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Ms. Thoman from Collinsville IL is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Inspire Creativity with Orff Instruments

My students need glockenspiels, xylophones and a bass xylophone stand to add to our Orff instrumentarium.

  • $937 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

As the music teacher for the entire school, I teach kindergarten through fourth grade students. The school is in a large, diverse, suburban area and many students receive free and reduced lunch. Each class comes to music for one 45 minute session per week.

We wish it was more but spend every minute of our weekly class making music and having fun!

Our class utilizes several different music education theories, but focuses mainly on theories by John Feierabend and Carl Orff.

My Project

We currently have a small collection of Orff instruments in our classroom- about one for every four students. By adding five new instruments to our class, we could lessen that ratio to 1:2! Being able to work with a partner will provide the student with peer feedback as well as allow all students to play instruments together. This will also save us precious time in music class. Currently, we have to do most activities three or four times to allow all students the opportunity to play. With additional instruments, we could accomplish more in our limited time in music each week.

Ms. Thoman
Grades 3-5

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Diatonic Soprano Xylophone with Mallets • Woodwind and Brasswind $209.99 2 $419.98
Diatonic Soprano Glockenspiel with Mallets • Woodwind and Brasswind $79.99 3 $239.97
Orff Instrument Stand • Woodwind and Brasswind $94.95 1 $94.95

Materials cost

$754.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.32

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$796.22

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$140.51

Total project goal

$936.73

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $936.73

12 Donors

-$883.97

Donations toward project cost

-$796.22

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$87.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$52.76

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 $0.00

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