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Ms. Schmidt from Tampa, FL is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Music Basics

Help me give my students basic classroom supplies for our music classes. We need soprano recorders, recorder method books and mallets to enhance our music skills in a hands-on way.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Schmidt's classroom raised $421

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students attend a tough, inner city school where 98% of the population receives free lunch, and 75% of their families receive AFDC assistance. Basic supplies for our music classroom include mallets, recorders and books. Our current supplies have become worn from use and need to be replaced and updated.

My students need basic materials for our music classroom so they can learn to read and play music.

These materials will enable my students to learn in a hands-on way that will provide a longer lasting and deeper understanding of music.

My Project

My students will use the recorders requested to learn the basics of wind instrument playing which will inspire them to move on to woodwind or brass instrument playing in band. My students need mallets to play on xylophones and other barred percussion instruments in our classroom as they create and perform. My students need books to learn basic theory and note reading that will enable them to become better musicians.

The requested items in this project are all basic materials needed for a robust learning experience in an elementary music classroom.

My students are excited about showing what they know and these materials will enable them to do so.

Ms. Schmidt Cleveland Elementary School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

400 students impacted 6donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Hard Yarn Soprano/Tenor-Alto Xylophone/Metallophone Mallets • Woodwind and Brasswind $58.00 2 $116.00
Elementary Percussion Mallets • Woodwind and Brasswind $24.00 3 $72.00
YRS-24B Soprano Recorder with Baroque Fingering • Woodwind and Brasswind $5.99 10 $59.90
Recorder Express Beginning Method Book • Woodwind and Brasswind $5.99 5 $29.95
Hot Jams for Recorder (Book/CD) • Woodwind and Brasswind $24.99 1 $24.99
Recorder Method Book • Woodwind and Brasswind $3.95 5 $19.75

Materials cost

$322.59

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.84

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$357.43

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$63.08

Total project goal

$420.51

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$420.51

4 Donors

-$420.51

Donations toward project cost

-$357.43

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$63.08

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$0.00

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