{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Montezuma Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":62.1,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":4921182,"projectId":9730194,"letterContent":"I am incredibly moved by your generosity and support for my elementary music students. Thank you for recognizing that while music class is a place of joy and creativity, it can also be a whirlwind of sensory input.\r\n\r\nElementary music is often loud, fast-paced, and emotionally charged. For many students, the transition from a quiet hallway to a room full of rhythmic drumming or high-energy singing can be overwhelming. Your contribution ensures that when a student feels overstimulated or frustrated by a challenging new skill, they don't have to \"just power through.\"\r\n\r\nInstead, they now have a dedicated Calming Corner—a safe harbor within our classroom.\r\n\r\nWith the funds you provided, our classroom will now feature:\r\n\r\nA Bean Bag Chair: Providing a soft, defined space for a student to physically decompress.\r\n\r\nA Weighted Stuffed Animal: Offering grounding \"deep pressure\" input to help soothe anxious nervous systems.\r\n\r\nSensory Fidgets: Tools to help students channel restless energy and focus their minds while they breathe and reset.\r\n\r\nBy supporting this project, you are helping me create a more inclusive environment. You've given my students the tools to practice self-regulation and emotional resilience. When a student can take a five-minute break to regain their balance, they return to the ensemble more focused, more confident, and ready to make music again.\r\n\r\nThank you for investing in both the musical and emotional growth of these wonderful children. Your kindness will be felt in every quiet moment and every joyful note we play.","fullyFundedDate":1760693563859,"projectUrl":"project/take-a-break/9730194/","projectTitle":"Take a Break","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Macke","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4921182_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723660234156","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/angela-macke"},{"teacherId":4921182,"projectId":9479281,"letterContent":"I am immensely grateful to you for providing my elementary music classroom with cleaning supplies. This project provided us a carpet sweeper, dry mop and broom for the tile, dusters for instruments and surfaces, white board magnetic cleaning wipes to erase and additional cleaning clothes for instruments, materials and other surfaces. \r\nWith the entire school coming through my classroom every week, it can make a bit of a mess. Since my students sit on the floor, it's important to me to keep it clean. Thanks to the carpet sweeper, I can quickly pick up wood chips from the playground, bits of paper and other trash that accumulate through the day. And it is light enough for my students to move. \r\nThe dusters have helped wipe down our xylophones from dust and clean up under the windows when dirt blows in. My white boards have never been cleaner thanks to the microfiber wipes, and thanks to the magnet, they never get lost or misplaced. \r\nOur custodians work so hard, I am grateful for the tools to do cleanups in between and make sure our music room is ready every day for students. A clean and tidy classroom makes all the difference to our young musicians, thank you for providing these supplies.","fullyFundedDate":1758636692956,"projectUrl":"project/tidy-up/9479281/","projectTitle":"Tidy Up!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Macke","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4921182_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723660234156","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/angela-macke"},{"teacherId":4921182,"projectId":9478779,"letterContent":"My students are so excited for our new percussion instruments. When the boxes arrived, my students helped carry them to the music room. Each box made an interesting and fun sound. It was a great conversation as they tried to guess what kind of instrument was inside. \r\nWe've used the shaker, seed rattles and shekere as part of steady beat and understanding the many different sounds shakers can make. The rainstick is being used in Pass the Pumpkin, one of my students favorite games this time of year. I use the finger cymbals as an extremely effective and musical attention getter.\r\nI am grateful to you for your funding and support. These instruments are fun and engaging, just the way an elementary music classroom should be. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1757423972326,"projectUrl":"project/create-a-beat/9478779/","projectTitle":"Create a Beat","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Macke","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4921182_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723660234156","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/angela-macke"},{"teacherId":4921182,"projectId":9215154,"letterContent":"Wow, the impact your project has had on my elementary music students is just amazing. Let me explain. This project was for puppets to use in music class, and my students just adore them. Puppets are extremely useful for encouraging students to sing. I use them to have my students echo, and they love to hold them and sing back. For my youngest students, I have planned an entire unit around each of the animals. These thematic lessons are exciting and fun for all of us. \r\nMy older students love the puppets also. They use them in creative play and storytelling. Even singing warmups are more fun with the puppets. \r\nMy students love to name them also. We have Pop Tart, Cheddar and Green Bean so far. Each week another puppet gets a name. It's fun. \r\nThank you for making this happen. It's hard to explain how excited they are, but let me assure you they adore each of them.","fullyFundedDate":1747342249514,"projectUrl":"project/sing-play-puppet/9215154/","projectTitle":"Sing, Play, Puppet!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Macke","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4921182_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723660234156","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/angela-macke"},{"teacherId":4921182,"projectId":9258570,"letterContent":"Wow, you have absolutely saved my prep time and my sanity! Providing my elementary music classroom with a Roadie 3 automatic tuner is a total gamechanger. Thank you!