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

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Help Us Make Sense of Ourselves

My students need sensory materials like putty, fidget snappers and tangles.

  • $198 goal

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My Students

It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum." - Temple Grand

My students are smart, funny, caring and ready to learn .

I am an occupational therapist at a Title I school in Brooklyn. We are a public, high poverty school, with the majority of the students receiving free or reduced price meals at school. My students come from various ethnic backgrounds. The children on my caseload are in both general education and special education classrooms. These students have challenges like Autism, ADHD, and speech/language delays.

My Project

As occupational therapist I integrate in to their classroom in order to treat them in their natural environment. I help my students develop their physical, cognitive, psychosocial, and sensory skills in a variety of contexts that support their engagement in everyday life activities. In order to help my students develop their sensory-motor skills, I need sensory brushes to help calm my students so they are able to sustain and attend to tasks. This year most of my students are on autistic spectrum the Wilbarger Brushing Protocol will be used to help them attend to task. tolerate different textures, and improve body awareness . This will help them be more aware of their bodies and so that they can focus reading writing and math.

Your donation of the sensory material will help the children succeed inside the classroom and the school community.

You will also be opening up the world to a child with Autism.

Ms. Cesaire PS 251 Paerdegat Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Brooklyn, 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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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Discovery Putty Set-Animal Rescue & Grab the Goodies • Amazon Business $30.94 2 $61.88
REPK FIDGET RAPPER SNAPPERS - SET OF 15 • School Specialty $22.22 1 $22.22
SENSORY BRUSH - SET OF 12 • School Specialty $19.16 1 $19.16
FIDGET CATERPINCH • School Specialty $17.03 1 $17.03
Set of 3! Tangle Jr. Original Fidget Toy • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99

Materials cost

$130.28

Vendor shipping charges

 $5.84

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$1.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$168.07

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$29.66

Total project goal

$197.73

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $197.73

1 Donor

-$98.87

Donations toward project cost

-$84.04

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.83

match offer

-$98.86

Match offer toward project cost

-$84.03

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$14.83

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 $0.00

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