{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Wilson Wims Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":29.2,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":1545031,"projectId":9797041,"letterContent":"The books under the Rick Riordan Presents imprint are amazing and they line up so well with our curriculum, too! These books are culturally diverse and have so many types of mythologies from around the world: Hindu, Mayan, Aztec, Korean, Cuban, African-American & West African, Mexican, Mesopotamian, Korean, Hmong, Ghanaian, Chinese, Navajo, and Philippine. I introduced these books to students as soon as they all arrived and immediately I had students telling me where they were born or where their grandparents live. They were eager to read the mythologies that related to them.","fullyFundedDate":1762009316724,"projectUrl":"project/rick-riordan-presents-library-books/9797041/","projectTitle":"Rick Riordan Presents Library Books","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hall","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1545031_orig.jpg?crop=820,820,x631,y154&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725550409870","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/hall226"},{"teacherId":1545031,"projectId":9810423,"letterContent":"The Branches books have been the most popular books in the library since they arrived. I moved them to a special bookshelf so they weren't spread out based on the author's last name. This makes it easier for our students to find, especially the younger readers.\r\n\r\nThe most popular series has been Press Start. Students say they like it because it reminds them of the video games they play at home. Owl Diaries and Dragon Masters are the next most popular. Students love that they're reading a chapter book, but that the books are on the shorter side. Readers feel empowered that they can finish a whole book.","fullyFundedDate":1761953006275,"projectUrl":"project/scholastic-branches-library-books/9810423/","projectTitle":"Scholastic Branches Library Books","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hall","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1545031_orig.jpg?crop=820,820,x631,y154&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725550409870","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/hall226"},{"teacherId":1545031,"projectId":9766255,"letterContent":"The consumable materials you bought us are anything but basic! As I unveiled the box of goodies, students were talking about different crafts they could make. The marshmallows went from building towers, creating clouds in a landscape, to just plain wanting to eat them. The white paper plates sparked ideas like a dream catcher, paint palate, and noise maker. When students saw the gum drops and the toothpicks, everyone immediately thought of connecting the gumdrops using the toothpicks to make different shapes and structures.\r\n\r\nYesterday, I worked with a group of 10 students to build catapults thanks to the Capstone book, rubber bands, craft sticks, and spoon. Some students excelled with tying a rubber band (mainly the girls with long hair used to hair ties) while others struggled. It was amazing to watch how each student put in effort and never gave up. One student was even someone's personal cheerleader saying that it's okay to take it slow and giving multiple options for how to accomplish the task.","fullyFundedDate":1761148751637,"projectUrl":"project/stem-challenges-in-the-library/9766255/","projectTitle":"STEM Challenges in the Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hall","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1545031_orig.jpg?crop=820,820,x631,y154&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725550409870","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/hall226"},{"teacherId":1545031,"projectId":9743138,"letterContent":"Thank you for giving our students Magna-Tiles to use in the library at their Makerspace station. Students told me they love Magna-Tiles because it gives students a chance to be creative and to construct. As an educator, I love Magna-Tiles because they are so versatile. Students can work on their own, with a buddy, or with a group. Students are using critical thinking skills and building collaboration skills, too.\r\n\r\nMy most recent group of students built a Christmas village with a road circling it. Students got paper and colored pencils and created street names and labeled buildings. It was amazing to see their creativity blossom!","fullyFundedDate":1758841396977,"projectUrl":"project/stem-magna-tiles-in-the-library/9743138/","projectTitle":"STEM Magna-Tiles in the Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hall","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1545031_orig.jpg?crop=820,820,x631,y154&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725550409870","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/hall226"},{"teacherId":1545031,"projectId":9749908,"letterContent":"The game Kanoodle was a huge hit! Our students were intrigued right away when they found out it was a competitive puzzle. Students became even more invested when they learned the first one to solve the puzzle was able to flip their opponent's work board. Lots of laughs and fun was had all while students were critical thinking. \r\n\r\nWatching students quickly troubleshoot while playing Kanoodle reminded me of lessons I teach about coding. If a function doesn't work the way the student wants it to, then they need to rethink what their commands are rather than blame the computer. It is very humbling to watch.","fullyFundedDate":1758910646719,"projectUrl":"project/elementary-video-game-design/9749908/","projectTitle":"Elementary Video Game Design","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hall","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1545031_orig.jpg?crop=820,820,x631,y154&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725550409870","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/hall226"},{"teacherId":1545031,"projectId":9700181,"letterContent":"Our students are so happy to have the books on financial literacy. The books prompted students to have conversations about taxes at the book fair, starting their own businesses (dog walkers and babysitters were popular), and when their parent took them to open a bank account. \r\n\r\nOne of the lessons we'll do is give students a budget to plan a dream vacation somewhere in the United States to work along the social studies curriculum. Another lessons is about trading and bartering during the colonial time period. The books also support the idea of taxes during the Scholastic book fair this past week.","fullyFundedDate":1758290747942,"projectUrl":"project/books-about-financial-literacy/9700181/","projectTitle":"Books about Financial Literacy","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hall","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1545031_orig.jpg?crop=820,820,x631,y154&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725550409870","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/hall226"},{"teacherId":1545031,"projectId":9743230,"letterContent":"We're off to a great start with the plants! Our Library Leaders (students in fourth and fifth grade who use recess time to help in the library) have already taken control of the air plants. Library Leaders come in the library in the morning on Mondays and dunk the air plants in water. Then another group of Library Leaders comes in at recess and takes the air plants out to dry off. A third group of Library Leaders comes in the afternoon to put the air plants back in the library window. \r\n\r\nIn the next couple weeks, I'll work with kindergarteners on planting seeds so we can watch them grow throughout the year.