{"monthlySchoolDonationEnabled":false,"callToActionDisplayName":"Beltsville Academy","outOfStateSupporters":35.1,"allowSchoolLevelGiving":true,"hasFundedProjects":true,"projectGratitudeData":[{"teacherId":575110,"projectId":9544832,"letterContent":"Our musicians have been having a blast with the sneaky Subterranean, the poignant Beauteous Spirit, the adventure in Search for Yeti, and the cool Homework Blues. \r\nEach piece has something, a concept or skill, for every level of player to work on. \r\nWith the orchestra pieces, for example, Subterranean has more contrasting rhythms and textures and Beauteous Spirit is an expressive remembrance of a beloved family pet rabbit. This contrast of styles is exactly what young musicians need to level up their beer standing of nuance and effect. \r\nThey're also just great songs. :-)","fullyFundedDate":1755724134531,"projectUrl":"project/winter-concert-music-2025/9544832/","projectTitle":"Winter Concert Music 2025","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Murray","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp575110_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1507725902897","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-j-murray"},{"teacherId":575110,"projectId":9421226,"letterContent":"This lovely cello rack is not merely equipment; it is more like a family heirloom. Seriously, though, being able to get the cellos off the closet floor and onto a functional rack is fundamental.\r\n\r\nWe will be able to move the cellos anywhere in the room, depending on what the best seating arrangement will be for the current rehearsal. The rack is so light, we will also be able to move the rack to the hallway quite easily. \r\n \r\nKeeping the instrument inventory safe and secure is a professional responsibility, but also a promise to our future kids that we are planning for them. Thank you for your aid to the present and the future of music at Beltsville Academy.","fullyFundedDate":1750918361805,"projectUrl":"project/safe-cello-storage/9421226/","projectTitle":"Safe Cello Storage","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Murray","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp575110_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1507725902897","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-j-murray"},{"teacherId":7680660,"projectId":9199949,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting my students! The refresh of the twistable colored pencils was much needed and greatly appreciated—they were quickly scooped up! We shared them across three classes, and the students were absolutely thrilled. Thank you again!\r\n\r\nThe addition of the menu covers was a brilliant idea. They allow us to easily switch out pages to match our current skills and themes, keeping writing tasks fresh and engaging. Anything involving dry erase is always a win with our students—thank you for making that possible.\r\n\r\nAnd of course, magnets are always a crowd-pleaser! We use them during rotations as part of a writing activity. Students build words using CVC word cards and letter magnets on cookie sheets, then write sentences using dry erase markers on the \"lined paper.\" It's such a fun and effective learning tool.\r\n\r\nThank you again for donating to this project. It was exactly what we needed to power through the final stretch of the year. This refresh came at just the write time (see what I did there?).","fullyFundedDate":1742866688791,"projectUrl":"project/writing-refresh/9199949/","projectTitle":"Writing Refresh!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Patnode","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7680660_orig.jpg?crop=347,347,x19,y181&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1650425246583","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7680660"},{"teacherId":575110,"projectId":9065689,"letterContent":"My students were psyched to try these mutes for the first time! They are high-quality and make an excellent class set for future students. \r\nWe played scales first and they had a blast playing with the new muted tone. Performing the piece with the mutes was like traveling back in time. \r\nHaving these mutes for the students to use at school lifts the cost burden from the families for a tool that is not often used in middle school repertoire and it gives them the experience before they go to high school.","fullyFundedDate":1738013710751,"projectUrl":"project/brass-with-class/9065689/","projectTitle":"Brass with Class","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Murray","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp575110_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1507725902897","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-j-murray"},{"teacherId":5263449,"projectId":8782509,"letterContent":"Thank you again for donating to my project, Donate to Provide Inspiring Incentives for Kindergarten Multilingual Learners. Your kindness and support mean so much to me and my students. Your contribution is already bringing smiles and excitement to their learning experience.