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. Funaiock’s Classroom Edit display name

  • Charles Brant Chesney Elementary School
  • Duluth, GA
  • More than three‑quarters 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. Funaiock 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. Funaiock's classroom with a gift that fosters learning.

  • Monthly
  • One-time

We'll charge your card today and send Ms. Funaiock 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. Funaiock can use on her next classroom project.

Your custom url is https://www.donorschoose.org/mscateysclass

View your stats
Track donations »
Edit
What is the day like in my autism classroom? Wow! Where do I start? I imagine the minds of these small children working so hard to complete simple tasks. They struggle, but they love to learn. They have behaviors that we sometimes don't understand, but in other ways they are just as typical as any other child. I work in a low functioning level 1 autism classroom. I teach kids from kindergarten to 2nd grade. The school itself is a Title 1 school in a lower socio-economic area of Gwinnett County in Duluth, Georgia. My kids are AMAZING! Autism may be a mysterious disorder, but these kids blow my mind daily. Being that they are in a low functioning classroom, they are all non-verbal and struggle to communicate. We work daily on ways to teach them to communicate in hopes of decreasing inappropriate behaviors. Lots of learning is done in baby steps and at times it takes months (even years) to learn simple tasks such as holding a pencil correctly or doing a basic 10 piece puzzle.

About my class

What is the day like in my autism classroom? Wow! Where do I start? I imagine the minds of these small children working so hard to complete simple tasks. They struggle, but they love to learn. They have behaviors that we sometimes don't understand, but in other ways they are just as typical as any other child. I work in a low functioning level 1 autism classroom. I teach kids from kindergarten to 2nd grade. The school itself is a Title 1 school in a lower socio-economic area of Gwinnett County in Duluth, Georgia. My kids are AMAZING! Autism may be a mysterious disorder, but these kids blow my mind daily. Being that they are in a low functioning classroom, they are all non-verbal and struggle to communicate. We work daily on ways to teach them to communicate in hopes of decreasing inappropriate behaviors. Lots of learning is done in baby steps and at times it takes months (even years) to learn simple tasks such as holding a pencil correctly or doing a basic 10 piece puzzle.

Read more

About my class

Read more
{"followTeacherId":2707401,"teacherId":2707401,"teacherName":"Ms. Funaiock","teacherProfilePhotoURL":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/136/teacher-placeholder-1_136.png","teacherHasProfilePhoto":false,"vanityURL":"mscateysclass","teacherChallengeId":20526886,"followAbout":"Ms. Funaiock's projects","teacherVerify":798273443,"teacherNameEncoded":"Ms. Funaiock","vanityType":"teacher","teacherPageInfo":{"teacherHasClassroomPhoto":true,"teacherHasClassroomDescription":true,"teacherClassroomDescription":"","teacherProfileURL":"https://www.donorschoose.org/classroom/mscateysclass","tafURL":"https://secure.donorschoose.org/donors/share_teacher_profile.html?teacher=2707401","stats":{"numActiveProjects":0,"numFundedProjects":3,"numSupporters":33},"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.