Percussion Fun and Learning for Elementary Students!

Funded Jan 22, 2025

Thank you so much for your very generous donation to our music classroom! As soon as I got the first box, which contained the xylophones, I began using them in my lessons! Because we now have a full class set, all the students can play at the same time on same type of instrument so instruction is much clearer and we are getting so much more done!

The students have already had so many "a-ha" moments as I've shown them how the notes we sing (do-re-mi, etc) correlate to the notes we play (C, D, E) and I love seeing those moments when my students get excited because they finally understand something! This understanding could but have happened without your donation.

One other thing that has been fun is the students are really grasping how to play the notes in various melodies and hearing how they sound all together has been a joy for them! Some comments have been, "wow! We actually sound really good together?" And "that totally sounded like the song we're trying to play!" I know that many of them will try music on their future classes because of this experience you have given them!

We haven't used the drum sets yet because we are focusing on Melody currently, but I know they will have equally excellent experiences with those! Thank you!”

With gratitude,

Ms. van Dyk