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Ms. Horton from Irvington AL is requesting educational kits & games through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Sensory Overload!

Help me give my students an environment to embrace their overstimulation and use similar strategies to support their cognitive development with a sensory light table, sensory tray, and liquid letters.

  • $1,525 goal

This project expired on May 25, 2023.

This project expired on May 25, 2023.

My Project

Our school is a high-poverty, Title I school. My classroom is composed of atypical developing students in grades Pre-K up to 5th grade (ages 4-11). Some of the diagnoses seen in our classroom are Autism, Developmental Delays, Down-Syndrome, Intellectual Disability, and other health impairments such as speech and language and attention deficit disorder. In addition to our special education resource room, I service 40+ students with similar disabilities in the general education classroom setting.

Each and every student is full of energy and excitement and their needs are unique from each other.

Even with a shortage of supplies, we come in each day excited to learn something new and we leave school each afternoon with minds roaming and ready to learn more. We have amazing typical peers around our school that help our atypical students with general education inclusion opportunities such as lunch and physical education times. These students help to achieve goals and become better in everything our learners do.

I couldn’t be more thankful for the group of students I have this year and those that have spent the last 2-3 years with me.

Ms. Horton
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
LA906DC - Light Table Sensory Bundle • Lakeshore Learning Materials $745.75 1 $745.75
LL581 - Light Table Sensory Tray • Lakeshore Learning Materials $99.99 2 $199.98
AA540X - Toddler-Safe Washable Sensory Materials - Complete Set • Lakeshore Learning Materials $119.00 1 $119.00
SE741 - Tactile Liquid Letters • Lakeshore Learning Materials $49.99 1 $49.99
PP273 - Sensory Tubs - Set of 3 • Lakeshore Learning Materials $39.99 1 $39.99

Materials cost

$1,154.71

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$94.11

3rd party payment processing fee

$17.32

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,296.14

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$228.73

Total project goal

$1,524.87

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