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Mrs. Rhodes from Chesapeake, VA is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Sensory Classroom

Help me give my students a safe, multi-sensory, calming area where they can deescalate and refocus while using sensory and proprioceptive input with a balance beam, liquid floor tiles, a calming cuddle ball, and gel-filled manipulatives.

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Rhodes's classroom raised $584

This project is fully funded

My Students

Our Title I school is located in a very low socio-economic area of our district. My class is designed for preschool students with disabilities. Their disabling conditions include developmentally delayed, autism, other health impairment and emotional disabilities, with several also receiving speech and language therapy services.

My Project

Children with special needs, especially those non-verbal students with autism, often require specially created environments created to provide an immersive sensory calming effect that reduces anxiety and improves focus. Such sensory adaptation and proprioceptive input can properly regulate student behavior. Sensory items such as a textured balance beam, a weighted shoulder rest, liquid floor tiles, and gell-filled sensory shapes provide the calming input students require when stressed or overstimulated.

A sensory (therapeutic) space within our classroom will provide students with personalized sensory input which helps calm them and allows them to regain focus, which once redirected, allows them to learn and interact with others.

Mrs. Rhodes Rena B Wright Primary School Grades PreK-2

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Chesapeake, VA View local requests

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

10 students impacted 6donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
WV654 - Walk-The-Wave Balance Beam • Lakeshore Learning Materials $299.00 1 $299.00
SE213 - Silly Shapes Sensory Mats • Lakeshore Learning Materials $59.99 1 $59.99
CA201 - Cuddly Puppy Weighted Shoulder Wrap • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99
PP504 - Gel-Bead Sensory Shapes - Set of 8 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99
CA312 - Calming Cuddle Ball • Lakeshore Learning Materials $29.99 1 $29.99

Materials cost

$458.96

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.88

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$495.84

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$87.50

Total project goal

$583.34

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $583.34

4 Donors

-$372.92

Donations toward project cost

-$316.98

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$55.94

match offer

-$210.42

Match offer toward project cost

-$178.86

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$31.56

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