\r\n\r\nI have used the donations to create a prize box so students can select prizes when they take language risks. Just today, one of my students correctly wrote his name without the support of his name tag. This growth needed to be celebrated, and he was beyond excited to select a prize! \r\n\r\nI'm also using the donation to motivate students to learn letter names and sounds. We are using the Croc Charms and bracelets to keep track of how many letters they have learned. \r\n\r\nThank you for making the learning process engaging and rewarding!","fullyFundedDate":1738014359406,"projectUrl":"project/donate-to-provide-inspiring-incentives-f/8782509/","projectTitle":"Donate to Provide Inspiring Incentives for Kindergarten Multilingual Learners","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Zanghi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5263449_orig.png?crop=669,669,x287,y114&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1726410334325","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5263449"},{"teacherId":5263449,"projectId":8782435,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for your generous support in providing writing supplies for our kindergarten classroom. What kindergarten student wouldn't love using scented markers, twisted crayons, and, yes, pens to complete their work? These writing supplies have brought so much joy (and color) to our class.\r\n\r\nMy students are so excited to use the different writing supplies to practice writing their names, practicing letter formation, labeling pictures, and beginning to write sentences! They also love using all the different materials to add color to their pictures! One project the students loved using the materials for was when we created our own silly animals with different parts. We used the new supplies to not only draw our animals but to count and label all their body parts. \r\n\r\nYour generous donation of writing supplies will inspire creativity and learning. Thank you for making a difference!","fullyFundedDate":1733276599781,"projectUrl":"project/inspire-future-writers-help-provide-wri/8782435/","projectTitle":"Inspire Future Writers: Help Provide Writing Supplies","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Zanghi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5263449_orig.png?crop=669,669,x287,y114&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1726410334325","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5263449"},{"teacherId":575110,"projectId":8843576,"letterContent":"We have had a blast reading our new music, Cancion Mexicano, and Finale from Symphony No. 5! The students are excited to be playing full orchestra music. This is a relatively new endeavor, having a full orchestra, so the library here has a handful of appropriate music to read. Most of what we have is too difficult, or not on our approved list of music to take to the assessment festival. \r\nWhen I realized DonorsChoose was having a text-specific fundraiser I jumped at the chance to get new music for our kids. Cancion Mexicano is more folk-danced based. The Finale is from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, but it is important to remember that this music is arranged to be read by developing musicians. \r\nBoth of these pieces are in the same key, but at different difficulty levels. So it offers a good challenge. These pieces will be manageable for the string players, and quite the challenge for the wind and percussion students. The 8th graders played full orchestra music last year, but it is new to this year's 7th graders. Thanks to you we have new, appropriate music for our musicians.","fullyFundedDate":1727989210555,"projectUrl":"project/lets-read-new-music/8843576/","projectTitle":"Let’s Read New Music","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Murray","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp575110_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1507725902897","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-j-murray"},{"teacherId":5263449,"projectId":8782340,"letterContent":"I cannot express how thankful I am for your donations to my project, Pictures That Speak: Help Us Collect Wordless Books. As an English Language Development (ELD) teacher, I focus on reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills for multilingual learners (MLs). When focusing on these skills, I work with students in small groups. Multilingual learners learn when they take risks, and using wordless picture books allows students to take language risks. \r\n\r\nWhen I received some packages, I took out a few stories to allow the students to explore. Without even having a formal lesson plan, the language my students produced when they were exploring the books was amazing. When looking at Bearded Dragon, Home Alone, they were laughing and pointing out the different things Bearded Dragon did when he was home alone; they especially thought it was funny that he showered in the sink! Students were sharing out in both English and Spanish, creating a beautiful story together! Thank you for providing the books so students can have this