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Ms. Smock from Indianapolis IN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Cross-Curricular Connections: Building Our Music Classroom Library (Part 3)

Help me give my students a collection of diverse, inspiring books to build our classroom library.

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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 Project

Music education is of course necessary in its own right, but there is no doubt that music is also an eclectic subject that contains and relates to many others, from math and science to language and history. This understanding of music's inherent cross-curricular connections combined with my school district's push to increase student reading and writing has inspired me to begin building a classroom library for my general music students.

The books I have selected for this project represent diverse people and ideas, promote social & emotional learning, and celebrate history and culture, all through a musical lens.

Books also include Spanish and bi-lingual texts to support our several English-Language Learners. With these books, I will be able to have structured reading time once a week in addition to having a wonderfully enriching option for students who complete assignments early on days that we focus on projects or individual work.

My goals through this project are to promote reading comprehension and literacy skills among my 5th and 6th grade students, to provide them another avenue for learning more about how music and musicians shape our world, and to hopefully inspire a love of reading, or at least a strong appreciation for it, in as many students as possible.

Ms. Smock
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Breaking to the Beat! • Amazon Business $19.95 1 $19.95
Life Lessons from Hip-Hop: 50 Reflections on Creativity, Motivation and Wellbeing • Amazon Business $18.83 1 $18.83
Clap Your Hands: A Celebration of Gospel • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
The Bass Plays the Bass and Other Homographs • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Feel the Beat: Dance Poems that Zing from Salsa to Swing • Amazon Business $14.76 1 $14.76
Singing for Equality: Musicians of the Civil Rights Era • Amazon Business $14.37 1 $14.37
I Am Mozart, Too: The Lost Genius of Maria Anna Mozart • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
School of Rock: The Classic Illustrated Storybook (Pop Classics) • Amazon Business $13.11 1 $13.11
Lydia the Warrior Princess: A Fairy Tale about Music and Compassion • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
She Raised Her Voice!: 50 Black Women Who Sang Their Way Into Music History • Amazon Business $12.97 1 $12.97
Victor Discovers the Violin • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Rafi and Rosi Music! (Rafi and Rosi: Dive Into Reading!, Early Fluent) • Amazon Business $11.95 1 $11.95
The Mountain Man Of Music (Once Upon A Time In China) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Lucille Ball: A Little Golden Book Biography • Amazon Business $5.16 2 $10.32
Ah, Music! • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello • Amazon Business $7.95 1 $7.95
Mi Little Golden Book sobre Rita Moreno (Rita Moreno: A Little Golden Book Biography Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
Rita Moreno: A Little Golden Book Biography • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
The Beatles: A Little Golden Book Biography • Amazon Business $4.78 1 $4.78
Julie Andrews: A Little Golden Book Biography • Amazon Business $2.99 1 $2.99

Materials cost

$233.59

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.50

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$267.09

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$47.13

Total project goal

$314.22

How we calculate what's needed

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 $314.22

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