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BOOMWHACKERS!!! Music in Special Education

The cost of 11 Boomwhackers Activity Kits for this proposal is $518, including shipping and <a target="new" href="http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm" onclick="g_openWindow('http://www.donorschoose.org/html/fulfillment.htm', 300, 800, 'fulfillwindow');return false;">fulfillment</a>.

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Hi there! I'm a Special Education teacher at Mary E. Silveira School in San Rafael. The classroom facilitates 1st through 3rd grade mild to moderate special education students with various needs such as processing disabilities, autism, speech and language needs, specific learning disabilities, behavioral needs, and emotional needs. My goal is to increase the students' capabilities through various teaching modes and methodologies. Throughout this process I focus on maximizing the students' happiness, social interactions, self-esteem, creativity, and joy of learning. In the classroom we focus on reading, writing, math, comprehension, and positive social behaviors. I use photos, drawings, and other visuals along with talking during a lesson, and I have the students use manipulatives to get hands-on experience with what they are learning. In this way I try to incorporate the various learning modalities of my students. For my Masters in Education I researched how to incorporate music, art, and dance into the Special Education classroom in order to increase attention, self-esteem, and learning. What I would like to attain for my students are musical instruments called Boomwhackers. They are long tubes that play different musical notes based on their length. Because of the fine motor needs of so many of my students, many are not capable of playing instruments that require fine motor skills. The boomwhacers are easy to handle and would be wonderful to help work on rhythm and movement as we use music and dance in our lessons. I have eleven students and they all could use the boomwhackers in the lessons because they are so easy to use. We had a trial use with them and my students faces were filled with delight! I want to see those looks every single day! Music and movement are such important components of learning, please help if you can!

Ms. C. Mary E Silveira Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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More than a third of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Boomwhackers Activity Kit • Kaplan Early Learning Company $31.78 11 $349.58

Materials cost

$349.58

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

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3rd party payment processing fee

Fulfillment labor & materials

Total project cost

$441.78

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$96.98

Total project goal

$538.76

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $538.76

5 Donors

-$510.53

Donations toward project cost

-$441.78

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$68.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$28.23

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