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Ms. A. from Flushing, NY is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Hands On: Activities for Students with Special Needs

My students need items such as peg boards, dough, fine motor tweezers, magnetic alphabet boards and a following direction building set.

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My Students

Every day is different, but exciting and entertaining! Our students have varied disabilities and abilities. Each day brings a variety of challenges, particularly in fine motor activities. Many of our students are non-writers at this time, but we are working on strengthening their readiness skills!

We are a special education school.

We have a 12:1:1 class with students ranging in disability from Downs Syndrome to Autism to Traumatic Brain Injury to Other Health Impairment. They range in ability from being non-verbal and non-writers to those who can communicate fluently but have other behavioral issues. Many of our children have sensory issues and have weakness and motor delays. This affects their ability to use writing implements, scissors and other classroom tools. They often need 1:1 assistance during this time.

My Project

We envision our students being able to use these resources to improve upon hand function, strength, cognitive skills and visual perception skills so that they will be ready to take on academic challenges. We can use these tools during transition time and during socialization periods to ensure independence and interaction with peers. We are looking for tools like peg boards, dough to use as manipulatives and to strengthen hands, tweezer games to focus on fine motor skills and magnetic boards to facilitate fine motor as well as literacy skills.

Our classroom and school have limited manipulative resources which our students really need this year.

Obtaining these resources will help me address their individual goals as well as improve upon functional skills. These materials will help our students work on hand strength which will help them gain the ability to learn to hold a writing implement and potentially be able to express themselves in written form.

Ms. A. PS Q177 Robin Sue Ward School Grades 6-8

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Flushing, NY View local requests

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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
AX20 - Lakeshore Dough Assortment Set 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 2 $99.98
LL676 - Magnetic Alphabet Maze • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
TT625 - Peg Number Boards • Lakeshore Learning Materials $34.99 1 $34.99
HH318 - Following Directions Building Set - Level 1 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
LL238 - Phonemic Awareness Magnetic Activity Tin • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
LL108 - Tweezer Tongs Color Sorting Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $24.99 1 $24.99
EE601 - Feed-The-Dog Fine Motor Game • Lakeshore Learning Materials $21.99 1 $21.99
PP507 - Create & Design Drill Kit • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
LL139 - Fine Motor Tweezer Tongs - Set of 4 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$311.90

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$346.58

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$61.16

Total project goal

$407.74

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $407.74

4 Donors

-$183.04

Donations toward project cost

-$173.29

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$9.75

match offer

-$203.87

Match offer toward project cost

-$173.29

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.58

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$20.83

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 $0.00

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