Our school is located in an ethnically diverse urban city. We are a Title I school where all students receive free breakfast and 80% + receive free or reduced-price lunch.
My special education students are diverse ethnically, in their ability levels, and in the type of support, they receive from the community.
They are peer models in some areas and learners in others. My students learn through playing, singing, and moving their bodies. They qualify for services in a variety of areas that include self-help, pre-academic, social, communication, and motor.
My Project
The tools included in this project will be for supporting our students' learning at home. Each student will receive a set of linking and wood cubes. Cubes as an emotional regulation tool you ask? The act of counting (bonus skill area= math!) engages our students in slowly bringing their energy level down. Using manipulatives like cubes also supports motor development and gives students objects to focus and track.
Every child needs tools to engage their senses to help them navigate the range of emotions they feel!
Each item in this project will support one or more of the senses (touch, sight, sound, smell, taste). Each item will also provide a different experience to support regulating their emotions by either helping them to expend energy (clay cutters, tweezers, and scissors, cubes/blocks) or soothing their needs (glitter wand, sensory discs, rapper snappers, Y chew). These items create an additional learning opportunity by also sharpening their motor and academic skills!
More than three‑quarters 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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