opportunity!","fullyFundedDate":1733185390684,"projectUrl":"project/pictures-that-speak-help-us-collect-wor/8782340/","projectTitle":"Pictures That Speak: Help Us Collect Wordless Books","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Zanghi","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp5263449_orig.png?crop=669,669,x287,y114&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1726410334325","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/5263449"},{"teacherId":724754,"projectId":8795941,"letterContent":"Thank you very much for contributing to our Instrumental students at Beltsville Academy. The string students were in awe when they saw the brand new violins. They were touched that so many people cared to get us the instruments that we needed. \r\n\r\nMy students are primarily beginners, with beginner level instruments. We are using these new better quality violins in my class to help develop tone. I am watching the students handle these instruments with great care and appreciation. The other music students are also feeling the energy that the string students have in learning and it is bringing a new interest to our department.\r\n\r\nWe are next looking forward to performing our Spring Concert in May. In the coming years, the violins will be loaned out to students who do not have their own instrument. Thank you again for supporting music in our schools!","fullyFundedDate":1730412452751,"projectUrl":"project/we-need-string-instruments/8795941/","projectTitle":"We Need String Instruments!","teacherDisplayName":"Mr. Dvorak","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp724754_orig.jpg?crop=3072,3072,x0,y501&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1726621066348","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/lee-dvorak"},{"teacherId":575110,"projectId":8728936,"letterContent":"This project was supposed to be a full-sized violin, but the exact model I wanted was actually out of stock. A violin of the same quality was not available and I did not want to buy a lower-level instrument which was all I could purchase with the funds this project raised. \r\nSo, I instead thought about my students' immediate needs. Many need strings replaced on their instruments, many need new reeds, and two of the class tuners need new pick-up clips. \r\nThese materials will supports many students' growth with good tone quality and help them tune themselves quickly at the beginning of the class.","fullyFundedDate":1726681677187,"projectUrl":"project/a-full-sized-violin-for-a-full-sized-kid/8728936/","projectTitle":"A Full-Sized Violin for a Full-Sized Kid","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Murray","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp575110_272x272.jpg?width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1507725902897","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/ms-j-murray"},{"teacherId":2029557,"projectId":5631318,"letterContent":"It's been a little while since you donated to my classroom. I apologize for my delayed gratitude. Emerging from Virtual Learning due to Covid has been quite a transition.\r\n\r\nHowever, with your support, my students were better able to create more in-depth writings because they were listening to their own voices on the recorders. I had 8 students with autism in my class who were very excited to use the voice recorders. They record themselves and automatically shared more details verbally than they would have had they simply written. Most children are stunted by the need to spell correctly and to impress the teacher. So, they write as little as possible. Verbal recordings help decrease the anxiety because they are now able to \"speak\" their real thoughts as if talking to an actual person. We all know how easy it is to talk about ourselves to others; sometimes we go on and on. And this is what these recordings make possible.\r\n\r\nThank you so much for improving our writing skills.","fullyFundedDate":1629826228157,"projectUrl":"project/writing-wizards/5631318/","projectTitle":"Writing Wizards!!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Caruso","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp2029557_orig.jpg?crop=448,448,x0,y25&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1604156571400","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/2029557"}],"pageName":"schoolpage_64930","usesDonorsChoose":true,"infoPageType":"school","demographicsInfo":{"numStudents":1113,"numTeachers":86,"percentFrplEligible":79,"percentAsian":3,"percentBlack":11,"percentWhite":4,"percentIndigenous":0,"percentLatinx":77,"showFreeAndReducedPriceLunchInfo":true,"showDemographicsInfo":true,"sourceTooltipString":"the National Center for Education Statistics","gradesServed":"Pre-K - 8","studentTeacherRatio":"12.9:1","demographicsDataSource":"MDR School","equityFocus":true,"titleOne":false,"metroType":"SUBURBAN","ncesMetroType":"SUBURB_LARGE"},"inStateSupporters":64.9,"schoolId":64930,"financialInfo":null,"twitterShareText":"Learn more about Beltsville Academy on @DonorsChoose:","schoolName":"Beltsville Academy","canonicalPageUrl":"schools/maryland/prince-george-s-county-public-schools/beltsville-elementary-school/64930"}