\r\nTuning a class set of ukuleles used to take me forever. The strings would be out of tune the next day and I would have to do it all again. Now I can just click down the line and quickly get them ready to play in a fraction of the time. \r\nIt's a great tool. I select ukulele and it automatically knows what each string should tune to. I place it on the tuning peg, pluck the string and it adjusts the tension to be in tune. Since it works on vibration and not sound, I can even tune an instrument in a noisy classroom when a peg gets bumped or turned. \r\nIt's so easy to use, I can teach students to use and they can also assist in tuning the instruments. That's great for their ownership and leadership in the music classroom. \r\nThank you so much! This is a tool I never knew I needed, but it's become completely essential and is being used daily.","fullyFundedDate":1748036802257,"projectUrl":"project/a-quick-tune-up/9258570/","projectTitle":"A Quick Tune Up","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Macke","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4921182_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723660234156","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/angela-macke"},{"teacherId":4921182,"projectId":9133076,"letterContent":"I am immensely grateful to you for providing my K-5 music students with markers, clipboards, dry erase pouches and dry erase markers to use in the music classroom. My students were so excited to see our new supplies, where every marker works and all the colors are available. \r\nThe reusable paper pouches allow me to make fewer copies and reuse materials between classes. They can be written on with a dry erase marker and wiped clean to use again. \r\nIn a classroom with no desks, the clipboards will help my students compose, write, draw and create. The colors are fun and vivid, as learning should be. \r\nI am grateful to you for bringing these supplies into my classroom. They will be used all year long and are a huge upgrade from the random assortment of art supplies we had before. Thank you so much!","fullyFundedDate":1742384899541,"projectUrl":"project/creating-with-color/9133076/","projectTitle":"Creating with Color","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Macke","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4921182_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723660234156","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/angela-macke"},{"teacherId":4921182,"projectId":9010839,"letterContent":"Children's books are incredible. They take you to far away places, unleash your imagination and draw you into the pictures and story. In my music classroom, it is one of my absolute favorite activities to take a book and build an engaging lesson through added song, creative movement, student composition or improvisation or dance. \r\nThis project brought so many new books into my elementary music classroom. My second and third graders will be using Jon Klassen's \"That's Not My Hat\" books to explore triple meter, adding song and sound effects to a story, student created music using drums and xylophones and retelling the story of \"Where's My Hat\". My K-1 students are enjoying books like \"I'm Going on a Bear Hunt\" to use music to tell a story and to move our bodies safely to add movement to a story. My 4-5 students are adding recorder into their story books in addition to xylophones and unpitched percussion. \r\nIt's so exciting to see the magic of these books come to life. Your generosity made that possible. I am so deeply grateful, thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1734798992230,"projectUrl":"project/sing-and-play-through-stories/9010839/","projectTitle":"Sing and Play Through Stories","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Macke","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4921182_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723660234156","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/angela-macke"},{"teacherId":4921182,"projectId":8898443,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generous support of a sticker store for student incentives in my music classroom. This project purchased a huge assortment of stickers. Sports, animals, movie and cartoon characters, food, positive affirmations and music were some of the many different types of stickers I was able to provide my students. \r\nA sticker is a simple, yet huge way to recognize and reward students for making positive choices. For my youngest students, they receive immediate positive reinforcement for making a good choice. My oldest students love to organize and put out the new stickers each week and are always thinking of what they can do that's extra to earn a sticker. It's such a simple thing, yet makes a huge impact on my students. Thank you for your support in making these incentives available to my kids.","fullyFundedDate":1733286365313,"projectUrl":"project/sticker-store/8898443/","projectTitle":"Sticker Store","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Macke","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp4921182_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1723660234156","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/angela-macke"},{"teacherId":9684008,"projectId":8669465,"letterContent":"We are so grateful for the opportunity to practice yoga and mindfulness with our students. We have used the funds you donated to purchase yoga mats, yoga cards explaining the movements and poses, and more. Our students were especially thrilled by the yoga mats! Not only did they feel like they made yoga club more \"official\" and \"special\", but this only made it so they can wear socks during yoga without sliding around. Prior to your donation, our students could not wear socks or they would slide all over the gym floor. This has been even more appreciated this winter as the gym and its floor have been extremely cold.\r\n\r\nOur students are so excited to use these materials every day! They love their new mats and often try to pick their favorite color or match mats with a friend. These are materials that can be used again and again. We look forward to continuing the tradition of yoga and mindfulness club thanks to your support.","fullyFundedDate":1731469212745,"projectUrl":"project/yoga-and-mindfulness-club/8669465/","projectTitle":"Yoga and Mindfulness Club","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Ashley","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9684008_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1753111905135","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9684008"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_82447","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":344,"numTeachers":33,"percentFrplEligible":52,"percentAsian":0,"percentBlack":2,"percentWhite":16,"percentIndigenous":7,"percentLatinx":67,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"10.4:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":37.9,"schoolId":82447,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Montezuma Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Montezuma Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/new-mexico/albuquerque-public-schools/montezuma-elementary-school/82447"}