{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Warwick Community School","outOfStateSupporters":16.7,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":10058256,"projectId":9476803,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your donations to our classroom. By providing our students with high quality literature, we've been able to expose them to cultures and traditions that exist within the families of our own classroom as well as those outside of our classroom. During the fall, students would \"fly\" to different countries where these traditions are found and get their passport stamped! \r\n\r\nWe traveled to Poland to learn about my families traditions of making pierogies at Thanksgiving, and students then helped to make and cook them! We discussed indigenous traditions of planting the Three Sisters and how they help each other grow. Students made diagrams of the Three Sisters, sang songs about it, practiced their fine motor skills in plucking corn kernels from their husks and then made art using the seeds of the three sisters. Families in our class came in to share about traditions of St Nicholas Day from Turkey, the Feast of the Seven Fishes from Italy, and Hannukah from Israel. We also explored Lunar New Year as a way to explore traditions outside our own classroom, and we compared and contrasted how people celebrate Christmas around the world. \r\n\r\nThank you again for your contributions, it has helped to expand our students' horizons and build empathy and understanding!","fullyFundedDate":1755698935726,"projectUrl":"project/diverse-literature-to-celebrate-cultural/9476803/","projectTitle":"Diverse Literature to Celebrate Cultural Traditions","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Christina","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10058256_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y504&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1750958115062","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10058256"},{"teacherId":5808465,"projectId":9469265,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation to Warwick Community School's music program! Because of you, our students now have access to several new tubanos of various heights and widths, and these are routinely the students' favorite drumming options! \r\n\r\nThe kinesthetic piece of getting the kids up and moving while they engage rhythmically with music cannot be underestimated. For students who get around in a wheel chair, these drums elevate the playing surface to their chair height, making drumming infinitely more accessible. Students rotate through these drums, trying each one to feel the difference in the playing experience for each height and width. Our young musicians use the tubanos for simultaneously imitating rhythmic patterns, creating and improvising their own rhythmic patterns, and playing in sync with one another in a drum circle or other kind of ensemble. In the coming months, these instruments will also be used to add ambience and musical accompaniment to our upcoming school play. This has been especially important to students who do not feel comfortable with singing or acting on stage; for them, these tubanos have given another avenue for valuable contribution to this theatrical and musical process. \r\n\r\nIn short, your donation has brought variety, engagement, movement, inclusion, hands-on learning, and pure joy to our music classroom. Thank you for valuing arts instruction in public schools and making this all possible for our students.","fullyFundedDate":1759246296563,"projectUrl":"project/ensuring-music-making-is-accessible-for/9469265/","projectTitle":"Ensuring Music-Making is Accessible for Students of All Mobility Levels","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Nettie","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5808465_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1689296958825","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5808465"},{"teacherId":5808465,"projectId":9465157,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation to our music classroom at Warwick Community School! Because of you, each child is able to engage in active music making whenever they enter our classroom. \r\n\r\nWe begin each class with students entering the classroom to one of their favorite songs. With musicality and self-control, students interact with the music. This might mean clapping, body percussion, stomping, singing, finding the steady beat, etc. When students look warmed up, they each get one of the djembes that you donated. They use these djembes first to find the steady beat of the music, identify the meter, and then engage in simultaneous imitation of rhythms that work well within the song. They identify the repeating pattern, and then we assign a new repeating rhythmic pattern to the next section of the song. In this way, students are then able to identify the different sections that make up the form of the song. This leads to finding the patterns of chords that make up the melody of each section, and our ukuleles are tremendously helpful in this way. We often use both percussion and melodic instruments to add an improvisational section of the song. Before we know it, students are experiencing, analyzing, and making music that is a meaningful and relevant part of their everyday home life, but they are doing in ways that leverage musical skills that we learn in class. \r\n\r\nWhen our students have the opportunity to experience and engage with their own music in this way, they understand that their favorite composers, song writers, and musicians very intentionally go through this same process when they create the songs that the students love so much. This primes students to