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Moving Helps Music Make More Sense

My students need assorted movement materials to help them to better understand music concepts. These materials will allow them to participate in a multitude of activities!

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My Students

Have you ever seen a 5 year old sit still for 5 minutes? How about a 9 year old?! It's not physically possible! All students can benefit from moving more. My autistic students love to move! Moving helps them feel comfortable in their bodies and helps them relate to their classmates and other adults.

Our students love the arts and being able to express themselves creatively.

Each class has both music and art twice a week, but they suffer due to lack of materials. While we do our best with what we have, I would love to offer the best experience I can to these students while they are in music class. Our school is a small, high achieving neighborhood school in the heart of a large urban city. The small size of our school (one of each grade - K- 8th grade and a full K-8 program for students on the Autism Spectrum) contributes to our unique family atmosphere which values fundamental regard for all children. Our learning community serves an economically and culturally diverse population of students living in the surrounding neighborhood and communities from around the city, all of whom receive free breakfast and lunch each day.

My Project

Children naturally love music! Whether it's soft and soothing or a lively tune, children feel music physically and emotionally. It particularly benefits my autistic students (K-8...ages 5 to 15). Music and movement benefit a child's development in many ways - social skills, emotional expression, increase creativity/imagination, new words/concepts, participation in a group, refinement of listening skills by noticing changes in tempo/pitch, improvement of large and fine motor skills (playing instruments), balance, coordination, rhythm (dance), explores cause and effect, awareness of others through movement and body position, enhances self-concept by sharing music and dance of other cultures. Students engage better during movement activities. By integrating new materials and props (tennis balls, bean bags, and the parachute), students have more visual ways to see abstract ideas.

In addition to all of the social and emotional benefits that participating in music affords, research shows that music increases students' language skills, their memory skills, and their ability to focus.

Movement internalizes those skills in their bodies... which not only helps them to retain the information, but to apply the same concepts while in their regular classrooms. Please help me to brighten my students day and to give them the best experience in music that I can.

Ms. Tierney James Dobson Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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Philadelphia, PA View local requests

Nearly all 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
Playtime Parachute Fun • Woodwind & Brasswind $15.95 1 $15.95
Wilson U.S. Open Tennis Balls. Extra-Duty (1 Dozen=4 Tubes of 3 Balls=12 Balls) • Cannon Sports, Inc. $28.99 3 $86.97
FF725 - Bucket of Beanbags • Lakeshore Learning $29.99 2 $59.98
LC4206 - Rainbow Parachute - 12' • Lakeshore Learning $54.99 1 $54.99
RA239 - Colors & Shapes Activity Mats • Lakeshore Learning $39.99 2 $79.98
Walter the Waltzing Worm • Woodwind & Brasswind $13.95 1 $13.95
Folk Dance Fun • Woodwind & Brasswind $15.95 1 $15.95
Around The World In Dance • Woodwind & Brasswind $14.95 1 $14.95
Bean Bag Rock & Roll • Woodwind & Brasswind $15.95 1 $15.95

Materials cost

$358.67

Vendor shipping charges

 $8.70

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$402.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$71.07

Total project goal

$473.82

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $473.82

6 Donors

-$239.50

Donations toward project cost

-$208.82

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.68

match offer

-$228.16

Match offer toward project cost

-$193.94

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.22

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$6.17

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 $0.00

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