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Ms. Tompkins from Anchorage AK is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Drumming Our Wiggles Away

Help me give my students a new, exciting, and energizing way to stay healthy with a class set of Yoga balls for drumming and dancing

  • $1,188 goal

This project expired on June 27, 2020.

This project expired on June 27, 2020.

My Students

These students are eager to learn all they can in Music and PE classes. Most of them are highly motivated as shown by their participation in the Spanish Immersion program.

Here in Alaska, we spend much of the school year indoors which sometimes gets a bit stagnant.

Our students fight sedentary habits all winter, and especially when it's too cold to even go out for recess. Measurable amounts of exercise are sometimes hard to come by. Our students need an energy boosting program to keep them active, healthy and motivated to learn

My Project

There's nothing better than dancing to a solid rhythmic beat to warm you up and get your blood going-- so important for their classroom work.

Kids will be able to release pent up wiggles and frustrations with the gross motor movements in dancing and drumming on large unbreakable balls in buckets.

Even adults find it infectious!

At the same time they'll be learning to work together musically, and how to perform their part correctly. The exercise balls in buckets will encourage them to truly become a TEAM, and not just a group, while dancing to good music and having fun.

Ms. Tompkins
Never Before Funded Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sportime Drum-N-Store Buckets, 18 x 12 Inches, Black, Set of 6-1450038 • Amazon Business $82.56 6 $495.36
On Stage 7A Maple Drum Sticks - (12 Pack) (Wood Tip, 12 Pak) • Amazon Business $23.95 4 $95.80
BalanceFrom Anti-Burst and Slip Resistant Exercise Ball Yoga Ball Fitness Ball Birthing Ball with Quick Pump, 2,000-Pound Capacity (58-65cm, L, Pink) • Amazon Business $11.99 6 $71.94
BalanceFrom Anti-Burst and Slip Resistant Exercise Ball Yoga Ball Fitness Ball Birthing Ball with Quick Pump, 2,000-Pound Capacity (58-65cm, L, Green) • Amazon Business $11.99 6 $71.94
BalanceFrom Anti-Burst and Slip Resistant Exercise Ball Yoga Ball Fitness Ball Birthing Ball with Quick Pump, 2,000-Pound Capacity, Blue, 58-65cm, L • Amazon Business $11.99 6 $71.94
BalanceFrom Anti-Burst and Slip Resistant Exercise Ball Yoga Ball Fitness Ball Birthing Ball with Quick Pump, 2,000-Pound Capacity (58-65cm, L, Purple) • Amazon Business $11.99 6 $71.94
BalanceFrom Anti-Burst and Slip Resistant Exercise Ball Yoga Ball Fitness Ball Birthing Ball with Quick Pump, 2,000-Pound Capacity (58-65cm, L, Red) • Amazon Business $11.99 6 $71.94

Materials cost

$950.86

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$14.26

3rd party payment processing fee

$14.26

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,009.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$178.13

Total project goal

$1,187.51

Our team works hard to negotiate the best pricing and selections available.

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