Help me give my students a Teachers Pay Teachers gift card, stylus pens, and other tools to work on fine motor skills through art and writing during distance learning!
$273 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating 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.
As a teacher for a special day program, I have an amazing opportunity to impact the lives of my students. We educate twelve students in a CORE autism program. Their grades span from TK-1 We follow the same curriculum as our regular peers but also emphasize learning social skills, school routines, and the hidden curriculum. We need many different ways to learn including technology, hands-on materials, and opportunities to move.
Despite our label of having autism, we choose to break stereotypes by creating a family of empathy and working as a team.
My students often have difficulty communicating their needs and staying focused. Our needs vary from educational, to social, sensory, and developmental support. I am committed to helping them make breakthroughs to continue their education and work alongside their general education peers.
My Project
My project is designed to support fine motor skills in my special education classroom. We are in need of construction paper to continue our weekly craft projects. Crafts provide opportunities for cutting, pasting, and tearing to work on our pincher grasp, a foundational writing skill.
No one talks about the basic muscle skills needed in order to participate in a writing task.
Stylus pens will allow us to work on holding a writing utensil with a functional grasp. We will be able to participate in more on-screen writing activities so our teacher can see our thinking on Zoom, as well as use them to complete drag and drop activities on Seesaw for homework.
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