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Mrs. Sarikova from Bronx, NY is requesting flexible seating through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Stimulate Your Senses!

My students need to reach learning milestones by celebrating their strengths and overcoming challenges. We need flexible seating and art and sensory manipulatives.

  • $618 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

What a group! I teach 3rd and 4th grade students in a self-contained 12:1:1 classroom. They are so special! I am impressed with their drive to learn despite their "emotionally disturbed," "autistic," "learning disabled" and "speech and language impaired" diagnostic classifications.

For the first time in my teaching career, I am teaching students who favor all academic subjects.

They enjoy sharing their individuality and uniqueness when we engage in our lively social studies or reading conversations. I admire them collectively on one particular character trait that is so essential to success in learning - confidence! My goal as their teacher is to direct their confidence to enhance their drive to learn and succeed in my classroom.

My Project

My students not only have colorful personalities, but unique interests and styles of learning. I have discovered that the key to teaching any lesson is to ignite a student's fascination in the objective administered. My students are motivated in different ways on a daily basis due to their various modes of learning.

I celebrate their learning styles and would like to cater to them because I strongly believe this is the ultimate formula to achieving lasting success in learning.

My students will benefit from the items requested in this project. The sensory items nourish the needs for my students, as they will use them to take a breather and to enjoy learning while reading with flexible seating as options - a floor seat and beanbags.

My students have difficulty controlling their emotions. I have discovered that sensory items soothe them. I plan to use the items requested as resources that will enable them to lounge, recompose themselves or calm down using the bean bag. The bean bag is also another way for the students to enjoy reading as they get comfortable and engage in independent reading with a book they enjoy. My students are mostly far below appropriate reading level. Besides learning strategies on how to read, my students need to develop a love of reading and improve their reading levels. In this way, the students will be encouraged to enhance their reading time and they can be role models for others as they take responsibility to be the master of their emotions.

The manipulatives and artistic artifacts such as painters, magnetic builders, timers, shapes, stickers, wiggly eyes, and feathers, will give opportunities for my students to be creative and represent their learning as distinctive and unique. In light of the fact that most of my students come from low-income families, I want to provide for them all that I can to give them quality learning opportunities.

Mrs. Sarikova PS 43 Jonas Bronck Grades PreK-2

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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Nearly all 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
CK20GR - Little Beanbag Seat - Green • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
BR302RD - Comfy Floor Seat - Red • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
BR302BU - Comfy Floor Seat - Blue • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
CK20BU - Little Beanbag Seat - Blue • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
DB476 - Mini Dot Art Painters - 6-Color Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 3 $44.97
CS356 - Magnetic Sensory Builders • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
TS108 - Rainbow Scratch Paper • Lakeshore Learning Materials $6.99 5 $34.95
HH828 - Children’s Timer - Set of 6 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
PP303 - Peel & Stick Flower Rhinestones • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
RR426 - Peel & Stick Collage Frames - Set of 30 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
RA392 - Easy-Stick Glitter Shapes - Class Pack • Lakeshore Learning Materials $16.99 1 $16.99
MN6 - Jumbo Pencils • Lakeshore Learning Materials $14.99 1 $14.99
WS804 - Wikki Stix - Neon Colors • Lakeshore Learning Materials $6.99 2 $13.98
FF106 - Collage Buttons • Lakeshore Learning Materials $9.99 1 $9.99
RY928 - Make-A-Face Sheets • Lakeshore Learning Materials $9.99 1 $9.99
FF291 - Rainbow Scratch Paper Animals • Lakeshore Learning Materials $9.99 1 $9.99
LC658 - Colored Feathers - Class Pack • Lakeshore Learning Materials $8.99 1 $8.99
BA8150 - Pom-Poms - Class Pack • Lakeshore Learning Materials $7.99 1 $7.99
BJ2580 - Wiggly Eyes • Lakeshore Learning Materials $5.99 1 $5.99
HL125 - Jumbo Colored Craft Sticks • Lakeshore Learning Materials $2.99 1 $2.99
BA7112 - Pipe Stems - 100 Pieces • Lakeshore Learning Materials $1.99 1 $1.99

Materials cost

$487.72

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.32

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$525.04

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$92.65

Total project goal

$617.69

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $617.69

2 Donors

-$597.69

Donations toward project cost

-$508.04

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$89.65

match offer

-$20.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$17.00

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.00

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 $0.00

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