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Ms. Tiller from Savannah GA is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Bucket Bands Rock!

My students need drum sticks and buckets, because we are starting a bucket band!

  • $649 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

I teach in a Title 1 school on the Southern Coast. We are in an older, long-established neighborhood that isn't in the historical section. Most of my students come from one-parent families with lots of extended family. They have a lot of challenges financially.

But they are the most awesome students and they rise to challenges!

They are creative, energetic, eager to show off what they know and what they can do. They want to try anything, are very hands on. They enjoy the unusual and the different!

My Project

Have you ever heard of a Bucket Band? Almost every child I know will drum on something! Most first percussive instruments are the pots and pans in the pantry at home. It's a primeval thing built into all of us. The drum was the first instrument in every culture. The collecting buckets turned upside down are the perfect size and drumsticks are more fun and realistic for my upper classes than lummi sticks. With a bucket band, using drum sticks, my students will learn to read music, play music in unison, two part and three parts. They can experiment with different tones and sounds by changing where they drum - the top, rim, or side. The sound textures are very different! They love to drum! It will be the start for band, orchestra and chorus. And drum sticks! Drum sticks rock! A creative way to learn 'tah tah titi tah'! (And easier and more fun to remember!)

Ms. Tiller
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Collecting Bucket, Polyethylene, 5 gal • Carolina Biological Supply Company $11.02 30 $330.60
12-Pack Drumsticks • Woodwind and Brasswind $39.99 3 $119.97

Materials cost

$450.57

Vendor shipping charges

 $33.06

Sales tax

 $31.09

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.76

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$551.48

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$97.32

Total project goal

$648.80

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $648.80

9 Donors

-$296.88

Donations toward project cost

-$256.07

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$40.81

Matching donations from our partners

-$347.54

Match offers toward project cost

-$295.41

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$52.13

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.38

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 $0.00

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