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.
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Ms. Peach from Ferguson MO is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.
My students need a 1/4 sized upright string bass, a bass stand, humidifier to help eliminate potential repairs due to weather and back up strings should any break.
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 walk into my classroom excited about learning how to play a string instrument. Some students are trying out the instruments for the very first time; others have been playing for up to 3 years (since they started violin in 3rd grade), but they all are a talented group of musicians
The students in my classroom are in grades 4th through 6th.
Some of my students began playing violin in third grade, others joined orchestra in 4th or 5th grade for the very first time. My students come from very different backgrounds - as some are able to afford their own instruments and private lessons and others rely on being able to rent an instrument from the school and only get classroom instruction, which happens at most 2 times a week for about 30 minutes. All of my students are from the Ferguson, Missouri area where the recent events have definitely had an affect on them. But they are absolutely amazing students who I absolutely LOVE getting the opportunity to teach!
Due to budget cuts, the one thing that's missing from my orchestra is a upright string bass. I currently teach at 5 elementary schools and have only 1 bass (that is much too big for a majority of my students) available to my students to use. My one bass only gets to live at one of my schools. My goal is to eventually have at least one bass at each of my 5 schools for students to use. Many students have simply not signed up for orchestra when they are at a school where a bass is not located. Because most of my students rely on the bus to get them back and forth to school, the option for them to rent their own and transport it back and forth is not a possibility (the bass would take up a whole seat on the bus!). The bass provides the much lower end to the orchestra, which right now is having to be covered by the bass line from the piano accompaniment. No matter how hard a piano tries, it'll never match the true sound of a REAL string bass!
Not only would a string bass provide the orchestra with that much needed lower end sound, students who play the bass and continue to play throughout high school have more opportunities to get scholarships to college.
A college scholarship could be the difference between some of my students attending or not attending a university. I want to give my students every possible opportunity to make music a positive part of their lives and this is just one way I can make that happen for them!
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