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Ms. Vera from Homestead, FL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Desk Bells for Ringing the Brain

Help me give my students desk bells to enhance their music awareness.

  • $1,428 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

By Learning music, specifically young students develop many neural pathways that help improve their cognitive ability for long term. Memorization, pitch identification, sense of beat and coordination are some examples that will enhance these kids' ability in the daily learning of their classroom, and influence the way they retain information such as letter recognition, rhyme association, reading comprehension and basic math reasoning.

My student's demographic is mostly Afro American and immigrants both with an extremely low income situation.

I firmly believe that music is an scape for their home and living situation, that is why my main goal is to provide them with a skill that will allow them to thrive and become better in every possible way.

I will use the desk bells lined up with a program called Prodigies.com that use these bells to play many songs, they even have books that pair with the desk bells.

Ms. Vera West Homestead K-8 Center Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Homestead, FL View local requests

More than half 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

30 students impacted 5donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Desk Bells, Rainbow Diatonic Hand Bells for Kids with 17 Songbook & Musical Flash Cards, Toddler Preschool Musical Learning Toys, Boys & Girls Birthday Gift for 3-Year-Old and Over • Amazon Business $38.85 30 $1,165.50

Materials cost

$1,165.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$17.48

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,212.98

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$214.06

Total project goal

$1,427.04

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,427.04

3 Donors

-$1,400.62

Donations toward project cost

-$1,191.73

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$208.89

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$1.42

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 $0.00

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