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Ms. Buksa from Chicago IL is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Boom! Whack! Boomwhackers for K-8 Music

My students need boomwhackers with octave caps to create harmonies and accompaniments.

  • $229 goal

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This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

My musicians know that when the teacher says, "Are you ready to rock?!" they respond, "Ready to roll!" Student musicians create and perform music in every single class.

My students are primarily from the Woodlawn neighborhood on Chicago's south side.

They are intelligent, inquisitive, and incredibly eager to play any instrument they can get their hands on. Students in our school recite our school pledge every morning and work all day to be the best students and global citizens they can be.

My Project

My students need boomwhackers with octave caps. My musicians will be able to create and perform harmonies, melodies, and accompaniments on the boomwhackers. Since each student will have only one pitch, they will collaborate to perform compositions, much like members of an orchestra performing a Beethoven symphony. These activities will develop sense of pitch, rhythm, and prepare students for guitar, band, or orchestral instruments.

Our classroom currently has a very limited number of instruments.

Most of the instruments are either geared toward middle school children or are not melodic. Boomwhackers would give my student musicians a hands-on musical experience.

Ms. Buksa
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Complete Upper & Lower Octave Sets Boomwhackers Tuned Percussion Tubes • Woodwind and Brasswind $89.99 1 $89.99
Octavator Caps 8-Pack • Woodwind and Brasswind $7.99 5 $39.95
C Major Diatonic Scale Set (Upper Octave) Boomwhackers Tuned Percussion Tubes • Woodwind and Brasswind $19.99 1 $19.99
Boom-a-Tunes Curriculum, Volume 1 (Book/CD) • Woodwind and Brasswind $11.99 1 $11.99

Materials cost

$161.92

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.43

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$194.35

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$34.30

Total project goal

$228.65

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $228.65

1 Donor

-$228.65

Donations toward project cost

-$194.35

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.30

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 $0.00

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