see the relevance of music study in their lives and helps them to understand that music-making is not just for a few who are born with a special talent, but it it is an accessible and enriching part of life for all of us. It also gets us ready to experience and analyze music from a variety of cultures and genres. I have students who are now proud to have their own notebooks at home for writing their own songs and melodies in the styles of the music they and their families enjoy, and students like sharing these with their friends. Some of these will likely be performed by students in our upcoming school play. \r\n\r\nPlease know that this joyful, agentive, musical exploration is made possible each day because of your willingness to contribute to the arts in public schools. For that, we cannot thank you enough!","fullyFundedDate":1755698935481,"projectUrl":"project/ukes-and-percussion-for-all/9465157/","projectTitle":"Ukes and Percussion for All!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Nettie","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5808465_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1689296958825","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5808465"},{"teacherId":10058256,"projectId":9419456,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your support in this project and creating accessible and flexible seating choices for students in my class. When introduced to the chairs at the beginning of the year they were so excited, and enjoyed taking turns learning to use the chairs during our whole group learning. The chairs have two different height options for students which allows them to find a way that's comfortable for them. The chairs can offer physical support for students with low core strength and low tone, but also motivating for students who need support to join group activities. In addition, the chairs are able to be used around our classroom to offer the same support and motivation during small group learning, and in creative spaces like our dramatic play to allow students to incorporate them into their play. Thank you again for supporting our growing preschool classroom and the growing needs of our students.","fullyFundedDate":1755698935369,"projectUrl":"project/accessibility-for-all/9419456/","projectTitle":"Accessibility for All!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Christina","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10058256_orig.jpg?crop=3024,3024,x0,y504&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1750958115062","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10058256"},{"teacherId":5808465,"projectId":9454819,"letterContent":"This summer, you chose to donate to our school's music program to help us purchase new xylophones for our students, and it has made an amazing difference. We now have ten xylophones all together--bass, tenor, alto, and soprano. With these instruments, the students have dramatically increased their engagement and excitement about music class! Take a look: \r\n\r\n* Our young musicians are regularly creating music as part of an ensemble, and they rotate through all the parts so they can get a sense of different instrument sounds and how each small part contributes to the whole piece. \r\n\r\n* Students are learning about intervals--the distance between pitches--and this understanding is helping them to learn to play their own favorite songs, making their music learning relevant and meaningful. \r\n\r\n* The instruments you helped us to purchase have removable bars, so I can include only the pitches within the key of the piece that we're playing. This helps them to focus their learning on particular pitches within a scale and use them to create improvisational melodies that will always sound like it fits in the song. The satisfaction and confidence this creates in the learner is so inspiring!\r\n\r\n* Students have learned to play a bordun on their xylophones to accompany a song. They can play the first and fifth pitch of a scale (do and sol) as an ostinato. This provides a harmonic structure as we sing a melody, and helps students to hear the importance of their role as musicians in the ensemble. \r\n\r\nAll of these learning targets are possible because of you. You have ensured that we have the resources needed to involve all kids in active and joyful music-making. These activities provide students with their own intrinsic motivation to hear the success of our ensemble, and for that we could not be more thankful.","fullyFundedDate":1752586571160,"projectUrl":"project/orff-instruments-for-actively-engaged-c/9454819/","projectTitle":"Orff Instruments for Actively Engaged, Confident, Joyful, and Connected Musicians","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Nettie","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5808465_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1689296958825","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5808465"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_134126","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":27,"numTeachers":null,"percentFrplEligible":44,"percentAsian":0,"percentBlack":0,"percentWhite":88,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":3,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"Pre-K - 6","studentTeacherRatio":null,"demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"RURAL","ncesMetroType":"RURAL_DISTANT"},"inStateSupporters":83.3,"schoolId":134126,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Warwick Community School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Warwick Community School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/massachusetts/warwick-community-school-district/warwick-elementary-school/134126"}