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Thanks to money raised through Walkathon, Booksin is able to hire music $10,000 Music Program
teacher Meike Sillevis Smitt ('Mrs. Sillevis') to teach music to our $7500 Library Books
Kindergartners, first, second and third graders. She was trained by Music
For Minors and volunteered in 3 different classrooms for two years before $4500 Student Work Books
for Grades 1-5
taking on all 16 K-3 classes last school year.
$4000 One Field Trip,
The music program focuses on the voice as the main instrument. It with buses, tickets,
incorporates songs from other cultures and in other languages as well as curriculum tools
lots of movement songs, dancing and music appreciation. Children get a
$3000 Art Vistas Program
chance to show off their learnings to their parents, grandparents, friends Supplies
and siblings in a short grade-level performance in the Spring.
$3000 Enrichment Allocations
Mrs. Sillevis was born and raised in the Netherlands and lived in Malaysia for one grade level
before coming to the Bay Area. She regularly exchanges ideas with
$3000 Science Activities
colleagues back home. The Dutch ‘abstract dances’ Booksin students Supplies & Support
learned last year turned out to be the children’s favorite activities in music
class. Every class is ended with a goodbye song in different languages, of $2000 Cornerstone Activities
which we have many here at Booksin!
$1000 School Safety Supplies
Music helps our children in their academic and emotional development, $1200 Garden Life Lab
and we're happy to have found a way to keep music alive at our school! Annual Programs
Please help us keep it this way by donating time and money to
$1200 Fifth Grade Promotion
Walkathon.
$655 School Planners for
------------------------------------------ 4th & 5th graders