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Ms. Kurt from Colona IL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Social Skills: The Lost Skill

My students need social skills games and role playing materials. We need social skills materials to be successful members of our school. Please help us achieve our goal.

  • $543 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Help us gain social skills. Social skills are how we navigate in the world. Kids with special needs lack those skills to function and maintain relationships. These materials can help them gain the skills to be active members of our school. We want all children to be successful.

Our students are special education students with a variety of disabilities.

Our school is a small school, with a great need. We lack the resources to buy additional materials, especially in the area of social skills curriculum and materials. We are in a predominately rural county near a metropolitan area. We are a small building with 500 students up to 8th grade.

My Project

Kids with disabilities often lack the social skills, or the ability to understand relationships. They often get bullied or made fun of because they lack those skills. My hope is that the social skills materials -- books, games, and curriculum -- will allow our children to learn the necessary skills to navigate their way through life. With these materials, they can learn the skills to be successful. Hopefully they will learn the skills to be successful members of our school and community.

Our project is important because our children have disabilities and have difficulty understanding relationships.

We hope that by having the social skills materials we can teach the importance of understanding social relationships and not getting bullied because of their disability. Our school doesn't have to funds to be buy these materials that are so critical. We desperately need to teach our kids about relationships and help them improve their social skills.

Ms. Kurt
Grades 3-5
  • Colona Grade School
  • Colona, IL
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

    This project will reach 74 students.

    6 donors have given to this project.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Building Social Relationships: A Systematic Approach to Teaching Social Interaction Skills to Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Social Difficulties • Amazon $31.45 2 $62.90
The New Social Story Book, Revised and Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: Over 150 Social Stories that Teach Everyday Social Skills to Children with Autism or Asperger's Syndrome, and their Peers • Amazon $23.46 2 $46.92
Superflex ... A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum • Amazon $45.85 1 $45.85
Social Skills Chipper Chat Magnetic Game & CD-ROM - Super Duper Educational Learning Toy for Kids • Amazon $45.46 1 $45.46
Worksheets for Teaching Social Thinking and Related Skills • Amazon $31.95 1 $31.95
* SOCIAL SKILLS BOARD GAMES • Amazon $31.95 1 $31.95
Social Skills Picture Book for High School and Beyond • Amazon $27.83 1 $27.83
Play To Grow: Over 200 games designed to help your special child develop fundamental social skills • Amazon $26.96 1 $26.96
Social Skills Games for Children • Amazon $26.96 1 $26.96
Hidden Rules: A Game That Teaches Every Day Social Skills • Amazon $21.56 1 $21.56
Let's Talk Social Skills: A Game to Promote Social Communication (Games for Talking) • Amazon $20.60 1 $20.60
A Quest for Social Skills for Students with Autism or Asperger's: Ready-to-use lessons with games, role-play activities, and more! • Amazon $16.96 1 $16.96
Pocket Ungame - Kids Version • Amazon $10.00 1 $10.00
Temper Tamers In a Jar: Helping Kids Cool Off and Manage Anger • Amazon $8.48 1 $8.48

Materials cost

$424.38

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.37

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$460.75

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.31

Total project goal

$542.06

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$542.06

5 Donors

-$542.06

Donations toward project cost

-$460.75

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$81.31

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$0.00

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