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Mr. Trio from Wheeling, WV is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Developing The Next Beethoven

My students need mallet instruments, tubano drums and boom whackers in order to foster creativity in the music classroom.

  • $2,386 goal

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My Students

Students come into the music classroom each time by sitting in their special "Hollywood Walk of Fame" spot. We usually start off with a singing or rhythm game that connects with later parts of the lesson.

My students belong to a small and close-knit community.

Keeping that in mind, the school has one class per grade level and students are in the same class from grade kindergarten through fifth grade. The students are hard working and are always trying to please their teachers by giving their very best efforts. The school itself is a kind and caring environment that has the students' best interest at heart.

My Project

Musical independence, improvisation, and composition are important skills that teachers should include within an elementary music curriculum. Carl Orff's system for music education for children is largely based on the goal of developing a sense of rhythm and musical independence through movement, dance, exploration, improvisation, composition, and performance. Many of these are done with percussion instruments and Orff instruments. The method has been widely adopted, especially in the Unites States. His methodology, known most commonly as the Orff-Schulwerk Approach, is broadly accepted as a way of teaching music. It allows students to explore musical experiences in a way where the student is not inhibited by the fear of failing. In order to create a less stressful atmosphere, teachers use what are known as Orff Instruments. Students will explore, imitate, create and perform on the xylophones, metallophones and glockenspiels, tubano drums and boomwhackers in a variety of contexts.

Being directly involved with the creative musical process at an elementary level helps foster the musical learning process.

When developed at a young age, creativity and musical independence are very helpful skills to utilize during musical performing in later musical training throughout their lives.

Mr. Trio
HBCU Alum HBCU Alum Grades 3-5
    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

    This project will reach 125 students.

    10 donors have given to this project.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Xylophone • Woodwind and Brasswind $450.44 1 $450.44
Metallophone • Woodwind and Brasswind $264.99 1 $264.99
Xylophone • Woodwind and Brasswind $264.99 1 $264.99
Xylophone • Woodwind and Brasswind $199.99 1 $199.99
Metallophone • Woodwind and Brasswind $184.99 1 $184.99
Kid's Percussion Rain Forest Tubano • Woodwind and Brasswind $89.95 3 $269.85
Diatonic Alto Glockenspiel with Mallets • Woodwind and Brasswind $84.99 1 $84.99
C Major Diatonic Scale Set (Upper Octave) Boomwhackers Tuned Percussion Tubes • Woodwind and Brasswind $19.99 4 $79.96
Glockenspiels • Woodwind and Brasswind $56.31 1 $56.31
Yarn-covered Mallet for Alto Xylophone or Metallophone • Woodwind and Brasswind $10.50 4 $42.00
Large Rubber Mallet for Soprano Xylophone or Metallophone • Woodwind and Brasswind $9.50 4 $38.00
Double-Headed Wood/Rubber Glockenspiel Mallets • Woodwind and Brasswind $8.50 2 $17.00
Orff Mallets • Woodwind and Brasswind $14.99 1 $14.99

Materials cost

$1,968.50

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$29.53

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$2,028.03

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$357.89

Total project goal

$2,385.92

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $2,385.92

7 Donors

-$2,381.51

Donations toward project cost

-$2,028.03

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$353.48

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$4.41

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