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Ms. Maslon from Los Angeles CA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Expand Our Minds

My students need 38 recorders, music books, clay, glaze and a recycling paper making kit.

  • $626 goal

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Celebrate 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.

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

Can you imagine being in an overcrowded classroom that in a system that is test oriented? Art and music are as important as ever in the education system.

My students are underprivileged, most of which fall in the below poverty level.

They have to face too many of the issues related to poverty, including gang violence. Just this year there was a drive by shooting in front of our school. In all the years of teaching I have had, I have never had the additional challenge of such a large class size (37 students). Your help is needed more than ever.

My Project

My students are still children and need the chance to learn about recycling by making paper, learn about music by playing the recorder, and learn about the earth by making pottery. While engaging in these projects there will be academic connections to science, math, and writing. Making music will not only excite my students desire to be successful in school, but it will stimulate their brains using a new modality.

Our school does not have the resources to provide these materials.

The only way 37 students have the chance to experience paper making, music playing, and pottery is with donor help. Thank you for considering expanding our students' minds through environmental awareness, art, and music.

Ms. Maslon
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Recorder Express Book/CD • Woodwind & Brasswind $14.95 1 $14.95
It s Recorder Time Book • Woodwind & Brasswind $3.56 38 $135.28
3-Piece Recorder Baroque Fingering • Woodwind & Brasswind $2.49 19 $47.31
3-Piece Recorder Baroque Fingering • Woodwind & Brasswind $2.49 19 $47.31
Recorder From the Beginning: Book and CD 1 • Woodwind & Brasswind $10.76 1 $10.76
DIP INTO PAPERMAKING CLASSROOM SET • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $133.06 1 $133.06
CLAY GRAY - 25LBS. • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $16.54 1 $16.54
GLAZE LOW FIRE RED • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $9.45 1 $9.45
GLAZE LOW FIRE VIOLET • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $9.45 1 $9.45
GLAZE LOW FIRE TURQUOISE • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $7.15 1 $7.15
TOGGLE WIRE CLAY CUTTER • Sax Arts & Crafts, Inc $1.31 1 $1.31

Materials cost

$432.57

Vendor shipping charges

 $17.70

Sales tax

 $39.58

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.49

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$531.34

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$93.77

Total project goal

$625.11

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $625.11

17 Donors

-$625.11

Donations toward project cost

-$531.34

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$93.77

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