{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Irene H King Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":24.6,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":4806988,"projectId":10557581,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for making our classroom printer possible! Your generosity has made such a difference in our classroom, and we are incredibly grateful.\r\n\r\nMost recently, our printer helped make our Willy Wonka classroom party truly magical! We were able to print our own Wonka chocolate bar wrappers, bringing the theme to life and making the experience extra special for our students. Seeing their excitement over the little details made it all worthwhile!\r\n\r\nBut the magic doesn't stop there! Our printer has become an everyday part of our classroom. From learning activities and colorful resources to student projects and even creating their very own stickers, our students get to bring their ideas to life in ways that wouldn't be possible without it.\r\n\r\nYour donation has given us more than just a printer. It has given our students opportunities to be creative, hands-on, and excited about learning. It is being used constantly, and its impact reaches far beyond what we could have imagined.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in our students, supporting our classroom, and helping us create memorable learning experiences. We truly appreciate your kindness and generosity!\r\n\r\nWith gratitude,\r\n\r\nOur Classroom ❤️","fullyFundedDate":1788110900401,"projectUrl":"project/ink-for-ideas-bringing-learning-to-life/10557581/","projectTitle":"Ink for Ideas: Bringing Learning to Life","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Petrek","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4806988_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1505756540859","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrspetrek"},{"teacherId":10556875,"projectId":10390548,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation to our classroom! These supplies have made a meaningful difference in our daily routines and have helped create a more engaging, organized, and healthy learning environment for my students. As a teacher, having access to essential classroom materials makes it easier to provide students with meaningful learning experiences while ensuring that our classroom remains a clean and welcoming space. Each item donated has served an important purpose in supporting my students' academic growth, creativity, and overall well-being.\r\n\r\nThe EXPO markers have become an essential part of our everyday math instruction. My students use them daily to solve problems, show their mathematical thinking, and practice new skills. Whether we are working through multi-step problems, practicing multiplication and division, or exploring new mathematical concepts, these markers allow students to actively participate in lessons and demonstrate their understanding. Having enough markers available means that students can consistently engage in hands-on learning activities without worrying about running out of supplies. These markers also make it easy for students to erase their work, correct mistakes, and try different strategies as they work toward finding solutions. This encourages students to view mistakes as opportunities to learn and helps build their confidence in mathematics.\r\n\r\nThe hand sanitizer and Lysol spray have also been incredibly helpful in maintaining a clean and healthy classroom environment. With students sharing materials, working together, and learning in close proximity throughout the school day, it is important to take steps to reduce the spread of germs. The hand sanitizer allows students to clean their hands throughout the day, especially when soap and water are not immediately available. The Lysol spray helps me keep appropriate classroom surfaces clean and sanitized according to product directions and school guidelines. Having these supplies readily available supports healthy habits and helps students understand the importance of taking care of themselves and the people around them. By helping maintain a cleaner learning environment, these supplies allow us to focus more on learning and less on preventable disruptions to our school day.\r\n\r\nThe anchor chart markers have made a wonderful impact on our reading instruction as well. We have used these markers to create colorful, engaging anchor charts that are displayed around our classroom for students to reference during lessons and independent work. These charts help reinforce important reading strategies, skills, and concepts that we discuss in class. By visually organizing information, we give students an additional way to understand and remember what they are learning. The anchor charts also serve as helpful reminders when students need support with applying reading strategies, organizing their thoughts, or completing assignments independently. Using different colors allows us to emphasize key information, organize ideas, and make our classroom displays more engaging and accessible to learners.\r\n\r\nOverall, this donation has had a positive impact on both teaching and learning in our classroom. These supplies may seem like everyday necessities, but they play a significant role in helping students participate actively in lessons, develop independence, practice healthy habits, and build confidence in their abilities. Because of this generosity, my students have access to materials that support their daily learning experiences across multiple subjects. I am incredibly grateful for the support and kindness shown to our classroom. Donations like this remind us that even small contributions can make a lasting difference in students' educational experiences. Thank you for investing in our classroom and helping provide my students with the resources they need to learn, grow, and succeed!","fullyFundedDate":1786508761592,"projectUrl":"project/classroom-essentials/10390548/","projectTitle":"Classroom Essentials","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Suiters","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10556875"},{"teacherId":4806988,"projectId":10262865,"letterContent":"The tennis balls on our classroom chairs have made a noticeable difference in our learning environment! By helping reduce the noise of chairs scraping and moving across the floor, they have made our classroom significantly quieter during lessons, transitions, and independent work.\r\n\r\nThis simple addition has helped minimize distractions and allows students to move their chairs without creating a loud disruption. A quieter classroom makes it easier for students to hear directions, stay focused, and engage in their learning.\r\n\r\nMy students have also learned to be more mindful of the noise they create and how it affects others. What started as a simple solution to noisy chairs has become another way we are building a calm, respectful, and focused classroom environment.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping us create a quieter space where my students can learn, concentrate, and be successful!","fullyFundedDate":1785170145147,"projectUrl":"project/quiet-classroom-focused-mind/10262865/","projectTitle":"Quiet Classroom, Focused Mind","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Petrek","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4806988_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1505756540859","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrspetrek"},{"teacherId":4806988,"projectId":10156736,"letterContent":"Our rainbow drawers have made a wonderful difference in our third-grade classroom! Students now have an organized, colorful, and easy-to-use system for storing and accessing classroom supplies. Instead of searching through bins or asking where materials belong, students know exactly where to find what they need and where to put it back.