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Ms. Trindle from Newark, NJ is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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We Need A New Beat: Instruments for K-1st Grade Learners

Help me give my students a set of rhythm instruments, shakers, and a portable music teaching station to keep permanently at our school's second location without a music room.

  • $322 goal

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My students attend a public kindergarten through eighth grade public school in a high poverty urban community in New Jersey. They love music class and are great musicians. Even though we don't have a budget for new materials, we find creative ways to make music together.

Due to our enrollment, our kindergarten and first grade students attend school at a different location and I go into their classrooms to teach music, limiting what I can expose them to.

These students needs a set of rhythm instruments and other supplies that I can keep at their location so all students can play musical instruments during every music class.

My Project

These materials will make a difference to my students because currently I teach music in two locations and the vast majority of my supplies and instruments are kept in my music classroom, which only grades 2-8 have access to.

My kindergarten and first grade music classes are conducted when I travel to their building and go into their classroom.

Having rhythm instruments and other teaching tools permanently at this second site will enable me to engage these students more fully and lead to better sequential music education. While I often bring instruments to the k-1st grade site, I am limited by what I can carry. These kids deserve to have instruments in their hands every single music class.

Ms. Trindle Ridge Street Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Newark, NJ View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Deluxe Rhythm 35-Player Band Set • Woodwind and Brasswind $154.99 1 $154.99
5-in-1 Music Educator's Teaching Tool • Woodwind and Brasswind $42.99 1 $42.99
RB210S 12-Pack Egg Shakers • Woodwind and Brasswind $20.99 2 $41.98

Materials cost

$239.96

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.60

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$273.56

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$48.28

Total project goal

$321.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $321.84

5 Donors

-$321.84

Donations toward project cost

-$273.56

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.28

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 $0.00

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