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Mr. Matthews from Richford VT is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Teaching Fingers to Play and Create Music!

Help me give my students in my piano and digital music classes to learn and create music with these keyboards.

  • $991 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

We are a very small rural school in far northern Vermont. The closest city is 1.5 to 2 hours away, so exposure and access to cultural education and events is difficult for most families to get to. We have a very active music program for a small school. Many students enjoy studying music, either in the concert band, guitar class, or piano class.

The students are inquisitive about all music, particularly music they might create themselves.

It’s this area we’d like to explore. The students have a natural curiosity to try different instruments. When we play as a group, the students experience the joy of making music collaboratively, really adding to the community life of the school. As individual student musicians, they’ve learned the self-discipline and concentration it takes to be proficient on an instrument and the ways to create.

My Project

These keyboards will be used by students in a piano class as well as in a music technology class.

In both classes, basic music fundamentals will be studied to include : piano keyboard technique, reading music notation, and understanding the elements of music.

In particular, my students will establish solid left and right

hand technique while learning to read music. Scientific evidence suggests the endeavor in learning an instrument benefits the brain in ways such as enhancing memory, spatial reasoning, and literary skills .

As the students progress, areas of performance and composition will be

covered.

Mr. Matthews
Grades 9-12

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
P-45 88-Key Weighted Action Digital Piano • Woodwind and Brasswind $499.99 1 $499.99
PSR-E463 61-Key Portable Keyboard • Woodwind and Brasswind $299.99 1 $299.99

Materials cost

$799.98

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$841.98

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$148.58

Total project goal

$990.56

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$990.56

15 Donors

-$948.80

Donations toward project cost

-$820.73

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$128.07

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$16.76

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$0.00

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