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Ms. Kender from Brooklyn, NY is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Enhancing Our Sound Meditations

Help me give my students more variety for sound meditation. Many of these sounds are relaxing to their minds and bodies. Students use our sound meditation sessions to center, relax, and release any stresses from the day.

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My Students

We are a gifted and talented classroom in Brooklyn, New York. My classroom is filled with intellectually stimulated students, however, they are all diverse and learn in their own unique way.

My gifted students take such pride in their learning environment and we spend a great deal of time in our classroom together.

Social-emotionally, gifted students enjoy their time with self-exploration and independent projects that gear to their interests. I love allowing my students to use our classroom as a second home. My students enjoy using the classroom resources and centers that enrich their learning. Each year, adding a new component to my classroom brings such joy to the children and a refreshing excitement for me. I am so happy that Donors Choose makes that possible!

I feel my new project, creating sound with mindfulness will aid to an enhanced awareness that will make learning more accessible to my students. Sound meditation with allow for an enhanced focus and decrease adverse feelings that our littles encounter daily. Thanks for checking in!

My Project

These instruments will be such a benefit to our classroom community. Our sound healing instrument selection has grown over the last 2 months and the students have enjoyed hearing them, as well as playing them. I often hear cheers of joy when I tell them that we're having a sound mediation. It is quite cute to see how much they love it and out drawn to the healing of sound.

Through writing reflections, I can see how useful our meditations are for them.

They use our time with sound to relax, be present, focus on positive thoughts, and love themselves and others. I can't express how much of a gift it is for the children. Please help in supporting my project to increase our sound healing meditation times together.

I plan on sharing these tools with other teachers in the building, so that they may offer this gist to their students as well!

Ms. Kender PS 132 Conselyea Grades PreK-2

More about Ms. Kender

Brooklyn, NY View local requests

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

32 students impacted 13donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Woodstock Chimes HCGONGM The Original Guaranteed Musically Tuned Chime Medium Hanging Gong, Quintet, Chau • Amazon Business $219.95 1 $219.95
TOPFUND Perfect Pitch G Note Crystal Singing Bowl Throat Chakra Blue Color 8 inch O-ring and Mallet Included • Amazon Business $129.99 1 $129.99
TOPFUND C Note Quartz Crystal Singing Bowl Root Chakra Red Color 8 inch O-ring and Rubber Mallet included • Amazon Business $114.99 1 $114.99
Remo Buffalo Drum - Black Earth, 16" • Amazon Business $67.79 1 $67.79
Bamboo Rainstick with Painted Aboriginal Design, 24 inches long • Amazon Business $34.95 1 $34.95
Dharma Store - Tibetan Tingsha Cymbals - 6.6 cm - OM Mane Padme Hum Symbols Embossed • Amazon Business $11.90 1 $11.90

Materials cost

$579.57

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.69

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$618.26

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$109.10

Total project goal

$727.36

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$727.36

13 Donors

-$687.13

Donations toward project cost

-$618.26

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$68.87

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$40.23

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

$0.00

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