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Ms. Murrell from Kalispell, MT is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Toot Your Trumpet!

Help me give my students new trumpets. We have a couple of donated trumpets that are well used and in desperate need of repair. The plastic trumpets will last a long time!

  • $680 goal

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My Students

All of my students, from preschool to 8th Gd, love to perform. Every day when they enter my room, students sing and dance as they prepare for their class. They love to sing for each other and as groups both in class and out. The students request to learn new songs all the time and to try out instruments. The middle school band is growing and the general music students love to sing and play instruments as well.

The primary students prepare two concerts during the year, a winter concert representing the various cultures in our school and a spring concert demonstrating music learned throughout the year.

While the band students prepare four concerts each year.

The performances are a large part of the community and students are excited to represent their school in a positive way.

My Project

Our band program is trying to grow, but we are in desperate need of instruments. Right now I have 3 trumpet players in need of instruments and only 1 working trumpet. If I could get 3 brand new trumpets, I know our kids will be so grateful.

The trumpet we currently have is 30 years old, and while instruments do last a long time, ours has been well loved.

We could really use some instruments that do not require weekly repair just to get through class. The students are great about taking care of the instruments, but I know how much they want instruments that work.

These trumpets would go a long way to helping our program grow into a thriving instrumental class!

Ms. Murrell
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
CTR-200 Series Plastic Bb Trumpet • Woodwind and Brasswind $179.95 3 $539.85

Materials cost

$539.85

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.10

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$577.95

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$101.99

Total project goal

$679.94

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $679.94

4 Donors

-$620.44

Donations toward project cost

-$527.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$93.07

match offer

-$59.50

Match offer toward project cost

-$50.58

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$8.92

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 $0.00

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