By Maraiya Hakeem | Development Associate
Dear Project Supporters:
Students at our first-year partner schools are continuing to benefit from the materials and supplies funded by this project. With your help, music teachers can make their instruction more engaging and enriching for these students. ETM music teacher Erin Giacinto, at PS 42 in the Bronx, provides a glimpse of the wonderful things the students are doing thanks to your support. She writes:
“Students in the 4th and 5th grade have recently started an anti-bullying program. We were spending a lot of time in the classroom working on chord progressions and playing accompaniments on classroom instruments…Some of the students got together during their recess time and began writing their own song, based off of what we had learned in music, about the harmful effects of bullying. [They] wrote their own original lyrics [to] a popular song using the chords that we learned.”
The students went on to perform their original composition for Ms. Giacinto, and then the entire school during a morning student meeting. “The confidence that the students built just by knowing that they [wrote]… their own music”, Erin says, “and the courage it took to perform it in front of the whole school, made a big difference for some of the students in the group who are affected by bullying. I have seen these students grow so much from the confidence of being an independent musician.”
Your support is making a lasting difference in the lives of all of our students. In addition to the 4th and 5th graders described by Ms. Giacinto, our younger students have also been enjoying their new music instruction. The ones pictured above are using some of their new classroom instruments as they prepare for their school’s winter concert.
Success at P.S. 42 and other first-year partner schools has been possible with your support. Yet, there are more students and schools we hope to reach. Won't you consider forwarding our project to a friend or colleague who you think might be interested in donating? Your support is greatly appreciated!
With sincere thanks,
The ETM Staff
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