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Mrs. Johnson from Titusville, FL is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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We Love to Make Music!

Help me give my students hand-held percussion instruments towards our goal of having a class set of instruments!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Johnson's classroom raised $209

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are young musicians yearning for more musical knowledge. We are beginning our fourth year as a school, in the midst of a pandemic. As a choice school, my students come from all over the district to our school to integrate STEAM into their curriculum. We laid the foundation for our music education journey for the past three years! Now it is time to build upon their knowledge!

As a STEAM school, we integrate all subject levels.

Students make meaningful connections between music and what they are learning in reading, math, science, and social studies. We are constantly looking for new ways to connect across subjects and create hands-on, authentic experiences to learn, feel, and express concepts.

"Tell me, I forget; Show me, I remember; Involve me, I understand," said Carl Orff. Music education should be hands-on and authentic. I believe Carl Orff was a music educator before his time, advocating for a hands-on musical experience where students get to sing, play, and move. We strive to accomplish that with every music lesson at my school. Students leave my classroom having sung, played, and moved with smiles on their faces.

My Project

We opened our school a few years ago and are still working on getting instruments to use in the music classroom. We have lots of beautiful instruments but my goal is to have a class set of certain instruments that we use constantly in grades K-6.

Jingles bells, cowbells, and woodblocks are instruments that we use with every grade level.

We currently only need 7 more jingle bells to have a class set! We are slowly adding more cowbells and woodblocks and are well on our way towards meeting that goal.

My last goal is to have a few cabasa. The kids LOVE to play the cabasa and we have 3. I would love to add a few more so that the students have more opportunities to play the cabasa. In addition, it will be easier to hear the instrument when we have a small group of them playing during a piece.

Mrs. Johnson South Lake Elementary School Grades 3-5 Titusville, FL View local requests

More than a third 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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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Cabasa • Woodwind and Brasswind $22.99 2 $45.98
Copper Cowbell • Woodwind and Brasswind $10.99 4 $43.96
LPA210 Small Woodblock • Woodwind and Brasswind $17.99 2 $35.98
4-Bell Wrist Bells • Woodwind and Brasswind $2.69 7 $18.83

Materials cost

$144.75

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FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.17

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$176.92

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$31.22

Total project goal

$208.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$208.14

3 Donors

-$208.14

Donations toward project cost

-$176.92

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.22

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$0.00

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