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I could not have done it without you!","fullyFundedDate":1760693632214,"projectUrl":"project/jingle-all-the-way/9680467/","projectTitle":"Jingle All the Way!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7785072_orig.jpg?crop=2400,2400,x0,y160&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1732943794579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/musicdaywithmrsa"},{"teacherId":7785072,"projectId":9778566,"letterContent":"They are here! They are here! Thank you so much for helping us get these books to learn more about the orchestra during our elementary music classes! Our kiddos will LOVE these books and getting to use them at the end of our class times to learn more about many different composers, such as Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Greig, Holst and Saint-Saens to name a few. I truly believe the best way for our students to learn is to incorporate a cross curricular approach to teaching and these resources will help me make that possible! I could not have offered them these books without you. Thank you for making this happen. I am so honored by your gift.","fullyFundedDate":1760693573947,"projectUrl":"project/help-us-learn-about-the-orchestra-with-b/9778566/","projectTitle":"Help Us Learn About the Orchestra With Books!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7785072_orig.jpg?crop=2400,2400,x0,y160&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1732943794579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/musicdaywithmrsa"},{"teacherId":7785072,"projectId":9753032,"letterContent":"They are here! They are here! I received an exciting phone call this afternoon from the front office of our school to let me know that a package arrived from DonorsChoose for us! I could not wait to see what it was! These speed stacking cups will be a hit with our students! They will love using them for different music class activities, including \"the cup song,\" When I'm Gone! They will also love using them for different games in our room. I can't wait to show them what we received next week! Thank you again for helping make this project happen! I could not have done it without you!","fullyFundedDate":1760693603237,"projectUrl":"project/speed-stacking-cups-for-class-games-galo/9753032/","projectTitle":"Speed Stacking Cups for Class Games Galore!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7785072_orig.jpg?crop=2400,2400,x0,y160&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1732943794579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/musicdaywithmrsa"},{"teacherId":7785072,"projectId":9376429,"letterContent":"It's official! I am a Lifetime Member of the Organization of American Kodaly Educators because of your support! This Music Educators Association will offer me countless opportunities for further growth, professional development, lesson plan ideas, UIL preparation for students, scholarly studies and journals, as well as the opportunity to go to member only conferences and trainings focusing on elementary music education. This has been on the \"dream\" list for me as a elementary music educator and I never expected that this DonorsChoose project would actually fund. Thank you for making this happen for me and my students! My personal growth as an educator will benefit my students for YEARS to come! Your support is a blessing! I could not have done this without you!","fullyFundedDate":1752586553721,"projectUrl":"project/teachers-need-to-keep-learning-too/9376429/","projectTitle":"Teachers Need to Keep Learning Too!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7785072_orig.jpg?crop=2400,2400,x0,y160&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1732943794579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/musicdaywithmrsa"},{"teacherId":7785072,"projectId":9464626,"letterContent":"The hand chimes are here! The hand chimes are here! Thank you so much for helping us get these hand chimes for our classroom! Our students will LOVE them! \r\n\r\nWhen I was in 3rd grade, I had the opportunity to be in an extracurricular handbell ensemble. I love this experience and later continued to be in hand bell and hand chime groups. Once in college to study music, I found out there was a college class on hand bell performance at my university. I enrolled and enjoyed learning and performing with other music majors. \r\n\r\nI doubt any of our elementary students will have an experience like that in their future, but I hope getting to learn to play these hand chimes and the hand bells we already have in our music classroom is still an equally enjoyable experience for them as it was for me at their ages. Thank you again for helping this project become a reality! I hope to grow our handbells and hand chimes in our instrumental inventory so more students can continue to play. I could not offer this without you. 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Your gift will allow me to take their musical education up to the next level and build the musical instrument inventory in our school in the process!","fullyFundedDate":1760693724238,"projectUrl":"project/keep-musicians-drumming/9470070/","projectTitle":"Keep Musicians Drumming!