Past projects 3
Guitar and Keyboard Accessories for Young Musicians in The Bronx
Funded Jan 21, 2020I am grateful for your generosity and good wishes! This project to get much needed keyboard and guitar accessories for my students has been fully funded. Our 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade are all playing keyboard. Our 4th and 5th grade are now getting into their guitar units. This will help my students prepare for their upcoming performances. All the best to you!”
With gratitude,
Ms. Nicole
Keyboards for Young Musicians in the Bronx
Funded Sep 10, 2019My 4th-grade students heard someone in their class play Beethoven's Ode to Joy on the keyboard and decided they MUST learn it too. They have been working hard on this classic tune! My fifth graders chose the song "Just Like Fire" by Pink and have been practicing the chords to this song for their performance in the Spring.
Our Heketi family is really excited about the three new keyboards which have been added to our classroom set. The students are curious to try new sounds out on these instruments! I travel class to class with a music cart and am grateful that regardless of not having a designated music classroom, the students get to have access to a full set of keyboards.
The next step is to begin our keyboard unit with 3rd grade! This is the first time they will have the opportunity to play on the new keyboards as well as play keyboards this year. They are really excited and I am setting up some students already on the instrument so that they may be classroom helpers.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Nicole
Xylophones & Glockenspiels for Young Musicians in the Bronx
Funded Mar 15, 2019On behalf of Heketi Community Charter School Students, Families, and Educators, I would like to say THANK YOU for your donation which helped us purchase Glockenspiels and Xylophones.
When first seeing the materials, the students were amazed and very happy!
In Kindergarten and 1st grade, we have played a song about friendship, the song Duke's Place by Duke Ellington, and Miss Mary Mack. In grades 2-3 student's have been composing new melodies for the song Duke's Place as well as learning our school's community meeting song Funga Alafia. In grades 4-5, the glockenspiels and xylophones have become a part of our band songs "On Top of the World" by Imagine Dragons and "Happier" by Marshmello.
In the coming year, our students will be composing more of their own songs as well as learning new music that will integrate ukulele/guitar and bucket drumming along with our Xylophones and Glockenspiels.”
With gratitude,
Ms. Nicole