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Ms. Patti from Akron, OH is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Super Successful Sensory Learners

Help me give my students a hideaway, tiles and blocks to practice self-regulation and make progress with their motor planning skills.

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My Students

I work with 3-5 year old children with moderate to severe Autism in an inner city school district. I teach at a school where the majority of my children receive free or reduced lunch. I have both students with Autism and typically developing preschoolers in my classroom. Our students attend 2.5 hours a day and we have 2 classes daily. We can serve 20 students total daily. Each year classroom teachers get a set amount of money to get supplies for their classroom. Once we purchase consumable items such as paper, glue, crayons/markers, art supplies, etc. we do not have enough money left for a couple bigger items we would love to add to our sensory area for our preschool children with Autism and our typically developing young preschoolers to help them with their motor planning and regulation of their emotions/sensory needs.

We are working hard to create a sensory area to help our students regulate their emotions, practice motor planning, and meet their sensory needs.

My Project

We are working hard to create a sensory area to help our students regulate their emotions and meet their sensory needs. We have an item the children love that needs replaced, but my annual funding is not enough to cover the replacement. It is a Tumble Forms barrel which we use for motor planning and slow linear rocking which helps some of my students to regulate and calm when overwhelmed or to prepare them to focus on a structured learning task. We would also like to add a quiet place where the students can have a private space when needed. We will add items to this area such as sensory fidgets, calming items, and picture prompts for calming breathing techniques we teach the children to promote self-regulation. We would also like to add some color changing stepping stones for the children to explore and to promote gross motor skills. We have light table that we are adding a variety of fine motor manipulatives and literacy materials to use in this area too. We have added a block set for the light table we would love to add to this sensory area.

Ms. Patti Preschool/Early Learning Program Grades PreK-2

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Akron, OH View local requests 20 students impacted 28donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
AA241 - Toddler Treehouse Hideaway • Lakeshore Learning Materials $399.00 1 $399.00
SE401 - Liquid Floor Tiles • Lakeshore Learning Materials $159.00 1 $159.00
RA432 - Crystal Building Blocks • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99

Materials cost

$607.99

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.12

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$647.11

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$114.20

Total project goal

$761.31

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $761.31

27 Donors

-$761.31

Donations toward project cost

-$647.11

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$114.20

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 $0.00

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