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  • Homecroft Kindergarten Academy
  • Indianapolis, IN
  • 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

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The instruments I have chosen will make it possible for my students to perform and create music rather than simply listen to music. Due to COVID-19 and my tight teaching schedule with one class coming into the music room right on the heels of another, it is imperative that we have enough instruments for each student. I am requesting drums, triangles, tambourines, guiros, tone blocks, egg shakers, maracas, bells and sand blocks which are essential in Kindergarten. Each class will focus on a different instrument, learning how to hold the instrument and perform with it appropriately while learning many skills like steady beat and rhythm. At the end of each day, the instruments will be sanitized and ready to go for the next day of school. If students use books in class to learn to read and manipulatives in math to learn to count, they likewise need instruments in music class in order to learn how to play them and experience valuable musical skills with them. My students are disappointed when they come to Music and can not actually perform on an instrument. Egg shakers will give students learning remotely a chance to actively make music while at home. Maracas will be used to not only play rhythms along with an existing piece of music, but also to open a discussion about music and culture in other parts of the world like Brazil, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Using drums allows the students to play the beat and rhythms learned in music class, but the drums also encourage syllable identification when playing sounds in poems and speech pieces. In addition, a study of the drum includes a study of Africa and how the drum is used to foster community, discretely communicate secrets from tribe to tribe, and bring rich African rhythms to the United States from which Jazz was born.

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The instruments I have chosen will make it possible for my students to perform and create music rather than simply listen to music. Due to COVID-19 and my tight teaching schedule with one class coming into the music room right on the heels of another, it is imperative that we have enough instruments for each student. I am requesting drums, triangles, tambourines, guiros, tone blocks, egg shakers, maracas, bells and sand blocks which are essential in Kindergarten. Each class will focus on a different instrument, learning how to hold the instrument and perform with it appropriately while learning many skills like steady beat and rhythm. At the end of each day, the instruments will be sanitized and ready to go for the next day of school. If students use books in class to learn to read and manipulatives in math to learn to count, they likewise need instruments in music class in order to learn how to play them and experience valuable musical skills with them. My students are disappointed when they come to Music and can not actually perform on an instrument. Egg shakers will give students learning remotely a chance to actively make music while at home. Maracas will be used to not only play rhythms along with an existing piece of music, but also to open a discussion about music and culture in other parts of the world like Brazil, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Using drums allows the students to play the beat and rhythms learned in music class, but the drums also encourage syllable identification when playing sounds in poems and speech pieces. In addition, a study of the drum includes a study of Africa and how the drum is used to foster community, discretely communicate secrets from tribe to tribe, and bring rich African rhythms to the United States from which Jazz was born.

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