Past projects 3
Make Our Day, Help Us Play!
Funded Nov 6, 2013Thank you all so much for your generous donation to our music classroom. My students are absolutely loving our new xylophone! Our whole school was so excited about it when it arrived. One third grade class got to be the "Prize Patrol" and deliver it to the music room, surprising the class that was in there and me! We opened it together and set it up right then. It has been used almost every day by at least one group of students since we received it!
This gift has given us the ability to involve and engage more students at a time in my classroom. My students love that their wait time to play an instrument is less, and in a few of our smallest classes we now have everyone on an instrument at once!
Your generosity is helping us live out the saying, "Tell me, I forget. Show me, I remember. Involve me, I understand." Thank you for making it possible to involve our students in their music making. You have truly "made our day"!”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Stewart
Lights, Camera, Music!
Funded Jun 9, 2010Thank you so very much for helping to fund our project. The uses of this camera have already reached beyond our expectations! We have been able to record and review several large performances, as well as multiple "mini-performances" in our classroom. My students love getting to see themselves on camera and have truly benefited from assessing themselves. Sometimes they are even harder critics than their teachers - pushing themselves to be the best young musicians possible!
Our fifth graders have also had an opportunity to learn to operate the camera themselves and regularly use it to film morning announcement segments for the entire school. It's such a joy to watch see them building their self-confidence and becoming leaders through this great technology! Of course, none of this would be possible without the help of generous people like you. We are so grateful for the opportunities and advantages you have given our music students through this project. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Stewart
Help Us Hear the Sounds of Music
Funded Mar 30, 2009We have had our two cd players for a few weeks now and I cannot tell you what a difference it has made in our classroom! Between the other music teacher and myself we see over 700 children every week and every class from Kindergarten through 6th grade gets to sing, dance, and move to the music we play over our cd players. We now have more instruction time with our students simply because of the convenience of having these portable players and remotes.
This last week, our 2nd and 4th graders performed a patriotic program for their parents. We were able to easily rehearse with our students both in the classroom and in their performance space since we now have two cd players. The sound quality is so good that we even ran them through our speaker system and used one of them for the actual performance!
We are so grateful to you for your generosity and for supporting our music program. Because of your help, our students now receive a more focused and higher quality musical experience. The impact of your donation is far reaching and I know that the students at our school will benefit from this for years to come.”
With gratitude,
Mrs. Stewart