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Ms. Tierney from Philadelphia, PA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Music through Literacy

My students need 14 books that include "Time for Bed", "Swimmy", "Piggies", and "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" to go with our new music curriculum in order to meet common core literacy standards.

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My Students

My students need books that can be easily integrated into their music curriculum to meet new common core literacy standards. By adding reading and literacy into music class, students have the opportunity to access language in a new way!

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

Each class has both music and art twice a week, but 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 that values fundamental regard for all children. Our learning community serves an economically and culturally diverse population of students who live in the surrounding neighborhood and communities from around the city, and all of whom receive free breakfast and lunch each day.

My Project

Pennsylvania, along with several other states have adopted the Common Core Curriculum, which focuses very heavily on literacy in all instructional areas. With the increased focus on literacy, and knowing how much my students absolutely LOVE to read, I would love to add some new books into their curriculum. I am requesting a variety of new books like Time for Bed, Swimmy, Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon and Piggies to name a few. By linking literacy and music together, students are able to learn the flow of language in a new way. It also gets some additional literacy instruction incorporated in a fun, non threatening, not pressure sort of way!

Music seems to be an area where each of my students has the potential to excel.

When reading and math are difficult to wrap your head around, music can offer an outlet for expression and relaxation, and can even enhance the academic skills with which students struggle. By linking concepts that may be more difficult in the academic classroom to an area where they show success, we can build their confidence and increase their individual achievements in all academic areas!

Ms. Tierney James Dobson Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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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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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Shake Dem Halloween Bones (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon $13.85 1 $13.85
Time for Bed • Amazon $13.20 1 $13.20
Swimmy • Amazon $13.11 1 $13.11
One Hundred Hungry Ants • Amazon $12.97 1 $12.97
Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon • Amazon $10.49 1 $10.49
The Star-Spangled Banner (Reading Rainbow Books) • Amazon $9.39 1 $9.39
Barnyard Dance! (Lap Edition) • Amazon $8.95 1 $8.95
It's Not Easy Being a Bunny (Beginner Books(R)) • Amazon $8.09 1 $8.09
Drummer Hoff • Amazon $7.19 1 $7.19
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom • Amazon $6.92 1 $6.92
The Very Busy Spider • Amazon $6.29 1 $6.29
Jump, Frog, Jump! • Amazon $6.29 1 $6.29
Eric Carle's Opposites (The World of Eric Carle) • Amazon $5.39 1 $5.39
Piggies • Amazon $5.35 1 $5.35

Materials cost

$127.48

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.91

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$159.39

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$28.13

Total project goal

$187.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $187.52

3 Donors

-$112.50

Donations toward project cost

-$106.88

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.62

match offer

-$61.78

Match offer toward project cost

-$52.51

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.27

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$13.24

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 $0.00

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