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Mrs. Friend from Hacienda Heights, CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mrs. Friend's classroom raised $447

Let's Have a Show! The Music Man

My students need inexpensive coveralls, colored tape, felt, paint and a glue gun to make costumes and decorate sets for our production of The Music Man!

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Mrs. Friend Bixby Elementary School
Hacienda Heights, CA Grades 3-5

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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.

Our school hasn't put on a play about 20 years. I'm just the crazy teacher to attempt it, combining performing arts with language lessons, and critical thinking skills.

We are a Title 1, low income school on the brink of being closed. Our focus has to be test scores in order to hold on to funding, at the expense of providing our students well rounded education. Anything fun or creative is put on the back burner, unless I can make it "standards based". Even field trips have been cut. The kids are difficult to motivate, and have little life experience to draw from. One afternoon a week, 4th and 5th grade kids that need intensive tutoring are pulled into small groups, and I have the chance to teach the arts to the rest of the group: about 70 students! A ready made choir!!! (All 100 will participate one way or another in the production.) For years I have shown "The Music Man" to my class to teach the Elements of Music, and various music styles. I laugh for weeks afterward hearing "Gary, Indiana" and "76 Trombones" being sung by gangster-wanna' be's. Putting on the show would satisfy Visual and Performing Arts standards, and I am adept at coordinating with core curriculum standards, so administration is appeased.

We don't need fancy props or costumes because we have some very creative moms and staff members that seem to make something out of nothing. Just some raw materials to make the sets and simple costumes.

100 boys and girls participating in a once in a lifetime experience would prove how inspiring, desired, and necessary the arts are in our district.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

100 students impacted 3 donors
Mrs. Friend Bixby Elementary School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Hacienda Heights, CA 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

100 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Girl Puppet w/Red Hair • Lab Safety Supply, Inc. dba Highsmith Inc $36.07 1 $36.07
Puppet: Boy • Lab Safety Supply, Inc. dba Highsmith Inc $36.07 1 $36.07
CVRLL DISPSBL UNHDD TYVEK SM W • Lab Safety Supply $5.70 12 $68.40
Item Shipping/Handling Charges • Blick Art Materials $13.95 1 $13.95
ECNO WHT BRSTL GESSO/SZ 2IN FLAT • Blick Art Materials $1.23 5 $6.15
ECNO WHT BRSTL GESSO/SZ 1IN FLAT • Blick Art Materials $0.77 5 $3.85
BLICKRYLIC/MTLC SLVR PINT • Blick Art Materials $4.05 1 $4.05
BLICKRYLIC/MARS BLK QUART • Blick Art Materials $6.77 1 $6.77
BLICKRYLIC/GRN OXID QUART • Blick Art Materials $6.77 1 $6.77
BLICKRYLIC/DP YLW PINT • Blick Art Materials $3.64 1 $3.64
BLICKRYLIC/CBLT BLU PINT • Blick Art Materials $3.64 1 $3.64
BLICKRYLIC/BT UMBER PINT • Blick Art Materials $3.64 1 $3.64
BLICKRYLIC/BT SIENNA QUART • Blick Art Materials $6.77 1 $6.77
BLICKRYLIC/BRT RED PINT • Blick Art Materials $3.64 1 $3.64
BLICKRYLIC/BLCKOUT WHT 64OZ • Blick Art Materials $11.04 1 $11.04
TURKEY FEATHERS/6/PK 12IN • Blick Art Materials $2.44 3 $7.32
ACRYLIC FELT/BLU RYL 36INXYD • Blick Art Materials $2.66 12 $31.92
Yellow Floor Marking Tape • Cannon Sports, Inc. $8.75 2 $17.50
BLICKRYLIC/MGNTA PINT • Blick Art Materials $3.64 1 $3.64
Blue Floor Marking Tape • Cannon Sports, Inc. $8.75 2 $17.50
Red Floor Marking Tape • Cannon Sports, Inc. $8.75 1 $8.75

Materials cost

$301.08

Vendor shipping charges

 $30.11

Sales tax

 $21.83

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$366.54

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$80.46

Total project goal

$447.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $447.00

2 Donors

-$223.50

Donations toward project cost

-$183.27

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.23

match offer

-$223.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$183.27

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.23

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