My students need 35 ukulele holders, a safe place to store our classroom set of ukuleles when they are not in use.
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My Students
We have been given a great gift!
Our PTO recently replaced all of our old, broken ukuleles with a wonderful new set of beautiful instruments. It is important to teach the students how to properly care for these ukuleles so they last for many future generations to use.
We are a Title One school with limited resources and limited funding.
Our school serves a high poverty area. Our students learn to play the ukulele in fifth grade and they LOVE it! They love it even more now that we have beautiful sounding instruments to play in class. We play all sorts of music with our ukuleles: from traditional Hawaiian folk songs to classic rock and roll to the latest Taylor Swift single. We have a great time in class and I am doing my best to make music a meaningful part of their elementary school experience.
My Project
Our PTO has spent quite a bit of money on this beautiful set of instruments. For years, I have stored the ukuleles on a shelf in my classroom. This is the best I can do with the financial resources available to me. Unfortunately, it is no way to treat a musical instrument. I think it is important for the children to learn how to care for the materials that are entrusted to them both at school and at home. These 35 ukulele hangers are specially designed hooks. They will be just the thing we need to teach this lesson. Each student will have an assigned instrument and a special hook for his/her instrument. I will more accurately be able to track the way the students care for these classroom materials and students will learn valuable lessons about returning things to their proper place when finished and maintaining these resources for future generations to use them in the music classroom.
I believe that giving each instrument a special place in my classroom will better preserve these resources for future fifth graders to use in music.
It will cut down on daily wear-and-tear to the instruments and will prevent careless damage occasionally caused by their location in close proximity to each other in a high-traffic area of the classroom. We can and should do a better job of caring for our materials.
More than half of students from low‑income households
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