My students need 2 sets of classroom percussion instruments plus several hand drums to help make learning about music a fun and positive experience for them.
$360 goal
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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
Students in this low-income area need to find creative outlets to counter violence. My elementary music classroom serves 500 under-privileged children in 1st through 5th grades at a Title 1 school in a high-need community in California. My students often find themselves in conflict, whether at school, at home or on the streets, and I want to teach them how to use music as a creative outlet and an alternative way to work through problems - rather than answering their problems via fighting and violence.
Students at my school listen to mostly Hip-Hop music, which often promotes violence rather than lending a positive outlook on the world to kids who already have a tainted view of it through unfortunate circumstances in their own lives. I hope to teach my students how to perform and create music in such a way that they find a creative outlet and a productive way to work through the stresses and problems that they encounter on a daily basis.
In order to teach my students how to use music as a creative outlet, we need quality classroom instruments, and enough for each student to be able to play simultaneously. Grades 1 through 3 have 20 students per class, and grades 4 and 5 have up to 34 students per class. The percussion instruments offered by Kaplan Early Learning Company seem like just the right fit. The quality and quantity of such instruments will enable my students to learn and have fun creating music for years to come.
Your help will ensure that the students at my school have the same opportunities to learn as students who attend schools with actively productive PTAs or at schools with more federal and state funding that allow for school funds to purchase instruments for music programs. But most importantly, your help will aid in teaching my students that music as a creative outlet is a positive alternative to violence. Please help me help these students. Thank you!
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