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Mr. Carter from Richmond VA is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Exploring Drums

Help me give my students the books, drum instruments, and percussion equipment that could change their lives.

  • $213 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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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 middle school band to many creative, curious, and resilient students. Many of them are beginning and intermediate level students learning to read, write, and play music for the first time. As a band, they work together to help and encourage each other as they learn and grow.

My drum and percussion students have been especially eager to learn to play instruments this year.

Together they have learned the basics of playing snare and bass drum, timpani, suspended cymbal, bells, conga, and drum set. They take turns rotating through each instrument and helping each other improve.

They have performed a successful winter concert for the school and community. The students are working hard to prepare for their next concert for the late spring.

My Project

Many of my students have an interest in exploring drums and percussion at my school. Unfortunately, we have a small collection of instruments. There often is not enough instruments for everyone interested or enough to play a variety of different music styles. With these instruments, we can maintain the instruments we have longer and more students will have the opportunity to explore drum instruments through diverse music styles.

This project will help keep students engaged and excited to develop their drum and percussion skills.

The instruments included in this project will allow my students to learn to play music in jazz, Latin, marching, and many more styles.

Mr. Carter
Grades 6-8

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Cymbal Pair • Woodwind and Brasswind $44.99 1 $44.99
Wood Double Row Tambourine • Woodwind and Brasswind $34.99 1 $34.99
Wood Maracas • Woodwind and Brasswind $19.99 1 $19.99
Essential Elements for Band - Percussion and Keyboard Percussion 1 Book/Online Audio • Woodwind and Brasswind $17.45 1 $17.45
Wood Block • Woodwind and Brasswind $12.99 1 $12.99
RB2320 Plastic Ball Mallets • Woodwind and Brasswind $3.69 3 $11.07
Claves • Woodwind and Brasswind $6.79 1 $6.79

Materials cost

$148.27

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.22

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$180.49

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$31.85

Total project goal

$212.34

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $212.34

5 Donors

-$131.08

Donations toward project cost

-$111.57

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$19.51

match offer

-$81.08

Match offer toward project cost

-$68.92

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$12.16

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.18

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 $0.00

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