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Ms. Kochel from Mott, ND is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Musical Literacy Includes Quality Literature!

Help me give my students a richly illustrated musical library to enhance their musical adventure!

  • $598 goal

This project expired on December 5, 2022.

This project expired on December 5, 2022.

My Project

I love to spark my students' imagination at the beginning of a unit with high quality picture books related to the learning goals of the unit. The books are tangible, address multiple senses, and bring reading, art, and music together for my students. I had a great deal of success using the books which were illustrated lyrics and also picture books that introduce an discuss musical concepts during the last two years.

There is something magical that happens when the students gather around me to read a story together.

Even more so when it gives the children a glimpse of a world that haven't been exposed to, different regions, people, and vocabulary. The kids point out things in the pictures or ask questions about words. Then they begin to be invested in the song. A song about life on an island is hard for my students, born on the high prairies, to visualize. The books make the connection more real than only the song. It's a beautiful thing when we start singing and a child says, "I know what that [a lyric] means. Remember the picture we saw in the book?" That child has engaged and the books was part of the connection.

There have been several research projects that have quantified the impact reading picture books as part of a music curriculum has on our students. In fact one music education expert, John Feierabend design a curriculum that uses 20 illustrated texts of familiar American folk and children's song. The research found that when kids were first exposed to a song with a picture book of the song's lyrics, that the children had better musical accuracy when the song was presented for singing later!

Ms. Kochel
Grades 6-8
    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

    This project will reach 200 students.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Passing the Music Down • Amazon Business $17.99 1 $17.99
Kitty Alone (First Steps in Music series) • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
Jennie Jenkins (First Steps in Music series) • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night (First Steps in Music series) • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
My Aunt Came Back (First Steps in Music series) • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
The Frog and the Mouse (First Steps in Music series) • Amazon Business $17.95 1 $17.95
Momma, Buy Me a China Doll (First Steps in Music series) • Amazon Business $17.64 1 $17.64
First Steps in Global Music (First Steps in Music series) • Amazon Business $17.60 1 $17.60
There's a Hole in the Bucket! (First Steps in Music series) • Amazon Business $16.95 1 $16.95
The Tailor and the Mouse (First Steps in Music series) • Amazon Business $16.95 1 $16.95
The Other Day I Met a Bear (First Steps in Music series) • Amazon Business $16.39 1 $16.39
Had a Little Rooster (First Steps in Music series) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Father Grumble (First Steps in Music series) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Playing at the Border: A Story of Yo-Yo Ma • Amazon Business $15.49 1 $15.49
Over in the Meadow • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Risseldy, Rosseldy (First Steps in Music series) • Amazon Business $14.69 1 $14.69
The Swapping Song (First Steps in Music series) • Amazon Business $13.87 1 $13.87
Family Dynamics: Embrace Your Sound • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
EGBDF The Musical Yak (Musical Land Series) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
FACE The Musical Flamingo (Musical Land Series) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
I Love to Sing: Intervals • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
I Love to Sing: With Good Breath Support • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
I Love to Sing: With Solfège Hand Signs • Amazon Business $12.95 1 $12.95
There Was a Man and He Was Mad (First Steps in Music series) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Ša, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Blue Whale Blues • Amazon Business $9.70 1 $9.70
Abiyoyo • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
This Jazz Man • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Too Much Noise • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Abiyoyo Returns • Amazon Business $7.89 1 $7.89

Materials cost

$445.64

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $25.85

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$508.17

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.68

Total project goal

$597.85

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