{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Susick Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":28.9,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":3526312,"projectId":9894330,"letterContent":"We are so excited to be able to learn about butterflies and their life cycle! Not to mention seeing how butterflies grow and hopefully successfully releasing butterflies into nature! We researched and learned that the best time to release butterflies is when the temperature is above 50 degrees. Unfortunately, we will need to wait till late April or May to start the process. We were hoping to include photos, but our photos are due prior to May. We applied for a photo extension to share photos with you. But, if we are not able to share, we truly will treasure these memories! Thank you for your generosity.","fullyFundedDate":1766454293989,"projectUrl":"project/wings-of-wonder/9894330/","projectTitle":"Wings of Wonder","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Baker- Strate","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3526312_orig.png?crop=398,398,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1636401396349","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jillbaker311"},{"teacherId":6826371,"projectId":9597956,"letterContent":"I want to sincerely thank you for your generous contributions to our classroom. Your support has made countless creative and practical projects possible for my third and fourth graders. The white paper bags you provided were quickly transformed into wrapping for the students' handmade ornaments—each one carefully prepared as a heartfelt gift for their parents. The white cardstock you donated has been turned into both Thanksgiving thankful wreaths and a Christmas tessellation tree, sparking conversations about gratitude, geometry, and creativity. These activities not only bring joy but also strengthen skills in art, math, and writing.\r\n\r\nWe've also been able to use so many of the materials in ways that make our learning space more organized and inviting. The fairy lights you gifted add a magical warmth to our room; the students absolutely adore them and never forget to remind me if they aren't turned on! Magnets now hold our class schedules neatly in place, stikki clips organize our daily calendar, and the Ziplock bags help keep project pieces safe—especially when a student's supply box doesn't quite make it through the week. Every item has found a special place in our classroom, and together they create an atmosphere of creativity, care, and excitement for learning.","fullyFundedDate":1759348615990,"projectUrl":"project/classroom-necessities/9597956/","projectTitle":"Classroom Necessities","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. MacKenzie","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-6_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6826371"},{"teacherId":3526312,"projectId":9200132,"letterContent":"Wow! Thank you for making the dream of having a Cricut in the library come to life! My 5th graders have been enjoying learning about how it works and about the different kinds of projects. We are still in the learning stages and are looking forward to all the cool, endless things we can make. \r\n\r\nThis year we have a block called MELT - Media Enrichment Library Time. Each day a teacher signs up for a slot and sends a small group of students to the library for extra media time that is not part of the curriculum. We often use this time as makerspace time, where we create projects with all different materials and supplies. Guess what is really popular.... Yes! Our Cricut is among our favorites. I often forget to take pictures; so enclosed are a few projects that we have done so far.","fullyFundedDate":1743045274846,"projectUrl":"project/design-create-innovate-bringing-a-cri/9200132/","projectTitle":"Design, Create, Innovate: Bringing a Cricut to Our Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Baker- Strate","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3526312_orig.png?crop=398,398,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1636401396349","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jillbaker311"},{"teacherId":3526312,"projectId":9468503,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to our Compassion project. We were excited not only to add new books to our library but to add books to help us be better friends.\r\n\r\nOur school participates in P2 Positivy Project, which is a program that promotes character, actions, and strengthens relationships. It is awesome when students, teachers, and myself can find a book in our library that goes along with a weekly theme. \r\n\r\nOne of the students' favorites is \"Little Spot of Emotions\". Each book has characters that represent different emotions such as anger, love, sadness, kindness, scared, calm, and anxiety. Not only are students engaged with colorful illustrations and characters, but the books can also be great teaching tools to help relate to what's going on in our environment at school.\r\n\r\nEven the social worker has borrowed books for her counseling sessions! As a librarian, I love it when teachers come to the library and look for books, and I can make recommendations. Donors Choose and our project supporters help us purchase a variety of books when our school library budget is so limited, and we truly thank you for that.","fullyFundedDate":1754571566260,"projectUrl":"project/help-me-be-a-better-friend-our-library/9468503/","projectTitle":"Help Me Be a Better Friend: Our Library's Compassion Project","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Baker- Strate","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3526312_orig.png?crop=398,398,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1636401396349","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jillbaker311"},{"teacherId":3526312,"projectId":9470049,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating supplies for our library. We are definitely putting the glue sticks to good use for our holiday activities and crafts that we are creating in the library. We took a couple of pictures. We hope our projects make you smile.\r\n\r\nThe students loved adding new books to our big poster wish list. There's something exciting about writing on big poster paper that my students enjoy. \r\n\r\nThe pencil sharpeners for our table bins are a huge success!!! At least for Mrs. Strate! There is no line to sharpen color pencils anymore! \r\n\r\nThe disinfectant wipes are helping us stay healthy, as the colder weather typically means colds and extra \"germies\".\r\n\r\nThank you again for helping provide things that we can use in the library that benefit everyone.","fullyFundedDate":1753666009356,"projectUrl":"project/wish-beyond-a-shelf-library-back-to-sch/9470049/","projectTitle":"Wish Beyond a Shelf: Library Back to School Wish List","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Baker- Strate","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3526312_orig.png?crop=398,398,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1636401396349","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jillbaker311"},{"teacherId":3526312,"projectId":9626973,"letterContent":"Thank you for the supplies for our Cricut! Now we can make more projects. A couple of students came in during my prep and saw me using Cricut, and they want to know when they get to make something cool too! This is great news for us, as our project has been funded. We now have more vinyl and cardstock to create with. We are getting ready for Book Fair, and my service team of 5th graders are helping make lawn signs to put outside by our driveway to promote the Book Fair! Teachers are also able to create things for their classrooms with the new arrival of materials too. