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Ms. Holman from Vale NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Puppet Reading with Drums!

Help me give my students a chance to engage in reading in a musical setting. Using the puppets and drums to excite and engage students will highten their learning and reading skills.

  • $600 goal

This project expired on December 18, 2019.

This project expired on December 18, 2019.

My Students

My students are excited to come to music class and see what activity they get to do next. They love to read stories and sing along. Play along videos make it fun to incorporate music story books and songs into the classroom. They are having so much fun while grasping musical elements and attaining performance skills.

My students come from a rural area and arrive ready to learn.

They have many different learning needs that books and puppets would help meet. My school is the smallest in my district and can tend to be overlooked when it comes to supplies. I'm ready to use all the avenues I can to get those suplies they need to be successful.

Please consider donating to this fun and exciting program.

My Project

The books in my project are fabulous stories to use with my elementary students and are catered to their interests. The stories include topics such as instruments, animals, silly tales, the orchestra, and more.

My students will be highly engaged in story time using the puppets and drums to keep the beat.

Sounds stories and movement will involve students by having fun and learning to read at the same time. Using these materials will improve their sound sequencing, phrasing, timing, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.

The colorful puppets will not only introduce reading skills, but also musical skills that my students will not forget!

Please consider giving to this exciting reading musical project!

Ms. Holman
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Lollipop Drum • Woodwind and Brasswind $15.30 7 $107.10
The Puppet Company - Knitted Puppet -Rainbow • Amazon Business $19.49 1 $19.49
Never Play Music Right Next to the Zoo • Amazon Business $15.45 1 $15.45
Frankie Liked to Sing • Amazon Business $15.22 1 $15.22
Waking Up Is Hard to Do (Book & CD) • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Little Melba and Her Big Trombone • Amazon Business $14.68 1 $14.68
If You Ever Want to Bring a Piano to the Beach, Don't! (Magnolia Says DON'T!) • Amazon Business $12.22 1 $12.22
Mozart Finds A Melody • Amazon Business $12.00 1 $12.00
The Carnival of the Animals (Book & CD) • Amazon Business $11.70 1 $11.70
Tito Puente, Mambo King/Tito Puente, Rey del Mambo: Bilingual Spanish-English (Pura Belpre Honor Books - Illustration Honor) • Amazon Business $10.98 1 $10.98
The Farmyard Jamboree • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Magic Train Ride PB w CDEX (Barefoot Books Singalongs) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Creepy Crawly Calypso PB w CDEX (Singalongs) • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Down by the Barn • Amazon Business $8.50 1 $8.50
Space Song Rocket Ride [with CD (Audio)] (Singalongs) • Amazon Business $8.50 1 $8.50
We All Go Traveling By (Singalongs) • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea [with Audio CD] (Singalongs) • Amazon Business $8.47 1 $8.47
Over in the Meadow (Singalongs) • Amazon Business $8.47 1 $8.47
If You're Happy and You Know It (Singalongs) • Amazon Business $8.45 1 $8.45
Dump Truck Disco [with CD (Audio)] (with CD) (Barefoot Books Singalongs) • Amazon Business $8.43 1 $8.43
Port Side Pirates (Singalongs) • Amazon Business $8.39 1 $8.39
The Animal Boogie (Singalongs) • Amazon Business $8.39 1 $8.39
Max Found Two Sticks (Reading Rainbow Book) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Knick Knack Paddy Whack (Singalongs) • Amazon Business $7.98 1 $7.98
Listen to My Trumpet! (An Elephant and Piggie Book) • Amazon Business $7.98 1 $7.98
Home on the Range (Sing-along Science Songs) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Cat Goes Fiddle-I-Fee • Amazon Business $7.71 1 $7.71
Miss Mary Mack: A Hand-Clapping Rhyme • Amazon Business $7.59 1 $7.59
Mama Don't Allow • Amazon Business $6.98 1 $6.98
I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello • Amazon Business $6.95 1 $6.95
Do Your Ears Hang Low? • Amazon Business $6.94 1 $6.94
Charlie Parker Played Be Bop • Amazon Business $6.84 1 $6.84
This Jazz Man • Amazon Business $6.80 1 $6.80
The Spooky Wheels on the Bus • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99
Little Critter: Just a Little Music • Amazon Business $3.99 1 $3.99

Materials cost

$429.58

Vendor shipping charges

$10.00

Sales tax

$33.51

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$509.53

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.92

Total project goal

$599.45

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