{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Ritter Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":58.1,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":10038250,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generosity and support of our school incentive program. Your donation brought many wonderful supplies to our school store. The students are very motivated to do their best in school when they have the opportunity to earn reward tokens to purchase prizes. The various types prizes we were able to add were various scented pencils, erasable pens with animal toppers, and squishy mochi animals. Thank you for taking the time and monetary support to our fabulous students. The excitement on their faces when they saw the new items in the store was priceless.","fullyFundedDate":1768934762943,"projectUrl":"project/rewarding-remarkable-raccoons/10038250/","projectTitle":"Rewarding Remarkable Raccoons","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"},{"teacherId":9496394,"projectId":9495702,"letterContent":"Because of your generous support, our library now has a lovely starter collection of puppets, interactive books, and a flannel board that has transformed literacy learning doe our autistic support and kindergarten students. The flannel board, in particular, has led to increased hands-on literacy practice and noticeably higher student engagement. These materials fivd students meaningful, multisensory ways to interact with stories build language skills, and participate at their own comfort level.\r\nEach time I incorporate these resources into our library lessons, students light up with excitement. They are eager to participate, retelling stories, and explore books in ways that feel fun and accessible to terms. These moments of joy, confidence, and learning would not be possible without your generosity th","fullyFundedDate":1757423987013,"projectUrl":"project/engaging-all-learners-puppets-manipula/9495702/","projectTitle":"Engaging All Learners: Puppets, Manipulatives, and Interactive Books for Literacy","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hoimes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9496394_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1721772094015","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9496394"},{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":9875025,"letterContent":"We are incredibly grateful for your generous contribution, which allowed us to purchase high-quality flashlights and batteries for our school's emergency kits. In the event of a power outage or an unexpected emergency, these tools are essential for maintaining a calm and safe environment for our students and staff. Your support does more than just provide gear; it offers us the peace of mind that comes with being truly prepared. Thank you for investing in the safety and well-being of our school community.","fullyFundedDate":1768500719565,"projectUrl":"project/lighting-the-way-to-safety/9875025/","projectTitle":"Lighting the Way to Safety","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"},{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":10024038,"letterContent":"I am so excited and appreciative for the support received to restock our food carts in our school. Students should not be hungry at school, we know that learning cannot occur when your body doesn't have the fuel it needs. These carts provide a place for students to go when they are in need of a snack to get through the day. These unexpected circumstances occur more than most people realize at school. Thank you so much for providing the resources needed to have a food cart full of healthy child friendly snacks to keep our students learning! \r\n Thank you for your generosity and support to bring 100 pairs of children's socks to our school. We are now fully stocked with all sizes to meet the needs of all our students. The stress of wet and cold feet is not as overwhelming when you can change and get back to class quickly with little disruption for all. We are so thankful for your assistance with restocking our socks and easing their burden of finding a change of socks for the students when they have wet feet during the school day. \r\n\r\nMany, many thanks.","fullyFundedDate":1768673802292,"projectUrl":"project/hungry-and-wet-no-more-restock/10024038/","projectTitle":"Hungry and Wet, No More Restock","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"},{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":9821313,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generosity and support of our school incentive program. Your donation brought many wonderful incentives to our classroom reward store. The students are very motivated to do their best in school when they have the opportunity to earn reward tokens to purchase prizes. The prizes we were able to add were various Smencil smelly pencils in many fun scents that kids like. Your support helps keep our reward store stocked and enticing to students. Thank you for taking the time and monetary support to our fabulous students.","fullyFundedDate":1768500869077,"projectUrl":"project/rewarding-raccoons/9821313/","projectTitle":"Rewarding Raccoons","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"},{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":9821264,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your support to my classroom Social Emotional Learning initiative and incentives . Our students are motivated to do their best and receive rewards good behavior and hard work. The coloring books are a place that students can express themselves and allow freedoms for expression. The new fun and exciting incentive items including smelly stickers, smelly pencils, smelly gel pens, smelly bookmarks and smelly stickers smell so good, the stickers are so excited to redeem their school tokens to have. Your generosity will bring will bring many smiles to my students. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1760553255304,"projectUrl":"project/cool-calm-and-colored/9821264/","projectTitle":"Cool, Calm, and Colored","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"},{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":9263060,"letterContent":"Your support to our school garden is very much appreciated! The garden teepee has been something we have wanted to add to our garden for several years. We planted pumpkins that were in our classrooms. Several classrooms studied the life cycle of a pumpkin and watched a pumpkin decompose all winter and regrow in the spring. The pumpkins have been moved into the school garden and will be the plants to become our teepee.\r\n The kids will be so excited once the teepee starts to grow, during the summer months the garden doesn't have as many students visiting as during the school year. In the fall students will be able to go into the teepee and be surrounded by our pumpkin vines. So exciting! Many, many thanks for your generous support.","fullyFundedDate":1746557931519,"projectUrl":"project/garden-teepee-for-our-school-garden/9263060/","projectTitle":"Garden Teepee for Our School Garden","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"},{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":9329330,"letterContent":"Your support to our school garden is very much appreciated! The garden lawn mower is absolutely beautiful and amazing! It is a fabulous addition to our school garden. We now have the opportunity to cut the grass with this amazing battery powered lawn mower. Our old human powered push mower is a student favorite, but this lawn mower will make cutting the grass so much easier. The kids were so excited to see that they can help with mowing the grass in our beautiful garden. Many, many thanks for your generous support.","fullyFundedDate":1746669184230,"projectUrl":"project/garden-mow-magic/9329330/","projectTitle":"Garden Mow Magic","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"},{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":9303961,"letterContent":"Your support to our school garden is very much appreciated! The garden shed is absolutely beautiful and amazing! It is a fabulous addition to our school garden. We now have so much room to store our garden supplies. The shelving has given us a place to put all our tools, gloves and garden essentials. The corner tool organizer is perfect for all our long handled tools.\r\n\r\n The kids were so excited to see the \"little house\" in the garden. To their surprise it's not a place to play in the garden, but a beautiful place to keep our garden supplies safe! Many, many thanks for your generous support.","fullyFundedDate":1746496036893,"projectUrl":"project/garden-storage-shed/9303961/","projectTitle":"Garden Storage Shed","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"},{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":9105953,"letterContent":"I am so excited and appreciative for the support received to restock our food carts in our school. Students should not be hungry at school, we know that learning cannot occur when your body doesn't have the fuel it needs. These carts will provide a place for students to go when they are in need of a snack to get through the day. These unexpected circumstances occur more than most people realize at school. Thank you so much for providing the resources needed to have a food cart full of healthy child friendly snacks to keep our students learning! 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