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Mr. Sims from Woodruff SC is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

We Need Percussion Instruments!

My students need percussion equipment to make beautiful music. Our percussion inventory is severely lacking. They need tambourines, cymbals, and accessory percussion.

  • $712 goal

This project expired on July 17, 2016.

This project expired on July 17, 2016.

My Students

My name is Mr. Sims. I am a music teacher and band director in Woodruff, SC. I want my students to fall in love with music and experience types of music they are not typically used to. Percussion instruments would open a whole new world of band literature that we could not play before.

My students come from low poverty families.

The families in my school district are very hard-working people who support their students and value education, although monetarily may not always be able to do so. Students at my school are excited about music and band classes and are always eager to learn new things. Our band program is rapidly growing and with this new growth comes the need for new instruments!

My Project

My students need tambourines, cymbals, and accessory percussion. My students will be able to use the instruments to play music we have not been able to play before. Because of our lack of percussion instruments, we've had to substitute instruments that are inappropriate for the piece. Our percussion students are not able to learn how to be well rounded percussionists appropriately. These instruments would allow us to create a well rounded band program and program literature that students and the community will enjoy!

You project will make a difference because it will make students excited about music education.

At the middle school level, it is one of the first opportunities for students to take band classes. This is an attempt to create lifelong music lovers of students and to get them excited about more than just what comes on the radio. Students will be able to relate music to other historical and cultural events which will provide added success in the regular classroom.

Mr. Sims
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
SR2 Suspended Cymbal 16" • Woodwind and Brasswind $121.99 1 $121.99
Flat Bar Chime • Woodwind and Brasswind $119.99 1 $119.99
ZBT Band Crash Cymbal Pair • Woodwind and Brasswind $119.95 1 $119.95
Sound Values Tambourine • Woodwind and Brasswind $74.90 1 $74.90
TB Professional Triangle Beater Sets • Woodwind and Brasswind $49.50 1 $49.50
Studio Shaker • Woodwind and Brasswind $19.99 1 $19.99
LE-2368 Claves • Woodwind and Brasswind $15.99 1 $15.99
Triangle Clamp • Woodwind and Brasswind $6.99 1 $6.99

Materials cost

$529.30

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$37.32

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.94

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$604.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$106.69

Total project goal

$711.25

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