{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Gregory Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":35.1,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":5218777,"projectId":9716569,"letterContent":"Thank You! Thank you to everyone who donated to this project for books and more books for our school library. This project focused on mainly books that my students have been requesting to read and a set of books our library was in need of. \r\nSince school began in September I have a list that I have kept of books that my students have requested to have in our school library. The first set we are welcoming into our library is the Percy Jackson collection these have been on my list for the past few years and with the growing number of students who want to read them I figured it was time we try to get a set and thanks to donor choose we now have one. The second is a new cat kid set. Now our library has cat kid to go along with our dog man sets however this past year thanks to donor choose once again I was able to put a set of dog man into our younger students library collection. Well the next thing I heard was Mrs. Simms you forgot Cat Kid. They were right you can't have Dog Man without his sidekick Cat Kid and so I told them I would put it on our wish list and see what happens. Woohoo we got it! I can't wait for them to see them on the shelves. \r\nThe next thing we now have in our library is a set of people and places books of nonfiction so that my students can learn about people around the United States \r\nincluding the way of life in the Northeast, Midwest, West, Southeast and so on. \r\nThank You for helping to add these books to our collection, I know they will be well loved.","fullyFundedDate":1761946708589,"projectUrl":"project/books-and-more-books/9716569/","projectTitle":"Books and More Books","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Simms","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5218777_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1520878034865","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5218777"},{"teacherId":7071195,"projectId":9506995,"letterContent":"My students were so excited to see all of the new colors of our tempera cakes. It is so fun having a variety of blues, greens, purples, oranges, yellows, and pinks. The best part is that with the separate warm and cool colors palettes, we don't get the colors all muddy when they accidentally get mixed together. \r\n\r\nWe have been making a lot of art work with these new paints and I am including pictures of some of the art we have been making using them. \r\n\r\nYou are so appreciated, thank you again for supporting my students and our classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1754056465098,"projectUrl":"project/warm-and-cool-color-paints/9506995/","projectTitle":"Warm and Cool Color Paints!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Marzullo","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7071195_orig.jpg?crop=960,960,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1579275634767","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7071195"},{"teacherId":9969129,"projectId":9463240,"letterContent":"My second graders were so excited to start the projects especially when they saw the emotional plush toys and the playdough.\r\nWe did some pumpkins out of playdough and shared their concept of fall and Halloween after finishing their cute project.\r\nMy other class the first graders used the making good choices cards; we shared experiences and ideas on what are the right choices we should make when we are confronted with options.\r\nThe cards made it easier for them to understand and share.\r\nWe deeply appreciate all your support and special mention to The Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation which match our donors share.","fullyFundedDate":1758805798861,"projectUrl":"project/creative-self/9463240/","projectTitle":"Creative Self","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Navarro","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9969129"},{"teacherId":7071195,"projectId":9141921,"letterContent":"Thank you very much for helping me provide snacks for my after school students. They were so excited to see the new art supplies and snacks. We used to get snack everyday at 3 pm at the start of our after school program, and then the students went home for dinner. Then our program started providing dinner for our students but it was not until 4:30pm and they eat lunch at 11 am, so that was really hard for them to go that long between meals without a snack. Your donations helped satiate my students until dinner time at school and they were able to focus on learning rather than being hungry. \r\n\r\nIt was also wonderful getting replacement sharpies and paints for my art students during the day, it was hard doing projects with dried out markers and a lack of orange paint. Thank you for all you do to help my students.","fullyFundedDate":1743010518671,"projectUrl":"project/art-and-hunger/9141921/","projectTitle":"Art and Hunger","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Marzullo","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7071195_orig.jpg?crop=960,960,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1579275634767","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7071195"},{"teacherId":5218777,"projectId":9296448,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donations to this project and helping to get it fully funded for our school library. This project was a great help because with library lessons forever changing it is much easier for books to be grouped together in different bins for students to locate them more easily and so they are also more readily available to everyone. The students now are able to go over to our library shelves and see all of their favorite books together in the book bins and can grab one and check it our for library circulation. When its time for them to go back on the shelves I can now have students helpers as I just have to say bring my the bin and the books go right back on the shelves with no delay. This makes for very happy students. \r\n\r\nThank you also for the bookmarks that students will be creating to hold their page when they are done reading for the moment. We have lots of creative students and they are enjoying the chance to design their own bookmarks. \r\n\r\nThank you once again for helping to keep our library up to date and giving my students the best of everything.","fullyFundedDate":1755723766928,"projectUrl":"project/time-to-organize-books/9296448/","projectTitle":"Time to Organize Books","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Simms","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5218777_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1520878034865","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5218777"},{"teacherId":5218777,"projectId":9268026,"letterContent":"Thank You Donors! I feel I can never find enough thanks for having so many projects fully funded and especially one's during the last week of summer break. My goal last year was to continue to get as many new books the students have wanted to read into our library. My students requested many fun and exciting series to read including our new favorite Pizza and Taco, this was the first week of circulation and all of them flew off the shelves as fast as I was able to process them. The excitement in my students is unmatched. I can't wait to see them in the following days see the other new books from Avatar to Narwal to more of classic Mo Williams books hit our shelves. Thank you for kicking off this new school year with these new books for all of us myself included to read!