You're on track to get doubled donations (and unlock a reward for the colleague who referred you). Keep up the great work!
Take credit for your charitable giving! Check out your tax receipts
Donate
To use your $50 gift card credits, find a project to fund and we'll automatically apply your credits at checkout. Find a classroom project
Menu
Skip to main content

Help teachers & students in your hometown this season!
Use code HOME at checkout and your donation will be matched up to $100.

Your school email address was successfully verified.

Edit classroom photo

Ms. McCoy's Classroom Edit display name

  • Douglas MacArthur Elementary School
  • Alexandria, VA
  • More than a third 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

Support her classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Ms. McCoy a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

cancel

Support Ms. McCoy's classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Ms. McCoy a DonorsChoose gift card she can use on her classroom projects. Starting next month, we'll charge your card and send her a DonorsChoose gift card on the 17th of every month.

Edit or cancel anytime.

Make a donation Ms. McCoy can use on her next classroom project.

Your custom url is https://www.donorschoose.org/ms-mj

View your stats
Track donations »
Edit
The resources I'm requesting support and satisfy the very special needs of children with sensory sensitivities and disabilities. Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, or other impairments involving the senses often have a variety of input and output requirements to feel balanced, focused, and whole. Using Susan Culp's book on sensory interventions, my goal is to create a wall of tools in my office that address all 5 senses and their hypo- and hyper- sensitivity shortages. The mixed medium, multifaceted, and intentional approach restores the weary student and makes them available for learning. The items to be included on the wall are velcro, sandpaper, felt, and silk (tactile senses); legos, washer, and bolts; headphones and small chimes (auditory); small bean-toss bags, squishy fidgets, tubes of floating glitter ( visual and proprioception) ; and finally essential oil sticks (olfactory) . I will use this assortment of items to recreate a functional, small-sized-office appropriate sensory wall that can cost over $1500 when bought at specialty stores. I want my students to have access to that resource and I want my students to feel secure in their very stimulated world.

About my class

The resources I'm requesting support and satisfy the very special needs of children with sensory sensitivities and disabilities. Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, or other impairments involving the senses often have a variety of input and output requirements to feel balanced, focused, and whole. Using Susan Culp's book on sensory interventions, my goal is to create a wall of tools in my office that address all 5 senses and their hypo- and hyper- sensitivity shortages. The mixed medium, multifaceted, and intentional approach restores the weary student and makes them available for learning. The items to be included on the wall are velcro, sandpaper, felt, and silk (tactile senses); legos, washer, and bolts; headphones and small chimes (auditory); small bean-toss bags, squishy fidgets, tubes of floating glitter ( visual and proprioception) ; and finally essential oil sticks (olfactory) . I will use this assortment of items to recreate a functional, small-sized-office appropriate sensory wall that can cost over $1500 when bought at specialty stores. I want my students to have access to that resource and I want my students to feel secure in their very stimulated world.

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":5864718,"teacherId":5864718,"teacherName":"Ms. McCoy","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/272x272/tp5864718_272x272.jpg?width=136&height=136&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1537291359155","teacherHasProfilePhoto":true,"vanityURL":"ms-mj","teacherChallengeId":21276397,"followAbout":"Ms. McCoy's projects","teacherVerify":-435486598,"teacherNameEncoded":"Ms. McCoy","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/ms-mj","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=5864718","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":2,"numSupporters":9},"classroomPhotoPendingScreening":false,"showEssentialsListCard":false}}
Supporting teachers and students since 2000

DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America create classroom project requests, and you can give any amount to the project that inspires you.

We've earned the highest possible ratings from Better Business Bureau, Charity Watch, Charity Navigator, and Guidestar.