{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Russell Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":28.3,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":9446815,"projectId":9428848,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your incredible support of our DonorsChoose project, Books to Build a Brighter Future. Your generosity brought a wonderful collection of read-aloud books into our classroom, and they have already made a remarkable difference in our learning environment.\r\n\r\nThe students were immediately captivated. They laughed, engaged deeply with the stories, and even asked for several of the books to be read again and again. These read-alouds have helped them better understand our knowledge building curriculum, especially the social-emotional learning portion, and I've already seen them begin to apply those skills during our lab activities.\r\n\r\nOther books introduced students to inventors, builders, and the creative process. Through these stories, they gained a clearer understanding of how ideas grow from initial planning to problem-solving to final creation. This directly inspired their own work as they designed and built their \"magnificent things,\" making the lessons both meaningful and memorable.\r\n\r\nYour donations did far more than supply books, you opened doors to imagination, curiosity, and character development. Thank you for investing in our students and for helping them see themselves as readers, thinkers, and creators.","fullyFundedDate":1756398541104,"projectUrl":"project/books-to-build-brighter-futures/9428848/","projectTitle":"Books to Build Brighter Futures","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Mizner","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-8_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9446815"},{"teacherId":5503552,"projectId":8694025,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous donation to my classroom! These awesome I Survived books and math manipulatives will be used for years to come. My students LOVE I Survived books and I often use them to teach small groups. They are exciting and not too long. We even got one about something that happened in our state. \r\nThe math manipulatives target a tough concept in fourth grade, telling time and elapsed time. They will help so much!\r\nThank you for your generosity. We would not have these resources without your contributions to our project.","fullyFundedDate":1724601114362,"projectUrl":"project/4th-grade-book-sets-and-manipulatives/8694025/","projectTitle":"4th Grade Book Sets and Manipulatives","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Seaman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5503552_orig.jpg?crop=3300,3300,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659678718158","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5503552"},{"teacherId":5503552,"projectId":8364134,"letterContent":"Thank you for your incredible contribution to our classrooms. We are so thankful to have the support of Donors like you.\r\nStoryworks is one of the most powerful tools I use in my classroom, and this resource would not be possible without your generosity.\r\nOur students love to read the engaging stories and access the website to explore all of the resources and videos for the current issues. They also love to access the videos, read alouds, and resources from their amazing archive that includes many years of past stories.\r\nStoryworks is one of the most powerful resources I use. Thank you for helping make it possible in my classroom.","fullyFundedDate":1717504036389,"projectUrl":"project/storyworks-for-4th-graders/8364134/","projectTitle":"Storyworks for 4th Graders","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Seaman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5503552_orig.jpg?crop=3300,3300,x0,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1659678718158","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5503552"},{"teacherId":2310546,"projectId":8936431,"letterContent":"Your generosity meant the world to our students last year! With the items we purchased, we were able to immerse ourselves into learning about how the earth changes through the eyes of paleontologists. \r\nStudents were digging for dinosaurs, using tools that \"real\" paleontologists might use. We sculpted models of dinosaurs. These hands on experiences, connected with and made our reading and science content so much more meaningful.\r\nWe used our new knowledge to craft narrative stories about discovering dinosaur bones in the wild. We were able to celebrate our learning by inviting our school community to a \"mini-museum\", where we shared our dinosaurs, our stories, and our new learning about how fossils are formed and how the earth changes over time.\r\nThank you for supporting our students!","fullyFundedDate":1731525011513,"projectUrl":"project/digging-dinosaurs/8936431/","projectTitle":"Digging Dinosaurs","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Molloy","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp2310546_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1476639824427","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/jenmolloy"},{"teacherId":3081485,"projectId":9142921,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping us get the American Revolution books. We are thrilled to be able to read more about this interesting topic. With these books, I will be able to help my students build their background knowledge on this topic. By building their background knowledge they will be able to understand more readings on this topic or be able to comprehend more books when they mention this period in history. \r\n\r\nReading in the classroom is different everyday. We are reading independently, together with partners or even as a whole class. Sometimes, we spend time just looking at pictures and learning how to read the information in a picture. Did you know that there is a lot you can infer from a picture without reading the text? Then when you read the text, the words should match what is being told to you in the picture. We love to just tell one another what we think is going on in pictures before reading the text. \r\n\r\nI would have to say that all of my students are loving these books. Many of them have heard of the American Revolution, but don't know very much about the topic. Now, they are asking more questions and looking for more books to answer those questions. They love reading and then come tell me what they just learned. So, I am learning more right along with them. It has been an exciting time in our classroom. Thank you again for helping us learn about this time in history.","fullyFundedDate":1744201404652,"projectUrl":"project/american-revolution-knowledge-base/9142921/","projectTitle":"American Revolution Knowledge Base","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Whatman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3081485_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1637810413579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3081485"},{"teacherId":3081485,"projectId":9066657,"letterContent":"My fourth grade students want to say a HUGE thank you to all of you who