{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":true,"callToActionDisplayName":"Kalamazoo RESA Head Start","outOfStateSupporters":38.7,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":10510702,"projectId":10288300,"letterContent":"Thank you so extremely much for our new classroom things. We were all so happy and excited to use everything. \r\nWe used the Magna tiles to practice a small group lesson for waiting and taking turns. We practiced asking for the animal magnets. They were so excited to use the animal magnets. And completely amazed at the color changing breathing ball. \r\nWe got to use the ball to practice taking deep breathes. \r\nThe timer is extremely useful and we are using it everyday. The sensory kit is amazing and the children were mesmerized . \r\n We will continue to use the number Magnatiles for teaching numbers and adoption. We can use them for when we read Pete the Cats Four Groovy Buttons. \r\nWe will continue to keep using the timer daily and the breathing ball will stay in the calm center. It has help the children take the deepest breaths. They are convinced when they blow on the ball, they change the color with their breath. Thank you so much for bringing a smile to our faces and donating some new toys and objects to support our learning. We are strengthening our bodies and brains. Thank you! We can't thank you enough.","fullyFundedDate":1779413017167,"projectUrl":"project/marvelous-magnets/10288300/","projectTitle":"Marvelous Magnets","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Desiree","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-2_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10510702"},{"teacherId":7300319,"projectId":10201415,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donation to \"Cutting Since Covid.\" I didn't realize how much I enjoyed using my machine for different projects until it quit working. I love personalizing items for my students. From ornaments for the family, to calming sensory bottles, writing tablets, and backpacks. I also used it for staff moral building making shirts, and bulletin boards. \r\nBeing able to have a machine cut out items for projects makes lesson planning so much easier. As a teacher that can be a lot when prefor 18 students. Thank you again for your generous donation.","fullyFundedDate":1780226039271,"projectUrl":"project/cutting-since-covid/10201415/","projectTitle":"Cutting Since Covid","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Tiffany","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7300319_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1593986115540","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7300319"},{"teacherId":7387499,"projectId":10051368,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our project, \"Strong Bodies, Ready Minds: Pre-K Movement Materials!\" My students were so excited when they first saw the new materials! They immediately wanted to explore, move, climb, balance, and try new challenges. These resources have given us more opportunities to incorporate movement into our daily classroom routines while making physical activity fun and engaging.\r\n\r\nMy students are using the materials during gross motor activities, choice time, and outdoor play. I love watching them encourage one another, take turns, and build confidence as they try something new. These materials are helping my students strengthen their coordination, balance, and large-motor skills while also developing important social-emotional skills like teamwork and perseverance.\r\n\r\nThank you for helping create a classroom where young children can learn through movement, play, and hands-on experiences. Your generosity is making a meaningful difference in our classroom, and we are so grateful for your support!","fullyFundedDate":1774963779885,"projectUrl":"project/strong-bodies-ready-minds-pre-k-moveme/10051368/","projectTitle":"Strong Bodies, Ready Minds: Pre-K Movement Materials","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. B","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7387499_orig.jpg?crop=1131,1131,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1628794177295","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7387499"},{"teacherId":4873959,"projectId":10125580,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting our classroom through funding our Donors Choose project! Your generosity has helped put more little people into the hands of our three-year-old students, giving them new opportunities to create stories, act out ideas, and bring their imaginations to life. These simple toys have opened the door to so many meaningful moments of play, conversation, and creativity in our classroom.\r\n\r\n Because of your support, our students are not only playing—they are becoming storytellers, problem-solvers, and imaginative thinkers. Watching them use the little people to create characters, build different worlds, and develop their own stories has been truly special. Thank you for investing in our young learners and helping make their classroom experience more engaging, creative, and full of possibilities. Your kindness makes a difference every day!","fullyFundedDate":1777640355532,"projectUrl":"project/little-people-big-imagination-helping/10125580/","projectTitle":"Little People, Big Imagination: Helping Stories Come to Life!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Pontius","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4873959_orig.jpg?crop=546,546,x907,y122&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1625795216666","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-pclassroomt"},{"teacherId":6380354,"projectId":10243915,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping provide our students with a fun educational end of the year gift! We are excited to encourage reading over the summer and the sand toys, picture frames for memories, and lots of other fun things. These are great to continue working on learning new things, whether they are home or on the go! We have had such a great school year, we are excited to give them this at the end of the year! These fun tools will also help them prepare for that big transition into Kindergarten. Thank you again!","fullyFundedDate":1778521011491,"projectUrl":"project/summer-fun/10243915/","projectTitle":"Summer Fun!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Sneary","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6380354_orig.jpg?crop=1080,1080,x0,y104&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1554899609385","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/mrs-sneary"},{"teacherId":6582952,"projectId":9258136,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your donation! Our students were able to take home a bag of goodies to help kick off their summer! When our students saw the bags, they were so excited! A couple of students tried opening everything right then and there!\r\n\r\nWe are currently wrapping up our current school year and have a project live to give our current students the same items you provided for our students last school year. We are so grateful for you and your support for our classroom. We are excited to wrap up this school year and enjoy these last few days with our kiddos.","fullyFundedDate":1745587343348,"projectUrl":"project/ending-the-year-in-style/9258136/","projectTitle":"Ending the Year in Style","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Ruoff","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6582952_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1570105076179","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6582952"},{"teacherId":7300319,"projectId":10005258,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donation to \"Feeling the Fun!