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Ms. Gray from Coal City WV is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Orffin' Around

My students need 1 alto xylophone and 1 soprano metallophone.

  • $597 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students come from a small rural town in southern West Virginia. Our area is one of those facing the opioid epidemic. The kids very much look forward to coming to school, seeing their friends, learning in a loving environment, and participating in music! (I may be biased on that last one.)

Music serves as a creative outlet where they can explore their hidden talents!

With so much weighing on their minds from home, music class allows the students to take a break and express themselves.

My Project

Orff instruments, such as Xylophones and Glockenspiels, are my choice of instruments for teaching students how to read music. The instruments have the letter names written on them and are laid out in front of the students. The bars are removable, which allows the teacher to pick and choose the notes the students are able to play, making it easy for them to create amazing music!

Currently, class sizes of 20-25 are having to share only 7 instruments (that would be 40-50 students sharing them for a concert).

Each year I am trying to increase my Orff instrument collection by 1-2 so the students will no longer have large groups crowded around one instrument.

Ms. Gray
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Diatonic Alto Xylophone with Mallets • Woodwind and Brasswind $279.99 1 $279.99
Metallophone • Woodwind and Brasswind $189.99 1 $189.99

Materials cost

$469.98

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.05

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$507.03

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.48

Total project goal

$596.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$596.51

6 Donors

-$579.74

Donations toward project cost

-$507.03

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$72.71

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$16.77

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$0.00

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Project Activity

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