supported our project. We received a large amount of books to use with our Animal Defense Mechanism unit. We were able to research animals to find out more about how they defend themselves. Did you know that the Gazelle jumps up to make itself look larger to scare its predators away? We didn't either. \r\n We were able to also get many choose-your-own-adventure books. We are so excited to read these. These are giving us so many ideas on how to write our own adventure books about the animals we researched. Thank you for giving us more books to read and we our devouring these books. In fact, we keep asking our teacher if she will buy some more for our classroom. We have enjoyed reading this \"new\" genre. \r\n As a teacher, I have never seen this kind of excitement in students about reading in quite sometime. These books were pure joy to introduce and then to see them talking to one another about what they were finding out. Each day, they are sharing new facts with me. In fact, after 20+ years of teaching, I have to admit I am learning new facts myself. It is a pleasure to learn right alongside my students. \r\n Thank you again for getting these books into the hands of my students.","fullyFundedDate":1737695271139,"projectUrl":"project/animal-defense-mechanisms/9066657/","projectTitle":"Animal Defense Mechanisms","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Whatman","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp3081485_orig.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1637810413579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/3081485"},{"teacherId":9788578,"projectId":8851748,"letterContent":"Thank you for donating copies of Peter Pan and the Aesop fable, The Ants and the Grasshopper. We have been working with knowledge rich curriculum materials to dive deeper into learning this year. The results have been amazing! Our students are more engaged - reading, writing and thinking at higher levels, and it is only February.\r\n\r\nWe just started our module for Peter Pan. We have two essential questions as we explore the story and author. \"How do writers capture a reader's imagination?\" and \"What can we learn from reading literary classics? The copies of Peter Pan are igniting students imagination with lovely illustrations and timeless text. And we are making connections to other literary classics that our important to our families, culture, country and world. \r\n\r\nThis transformational learning model would not be possible without the books you donated.","fullyFundedDate":1728100307499,"projectUrl":"project/building-knowledge-rich-curriculum/8851748/","projectTitle":"Building Knowledge-Rich Curriculum","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Wright","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9788578"},{"teacherId":4320652,"projectId":8695346,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous donation to our classroom library. It has been amazing to see my second graders engaged in the new books during their independent reading time. They have also enjoyed taking them home to share with their family members. \r\n\r\nIn second grade we continue learning to read and also begin focusing on reading to learn. My students have had the opportunity to practice using the skills were learning whole group when they're reading independently. They practices sequencing, cause and effect, main idea, key details, and more! With the books you provided, they've been able to have choice when practicing their reading skills!","fullyFundedDate":1724599765522,"projectUrl":"project/books-belong-in-kids-hands/8695346/","projectTitle":"Books Belong in Kids' Hands!","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Judge","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4320652_orig.jpg?crop=1442,1442,x138,y0&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1662935965677","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/msjudgemt"},{"teacherId":9706848,"projectId":8718689,"letterContent":"Thank you for helping provide resources to help our students succeed. Our students have been actively participating in a new motor group at our school, designed to enhance both fine and gross motor skills with the materials that we were able to purchase. With the help of our new resources, we've completed engaging fine motor craft projects. To support gross motor development, we've used tools like bubbles and animal dice, which have made movement-based activities both fun and effective. These hands-on projects and activities are helping our students build essential skills, setting them up for success in their school environment.\r\n\r\nOur students have had fun engaging in our activities promoting improved fine motor and gross motor skills. Moving forward, our focus is on expanding these lessons and to continue to foster their growth and confidence with their fine motor and gross motor skills. With these resources, we're thrilled to see how our students will continue to develop and thrive as their skills are already improving. Thank you for your generous support.","fullyFundedDate":1727064758821,"projectUrl":"project/ot-for-student-success/8718689/","projectTitle":"OT For Student Success","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Morgan","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-5_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9706848"},{"teacherId":9702447,"projectId":8696085,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your support of our literacy program here in the Honeybee classroom at Russell elementary. We have already put to use the word building activities in our literacy centers. These centers are independent center where students use their letter-sound knowledge to build words! We are becoming confident readers and writers when we practice word building.\r\nWe have also begun to share all the wonderful books that were purchased for our classroom. These native American titles have been important for many of us to learn about stories from other cultures, but for native American students to see their own culture represented in our classroom. These stories are important to building an inclusive program!","fullyFundedDate":1724605254171,"projectUrl":"project/kindergarten-literacy-enrichment/8696085/","projectTitle":"Kindergarten Literacy Enrichment","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Schendel","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-4_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9702447"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_78597","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":385,"numTeachers":26,"percentFrplEligible":59,"percentAsian":2,"percentBlack":1,"percentWhite":76,"percentIndigenous":5,"percentLatinx":8,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"Pre-K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"14.8:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_SMALL"},"inStateSupporters":71.7,"schoolId":78597,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Russell Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Russell Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/montana/missoula-county-public-school-district-1/russell-elementary-school/78597"}