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Ms. Charnette from Los Angeles, CA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Calming Area

Help me give my students materials such as liquid floor tiles, color-changing light center, weighted lap pad, storytelling kits, and calm down cubes, to support their sensory and social-emotional needs.

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The materials selected will help build upon our classroom’s calming area to address our student’s sensory and social-emotional needs. The children will respond very well to the storytelling book kits that come with tangibles for No, David! and The Napping House, as they are our favorite read-alouds. Using the Storytelling Board with Magnetic Backing will help facilitate this as a hands-on activity. Also, providing them with the option of using the Cuddly Puppy Weighted Lap Pad, Liquid Floor Tiles, Tap & Play Color-Changing Light Center, Construct-A-Letter Activity Center and the Extra Plastic Nails and Replacement Hammering Boards that go with it, will give them the hands-on tactile activities that we have experienced in the past as having calming effects on our children. Many of our students respond well to music, so incorporating The Sing-Along Read-Along Classics with CDs and Light-Up Musical Shape Sorter will help give them auditory support when needed. When our children have difficulty identifying their feelings, it is helpful to have a visual, such as the Calm Down Cubes that I have requested. Breathing exercises also work wonders with helping our children manage their big feelings and the Hoberman Sphere is a fun and exciting way to visualize what pattern breathing looks like. Our students love to draw because it’s a fun, therapeutic and calming activity, but we are in need of the Write & Wipe Broad-Tip Markers to go along with our dry-erase boards. We are fervently working on expanding this area for our children so they have a wider variety of calming-strategy materials to choose from that would help regulate their little bodies. Our students are doing very well with developing these skills and we are very proud of them. This project would give us the ability to better support them in this area.

Ms. Charnette Short Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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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

12 students impacted 2donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
SE401 - Liquid Floor Tiles • Lakeshore Learning Materials $179.00 1 $179.00
LE284 - Tap Play Color-Changing Light Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $149.00 1 $149.00
CA202 - Cuddly Puppy Weighted Lap Pad • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 1 $59.99
EE496 - Construct-A-Letter Activity Center • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
LA329 - The Napping House Storytelling Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.99 1 $34.99
LA138 - Write Wipe Broad-Tip Markers - Class Pack • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.99 1 $34.99
RR513 - No David Storytelling Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.99 1 $34.99
RA199 - Sing-Along Read-Along Classics with CDs • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.50 1 $34.50
LA990 - Storytelling Board with Magnetic Backing • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
FD534 - Light-Up Musical Shape Sorter • Lakeshore Learning Materials $27.99 1 $27.99
LC954 - Replacement Hammering Board • Lakeshore Learning Materials $9.99 2 $19.98
ES130 - Hoberman Sphere<sup>&reg;</sup> • Lakeshore Learning Materials $17.99 1 $17.99
EE953 - Calm Down Cubes • Lakeshore Learning Materials $12.99 1 $12.99
LC953 - Extra Plastic Nails • Lakeshore Learning Materials $8.99 1 $8.99

Materials cost

$695.38

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $63.63

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.43

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$799.44

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$141.08

Total project goal

$940.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $940.52

2 Donors

-$936.99

Donations toward project cost

-$799.44

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$137.55

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$3.53

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