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Mrs. H. from Lafayette IN is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Is Your Amygdala Ready to Learn?

My students need sensory tools such as glitter wands and theraputty for their Amygdala kits. The wands and theraputty are critical in helping them reset their brain and refocus for learning.

  • $514 goal

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My Students

My Elementary School is a K-5 school that continues to grow in size with new housing developments yearly. Our school has over 500 students who are mostly middle class families. Most of our students live in subdivisions. However, the attendance area also includes apartments, duplexes and rural areas. Our students' parents work in large factories, restaurants, small business, or health facilities. Each of my students want to learn, but I am finding they are struggling with emotions and behaviors that inhibit their learning and engagement in school.

Neuroscience research in schools has shown that stress, adversity, and trauma in the brain derails learning, compromise brain health and development, and impedes motivations and engagement.

Schools need to help students become prepared to engage their brain's neuroplasticity and provide opportunities to redirect their brain so new learning can occur. One part of the brain that is critical for developing a healthy brain is focusing on the Amygdala section. If we can teach our students to regulate emotions and behavior, engage the most difficult student and enhance cognition we can help our students be successful.

My Project

There has never been a more important time in education for teachers to understand and apply how a child's brain develops and relates to learning and the emotional social health. Our students are entering our classrooms with stress, adversity, and trauma from outside the classroom. These events derail our student's learning and compromise brain heath and development and impede motivation and engagement in the classroom. If we give our students sensory breaks and tools to regulate their emotions and behavior, and engage their brains they will be ready to learn.

By implementing "Amygdala kits" with items like theraputty and sensory brushes into my kindergarten through fifth grade classrooms, my students would be allowed to reduce their stress, voluntarily control their behavior, and promote successful cognitive function.

Basically self regulating and resetting their brains to be ready to learn.

Mrs. H.
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
THERAPUTTY SET OF 6 (2 OZ. EACH) • School Specialty $22.71 4 $90.84
WOODEN MINI WHAT'ZIT CLASSROOM PACK OF 24 • School Specialty $73.83 1 $73.83
TANGLE JR TEXTURED • School Specialty $2.83 24 $67.92
WAND SPIRAL GLITTER SET OF 3 • School Specialty $7.80 8 $62.40
Staples 5.5 QT Plastic Locking Lid Container (28764) • Quill.com $1.69 24 $40.56
SENSORY BRUSH - SET OF 12 • School Specialty $16.32 2 $32.64

Materials cost

$368.19

Vendor shipping charges

 $32.76

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.52

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$436.47

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.02

Total project goal

$513.49

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $513.49

7 Donors

-$325.00

Donations toward project cost

-$276.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$48.75

match offer

-$188.49

Match offer toward project cost

-$160.22

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$28.27

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