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Mrs. Chamblee from Newport News, VA is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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The Beat Is the Heart of Music!

Help me give my students resonator bells to feel and demonstrate understanding of beat and rhythm!

  • $463 goal

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My Project

Providing access to unique and meaningful musical experiences allows for opportunities to resonate impact. Student impact provides willingness or desire to learn and produce growth. At our school, students have a variety of special musical qualities that resonate throughout the school. My students enjoy singing, playing instruments, dancing, and creating with tons of energy! With our school housing a larger population of students, accommodating school culture is key! I see this as a fantastic opportunity to unlock growth and influence students' musical creativity. At our school, all students are always excited, eager to lead, and demonstrate their learning. My goal as a music educator is to provide musical skills and experiences that have impacts that build confidence, individual growth, and musical knowledge .

Music is very powerful and can heal, transform, connect, motivate and inspire.

The understanding of this is cultivated in the elementary music classroom. Music has the ability to reach everyone in many ways and I look forward to sharing this with my students at our school!

Having accessibility of the resonator bells will provide students with individual instruments to demonstrate their learning, as well as working together with classmates as a performance ensemble. The implementation of these materials will not only create a memorable but also impactful visual learning experience during music class!

Having the accessibility to resonator bells will certainly benefit musicianship, creativity, and growth. Creativity and growth go hand in hand both figuratively and literally with the materials for this project!

With these materials, student learning will be visible, audible and engaging by demonstrating music standards. Throughout the school year, students would be able to demonstrate learning targets such as reading music, playing together as an ensemble and individually; and counting rhythm during music class and performances, school-wide and throughout the community!

Mrs. Chamblee Carver Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More about Mrs. Chamblee

Newport News, VA View local requests

Nearly all 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

HBCU Alum 450 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Rhythm Band Resonator Bells (CN2126) • Amazon Business $162.44 2 $324.88
ENNBOM Xylophone Glockenspiel 8 Notes Chromatic Resonator Bells with Green Case • Amazon Business $32.99 1 $32.99

Materials cost

$357.87

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.37

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$393.24

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$69.40

Total project goal

$462.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $462.64

5 Donors

-$407.58

Donations toward project cost

-$393.24

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.34

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$55.06

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 $0.00

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