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The snacks provided during testing allow students to focus and concentrate on showing what they know rather than being distracted by hunger.\r\n\r\nThank you for providing supplies that keep my students excited, engaged, and striving to do their third-grade best! Your generosity is making learning meaningful, memorable, and fun—and keeping the MAGIC of learning and goal-setting alive in our classroom.\r\n\r\nI believe in them! Thank you for believing in them, too. Together, we are changing the WORLD, one scholar at a time!","fullyFundedDate":1786620939755,"projectUrl":"project/snacks-for-students-during-state-testing/10240701/","projectTitle":"Snacks for Students During State Testing!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Walther","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5957045_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1538874153881","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/sheila-walther"},{"teacherId":5957045,"projectId":10351591,"letterContent":"Imagine 75 excited third graders who are thrilled to use hands-on learning to create, invent, tinker, explore, and discover using a variety of tools and materials. My students love to create, and the possibilities are endless!\r\n\r\nMy students were SO excited to see all of these amazing materials donated to our classroom! Their faces lit up as they explored the new supplies and imagined all the things they could create. These materials are helping to create a positive and engaging learning environment where our scholars can learn by doing, take risks, solve problems, and discover new possibilities.\r\n\r\nThank you so much for providing my students with hands-on learning supplies that keep them engaged, excited, and striving to do their third-grade best! Your generosity is helping make learning meaningful, memorable, and fun. These materials—and the prizes they help us create—will keep the MAGIC of learning and goal-setting alive in our classroom.\r\n\r\nI believe in them! Thank you for believing in them, too. Together, we are changing the WORLD, one scholar at a time!","fullyFundedDate":1788181231954,"projectUrl":"project/empowering-future-stem-innovators/10351591/","projectTitle":"Empowering Future STEM Innovators","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Walther","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5957045_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1538874153881","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/sheila-walther"},{"teacherId":8422911,"projectId":9862921,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping us \"Bounce Into Fun!\" Our kindergarteners were beyond excited when the new recess balls arrived. The moment we brought them outside, there were cheers, happy squeals, and lots of \"Look what I can do!\" The balls are the perfect size for little hands, and they've quickly become the most popular part of recess.\r\n\r\nWe use them every day for a variety of games, and plenty of creative playground inventions. I've seen students who usually hang back jump right in, practicing teamwork, taking turns, and encouraging one another. There's something magical about a new ball and a big open space — it builds confidence, friendships, and lots of joyful movement.\r\n\r\nAs we continue working on cooperation and safe play, these balls give us real-life opportunities to practice those skills in action. Thank you for bringing more movement, laughter, and connection to Kindergarten. Your generosity is felt every single day!","fullyFundedDate":1762214371141,"projectUrl":"project/bouncing-into-fun-recess-balls-for-littl/9862921/","projectTitle":"Bouncing Into Fun-Recess Balls for Little Ones!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Barnes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8422911_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1761939912097","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8422911"},{"teacherId":10244632,"projectId":9689951,"letterContent":"I can't thank you enough for the thermal laminators and printer ink for the speech room. These have allowed me to make durable visuals and speech therapy materials for my students that will save printing and paper resources in the long run and which can be used again and again. \r\n\r\nVisual materials are useful for students with a variety of needs on my caseload. They include students who are working on social problem-solving and need a visual of potential ways to solve problems in class, and a young student with a significant speech delay who now has durable practice materials that their family can use at home to help reinforce the speech skills that they are learning when they work with me. My students working on articulation sounds benefit from regular access to printed and laminated visuals of mouth shapes for producing speech sounds correctly, and one of my students is developing a ramen-themed speech therapy board game that we will print, laminate, and then use with many other students on my caseload. \r\n\r\nAll this to say, that when I use a lot of paper-based materials, they can often feel disposable and may end up lost, ripped, crumpled, or smudged. By being able to print things out, and then laminate them and make them durable, the visuals I spend time developing, as well as the materials I take the time to find online, cut out, and incorporate into my therapy sessions, I save time, paper, and ink in the long run. 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