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.
Students at the Colorado Title I school where I teach elementary music need many classroom instrumental musical opportunities as private music lessons are not an option for most.
Many of my students express a desire to learn guitar. Because of the prohibitive cost of buying guitars and the lack of physical storage space in my classroom, I would like to use ukuleles in my Grade 3-5 music classes. I would also offer an after school extracurricular activity for very motivated students.
Ukuleles will be a fun way for my students to grasp chord structures while accompanying themselves and each other. I hope to provide ukes for one classroom of students by obtaining 13 ukuleles through Donors Choose and use the equivalent amount of money from my limited budget for a total of 26 instruments.
Your help with this ukulele project would add significantly to our Title I students' musical education by letting them experience playing chords and accompanying themselves on the ukulele, a stringed instrument.
More than half 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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