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Mr. Conkright from Perry IL is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Musical Instruments Help Build Life Skills

Help me give my students resources for them to learn how to read music and play music with some basic keyboarding skills.

  • 3 donors
  • $1,061 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Project

Research reflects that students involved in the arts are better readers, test takers, more confident, and are more outgoing. Music is a life skill that all students can take with them throughout their lives. Music is an eclectic subject that relates to many others. Our district has not had music as an opportunity for many years. The district is rebuilding this opportunity. The materials proposed are to teach some basic music skills involving reading music, melody, and rhythm. The goals of the program are:

1: To teach students to read music and play some basic melodies on a keyboard.

2. To teach the students note values and play basic rhythms as part of a percussion group. 3. To experience a performance as a music group. 4 To help foster a lifelong love of music.

Materials purchased will help provide a unique and exciting opportunity that will offer the chance for our 5th through 8th grade students to experience part of what music has to offer. “The Halls are Alive with the Sounds of Music.” Please help us fill our halls with melodies, flashy rhythm, performances and students immersed in the love of music.

Mr. Conkright
Grades 6-8

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Carry-On 49-Key Folding Piano & MIDI Controller • Woodwind and Brasswind $59.99 10 $599.90
Solo Piano I 100 Most Popular Pieces: Sheet Music for Adult Beginners I Really Easy Piano Book I Video Tutorials I Gift for Piano Teachers Classical ... Jazz I Fur Elise Moonlight Sonata Canon in D • Amazon Business $18.99 11 $208.89
Piano Stickers for Keys – Removable w/Double Layer Coating for 49/61 / 76/88 Keyboards • Amazon Business $4.99 10 $49.90

Materials cost

$858.69

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$901.57

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$159.10

Total project goal

$1,060.67

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$1,060.67

2 Donors

-$530.34

Donations toward project cost

-$450.79

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$79.55

match offer

-$530.33

Match offer toward project cost

-$450.78

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$79.55

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$0.00

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