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Ms. Schmidt from Kenosha WI is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Boomwhackers, Please!

Help me give my students a hands on experience in General Music! This class has no classroom instruments or yearly budget for supplies. Please help!

  • $177 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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My Students

Most of my students are from low-income families. The students work very hard once they are told they can do anything if they put their minds to it. Music helps my students connect and gives them something to be passionate about.

For some, choir and music are the only reason they come to school!

The neighborhood surrounding our school is not the greatest, but the families work hard, and with a little encouragement, the students do, too. I would love to give them something of their own.

My Project

My general music class meets in a classroom that has been neglected for a few years. It is used by a few other small classes throughout the day, and before last year… My class met in the auditorium of our building. The only instruments my students have used in our class frequently are old buckets from a local pizzeria. Students would use the instruments nearly everyday and get the hands on experience they have been denied in years past! Some of my students come from nothing.. but I don’t want them to think they have nothing in my room! Please help!

Ms. Schmidt
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Complete Upper & Lower Octave Sets Boomwhackers Tuned Percussion Tubes • Woodwind and Brasswind $89.99 1 $89.99
Lummi Sticks • Woodwind and Brasswind $27.99 1 $27.99

Materials cost

$117.98

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.77

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$149.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$26.43

Total project goal

$176.18

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$176.18

2 Donors

-$176.18

Donations toward project cost

-$149.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.43

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$0.00

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