The Loft could consider donating to our future projects to continue growing our garden and adding more musical instruments to our school grounds for the students to use while outdoors. I am adding more Donors Choose projects to request insect themed instruments for our musical garden. I will be requesting a bumble bee, lightning bug, dragon fly, and set of 3 bug musical instruments to add on to our musical garden. The students and staff are so in love with the idea of our outdoor musical instruments that now we are also looking into requesting a grand floor piano. \r\n\r\nWe would love to place the piano in our front courtyard. The piano is an in-ground piano with 25 notes, it has a large footprint, big enough for a group of four or five friends to play comfortably together. They can jump, stamp, wheel, or push down on the 'piano' notes to play their favorite tunes. These outdoor instruments would make our music-based learning choice campus more enriching and engaging for our students. The additional instruments would give our students daily opportunities to create, collaborate, and express themselves through music during recess and outdoor learning. These instruments will not only create an inclusive, joyful environment but it will also make music accessible to all children not just during class, but throughout their school day. \r\n\r\nYour partnership continues to inspire both our young musicians and our community as a whole. When the installation is completed and the musical instruments are unveiled we will make sure to recognize The Loft's generosity in our school's social media and newsletter as a way of showing how much your support means to us. Thank you again for your ongoing commitment to enriching students' lives through the arts.","fullyFundedDate":1752586602475,"projectUrl":"project/outdoor-musical-garden-forget-me-not-p/9386490/","projectTitle":"Outdoor Musical Garden - Forget Me Not Petal Drum","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Guerrero","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2527401_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1473698209641","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2527401"},{"teacherId":2527401,"projectId":9386408,"letterContent":"On behalf of our school and students I want to sincerely thank The Loft for your generous support of our garden and music initiative. I want to express our heartfelt thanks to The Loft because your contribution has already made a tremendous impact. Our students were so excited to see the boxes arrive and they cannot wait to have the instruments installed. They are looking forward to being able to play in our garden and enjoy the musical instruments. Our school grounds had to have inspections of the grounds done to make sure that when we dig we aren't hitting any water, gas, or electric lines. We are just waiting on final approval before the district will send the grounds team to dig the holes we need in order to have the instruments installed. I was just too excited that I wanted to share pictures of my PK4 students to show you their excitement when the packages arrived. I am also sharing a picture of the sketch of how the grounds will look like with the garden beds and musical instruments installed. \r\n\r\nWe would be honored if The Loft could consider donating to our future projects to continue growing our garden and adding more musical instruments to our school grounds for the students to use while outdoors. I am adding more Donors Choose projects to request insect themed instruments for our musical garden. I will be requesting a bumble bee, lightning bug, dragon fly, and set of 3 bug musical instruments to add on to our musical garden. The students and staff are so in love with the idea of our outdoor musical instruments that now we are also looking into requesting a grand floor piano. \r\n\r\nWe would love to place the piano in our front courtyard. The piano is an in-ground piano with 25 notes, it has a large footprint, big enough for a group of four or five friends to play comfortably together. They can jump, stamp, wheel, or push down on the 'piano' notes to play their favorite tunes. These outdoor instruments would make our music-based learning choice campus more enriching and engaging for our students. The additional instruments would give our students daily opportunities to create, collaborate, and express themselves through music during recess and outdoor learning. These instruments will not only create an inclusive, joyful environment but it will also make music accessible to all children not just during class, but throughout their school day. \r\n\r\nYour partnership continues to inspire both our young musicians and our community as a whole. When the installation is completed and the musical instruments are unveiled we will make sure to recognize The Loft's generosity in our school's social media and newsletter as a way of showing how much your support means to us. Thank you again for your ongoing commitment to enriching students' lives through the arts.","fullyFundedDate":1752586602661,"projectUrl":"project/outdoor-musical-garden-sunflower-petal/9386408/","projectTitle":"Outdoor Musical Garden - Sunflower Petal Drum","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Guerrero","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2527401_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1473698209641","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2527401"},{"teacherId":2527401,"projectId":9386605,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for our feeding silo.\r\nWe were so excited to receive our package in the mail. Our students loved seeing the silo and we are so excited for our school to also share in the excitement.\r\n\r\nWe have big plans for an outdoor area for our 3 and 4 year old students. We look forward to planting garden beds and seeing our garden area grow and blossom with flowers and include an area for our chicken coops. We are hoping to improve the outdoor learning space this coming Spring. Thank you so much for helping us improve our school grounds and provide this silo for our school chickens.","fullyFundedDate":1751044281916,"projectUrl":"project/chicken-feeding-silo-for-our-school-chic/9386605/","projectTitle":"Chicken Feeding Silo for our School Chicken Flock","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Guerrero","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2527401_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1473698209641","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2527401"},{"teacherId":7960811,"projectId":9509884,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping my class obtain headphones for the year. Some things are a little more difficult to get their hands on. Headphones are definitely one of these items since it is a little more expensive.\r\n\r\nHaving something like Donor's Choose is a blessing to help us with items like this. It makes items that may usually be out of reach available for all. I want to say thank you one more time. My kids really enjoy using the items. \r\n\r\nPlease continue to support classrooms and teachers. We need all the help that we ca get and are very appreciative when we get it.","fullyFundedDate":1754001590896,"projectUrl":"project/if-silence-is-golden-why-do-we-need-hea/9509884/","projectTitle":"If Silence Is Golden, Why Do We Need Headphones?","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Ybarra","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7960811_orig.png?crop=231,231,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753757324776","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7960811"},{"teacherId":1119101,"projectId":9046038,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for all of the kind and generous donations to this classroom project. My students and I are truly grateful that you took the time to donate to our classroom project. \r\n\r\nThe beginning of our school year has been very busy and having these materials from your donations has helped make our year run a bit more smoothly. \r\n\r\nThe students are always eager to hear our Alexa call out a random number to see which student will be called upon for our class helper. My students enjoy having alexa in the room to check the time and weather outside before recess time. \r\n\r\nWe truly appreciate the support you have given to our classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1746550657520,"projectUrl":"project/organized-learning-environment/9046038/","projectTitle":"Organized Learning Environment","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. CASTILLO","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1119101_orig.jpg?crop=2400,2400,x127,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1596150700494","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mscastillo1"},{"teacherId":2527401,"projectId":9215806,"letterContent":"Our students were so excited to see the life cycle of the chicken and butterfly in person. We were able to see the caterpillars go into their cocoons and emerge as butterflies and watch the eggs patiently as they hatched in the incubator. Having both the poster and models of the animals for visual resources helped the students see and understand what was going on in the life cycle of both animals. \r\n\r\nThe students were especially curious about what was going on inside the eggs since they could not see what was going on. We were able to use the poster as a reference as we were counting the days until hatch day. Having the visual plastic eggs where they could open an egg on each day and see the growth and the development of the chicks until they hatched was amazing. Once the chicks hatched it was also thrilling to see how quickly they were developing week after week while we had them in the brooders in our classroom. Thank you so much for providing the visual resources my students needed to understand the life cycle of the chicken and butterfly as we learned about this unit in class.","fullyFundedDate":1744032961597,"projectUrl":"project/life-cycles-for-pk/9215806/","projectTitle":"Life Cycles for Pk","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Guerrero","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2527401_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1473698209641","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2527401"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_18067","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":704,"numTeachers":48,"percentFrplEligible":84,"percentAsian":0,"percentBlack":1,"percentWhite":2,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":95,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"Pre-K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"14.7:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":71.9,"schoolId":18067,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Winnetka Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Winnetka Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/texas/dallas-independent-school-district/winnetka-elementary-school/18067"}