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Ms. Ledford from Cleveland OH is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Read It, Sing It, Play It!

My students need children's books to explore music and literature connections.

  • $423 goal

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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 Students

As a teacher in a low-income/high poverty school district, my students are faced with several challenges both in and out of the classroom. Despite the many obstacles they face, I am looking to provide my students with creative and meaningful learning experiences in the music classroom.

My students are eager to learn new things and love to participate in hands-on activities.

They enjoy singing and playing classroom instruments. My students have very few opportunities to participate in active music-making outside of the school day; therefore, it is my goal to give them a variety of musical experiences during class time.

My Project

I am requesting children's books in order to make music to literature connections during students' weekly music classes.

Students will be engaged in activities that promote learning in the concept areas of beat, rhythm, melody, harmony, form and expressive qualities through the use of songs, poems, and literature connections.

In addition, students will be engaged in activities that promote reading concept areas of speaking and listening, fluency and comprehension. Music activities will allow students to broaden their understanding of familiar books by engaging in creative, hands-on music making centered around the literature. Students will be energized through the performance opportunities.

Ms. Ledford
Grades 3-5

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
120 Singing Games and Dances for Elementary Schools • Amazon Business $207.07 1 $207.07
Rap a Tap Tap: Here's Bojangles--Think of That! (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) • Amazon Business $9.44 1 $9.44
Old Black Fly • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Shake My Sillies Out (Raffi Songs to Read) • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Commotion in the Ocean • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Tingalayo (Sing-along Animal Songs) • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
In the Tall, Tall Grass (CBB) • Amazon Business $7.75 1 $7.75
All Aboard the Dinotrain • Amazon Business $7.57 1 $7.57
Cock-a-Doodle-Doo! Barnyard Hullabaloo • Amazon Business $7.56 1 $7.56
Rumble in the Jungle • Amazon Business $7.17 1 $7.17
Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Peanut Butter and Jelly: A Play Rhyme • Amazon Business $6.99 1 $6.99
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business • Amazon Business $6.41 1 $6.41
Down by the Bay (Raffi Songs to Read) • Amazon Business $6.22 1 $6.22
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Jump, Frog, Jump! • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Mortimer (Munsch for Kids) • Amazon Business $5.36 1 $5.36
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (A Click, Clack Book) • Amazon Business $2.19 1 $2.19

Materials cost

$324.58

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$359.45

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$63.43

Total project goal

$422.88

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $422.88

6 Donors

-$197.97

Donations toward project cost

-$182.97

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$15.00

match offer

-$207.62

Match offer toward project cost

-$176.48

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.14

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.29

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