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The Sound of Music on Long Winter Days
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Our one room school house is nestled high in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range in California. During the winter we find ourselves snowbound and restricked to spending a lot of time inside. I have purchased and maintained a piano for my students to sing along as I play and to learn to play themselves. Recently my students asked if I could teach them to play guitar. My answer was, "Yes, if we had guitars." Since my student population is 100% under the poverty level my challenge to you is ... more
Our one room school house is nestled high in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range in California. During the winter we find ourselves snowbound and restricked to spending a lot of time inside. I have purchased and maintained a piano for my students to sing along as I play and to learn to play themselves. Recently my students asked if I could teach them to play guitar. My answer was, "Yes, if we had guitars." Since my student population is 100% under the poverty level my challenge to you is to help us purchase the guitars we need so my students can learn to play during those long winter months. (Just as a side note, it has been realized that children who learn and play music do better in math than those that don't.) hide
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