\r\n\r\nOnce again thank you for all the donors who donated to this project!","fullyFundedDate":1755724134294,"projectUrl":"project/books-that-we-want-to-read/9268026/","projectTitle":"Books That We Want to Read","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Simms","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5218777_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1520878034865","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5218777"},{"teacherId":5218777,"projectId":9309963,"letterContent":"Thank You for donating to this project for helping to finally organize the library. This has been a project that I wanted to do since our library opened years ago but I never had the time nor the supplies to do it until now. \r\nWhen students are circulating throughout the library for books each week they need an easy was to locate books in a short period of time. Now with these books neatly labeled with the alphabet or the Dewey System they will be able to locate books they are looking for, plus I was able to organize all of our paperback books as well. \r\nThank you so much for helping me to get this project ready for our school year in September I know how excited the students will be to finally be independent when looking for a book now that everything will be right at their fingertips!","fullyFundedDate":1746480076729,"projectUrl":"project/time-to-organize-the-library/9309963/","projectTitle":"Time to Organize the Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Simms","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5218777_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1520878034865","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5218777"},{"teacherId":5218777,"projectId":9296382,"letterContent":"Thank You Donors! I feel I can never find enough thanks for having so many projects fully funded and especially one's during teacher appreciation week. As a school librarian I don't always get recognized but having these projects funded makes it all worth it. This year my goal was to finally get things perfect or my idea of perfect in our library. This included a new place to hold my paperback books and thus why I order these large colorful containers to hold them. The one's currently are being held together by duct tape I can't wait to move the books around and to get these on the shelves!!! It's going to look amazing! \r\nNext I asked the kiddos which books they would like to see replaced or added to our collection and one big one was the Harry Potter Series ours have to be at least 15 years old and so now we now have a brand new set to be checked out. They also asked for a couple of copies of the latest Wimpy Kid, Hot Mess and so that was added and they also wanted the set of school supplies to go on strike, they promised they aren't going on strike they just love to read them! Lastly I ordered a few books that I found to be popular so I am giving them a try for our younger readers to enjoy. \r\nOnce again thank you for all the donors who donated to this project!","fullyFundedDate":1746801672241,"projectUrl":"project/we-love-to-read/9296382/","projectTitle":"We Love to Read","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Simms","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5218777_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1520878034865","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5218777"},{"teacherId":5218777,"projectId":9159903,"letterContent":"Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who donated to this project. As the year moves along and books are checked out each week these books take on many battle scars of every day check out from the library. This is one of the reasons I requested book tape and plenty of it. I will use this tape as the band-aids for the book so they can continued be well loved by my students. I also ordered hopefully enough bookmarks to start next September with. With the end of the year approaching quickly I will be holding on to all the bookmarks for September so each student who checks out a book will have one and I will extra throughout the year they can take as needed. These bookmarks will help with no more bunny-ear pages in the corners of our books. Lastly, I ordered book pockets and cards so they can be used in all the new books we just received from other projects that were funded. Having these book pockets and cards make circulation of books go much fast and I have a running record of who checks out which book. \r\nThank You for donating to this project these materials are greatly appreciated by me the school librarian and the students of Gregory School.","fullyFundedDate":1746787133134,"projectUrl":"project/book-care-help/9159903/","projectTitle":"Book Care Help","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Simms","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5218777_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1520878034865","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5218777"},{"teacherId":5218777,"projectId":9159097,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to this project. I can't begin to tell you how much getting is project funded means to me but the students of the Gregory School as well. My biggest job and the most important job as the schools librarian is to make sure my students develop a love of reading and find the joy in opening a book and finding a new adventure awaits them. Without the donor choose site and donors like you this may not of been possible. With this project being funded I was able to have another set of the Dog Man series that I can't keep on my shelves delivered to our school along with the famous Captain Underpants and we can't forget the Bad Kitty and the famous Fly Guy! I was also able to get a few copies of the wild robot which since its release as a movie the kids want to read the book and a few even have told me the book is better! This is a win in my world as movies are great but the book is better! \r\n\r\nThank You again for your support in helping to fully funded this amazing project for books I know my students can't wait to read.","fullyFundedDate":1744215084807,"projectUrl":"project/new-library-books/9159097/","projectTitle":"New Library Books","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Simms","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5218777_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1520878034865","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5218777"},{"teacherId":5218777,"projectId":9168729,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to this project. I know the students are so thrilled to having new crayons and colored pencils to work on our library and makerspace projects each week. Not to mention new pencil holders to keep things organized and a brand new sharpener. The sharpener will be kept behind the circulation counter this time so we have it for many years. The students are already excited to use the new supplies on the thank you cards we are making for our very special donors. Thank you for bring bright creativity back to our library.","fullyFundedDate":1744032893319,"projectUrl":"project/color-in-our-world/9168729/","projectTitle":"Color in Our World","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Simms","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5218777_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1520878034865","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5218777"},{"teacherId":5218777,"projectId":9160213,"letterContent":"Thank to everyone who donated to help our school library to get some new lego kits on our school library makerspace area. These kits are already a big hit. As soon as I unboxed them they were ready to build. The students have loved how they can make so many different creations with them. The plants and the flowers are a great addition to our climate change area, we are doing our best to find each other to do what we can to save the earth and take care of it. \r\nI know these kits will be used for many years to come. I know we will be able to add pieces to them to keep up to date. \r\nThank you again for donating to this project and keeping my students creativity and imagination flowing.","fullyFundedDate":1742753239356,"projectUrl":"project/lego-fun-in-library/9160213/","projectTitle":"Lego Fun in Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Simms","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5218777_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1520878034865","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5218777"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_81712","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":564,"numTeachers":54,"percentFrplEligible":83,"percentAsian":0,"percentBlack":11,"percentWhite":17,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":66,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"K - 6","studentTeacherRatio":"10.4:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"SUBURBAN","ncesMetroType":"SUBURB_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":64.9,"schoolId":81712,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Gregory Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Gregory Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/new-jersey/long-branch-school-district/gregory-elementary-school/81712"}