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Ms. Talberg from Tacoma, WA is requesting sports & exercise equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Busy Board for Busy Hands

Help me give my students a busy board to help keep emotions and sensory needs regulated

FULLY FUNDED! Ms. Talberg's classroom raised $308

This project is fully funded

My Students

Our school is on the border of northeast Tacoma and Puyallup. Eighty-five percent of students receive free or reduced-price lunches. Our school embraces cultures with high African American and Hispanic populations.

The program that you are donating to is called the peer inclusion preschool.

We are an 8:8 model which means 8 students ages 3-5 have identified disabilities and 8 students are peers from neighborhood schools. We provide early intervention to an AM and a PM class. These students have a variety of disabilities such as autism, visual impairments, developmental delays, speech impairments, and others.

These students come for early intervention for learning their ABCs and 123's, making friends, safe, calming strategies, how to use the toilet, and much more. One of the great things about this program is that these wonderful kids learn from each other and gain empathy, caring, understanding for those who are different. This and many other reasons are why I am proud of my school, my program, and my class.

My Project

I’m out school’s journey to renovate our sensory room, we are in need of a busy board. A busy board is a wooden board with several tasks on it to keep students engaged and directed on a task. These tasks specifically hone in on fine motor skills that will strengthen their hands. My students with Autism often struggle with their language skills which often leads to unwanted behaviors like pinching and hitting others.

With this busy board, we can have an activity

To redirect our students to use their hand strength for positive behaviors. Please donate to this project to help our school and our class promote positive behaviors.

Ms. Talberg Roosevelt Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Tacoma, WA View local requests

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

32 students impacted 19donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
LEARNING ADVANTAGE Crocodile Activity Wall Panels - Ages 18m+ - Montessori Sensory Wall Toy - 8 Activities - Busy Board - Toddler Room Decor • Amazon Business $209.99 1 $209.99

Materials cost

$209.99

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $18.37

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.15

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$261.51

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$46.15

Total project goal

$307.66

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $307.66

16 Donors

-$150.21

Donations toward project cost

-$145.46

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$4.75

Matching donations from our partners

-$136.53

Match offers toward project cost

-$116.05

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$20.48

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$20.92

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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