{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Brick Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":40.3,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":10064523,"projectId":9434816,"letterContent":"Thanks to your generous support, our classroom has been transformed in meaningful ways. My students and I have been putting the new resources to work every single day, and the impact has been immediate and inspiring.\r\n\r\nHow we are using the new resources\r\nWe recently began a hands-on learning project using the materials you provided. One of the most memorable moments was during a math workshop when students used the new manipulatives to model two-digit addition with regrouping. A student who had been struggling finally lit up when she realized she could see and touch the math—something that wasn't possible with our limited supplies before. The room buzzed with excitement as groups collaborated, checked each other's work, and proudly explained their thinking.\r\n\r\nStudents' first reactions\r\nWhen the materials arrived, the students could hardly contain their excitement. Many of them gasped, clapped, or asked, \"Are these really for us?\" They explored everything with wide eyes and big smiles, eager to try each new item. Several said it felt like \"a whole new classroom.\"\r\n\r\nWhat's next for us\r\nRight now, we are working on strengthening both reading and math foundations. The new resources will help us launch small-group stations where students can rotate through targeted practice. In reading, they'll use decodable texts and word work tools to build phonics and fluency. In math, they'll engage in hands-on challenges that support place value, addition within 100, and problem-solving skills.\r\n\r\nThanks to you, my students now have the tools they need to grow with confidence. Your contribution didn't just supply materials—it created opportunities, moments of understanding, and a classroom full of proud learners.\r\n\r\nThank you for believing in us.","fullyFundedDate":1752965162543,"projectUrl":"project/bright-rugs-tidy-tubs-building-a-bett/9434816/","projectTitle":"Bright Rugs & Tidy Tubs: Building a Better Learning Space","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Priest","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10064523_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y277&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1750948347568","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10064523"},{"teacherId":8272548,"projectId":9446258,"letterContent":"What an amazing opportunity I am able to offer to my students! With your generous donations, the theme of our music class school year was pulled together and tied to school literacy and SEL goals! Every student can see themselves on our butterfly wall. Everyone is important and everyone belongs. Everyone adds beauty to our school's landscape. \r\n\r\nEach student will have an amazing keepsake in a passport to remember our year traveling the world through books and music! All students in the school have received a passport. Each month we read a Reading Rainbow book from a different country and then study music and musicians from that same area. We take one class period to record our month of exploring in our passports. \r\n\r\nMy students are so engaged and excited. They cannot WAIT to take their passports home at the end of the year to show their parents! Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1752586443422,"projectUrl":"project/all-in-a-good-book/9446258/","projectTitle":"All In A Good Book","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Barrick","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8272548_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1644080899112","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8272548"},{"teacherId":9928049,"projectId":9190422,"letterContent":"My students were extremely excited when they received the new stools in our classroom. As a newer teacher, I don't have many options for flexible seating, so this was very exciting for my students and myself. They immediately fell in love with the stools and asked to sit in them. Since there were several in the pack, most of the students who wanted them right away, got to use them. \r\nI have found that many of my students utilize these stools when they want to move or sit more freely than a regular chair. This allows them to wiggle and move a little, while also learning. They are also really light and easy to move, so I find myself choosing to use them when I need to pull up a seat next to a student to help them. \r\nThank you again for donating to my classroom. They have changed the way my students are able to learn. My students for many years will be incredibly thankful for your support!","fullyFundedDate":1742954245464,"projectUrl":"project/flexible-seating/9190422/","projectTitle":"Flexible Seating","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Craft","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9928049_orig.jpg?crop=1244,1244,x0,y597&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1742412331388","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9928049"},{"teacherId":8272548,"projectId":9474776,"letterContent":"Starting the year with a cupboard full of needed supplies makes my teacher heart happy! Every year, we run out tissues, hand sanitizer, and wet wipes within the first two months if not earlier. Thanks to your generous donations, we are all set for at least half of the year!\r\n\r\nThe donated baggies allow for quick and easy management of lost teeth during class plus allow me to organize and store some of our smaller items to keep them from getting lost. \r\n\r\nI am most excited about the zipper storage bags and hanging files! All of my 21 classes this year are exploring music around the world and using musical passports to do so. I am able to use the bags to organize the passports by classroom and can use the hanging file to keep all of them organized! It's a big task to keep items for 525 students orderly and these tools are so helpful!","fullyFundedDate":1754087393012,"projectUrl":"project/strong-healthy-start/9474776/","projectTitle":"Strong & Healthy Start","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Barrick","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8272548_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1644080899112","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8272548"},{"teacherId":5524582,"projectId":9027902,"letterContent":"My students love using these books to learn about ecosystems. Thank you for providing my students with a fun and entertaining way to learn this material. These books and activities add an extra layer to the material that we have at school. The books will be used for creating a research project opening the world to the students interest. They will have interesting background information from the books and will be able to complete the assignment with ease.\r\nThank you again for helping my students reach their success.","fullyFundedDate":1744242689819,"projectUrl":"project/ecosystems-and-adaptations/9027902/","projectTitle":"Ecosystems and Adaptations","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Johnson-Wilcox","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5524582_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1531581343658","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5524582"},{"teacherId":8203644,"projectId":9145349,"letterContent":"I can not thank you enough for your support in donating much needed materials to us at Brick! Our students actually helped me unpack some of the donated items and could NOT wait for Brick Bash so they started using several of the playground games during lunch recess...especially on rainy indoor recess days! We have also been using the items during gym class and our SEL (Social Emotional Learning) times. \r\n\r\nYour donation will go on to be used by our students for years to come! We even did a staff/student Human Hungry, Hungry Hippo challenge together!! We will be incorporating the items you donated into our Brick Bash event too. That is a huge celebration where we recognize another amazing school year together.