\r\n\r\nThe drawers have also helped our classroom run more smoothly. Students are becoming more independent with managing supplies, transitions are quicker, and there is less time spent searching for materials. The bright colors make the organization system especially easy for students to remember and navigate.\r\n\r\nMost importantly, the drawers have helped create a classroom environment that feels organized, welcoming, and student-friendly. My students have taken ownership of the system and enjoy having a designated place for our classroom materials. This may seem like a simple organizational tool, but it has made a daily difference in helping my students become more independent and ready to learn.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping bring this project to life and for making our classroom a more organized and joyful place to learn!","fullyFundedDate":1779222249542,"projectUrl":"project/colorful-organization-for-confident-read/10156736/","projectTitle":"Colorful Organization for Confident Readers","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Petrek","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4806988_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1505756540859","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrspetrek"},{"teacherId":2206269,"projectId":10416890,"letterContent":"Thank you SO Much for your donation. We have discussed as a class how our classroom economy will run. We have determined our monthly salaries, monthly expenses, agreed upon our fines and fees, and have discussed being money conscience. We also completed a lesson on \"wants vs needs\" to help us understand that sometimes we have to spend money on our needs in order to be successful! The students are SO excited! We have created wallets and discussed how to keep our money safe. \r\n\r\nAs the packages were arriving with all the goodies, the students were getting more and more motivated to earn class cash! \r\n\r\nOur monthly Salaries are going to be handed out next week and by the end of September students will be ready to start spending their profits on their \"wants\".","fullyFundedDate":1786366947020,"projectUrl":"project/class-economy-rewards/10416890/","projectTitle":"Class Economy Rewards","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Novak","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2206269"},{"teacherId":10480798,"projectId":10200612,"letterContent":"My students and I are using the new resources to make our lessons more hands-on, engaging, and interactive. When my students first saw the materials, they were excited and eager to explore and use them during our lessons. We are currently using them in math to build our understanding of place value, compare numbers, and explain our thinking with partners. Our next steps are to continue practicing these skills and apply them to real-world problems, helping students become more confident and independent learners.","fullyFundedDate":1779222252262,"projectUrl":"project/first-year-teacher-needs/10200612/","projectTitle":"First Year Teacher Needs!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Kendrick","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10480798_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1787439652557","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10480798"},{"teacherId":3636489,"projectId":9860164,"letterContent":"Thank you so very much for your generous donation. Because of your thoughtfulness and generosity, my caring kinders have been excited and eager to explore the new activities. \r\n To introduce the new activities to them, I had them close their eyes and do a drum roll. They were ecstatic when they opened their eyes and saw the new activities. I heard happy screams and cheering and saw big smiles on their faces, especially when they got to explore them. \r\n Their first exploration was during our Global School Play Day. We continued to explore them during learning stations for the remainder of the week. My caring kinders love and deserve to explore in play-based learning. These activities have allowed them to do just that. Thank you again for providing fun and engaging activities that tie play and learning together. They will be cherished for years to come with future caring kinders.","fullyFundedDate":1762267597876,"projectUrl":"project/bubble-rocket-learning-exploration/9860164/","projectTitle":"Bubble & Rocket Learning Exploration","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. F.","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3636489_orig.jpg?crop=390,390,x46,y91&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1718592349709","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-filipow"},{"teacherId":4806988,"projectId":9825629,"letterContent":"I wanted to sincerely thank you for funding for literacy resources from Teachers Pay Teachers. I truly appreciate your support of our third-grade reading program.\r\n\r\nThese materials will make an immediate and meaningful impact on student learning. Having access to targeted, standards-aligned resources allows me to better differentiate instruction, strengthen comprehension skills, and keep students engaged with high-quality content.\r\n\r\nYour investment in our classroom directly supports student growth and helps ensure we are meeting the diverse needs of all learners. I am grateful for your continued commitment to providing the tools we need to help our students succeed.\r\n\r\nThank you again for your support.","fullyFundedDate":1769177205433,"projectUrl":"project/tpt-treasures-for-terrific-third-graders/9825629/","projectTitle":"TPT Treasures for Terrific Third Graders","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Petrek","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp4806988_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1505756540859","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrspetrek"},{"teacherId":9702674,"projectId":9588311,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation of bilingual Spanish texts for our classroom. These books have made an incredible difference for my students, and I want to share a little about what your support has helped us accomplish.\r\n\r\nWe recently completed our benchmark assessments, and the growth we saw in Spanish reading was remarkable. We now have more students performing at or above grade level than ever before, and these bilingual texts have played a meaningful role in that success.\r\n\r\nOverall, these bilingual books have transformed our reading time into a space where all students feel capable, represented, and excited to learn. Thank you for believing in our classroom and for giving my students the tools to grow as readers in both languages. Your generosity is making a daily difference.","fullyFundedDate":1756077472266,"projectUrl":"project/bilingual-spanish-chapter-books/9588311/","projectTitle":"(Bilingual) Spanish Chapter Books","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Vazquez","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9702674_orig.png?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1743097301275","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9702674"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_27349","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":432,"numTeachers":38,"percentFrplEligible":86,"percentAsian":1,"percentBlack":10,"percentWhite":21,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":62,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":3,"gradesServed":"Pre-K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"11.4:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"SUBURBAN","ncesMetroType":"SUBURB_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":75.4,"schoolId":27349,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Irene H King Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Irene H King Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/illinois/valley-view-cmty-sd-365-u/irene-h-king-elementary-school/27349"}