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Mrs. Davisson from Dublin NC is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Creating Musical Minds

My students need these instruments to express their creativity and reinforce their understanding of the musical concepts of rhythm and melody.

  • $2,052 goal

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My Students

My music students are so creative! When we are working on program performances they always have great ideas for movement with the music to make our performances a little more exciting. Or they like to add a special element, for example, my 3rd graders decided to wear sunglasses with our performance of Blitzen's Boogie. This past year my 4th graders worked together to create their own lyrics for an existing melody and then performed their creation for the graduation program.

These students brighten my day with their smiles and enthusiasm for learning new songs, games, and rhythms.

They are also kind to one another and willing to help. They love singing and creating and I can't wait to give them more opportunities for it.

My Project

These Orff instruments will allow my students to see and hear what they are singing as they play it. It provides a picture of how sound is moving high and low. Students will begin to understand the relationship of sound and how it forms a melody. After imitating songs we sing on the instruments, they will be able to explore those sounds and songs to create their own music. The Orff instruments are very kid friendly and age appropriate making it easy for the students to be successful.

Third grade students will create rhythmic accompaniments for a speech piece and then add melodic pitches using alto and bass metallophones.

Fourth grade students will explore improvisation using all the instruments that will be purchased. Second grade students will use the instruments to create their own performance variations using parts we have learned as a class and ordering and layering those parts in their own way.

Mrs. Davisson
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Bass Metallophone (deep bass) • Woodwind and Brasswind $602.99 1 $602.99
Bass Xylophone (deep bass) • Woodwind and Brasswind $602.99 1 $602.99
Alto Xylophone • Woodwind and Brasswind $361.99 1 $361.99

Materials cost

$1,567.97

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $122.30

3rd party payment processing fee

$23.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,743.79

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$307.73

Total project goal

$2,051.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,051.52

3 Donors

-$708.84

Donations toward project cost

-$602.51

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$106.33

Matching donations from our partners

-$1,342.68

Match offers toward project cost

-$1,141.28

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$201.40

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 $0.00

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