\" I have quite a few students that love tactile items. Being able to feel the sand and slime helps them to calm and regulate their bodies. The Kentic sand has been a huge hit. The students have enjoyed different items in the sensory table. Recently we added insects while we are learning about them. \r\nThe sand slime was a new experience. It is a huge hit and seeing the colors mix was exciting to see. Thank you one again for your generosity and helping to make this year amazing.","fullyFundedDate":1770391395903,"projectUrl":"project/feeling-the-fun/10005258/","projectTitle":"Feeling the Fun!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Tiffany","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7300319_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1593986115540","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7300319"},{"teacherId":6582952,"projectId":9965534,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your donation to this project! Our students have absolutely loved getting their books throughout this school year! Each of our students look forward to their birthday and are so excited to receive their birthday book! By having these books, our students are able to build foundational reading skills. This year, our students have been learning how to operate books and that words have meaning. \r\n\r\nDuring our read aloud time, our students are focused on the story. Our students enjoy offering their opinions on that is going to happen in the story or what they would do differently from the main characters. Our students have become obsessed with interactive stories, specifically when we use felt pieces. Our students spend a lot of time in our classroom library reading stories and asking to be read to.\r\n\r\nWe are so grateful for your donation to this project because now our students are able to take their love of learning home.","fullyFundedDate":1766152478283,"projectUrl":"project/books-and-dough/9965534/","projectTitle":"Books and Dough","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Ruoff","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp6582952_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1570105076179","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/6582952"},{"teacherId":9987689,"projectId":9748768,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for choosing my classroom's project! The importance of it for me was that we had only previously had a small pink and purple castle as a \"dollhouse.\" I was really hoping for something larger, sturdy, and appealing to both boys and girls to exercise their dramatic play time. My photos include one of a student pretending a shelving unit was a dollhouse before we had this one, so you can see what we were working with.\r\n\r\nWhen my co-teacher and I did the big reveal, all of the children were so excited. We have a certain amount of kids allowed in each play area during choice time. They didn't fight over it (thankfully), but the new dollhouse was a highly sought after place to be! I'm delighted to report that we typically have even more boy activity with the dollhouse than we do with the girls, though they also love it.\r\n\r\nDramatic play for our young learners helps them learn and develop many social skills, as well as problem solving strategies. I'm so happy you have provided our littles better opportunities to engage in this with their peers. Thank you very much, from all of us.","fullyFundedDate":1767239995142,"projectUrl":"project/help-bring-home-play-to-class/9748768/","projectTitle":"Help Bring Home Play to Class!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Gerin","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9987689_orig.jpg?crop=480,480,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1758647944828","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9987689"},{"teacherId":7300319,"projectId":9964936,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donation to \"Marbles and Magnets!\" I was so excited to see my students create marble runs with these amazing blocks. They loved playing with the traditional plastics tube marble runs but I knew the creativity would flourish with the use of these wooden blocks. \r\nThese are now the favorite toy in the classroom. We received these just in time for our simple machines unit study and we began by making ramps and comparing how far the marbles rolled. My students have worked so well together making different tracks and racing their marbles. I have really enjoyed watching them think through different ways to make the marbles move. Thank you again for making this possible.","fullyFundedDate":1766112609297,"projectUrl":"project/marbles-and-magnets/9964936/","projectTitle":"Marbles and Magnets!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Tiffany","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7300319_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1593986115540","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7300319"},{"teacherId":7300319,"projectId":9938262,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donation to \"Big Feelings and Little Bottles.\" It was great being able to share these feelings bottles with families. It was fun sharing with the families some of the tools and ideas we use in the classroom when children are upset. The parents like that they would be able to use some of the same resources that we use in the classroom at home. \r\nA family shared that their younger child at home also enjoy the faces on the bottle and smiles when he sees them and shakes them. Thank you again for making this home school connection possible.","fullyFundedDate":1765991263506,"projectUrl":"project/big-feelings-and-little-bottles/9938262/","projectTitle":"Big Feelings and Little Bottles","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Tiffany","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7300319_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1593986115540","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7300319"},{"teacherId":7300319,"projectId":9818669,"letterContent":"Thank you for your donation to \"Writing Everywhere.\" My students love writing with these LCD boards. I enjoy the ease of not looking for and needing paper and writing utensils and The convenience of being able to write on the go. We are now to the point of the year when we \"Write the room Wednesday.\" Every Wednesday the students walk around the room and write as many letters, numbers or shapes that they can find. They enjoy this activity and look forward to it. \r\nI am also excited that I will once again be able to send each student home with their own LCD board at the end of the school year. I love giving them the opportunity to continue their love of writing. Thank you again for your support.","fullyFundedDate":1764599319565,"projectUrl":"project/writing-everywhere/9818669/","projectTitle":"Writing Everywhere!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Tiffany","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7300319_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1593986115540","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7300319"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_107164","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":null,"numTeachers":null,"percentFrplEligible":65,"percentAsian":0,"percentBlack":44,"percentWhite":39,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":4,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"US Census Data for the surrounding geographic area","percentHawaiianImputed":0,"percentMultiracialImputed":10,"gradesServed":"Not specified","studentTeacherRatio":null,"demographicsDataSource":"Census ZCTA","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"UNCLASSIFIED","ncesMetroType":null},"inStateSupporters":61.3,"schoolId":107164,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Kalamazoo RESA Head Start on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Kalamazoo RESA Head Start","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/michigan/office-of-head-start/kalamazoo-resa-head-start/107164"}