Help me give my students a specially designed space to retreat in order to calm down with a reading nook kit.
FULLY FUNDED! Dr. Nicole Shinall's classroom raised $914
This project is fully funded
My Students
Our school is located in the heart of Sarasota. My class is a self-contained varying exception, kindergarten, and first-grade room. My students are creative, thoughtful, and full of questions! They absolutely love hands-on, active, engaging projects, and challenges that allow them to think outside the box to find solutions! They come to school each day ready to try new things and take brave chances in order to grow both personally and academically.
My Project
My classroom is a varying exception, self-contained, kindergarten and first-grade room. Quite a few of my students have been diagnosed with autism. My students often feel overwhelmed and need a place to go to retreat and calm down. This space will be filled with specially designed items to assist the students with their calm down strategies. It will be clearly designed to give the other students the knowledge that their friends needs some space and to let them be "just me" for a few minutes in the area. It will provide a wonderful retreat for gathering their thoughts and collecting themselves before returning to the group.
More than half 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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