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Mrs. Crull from Champaign, IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help build our Music Library!

My project needs 4 book for our music literacy library.

  • $100 goal

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Our music classroom is an incredibly positive, welcoming, and creative place where all students are set up for successful learning and play. I teach 380 kindergarten to 5th grade students in a richly diverse and highly multi-ethnic elementary school. Our school is a Title One School where 80% of our students qualify for free and reduced lunch. By becoming a PLC (Professional Learning Community), our school has made achievements in student learning. We are in a high need community with a large special education population.

Music is the perfect place to connect art, music, literacy, social studies, and science, to name a few. My students love reading and singing along to Children's Books. We have a small library which I have built from my own personal collection. Songs like "Old McDonald" and "Down by the Bay" are favorites in our classroom! I would love to bring in new songs and listening lessons through these books.

We have an upcoming Jazz unit -- these picture books set to music will be the perfect way to introduce musical concepts to kindergarten students through fifth graders. The other books teach social skills about accepting all people and respecting our differences. The "Can You Hear it" book pairs famous works of art with CD listening lessons for students to work on critical listening skills and the analysis of music.

Your support will help spark interest in all kinds of music in my students and expose them to reading in a fun and creative way!

Mrs. Crull Garden Hills Academy Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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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Champaign, IL View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Dizzy Jonah Winter, Sean Qualls (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Don't Laugh at Me Steve Seskin, Allen Shamblin, Glin Dibley (Illustrator), Peter Yarrow (Afterword) • Barnes and Noble $13.56 1 $13.56
Mysterious Thelonious Chris Raschka, Chris Raschka (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $13.45 1 $13.45
Can You Hear It? William William Lach, Metropolitan Museum of Art Staff • Barnes and Noble $15.16 1 $15.16

Materials cost

$57.46

Vendor shipping charges

$5.75

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.44

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$82.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$18.00

Total project goal

$100.00

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$100.00

2 Donors

-$96.47

Donations toward project cost

-$82.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.47

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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$0.00

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