\r\n\r\nPlease know that you are thought of every time we take out once of the games you donated!! I can NOT thank you enough for your kindness and generosity!\r\n\r\nThank you for helping us make education fun for our students!!\r\nTake care,\r\nMichelle Cox","fullyFundedDate":1742954427569,"projectUrl":"project/movement-makers-making-memories/9145349/","projectTitle":"Movement Makers Making Memories","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Cox","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-3_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8203644"},{"teacherId":8272548,"projectId":9294887,"letterContent":"My heart is BURSTING! Thank you so much for your very quick support! Rather than waiting until next year to re-organize my centers, I was able to get things organized and implemented for the last few weeks of school! \r\n\r\nI wish I had gotten a picture of the look on the students' faces as they walked in!! Our old floor dots were faded and stained with numbers written sloppily in sharpie marker. The floor tape centers rectangles had been down to just one frayed side left. We were out of hand sanitizer. We now have the instruments needed for all of our centers. The rainsticks were a hit in our science of sound center!","fullyFundedDate":1746588648750,"projectUrl":"project/centered-on-centers/9294887/","projectTitle":"Centered on Centers","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Barrick","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8272548_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1644080899112","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8272548"},{"teacherId":8272548,"projectId":9125180,"letterContent":"The look on the faces of the students when I opened the box of flutophones was priceless! My third graders did not expect to have a chance to play a woodwind instrument until the end of fourth grade. My expectation was that students would be able to play a song or two by the end of our unit. \r\n\r\nThe students blew that expectation out of the water. Their excitement fueled their engagement and drive for learning. They reached the level of some of our fourth graders in just a few weeks. The third grade classes have been able to learn seven different songs!\r\n\r\nI had another huge benefit from adding flutophones to my classroom. Flutophones are in the same key as recorders. I have been able to use the flutophones as adaptive tools for older students who have been struggling with the recorder.","fullyFundedDate":1740502756110,"projectUrl":"project/flute-tastic-music/9125180/","projectTitle":"Flute-tastic Music","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Barrick","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8272548_orig.jpg?crop=2316,2316,x0,y386&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1644080899112","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8272548"},{"teacherId":8203644,"projectId":9091489,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous donation of a speaker, movie projector and large screen. It has been a relief to know we have these items for when we are planning schoolwide and community events.\r\nThanks to you, we were already able to host a family night with our students and their families. We started the night with a slide show of STEM Projects the students had created. Then we were able to watch a presentation on STEM from NASA. It was a HUGE hit!! Students and adults had a blast:) It was such a huge hit that Brick Student Council has started planning a summer event to help keep our community connected during the summer months!\r\nThank you from the bottom of my heart for allowing us to give our Title 1 students an amazing opportunity! We are looking forward to using the items over and over again!","fullyFundedDate":1741620162253,"projectUrl":"project/learning-together-makes-the-stronger-com/9091489/","projectTitle":"Learning Together Makes the Stronger Community!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Cox","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-3_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8203644"},{"teacherId":5524582,"projectId":9027792,"letterContent":"My students had an amazing time working with these robots. Some students chose to race each other while others chose to make them move in circles. They problem solved the entire time and learned so much. Thank you again for giving my students this chance to work with robots. This activity sparked an interest with many of my students. Hopefully there will be future engineers or scientists. They would not of had this opportunity without you. Thank you so much for giving my students this opportunity.","fullyFundedDate":1738422038891,"projectUrl":"project/learning-with-robots/9027792/","projectTitle":"Learning With Robots","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Johnson-Wilcox","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5524582_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1531581343658","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5524582"},{"teacherId":9938474,"projectId":9150049,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping my students! I was able to get 16 wobble seats for my classroom and the students use all of them every day. All the students were so excited to to see them when they arrived. I could not pump them up quick enough for them.\r\n\r\nI can not believe the change that I have seen in most of the students while using the wobble seats. The first week, I made sure that a couple students who are very unfocused, had a wobble seat to use during the day. It was the first time this year that they actually sat at their desks and completed their work. They were very focused and involved in our classroom discussions. They seemed like totally different students. I think the biggest change that I had seen was during the MStep. All the students who used wobble seats were very focused on the test and actually took their time. I will be very interested to see their results when they come out next fall. \r\n\r\nAgain, thank you so much for helping my students. I am thrilled at the positive results that I am seeing.","fullyFundedDate":1742930253686,"projectUrl":"project/help-focus-on-learning-with-wiggle-seats/9150049/","projectTitle":"Help Focus on Learning with Wiggle Seats","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Cannon","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9938474_orig.jpg?crop=210,210,x0,y1&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1741465582580","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9938474"},{"teacherId":5524582,"projectId":8559598,"letterContent":"The students loved playing decimal war! This really helped my students see visually as well as numerically which decimal number is larger or smaller. They played with partners and enjoyed their time reviewing (even tough they thought they were just playing a game). Thank you for your generosity and giving my students a fun way to review and learn. They will enjoy this game throughout the years. (Some students even asked to play it at recess!) Thank you once again for bringing a joy to learning.","fullyFundedDate":1733330287420,"projectUrl":"project/decimal-review-through-games/8559598/","projectTitle":"Decimal Review Through Games","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Johnson-Wilcox","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5524582_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1531581343658","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5524582"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_72917","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":500,"numTeachers":33,"percentFrplEligible":69,"percentAsian":0,"percentBlack":28,"percentWhite":50,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":7,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"15.2:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"SUBURBAN","ncesMetroType":"SUBURB_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":59.7,"schoolId":72917,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Brick Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Brick Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/michigan/lincoln-consolidated-school-district/brick-elementary-school/72917"}