\r\n\r\nThank you for making this possible!","fullyFundedDate":1758823535082,"projectUrl":"project/growing-plants-in-the-library/9743230/","projectTitle":"Growing (Plants) in the Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hall","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1545031_orig.jpg?crop=820,820,x631,y154&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725550409870","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/hall226"},{"teacherId":1545031,"projectId":9752678,"letterContent":"I have never see kids so happy to look for books. Once we talked about how to treat the spinning bookcases (one person at a time and turn the book self slowly) we had a line of students ready to try them out. \r\n\r\nWe put DC comics, Marvel graphic novels, books about Pokemon, Star Wars, Legos, and My Little Pony on one of the spinners. Another shelf has books by Rick Riordan Presents which are longer chapter books about mythologies from all over the world. The final spinners have Branches books by Scholastic which are shorter chapter books and a have colorful pictures. \r\n\r\nWhen many of these books where on the shelfs, we debated getting rid of them due to the infrequent circulation. Luckily, when we changed their placement, they became popular again to the point where whole series have been borrowed. \r\n\r\nThank you for making some old books feel loved and new again!","fullyFundedDate":1758910546114,"projectUrl":"project/browsing-in-the-library/9752678/","projectTitle":"Browsing in the Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hall","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1545031_orig.jpg?crop=820,820,x631,y154&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725550409870","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/hall226"},{"teacherId":1545031,"projectId":9296707,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating to this project. The cardboard magazine file holders have been a game changer...or will be! The magazine holders have call numbers on them in the everybody section (picture books). I explained to students that the magazines holders are there to help students locate the correct book by using the author's last name. Next month, I'll teach the lesson to all students in grades 2-5 as they also learn about our online catalog and how to find the book in the library. \r\n\r\nThe books about using the library have been wonderful to pull out and share with students as they ask questions or to remind students have expectations. Our younger students have also enjoyed borrowing those so they can share the book with their family.","fullyFundedDate":1746787202281,"projectUrl":"project/library-organization/9296707/","projectTitle":"Library Organization","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hall","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1545031_orig.jpg?crop=820,820,x631,y154&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725550409870","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/hall226"},{"teacherId":1545031,"projectId":9180705,"letterContent":"Some of our students have traveled to visit different states and other countries. Most have never left the state. These country books give everyone a glimpse into countries they may never visit, or the books may start a hunger to travel. \r\n\r\nThe first books to go were on countries were some of our student's parents are from- \"do we have a book in France? That's were my mom is from. \" \"my grandma lives in El Salvador, do we have a book on that?\"\r\n\r\nI plan to take the books we have from 2014 and have students compare a country from one of the books published in 2025 so students can see how much (or little) a country has changed in 10 years.","fullyFundedDate":1744236619053,"projectUrl":"project/traveling-the-world-through-books-ii/9180705/","projectTitle":"Traveling the World Through Books II","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hall","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1545031_orig.jpg?crop=820,820,x631,y154&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725550409870","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/hall226"},{"teacherId":1545031,"projectId":9278344,"letterContent":"I introduced students to the Black-Eyed Susan books this week. At first, the kids just looked at the books like they were any other book. But then, I did book talks (something like a summary of the book) and showed students the differnt ways the books were laid out (font, verse, pictures), and that's when the excitement built. Each class had at least one student who wanted to check one of the books out immediately, but I had to tell them I needed them for my other classes. \r\n\r\nNow one excited kid out of 30 may not seem like a lot to you, but in a library filled with thousands of books, it's a win when a student in this, fourth, or fifth grade is interested in the 20 I've shared.","fullyFundedDate":1755741713327,"projectUrl":"project/black-eyed-susan-reading-program-chapter/9278344/","projectTitle":"Black-Eyed Susan Reading Program Chapter Books and Graphic Novels","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hall","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1545031_orig.jpg?crop=820,820,x631,y154&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725550409870","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/hall226"},{"teacherId":1545031,"projectId":9277912,"letterContent":"I introduced students to the Black-Eyed Susan books this week. At first, the kids just looked at the books like they were any other book. But then, I did book talks (something like a summary of the book) and students were able to flip through the book's to see the pictures, and that's when the excitement built. Each class had at least two students who wanted to check one of the books out immediately, but I had to tell them I needed them for my other classes. \r\n\r\nNow two excited kids out of 30 may not seem like a lot to you, but in a library filled with thousands of books, it's a win when two students are interested in the 15 I've shared.","fullyFundedDate":1746806015858,"projectUrl":"project/black-eyed-susan-reading-program-picture/9277912/","projectTitle":"Black-Eyed Susan Reading Program Picture Books","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hall","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp1545031_orig.jpg?crop=820,820,x631,y154&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1725550409870","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/hall226"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_107428","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":484,"numTeachers":63,"percentFrplEligible":17,"percentAsian":36,"percentBlack":25,"percentWhite":18,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":12,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"Pre-K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"7.7:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":false,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"SUBURBAN","ncesMetroType":"SUBURB_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":70.8,"schoolId":107428,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Wilson Wims Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Wilson Wims Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/maryland/montgomery-county-public-schools/wilson-wims-elementary-school/107428"}