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7785072_orig.jpg?crop=2400,2400,x0,y160&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1732943794579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/musicdaywithmrsa"},{"teacherId":7785072,"projectId":9464602,"letterContent":"It's here! It's here! We are so excited that these BRAND NEW boomwhackers for our elementary music classroom are here! Thank you so much for helping us get these wonderful musical instruments! Our students will be so excited to get to play these boomwhackers along with different songs in the music classroom this year because of your support! Our PreK-4th graders will benefit from these instruments by learning how to work in groups to play a song, learning how to follow along & play the beat/rhythm of a song and how to play simple musical melodies! Instruments like these help me teach the musicians of tomorrow! We are so blessed by your support on this project! I could not have offered these musical instruments without your support!","fullyFundedDate":1757423966345,"projectUrl":"project/boomin-to-the-music/9464602/","projectTitle":"Boomin' to the Music","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7785072_orig.jpg?crop=2400,2400,x0,y160&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1732943794579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/musicdaywithmrsa"},{"teacherId":7785072,"projectId":9464663,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping us receive a Teacher Pay Teachers gift card to get resources for our elementary music classroom! This has been such a blessing and will allow us to get many different things for our classroom this year! I have gotten some more posters for the music classroom walls, different music games and centers options such as music bingo for our students to enjoy, some specialty songs for us to learn together and lots of lesson plan materials! This has been a wonderful source of information for me to take ideas from because as an elementary music teacher, we pull from many different places to get our lesson plan materials. This is unique because it allows me more freedom to decide what to focus on in our lessons or what needs more work to solidify the skill, but also means I occasionally need to find more lesson plan materials from other sources (like TeachersPayTeachers). Your support helps make that happen! This was such a gift to our students, our school and myself! I truly believe communities and all teachers can work together to help our students learn and grow. I could not do this kind of thing in my classroom if it was not for donors like you on DonorsChoose. Thank you for standing alongside teachers like myself to help the students of tomorrow.","fullyFundedDate":1757423963624,"projectUrl":"project/tpt-for-lesson-plan-needs/9464663/","projectTitle":"TPT for Lesson Plan Needs","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7785072_orig.jpg?crop=2400,2400,x0,y160&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1732943794579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/musicdaywithmrsa"},{"teacherId":7785072,"projectId":9467670,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for supporting this project for me to get a 3 year teacher membership to the American Orff-Schulwerk Association! This organization is specifically for elementary music teachers who use orff style instruments (xylophones, metallophones and many other forms of rhythm/melody based instruments) to teach in their classroom. It has been a goal for me to eventually become a member of this organization because it offers so many different training opportunities for music educators! I am so blessed by your support and cannot wait to use this membership to continue my professional development as a teacher so my students continue to get unique musical experiences from class with me. I hope to use this new knowledge to grow the musicians and performers of tomorrow. I could not have gotten this membership at this time without your support!","fullyFundedDate":1754677179609,"projectUrl":"project/orffin-around-in-music-class/9467670/","projectTitle":"Orffin' Around in Music Class","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7785072_orig.jpg?crop=2400,2400,x0,y160&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1732943794579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/musicdaywithmrsa"},{"teacherId":7785072,"projectId":9364868,"letterContent":"I cannot express how excited I am that our ukulele rack is here! Our students will LOVE this beautiful tool to care for their classroom ukuleles! It came in this past week and the maintenance team in our district helped me put it together! They were so impressed to hear that someone blessed us with this lovely piece of equipment. This ukulele rack will allow us to protect, play and transport our classroom set of ukuleles for many years to come! I look forward to using this in future music programs for our students as well! I could not have gotten this without your help! Thank you so much for your support!","fullyFundedDate":1752586567599,"projectUrl":"project/our-ukuleles-need-a-safe-place-to-be-sto/9364868/","projectTitle":"Our Ukuleles Need a Safe Place to be Stored","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp7785072_orig.jpg?crop=2400,2400,x0,y160&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1732943794579","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/musicdaywithmrsa"},{"teacherId":7785072,"projectId":9364838,"letterContent":"Thank you so much for helping this unique DonorsChoose music project come to life! I cannot wait to use this steel pan drum in our elementary music classroom curriculum for years to come! 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