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Black History in Children's Music: Call, Response, Rhythm and Rhyme!

Help me give my students music literature and musical instruments so they can create and collaborate through rhythmic games, songs, text and instruments.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Shade's classroom raised $493

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My Project

My students are very excited about Black History Month! They are researching, working on living statues projects, and learning about contributions, discoveries, and courageous acts by black scientists, writers, inventors, athletes, artists, leaders, and more. In music class, my students are tracing the roots of American Music that originated in Africa and was developed in the United States by African American musicians, from West African Folk Songs to Call-and-Response Songs, Blues, Gospel, Jazz, and other musical forms.

I love how my young musician's faces light up and they spontaneously clap, snap, stamp, and pat in time with songs like Fanga Alafia, Little Liza Jane, Lucy Rabbit, One Shoe Blues, Good News, and When the Saints Go Marching In--many falling in time with rhythmic complexity beyond their years!

My students are exploring how music is used in different settings: welcome songs, songs for clapping and stone-passing games, songs to make work easier, songs for dancing, songs for expressing disappointment and sadness, songs for celebration and praise, songs that tell a story, songs with coded messages, songs of freedom...

From West African drummers and dancers to Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Prince...and so many more...my students quickly join right in, singing, dancing and creating along with the great musical artists.

My students need more materials so students can work together in a variety of ways: drums, songs, stories, bean bags, and instruments for sound effects.

It takes a lot of different kinds of materials to establish a rich, comprehensive, systematic, culturally diverse music education for all. Thank you for helping my students develop and thrive!

Ms. Shade Yorkwood Elementary School 219 Grades PreK-2

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Overseas Connection Ghana Talking Drum With Stick Natural 8X15 in. • Music & Arts $83.99 1 $83.99
MEINL Wah Wah Tube Large Black • Music & Arts $49.99 1 $49.99
Expressions of Freedom: Anthology of African-American Spirituals, Complete Edition, a Collection for Voices and Orff Instruments • Amazon Business $39.99 1 $39.99
Vocalize! 1: 45 Accompanied Vocal Warm-Ups That Teach Technique, Book & Enhanced CD • Amazon Business $34.99 1 $34.99
Alfred The Vocalize! Canon Collection Book & Enhanced CD • Music & Arts $34.99 1 $34.99
Vocalize! 2: 36 More Accompanied Exercises that Teach Technique, Book & Online PDF/Audio • Amazon Business $26.11 1 $26.11
Skylety 30 Pieces Small Bean Bags for Tossing Bulk Mini Colorful Cornhole Nylon Bean Bags for Throwing Sack Beanbags Fun Sports Outdoor Family Games for Hand Toss Games • Amazon Business $20.99 1 $20.99
Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage (Brown Thrasher Books) • Amazon Business $17.55 1 $17.55
Ella Queen of Jazz • Amazon Business $17.50 1 $17.50
Name Games: Activities for Rhythmic Development, Game • Amazon Business $13.06 1 $13.06
Remo Spring Drum Thunder Tube Stormy 7 x 2 in. • Music & Arts $11.95 1 $11.95
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Caldecott Honor Book) • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79

Materials cost

$361.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $21.71

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.43

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$419.04

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$73.95

Total project goal

$492.99

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $492.99

6 Donors

-$312.00

Donations toward project cost

-$294.20

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$17.80

Matching donations from our partners

-$146.88

Match offers toward project cost

-$124.85

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.03

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$34.12

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