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Opening up the box and viewing the colorful popsicle sticks and pipe cleaners made them squeal! \r\nThese items are the very existence of STEAM projects in my classroom... well them and the tooth picks. They allow my students to experiment and not be scared if they fail. Not to mention the colors allow me to have easy clean up because groups are all assigned a color. \r\nPlease continue to support teachers on Donors Choose and help our students learn independence in class!!","fullyFundedDate":1764362805522,"projectUrl":"project/full-steam-ahead/9888580/","projectTitle":"Full STEAM Ahead","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Finocchiaro","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1648597_orig.jpg?crop=1844,1844,x766,y1380&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1755972476179","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jessica-finocchiaro"},{"teacherId":1648597,"projectId":9446214,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your kindness and generosity! My students have worked so hard getting their Lexia usage in and meeting their goals. I don't believe all of my students enjoy the program, but I know they all enjoy earning the yummy chips. Not to mention on the date the boxes arrived in our classroom made the kids feel like it was Christmas. They squealed watching the boxes open up and reveal the different chips. \r\nPlease continue to support my projects and the projects of other teachers. Without your support, our teacher dreams would not come true. 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They had so much fun making them and did a great job too! I love making my classroom hands on and because of your donation it was possible! Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1763666407395,"projectUrl":"project/kindergarten-creators/9902789/","projectTitle":"Kindergarten Creators","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Pope","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp747393_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1721395944530","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/pope-friends"},{"teacherId":747393,"projectId":9890836,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating to our classroom food pantry project. What a blessing it is to be able to give my kindergarten students the food and snacks that they need each day to fill their empty bellies to get their minds focused on learning and not on their empty bellies. Our food pantry is filled to the brim with snacks and cereals and my students could not be more excited when the boxes came rolling in. We had an unboxing! I also thankful that we have a community behind us that is really a village! Thank you for being our village!","fullyFundedDate":1763405111432,"projectUrl":"project/just-say-no-to-hunger/9890836/","projectTitle":"Just Say No to Hunger!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Pope","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp747393_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1721395944530","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/pope-friends"},{"teacherId":747393,"projectId":9854776,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for donating to our classroom food pantry project. What a blessing it is to be able to give my kindergarten students the food and snacks that they need each day to fill their empty bellies to get their minds focused on learning and not on their empty bellies. Our food pantry is filled to the brim with snacks and cereals and my students could not be more excited when the boxes came rolling in. We had an unboxing! I also thankful that we have a community behind us that is really a village! Thank you for being our village!","fullyFundedDate":1763494113426,"projectUrl":"project/just-say-no-to-hunger/9854776/","projectTitle":"Just Say No to Hunger","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Pope","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp747393_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1721395944530","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/pope-friends"},{"teacherId":747393,"projectId":9746007,"letterContent":"Thank you so much of the generous donation to our classroom literacy project. I am so thankful to be able to support learning in my school with this project. My students were able to use the materials provided to teach parents in my school key foundational skills that they are learning each day. It was a fun time for parents and students. You should have seen the kids teach others how to chop up words and blend them together and make words. How to jump on the boxes together and make words. There was so much learning to go around!","fullyFundedDate":1761322157868,"projectUrl":"project/literacy-nighta-family-affair/9746007/","projectTitle":"Literacy Night....A Family Affair","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Pope","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp747393_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1721395944530","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/pope-friends"},{"teacherId":747393,"projectId":9745992,"letterContent":"Thank you so very much for the generous donation to our iPad project! We are so thankful to be able to get the iPad cases on each iPad in the classroom for our students to be able to use the blended learning platform each day! It is a blessing to know that the iPads are not going to fall on the floor and break in the hands of my kindergarteners. I appreciate your generous donation so very much! It is because of you and your donation that we are able to do fun things in out classroom each day! Thanks so very much!","fullyFundedDate":1760721643078,"projectUrl":"project/no-more-ipad-accidents/9745992/","projectTitle":"No More iPad Accidents!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Pope","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp747393_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1721395944530","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/pope-friends"},{"teacherId":747393,"projectId":9428123,"letterContent":"Thank you so very much for your generous donation to our project to celebrate numbers through the decades! We have already celebrated the 50th Day of School with an amazing Sock Hop thanks to you and your generous donation! We dressed up in poodle skirts, jeans and slicked back hair. The boys had the combs in their back pockets and we had a bubble gum blowing contest. The kindergarteners loved it! We are about to celebrate the 80th Day and are ready to go with the materials from Donors Choose! 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Chimney Lakes Elementary School is
an urban public school
in Jacksonville, Florida that is part of Duval County Public Schools.
It serves 871 students
in grades Pre-K - 5 with a student/teacher ratio of 12.3:1.
Its teachers have had 604 projects funded on Ðǿմ«Ã½.
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60%
of students are Black, Latino, Native
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Chimney Lakes Elementary School
$216,490
raised using Ðǿմ«Ã½
604
projects
funded
50
teachers
funded
1,038
donors
81
projects
for
basic supplies
121
projects for
technology
80
projects for
books
38
projects
for
art supplies
Chimney Lakes Elementary School has received support from
522 individuals from Florida and
516 individuals out-of-state.