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Mrs. Beekman from Richmond, VA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Musicians Need Help to Write Their Masterpieces!

My students need pencils, manuscript paper, dry erase pens and erasers, plus a few other basic supplies to write music.

  • $504 goal

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Mrs. Beekman has another project! Donate to Organize Our Orff Instruments! to help her classroom.

$646 - complete this project and be a hero
Help Mrs. Beekman

Mrs. Beekman has another project! Donate to Organize Our Orff Instruments! to help her classroom.

$646 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

The six words every teacher stresses about all summer long are "This year, your classroom budget is..." Consumable supplies are beginning to take up most of that budget, and the students are the ones who suffer as a result. Music classrooms have the tiniest budgets of all, but we need pencils, too!

Our students are really special kids who love to learn, but need the resources to do so.

They are primarily lower income African American children who live in the apartments and neighborhoods surrounding the school. They work hard in school and love to laugh and make music together. When I began working here, just a couple of years ago, supplies were extremely limited, because there was no music room, and the music teacher went room to room on a rolling cart. The principal made sure there was a music room for us, and now, I hope to build it into the kind of place where real learning happens and beautiful music is made.

My Project

Music is a language all its own. It has its own special symbols, notes and characters that take time, patience and materials to learn. We already have individual white boards for the students in our class, but unfortunately, our markers have all dried up from drawing thousands of staffs and treble clefs on them! New dry erase markers and erasers will help the students learn to draw musical symbols on their own. The theory book can be copied and then those worksheets can be put into dry erase pockets, so that every student in the school can do those sheets without wasting tons of paper. The composer posters will inspire the older students as they put their new pencils to the manuscript paper to compose music of their own.

Your donation will foster creativity in our students to write music, while helping them learn a whole new language of musical notation.

Who knows? These few supplies could inspire the composer of a future famous movie score or commercial jingle, the singer of a hit song, a music producer or engineer. Or most importantly, they could make a kid's tough day at school, a little more musical.

Mrs. Beekman Westover Hills Elementary School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Richmond, VA View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

375 students impacted 7donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
MARKER DRY ERASE EXPO LOW ODOR CHISEL ASST PACK OF 16 • ABC School Supply, Inc $18.90 1 $18.90
MARKER EXPO DRY ERASE LOW ODOR BLACK FINE PACK OF 12 • ABC School Supply, Inc $15.19 5 $75.95
ERASER LARGE PINK PEARL PACK OF 12 • ABC School Supply, Inc $7.59 4 $30.36
PENCILS YELLOW PRESHARPENED TICONDEROGA #2 PACK OF 30 • ABC School Supply, Inc $8.65 1 $8.65
POCKET REUSABLE DRY ERASE ASSORTED PACK OF 25 • ABC School Supply, Inc $39.85 2 $79.70
ERASERS MAGNETIC WHITEBOARD 2 X 2 PACK OF 12 • ABC School Supply, Inc $10.40 2 $20.80
CRAYONS CRAYOLA 8 COLOR CLASS PACK OF 800 • ABC School Supply, Inc $52.72 1 $52.72
Manuscript Paper (Wide Staff) 'E-Z Play Today' • Woodwind & Brasswind $2.03 10 $20.30
Portraits of Famous Composers • Woodwind & Brasswind $49.99 1 $49.99
Essentials Of Music Theory Series • Woodwind & Brasswind $6.50 1 $6.50

Materials cost

$363.87

Vendor shipping charges

 $28.71

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.46

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$428.04

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$75.54

Total project goal

$503.58

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $503.58

6 Donors

-$238.55

Donations toward project cost

-$214.02

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.53

match offer

-$251.79

Match offer toward project cost

-$214.02

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$37.77

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$13.24

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 $0.00

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