{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Ritter Elementary School","outOfStateSupporters":58.2,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":9821264,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your support to my classroom Social Emotional Learning initiative and incentives . Our students are motivated to do their best and receive rewards good behavior and hard work. The coloring books are a place that students can express themselves and allow freedoms for expression. The new fun and exciting incentive items including smelly stickers, smelly pencils, smelly gel pens, smelly bookmarks and smelly stickers smell so good, the stickers are so excited to redeem their school tokens to have. Your generosity will bring will bring many smiles to my students. Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1760553255304,"projectUrl":"project/cool-calm-and-colored/9821264/","projectTitle":"Cool, Calm, and Colored","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"},{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":9263060,"letterContent":"Your support to our school garden is very much appreciated! The garden teepee has been something we have wanted to add to our garden for several years. We planted pumpkins that were in our classrooms. Several classrooms studied the life cycle of a pumpkin and watched a pumpkin decompose all winter and regrow in the spring. The pumpkins have been moved into the school garden and will be the plants to become our teepee.\r\n The kids will be so excited once the teepee starts to grow, during the summer months the garden doesn't have as many students visiting as during the school year. In the fall students will be able to go into the teepee and be surrounded by our pumpkin vines. So exciting! Many, many thanks for your generous support.","fullyFundedDate":1746557931519,"projectUrl":"project/garden-teepee-for-our-school-garden/9263060/","projectTitle":"Garden Teepee for Our School Garden","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"},{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":9329330,"letterContent":"Your support to our school garden is very much appreciated! The garden lawn mower is absolutely beautiful and amazing! It is a fabulous addition to our school garden. We now have the opportunity to cut the grass with this amazing battery powered lawn mower. Our old human powered push mower is a student favorite, but this lawn mower will make cutting the grass so much easier. The kids were so excited to see that they can help with mowing the grass in our beautiful garden. Many, many thanks for your generous support.","fullyFundedDate":1746669184230,"projectUrl":"project/garden-mow-magic/9329330/","projectTitle":"Garden Mow Magic","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"},{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":9303961,"letterContent":"Your support to our school garden is very much appreciated! The garden shed is absolutely beautiful and amazing! It is a fabulous addition to our school garden. We now have so much room to store our garden supplies. The shelving has given us a place to put all our tools, gloves and garden essentials. The corner tool organizer is perfect for all our long handled tools.\r\n\r\n The kids were so excited to see the \"little house\" in the garden. To their surprise it's not a place to play in the garden, but a beautiful place to keep our garden supplies safe! Many, many thanks for your generous support.","fullyFundedDate":1746496036893,"projectUrl":"project/garden-storage-shed/9303961/","projectTitle":"Garden Storage Shed","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"},{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":9105953,"letterContent":"I am so excited and appreciative for the support received to restock our food carts in our school. Students should not be hungry at school, we know that learning cannot occur when your body doesn't have the fuel it needs. These carts will provide a place for students to go when they are in need of a snack to get through the day. These unexpected circumstances occur more than most people realize at school. Thank you so much for providing the resources needed to have a food cart full of healthy child friendly snacks to keep our students learning! Thank you!","fullyFundedDate":1745979765485,"projectUrl":"project/hungry-no-more-restock/9105953/","projectTitle":"Hungry No More, Restock!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"},{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":9004379,"letterContent":"Thank you for supporting the purchase of decodable books that were needed to help students become more successful when reading. The decodable books are beautiful and colorful and contain simple sentences that practice specific beginning reading phonics skills.\r\n\r\nThese books have allowed students to read with ease and build their confidence and self esteem. The students were so excited to read the book with ease and asked for another book. They continued to ask for books and were so excited to be reading. Many students successful read several books in just a few minutes. These books are a fantastic addition to our classroom. Many may thanks!","fullyFundedDate":1734497718493,"projectUrl":"project/i-can-read-part-2/9004379/","projectTitle":"I Can Read Part 2","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"},{"teacherId":9496394,"projectId":8661401,"letterContent":"Thank you for your kind donations of these books. With your donation, I was able to purchase a selection of age-appropriate, high demand Manga titles for our students to check out in the school library. Our school is so lucky to have supporters like you! \r\n\r\nMy oldest reluctant readers have been excitedly flocking to the cart filled with new Manga titles. I had to quickly snag a photo between returns and book checkout because they are all almost always checked out otherwise! I love the power of saying 'YES' to students about what they read and these books have helped that to happen.","fullyFundedDate":1727999302715,"projectUrl":"project/manga-mania-in-the-library/8661401/","projectTitle":"Manga Mania in the Library","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Hoimes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp9496394_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1721772094015","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9496394"},{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":8862033,"letterContent":"These beautiful trash receptacles are a fabulous addition to our playground and school entrance! The students were so excited to see them arrive last week! We will now have a place for visitors and students to place their trash while visiting our school and playground. These trash receptacles will allow our school to stay clean and beautiful. \r\n Teaching students to use a trash receptacle instead of throwing garbage on the ground is a life lesson that keeps the planet and environment cleaner. Our school grounds tend to get a lot of fast food litter and these trash receptable should really diminish the litter. Thank you for your generosity and support of our school.","fullyFundedDate":1733498361191,"projectUrl":"project/clean-playground-for-all-to-enjoy/8862033/","projectTitle":"Clean Playground for All to Enjoy!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"},{"teacherId":2897693,"projectId":8683796,"letterContent":"Thank you for your generosity and support to bring 112 pairs of children's socks to our school. We are now fully stocked with all sizes to meet the needs of all our students.\r\n\r\nThe stress of wet and cold feet is not as overwhelming when you can change and get back to class quickly with little disruption for all.\r\n\r\nYou are our angel that helped to us restock our sock supply. Our school nurse and counselor are so thankful for your assistance with restocking our socks and easing their burden of finding a change of socks for the students when they have wet feet during the school day. Many, many thanks.","fullyFundedDate":1733287256864,"projectUrl":"project/dry-feet-happy-feet/8683796/","projectTitle":"Dry Feet, Happy Feet!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Nemes","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2897693_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1720471238215","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/schoolgarden"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_90205","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":463,"numTeachers":31,"percentFrplEligible":95,"percentAsian":1,"percentBlack":9,"percentWhite":11,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":69,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"K - 5","studentTeacherRatio":"14.9:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":true,"metroType":"URBAN","ncesMetroType":"CITY_MIDSIZE"},"inStateSupporters":41.8,"schoolId":90205,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Ritter Elementary School on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Ritter Elementary School","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/pennsylvania/allentown-city-school-district/ritter-elementary-school/90205"}