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Taking them Higher with Recorders

My students need 35 recorders to play for music.

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Kwan's classroom raised $247

This project is fully funded

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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.

My Students

Do you remember the first time you learned to play a musical instrument? "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy," Ludwig van Beethoven said, and my students would love to experience this for themselves.

Our students come from a low income neighborhood and face the challenge of maintaining high academic achievement amidst constant cuts in education.

However, despite the difficulties with the budget deficit, we have been able to make considerable gains in student achievement through the California State Tests. Our school ranks 15th in the entire district!

My Project

I am requesting recorders for my students. While students in more affluent areas are able to participate in extracurricular activities such as music lessons, my students are unable to do so because their parents make only enough financially to make ends meet. Students will be able to learn how to read music and play familiar tunes that they've heard before such as Mary Had a Little Lamb. They will also compose original music and be able to work cooperatively in small groups in playing their pieces. We will practice playing beautiful melodies together and hopefully be able to play the recorders in a performance for the school's annual Arts Festival.

Music often inspires in such a way that a textbook isn't capable of doing.

My students will be enlarging their brains and taking them to a higher level as a result of having a musical instrument in their own hands.

Ms. Kwan Dorris Place Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
YRS-24B Soprano Recorder with Baroque Fingering • Woodwind & Brasswind $4.50 35 $157.50

Materials cost

$157.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $14.41

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.36

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$209.27

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$36.93

Total project goal

$246.20

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $246.20

3 Donors

-$111.83

Donations toward project cost

-$104.63

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$7.20

match offer

-$123.11

Match offer toward project cost

-$104.64

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.47

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$11.26

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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