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Mrs. Helmick from Garden Grove CA is requesting sports & exercise equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Let's Amplify Our Little Voices and Use a Parachute

Help me give my students wireless microphones to use outside to amplify our voices and a parachute.

  • 4 donors
  • $1,023 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

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Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

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 Project

I love my job and I am passionate about teaching music to little scholars. When my students come in and hear that we are using the parachute in music class, they are just ecstatic! I love adding some parachute music activities into an outdoor learning lesson because each of my classes thoroughly enjoys it! Help me give my students a parachute to use during music class.

In our music class we also practice signing using wireless microphones for when we are outside.

Help me get these microphones for students to use whether we are singing for an outside show on our blacktop or participating in our school wide flag salute ceremonies. Students love to be the chosen one to practice amplifying their signing voices. Thank you PNC for this 5X match to bring this project to life.

Mrs. Helmick
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Sportime GripStarChute Colorful Parachute with 30 Handles, 30 Foot Diameter - Polyester/Nylon - Early Childhood-Elementary - Toddler • School Specialty $278.99 2 $557.98
Wireless Microphone Headset, UHF Wireless Headset Mic System, 160 ft Range, Headset Mic And Handheld Mic 2 In 1, 1/8''&1/4'' Plug, For Speakers, Voice Amplifier, Pa System(Incompatible Phone, Laptop) • Amazon Business $29.99 5 $149.95

Materials cost

$707.93

Vendor shipping charges

 $55.80

Sales tax

 $64.78

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.62

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$869.13

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$153.38

Total project goal

$1,022.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,022.51

2 Donors

-$204.49

Donations toward project cost

-$173.82

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.67

match offer

-$818.01

Match offer toward project cost

-$695.31

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$122.70

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