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Sensory Calm Corner for Students with Special Needs

Help me give my students sensory tools and books to help them understand how to express their feelings, feel appreciated for their unique minds, regulate their feelings, and handle their diverse needs.

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Celebrate 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.

My Project

Students need to learn academics, but before students can learn, they must know how to regulate their emotions, understand their feelings, and embrace their unique selves. This project helps students with various special needs understand themselves, release sensory needs and help them regulate their emotions.

My students are children with mild to moderate exceptional needs, they have various medical conditions, as well as, emotional regulation issues at times.

The items purchased with this project will benefit them immensely. They will learn how to be proud of their exceptionalities and unique abilities through picture books that we will read for social-emotional learning. In addition, we will use sensory tools such as weighted buddies, kinetic sand, stress balls, squishy disks, sensory wiggle blocks, etc.

Through these tools, we hope that students will learn to, independently, regulate their feelings. They will learn to ask for a break, by using a visual prompt, verbal expression, or receptively, to express their needs. This will help empower them as learners and independent people with needs. Once students are in the calm corner, there will be various sensory tools for them to use to help them calm down, get out their wiggles, or regulate their frustrations, fear, and sadness. By using these tools, I hope, to decrease the time my students need to go to an alternative room to calm down, which interferes with instruction and social skills with other children. My students deserve to independently express their emotions in a safe, effective, way.

By encouraging students to ask for a break to use sensory input and output tools, they will exhibit less stress, frustration, and excited feelings. This will regulate their emotions enough to produce success in the classroom academically and emotionally.

Mrs. Hanger
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Children's Factory, CF900-533Y, Big Screen Rt. Angle PlayPanel, Yellow, Classroom Room Dividers, Kids Daycare or Preschool Partition Wall Panels • Amazon Business $264.13 1 $264.13
7 Picture Books: Inclusive Bundle for Ages 4-8 (hardcover/paperback book set) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $90.00 1 $90.00
Lakeshore Step & Balance Sensory Stones • Lakeshore Learning Materials $69.99 1 $69.99
Kaplan Early Learning Supporting Self-Esteem Books - Set of 4 • Kaplan Early Learning Company $61.16 1 $61.16
Silly Shapes Sensory Mats • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 1 $59.99
5lbs Weighted Stuffed Animal for Stress Relief, Comfort & Relaxation - Celestia Gives Incredible Hugs for Adults & Kids - Cute Purple Plushie - Weighted Stuffed Plush for Adults & Kids • Amazon Business $44.99 1 $44.99
Weighted Lap Blanket for Kids & Adults – Lucy, Kids Weighted Blanket – ASD, Sensory Processing Weighted Stuffed Animals Dog Toy – Microwavable Weighted Lap Pad for Kids, 5 Lbs. by Friendly Cuddle • Amazon Business $39.99 1 $39.99
Yellow Door Sensory Worry Stones - 12 Pieces • Kaplan Early Learning Company $33.26 1 $33.26
Lakeshore Mold & Play Sensory Sand Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
Magnetic Tiles Kids Toys STEM Magnet Toys for Toddler Magnetic Blocks Building Toys Preschool Learning Sensory Montessori Toys for 3+ Year Old Boys and Girls, Safe Creativity Toddler Kids Toys • Amazon Business $24.99 1 $24.99
Sensory Playtivity Sensory Discs, Set of 5 • School Specialty $24.74 1 $24.74
Lakeshore Squish & Squeeze Sensory Beads • Lakeshore Learning Materials $19.99 1 $19.99
Creativity for Kids Sensory Bin - Outer Space • Blick Art Materials $18.99 1 $18.99
Sensory Playtivity Squishy Sensory Discs, Set of 3 • School Specialty $18.37 1 $18.37
Fidget Slug - 7.5" 3D Rainbow Color Sensory Fidget Toy • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $17.00 1 $17.00
MindWare Sensory Genius Stress Balls Assorted Colors 3/Pack (MWA13785009) • Staples $13.02 1 $13.02
The Invisible String - social emotional learning picture book (paperback) • DonorsChoose Featured Favorites $9.00 1 $9.00
Boxgear 6pc Multicolored Fidget Toys for Kids, Boys, Girls, Adults - Best Sensory Items for Autism, Relaxation, Stress, Decompression - Squeeze, Twist, Chain Spinner Alternative Gift • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$845.59

Vendor shipping charges

 $28.26

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$12.68

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$916.53

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$161.74

Total project goal

$1,078.27

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,078.27

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 $1,078.27

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