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Mrs. Mary Beth Leadingham Vance from Ashland, KY is requesting art supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Help!! I’m Teaching Music and I Can’t Sing!

Help me give my students buckets and bells for the opportunities to create rhythm and music.

  • $612 goal

This project expired on April 25, 2025.

This project expired on April 25, 2025.

My Project

This year my students and I are reinventing the music classes. I am from grade 5 math and they are from kindergarten - grade 5.

We have a brand new music curriculum and 30-year-old supplies.

The students and I have come alive with enthusiasm enjoying the lessons and activities as best we can, making do. These children deserve to have these real tangible instruments. I have exhausted my school money, as well as my own, meeting classroom needs.

These items will step up the yearly performances as each student will have these instruments making our own music. Our Christmas performance was wonderful with the children’s excitement but, what a difference these items would have made.

There is not enough money to help my singing. I am their example of why they need to learn. I use my experiences to open their minds, ears, eyes, and movements to music. Having bells with pitches and bucket drums for rhythms in the future is an inspiring score.

Mrs. Mary Beth Leadingham Vance Cannonsburg Elementary School Grades 3-5

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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

280 students impacted

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Utrecht Heavy Duty Gallon Bucket with Lid - 128 oz • Blick Art Materials $4.99 60 $299.40
OriGlam 8 Note Diatonic Metal Hand Bells Set Musical Instrument for Kid Children Musical Toy Percussion Instrument • Amazon Business $22.88 8 $183.04

Materials cost

$482.44

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 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.24

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$519.68

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$91.71

Total project goal

$611.39

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