New Instruments!!

So last year I taught at a school where I had 6 Orff instruments that were so broken that they couldn't be used to their full potential.  I changed schools last year and moved to where I grew up.  I happened to get a job at a school with 14 Orff instruments!  I was incredibly happy and felt so blessed to have them!  Well I quickly discovered that even though I had more, I had class sizes that did not work with 14 instruments.  I have classes that go up to 26-28 students.  Some of them are in 6th grade which means their bodies are pretty big and so sharing a small instrument doesn't work so well for them.

I started doing some fundraising on donorschoose.org.  I managed to raise 1400 dollars towards new instruments!  Like a true rookie, I accidentally made my first project 2200 dollars total!  While I didn't fulfill my project by the deadline, my boss at the county level found out I needed more instruments and bought me NINE more.  I'm so incredibly blessed!  So in addition to the money I raised through donorschoose, I now have 9 beautiful new instruments! (Although one is on backorder and has not come in yet).

With the donorscoose money I will be starting a couple SMALLER projects and fulfilling them for other needs around my classroom!

Take a look at some pictures:

BEFORE:

AFTER:

I will definitely be making good use of them both in the classroom and with my Orff ensembles.  I can accept MANY more students into the ensembles!  I'm excited and so are my students!!!!