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Ms. Shade from Baltimore, MD is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Black History Month: Drum, Chant, Sing and Dance!

Help me give my students drums, jazz resources, rhythmic texts and movement scarves so that my students can explore cultural connections and express themselves through music and movement.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Shade's classroom raised $523

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My students are very excited about Black History Month! They are doing research, working on living statue projects, 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: movement scarves, rhythmic texts, instruments including drums and a wood frog guiro rasp for sound effects, and developmentally appropriate arrangements for singing, drums, recorder and Orff mallet instruments.

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!

Project tagged as

Baltimore, MD
Grades PreK-2
Music
Racial Justice & Representation
Musical Instruments
Nearly all students from low‑income households

Ms. Shade Yorkwood Elementary School 219 Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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

Natural 5 Piece Hand Drum Set With Carrying Bag • Peripole $149.99 1 $149.99

Now's the Time: Jazz For All Ages by Doug Goodkin • Peripole $38.00 1 $38.00

All Blues - Jazz for the Orff Ensemble by Doug Goodkin • Peripole $38.00 1 $38.00

Zhanmai 60 Pieces Juggling Scarf Square Dance Scarves Props Silky Scarves Dance Scarves Tricks Performance Props Accessories Scarves Rhythm Band Scarf, 24 x 24 Inches (Classic Colors) • Amazon Business $28.99 1 $28.99

Intery Mintery: Nursery Rhymes for Body, Voice and Orff Ensemble (1) (The Pentatonic Press Integrated Learning Series) • Amazon Business $26.30 1 $26.30

Schott Discovering Keetman - Rhythmic Exercises And Pieces for Xylophone (Orff) • Music & Arts $22.95 1 $22.95

Cozinest Large 7" Wood Frog Guiro Rasp Percussion Instrument Tone Block Frog Animal Shaped Figurine Wooden Handcraft Musical Lucky Frog Home Office Decoration (Brown) • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99

Schott African Songs and Rhythms for Children Score Composed by Various Arranged • Music & Arts $12.99 1 $12.99

Orff Adventures for Children: Body Percussion, Folk and Original Orff Arrangements for Children • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99

Schott All Around The Buttercup - Early Experiences With Orff For Orff Instrumen • Music & Arts $8.95 1 $8.95

Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane • Amazon Business $8.09 1 $8.09

Materials cost			$366.24
Vendor shipping charges			$20.34
Sales tax			$21.98
3rd party payment processing fee			$5.49
Fulfillment labor & materials			$30.00
Total project cost			$444.05
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$78.36
Total project goal			$522.41
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$522.41
7 Donors			-$380.44
Donations toward project cost			-$330.87
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$49.57
match offer			-$133.15
Match offer toward project cost			-$113.18
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$19.97
Excluded support for DonorsChoose			-$8.82
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$0.00

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This teacher needs your help!

Black History Month: Drum, Chant, Sing and Dance!

This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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DonorsChoose is the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
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