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Learning Language With Die Cuts In Special Education -Part 2

My students need an ink pad, 9 die cutter shapes and die expansion sets to use with our Fiskars Fuse Creativity System to improve language in our special education class.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Taylor's classroom raised $278

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My Students

Did you ever consider how children with disabilities express themselves to the world? Difficulties with language can make it hard to express thoughts, but art can be a universal language. For my students who struggle to use scissors and communicate, a die cutter can help them easily access art.

My special needs preschool and kindergarten-aged students have been identified as having developmental delays.

My classroom can include students with a variety of impairments, including Down syndrome, autism, intellectual disability, visual, hearing, or orthopedic impairments, specific learning disability, medical needs, and more. In this coming year, the district plans to add a reverse mainstream component that will include a few typically developing preschoolers to act as positive role models. They attend a public elementary school and range in age from 2-6 years old. My students are so eager to learn and are excited about coming to school. Our Title One school is located in a high-poverty, high-crime area and more than 80% of our students are identified as economically disadvantaged. Our city and surrounding area are home to several major US military installations, as well as a world-class shipyard that is the sole ship builder of the US Navy's air craft carriers.

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Our friends at Donors Choose recently funded a Fiskars Fuse Creativity System for our special education class. We are using it to create student artwork, classroom visuals, and to stimulate language. With it, we received a few die cutter shapes. We would like to be able to expand the ability to use the system with other shapes. We are requesting the square, oval, bird design sets (and expansion packs to use with those shapes), ornament design set, sun design set, circle expansion set, and ink pads. These different shapes will give us a nice variety for creating in our classroom. The ink pads allow us to add stamp designs at the same time the shape is cut.

The students get so excited to use the die cutter machine with teacher help.

It really is fun to put the paper and die in one side of the machine, turn the crank handle, and watch the cut shape drop out on the other side! You can imagine the chatter and buzz it prompts. This is critical, because we are trying to encourage talking with our language-delayed students and appropriate social skills with turn-taking. Thank you for considering support to our project.

Project tagged as

Newport News, VA
Grades PreK-2
Students with Disabilities
Visual Arts
Traditional School
Supplies
Nearly all students from low‑income households

Mrs. Taylor Newsome Park Elementary School Grades PreK-2

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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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total

Fiskars 100850-1001 Bird Design Set, Complex Pattern, Medium • Amazon $28.60 1 $28.60

Fiskars 101090-1001 Sun Design Set, Medium • Amazon $28.48 1 $28.48

Fiskars 102440-1001 Die Cut Design Set, Mini, Ornaments • Amazon $25.89 1 $25.89

Fiskars 100820-1001 Oval Design Set, Simple Pattern, Medium • Amazon $24.56 1 $24.56

Fiskars 100790-1001 Square Design Set, Simple Pattern, Medium • Amazon $24.56 1 $24.56

Fiskars 100930-1001 Bird Design Plate Expansion Pack, Medium, 4-Pack • Amazon $14.85 1 $14.85

Fiskars 100870-1001 Square Design Plate Expansion Pack, Medium, 4-Pack • Amazon $14.85 1 $14.85

Fiskars 101010-1001 Circle Design Plate Expansion Pack, Medium, 4-Pack • Amazon $14.68 1 $14.68

Clearsnap ColorBox Pigment Petal Point Option Inkpad 8-Color, Pinwheel • Amazon $14.48 1 $14.48

Fiskars 100900-1001 Oval Design Plate Expansion Pack, Medium, 4-Pack • Amazon $11.96 1 $11.96

Materials cost			$202.91
Vendor shipping charges			FREE
Sales tax			$0.00
3rd party payment processing fee			$3.04
Fulfillment labor & materials			$30.00
Total project cost			$235.95
Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			$41.64
Total project goal			$277.59
How we calculate what's needed
Total project goal			$277.59
5 Donors			-$131.73
Donations toward project cost			-$117.97
Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$13.76
match offer			-$138.80
Match offer toward project cost			-$117.98
Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms			-$20.82
Excluded support for DonorsChoose			-$7.06
Still needed View calculation Hide calculation			$0.00

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Learning Language With Die Cuts In Special Education -Part 2

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