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Ms. Johnson from Bronx NY is requesting other through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Sensory Seats For Our Classroom!

My students need a bean bag chair and a physio-ball.

  • $218 goal

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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.

The school I work at services only special education children. The children have a wide variety of needs that prevent them from attending a general education school. I'm teaching first grade children with mild to severe autism, which is amazingly rewarding. Our school is in a high-needs area and many of our students are living in impoverished conditions. They are incredibly delightful kids with all the potential in the world if given the tools to succeed.

As a new teacher, I'm basically building my classroom from scratch. The items that I'm requesting (bean bag and physio-ball) are items that students are obviously unable to supply the classroom with and are things that will be able to be used by students year after year after year. I have seen these materials being used in other classrooms for students with autism and their benefit is amazing.

Students with autism are very sensory people, meaning that their bodies feel things differently. A bean bag chair would help them to feel more comfortable when reading in our classroom library and would also give them a "safe place" when they start to feel anxious or frustrated. They would be able to calm themselves down and learn appropriate coping strategies to empower them to control their emotions. Physio-balls are similar to exercise balls and allow the student to bounce in place and exert energy in a non-harmful way. Students can relax on it or simply use it to play and have fun.

Your help will ensure that my students are given every opportunity to have the most well-quipped classroom possible. I've seen how students with autism benefit from these two pieces of equipment and know how valuable they would be to us this year, and also to the future students that I will have. We appreciate any sort of help you can give us! Thank you so much!

Ms. Johnson
Grades PreK-2

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Large Bean Bag, 108 in. Circum., Green • Highsmith Inc. $40.56 1 $40.56
Abilitations 85cm Physio-Roll Therapy Ball • Abilitations, Inc. $102.29 1 $102.29

Materials cost

$142.85

Vendor shipping charges

$14.29

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.57

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$178.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$39.07

Total project goal

$217.07

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$217.07

3 Donors

-$182.94

Donations toward project cost

-$178.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$4.94

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$34.13

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$0.00

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