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1756231069458,"projectUrl":"project/essential-supplies-for-our-cricut/9626973/","projectTitle":"Essential Supplies for our Cricut","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Baker- Strate","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3526312_orig.png?crop=398,398,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1636401396349","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jillbaker311"},{"teacherId":3526312,"projectId":9200026,"letterContent":"Thank you for adding to our cookbook collection! This was a fun project and we are so excited to see it funded. Students of all ages are checking out the books.\r\nFirst grade drew you pictures of their favorite foods that they hope to find in the cookbooks. \r\nA third grader checked out a cookbook, made cookies, and brought me some too!\r\nI have great memories of my mom and me baking as a young girl. I hope these cookbooks will inspire future bakers and teach cooking skills that students will use throughout their lives. Cookbooks provide recipes for food, but they can also promote new hobbies and skills that will help in many ways, not to mention build self-esteem, especially when they successfully create something tasty. \r\n\r\nI have also peeked in the Baking Encyclopedia and found a few recipes I want to try too. Maybe I can even promote our new cookbooks to teachers by creating something for a staff potluck. :)","fullyFundedDate":1749574496806,"projectUrl":"project/cooking-up-something-yummy/9200026/","projectTitle":"Cooking Up Something Yummy","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Baker- Strate","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3526312_orig.png?crop=398,398,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1636401396349","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jillbaker311"},{"teacherId":7385194,"projectId":9033761,"letterContent":"My students have absolutely loved having the extra writing materials. When they have a choice to do something in the classroom, most choose to draw or write. Having so many materials to choose from truly makes their day and they live to share their drawings and writing with the other adults in the school. They are so proud and I love watching them create!\r\n\r\nWithout your generous donation, we would not be able to have all of these materials, and the kids love them so much! Thank you again for making our classroom a better place!","fullyFundedDate":1739374005334,"projectUrl":"project/creative-writing-center/9033761/","projectTitle":"Creative Writing Center!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Martz","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7385194_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1651710670352","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7385194"},{"teacherId":3526312,"projectId":8967388,"letterContent":"Thank you for contributing to our game's need a home project. We were able to purchase a shelf that holds our board games in one place! We also were able to obtain small storage boxes for small game pieces and plastic boxes for card games to keep them together! \r\n In the thank you photos that we sent along, you will see that when students are finished playing Operation, all the bones can go in a little box so they don't fall out of the box. I feel, along with my students, that playing a game is so much more exciting when all the pieces are there. \r\n Students are easily able to see what games are available and use time wisely because the games being in one area, so they don't have to search to see what is available. With our baskets, we are not finding random checkers that may have fallen out of the box as it got tilted. \r\nThese storage boxes and baskets have organized our games in such a great way. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1733761244376,"projectUrl":"project/our-games-need-a-home/8967388/","projectTitle":"Our Games Need a Home","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Baker- Strate","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3526312_orig.png?crop=398,398,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1636401396349","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jillbaker311"},{"teacherId":3526312,"projectId":9053540,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to our Real Places, Real People and Real Facts project. Students are fascinated and sharing what they learn from the Weird But True books. Boys are excited to learn more about their favorite soccer players. Students are asking about the places they are reading about in our geography books - famous landmarks around the United States. \r\nThank you for helping us add exciting and current nonfiction books that interest our students for our library. Its awesome to see students excited and interested in nonfiction books and asking for more!","fullyFundedDate":1737675935770,"projectUrl":"project/real-places-real-people-real-facts/9053540/","projectTitle":"Real Places, Real People, Real Facts","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Baker- Strate","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3526312_orig.png?crop=398,398,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1636401396349","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jillbaker311"},{"teacherId":3526312,"projectId":9082519,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to our \"get out the wiggles project\". We are enjoying using cushions around the media center when we are reading or working on different activities such as word puzzles, mazes and seek and finds. \r\nThe stools fit perfectly under our lego table! I wasn't even expecting this. My initial thought was that students could benefit and enjoy sitting at carpet listening to stories or reading independently; so this is a extra bonus. We had high schoolers visit during March Reading month and they even gravitated to the lego table and commented on the cool stools. Since the stools are such a big hit, I am thinking about doing another project in the future so get more stools. \r\nThanks again for your generous donation.","fullyFundedDate":1739374005588,"projectUrl":"project/help-me-get-out-the-wiggles/9082519/","projectTitle":"Help Me Get Out the Wiggles","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Baker- Strate","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3526312_orig.png?crop=398,398,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1636401396349","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jillbaker311"},{"teacherId":3526312,"projectId":8967381,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to our project Groovy I can read. We were so excited to hear that our project was funded and books would be on there way!\r\nThe books came at a perfect time! Our March Reading theme was Reading Rocks and of course when Pete the Cat rocks his blue shoes it's a favorite. When that book was checked out, our library still had several other Pete the Cat books available to choose from. We use Pete the Cat's saying \"its all good\" in the library often. we love that Pete the Cat books have positive messages and the reminder to keep going when things are hard.\r\nWe were especially excited to be able to get Pete the Cat tittles that we did not have in the library collection. Thanks again for your generosity.","fullyFundedDate":1734642180682,"projectUrl":"project/groovy-i-can-read/8967381/","projectTitle":"Groovy, I Can Read","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Baker- Strate","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3526312_orig.png?crop=398,398,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1636401396349","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jillbaker311"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_71096","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":391,"numTeachers":23,"percentFrplEligible":95,"percentAsian":16,"percentBlack":10,"percentWhite":62,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":4,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"17.0:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_SMALL"},"inStateSupporters":71.1,"schoolId":71096,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Susick Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Susick Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/michigan/warren-consolidated-school-district/susick-elementary-school/71096"}