My students need snacks like graham crackers, chips, granola bars, juice, and goldfish to enjoy in class while working on their communication skills and self-help skills.
Our students are Pre-K/EC and their ages range from 3-5 years. Our class is blended with children with different types of disabilities (autism, developmental delays, fine and gross motor delays, speech delays, and other disorders). All of the students have some type of language and communication deficits.
The school is a Title I school with 100% of the students on free and reduced-price lunch.
Most of the parents are single parents, which leaves little money to help with materials needed in the classroom.
My Project
A new school year is coming and our students needs snacks. This donation of snacks for our Pre-K students with special needs will improve the classroom in many ways. Meal time is an important part of our daily schedule because we are able to really focus on the students' communication delays. The students in this class are still learning to use their words with pictures, technology, and sign language, to ask for their wants and needs. We use feeding time to work on this skill.
Unfortunately, my class is lacking funding to provide snacks for our special learners, because of the budget cuts in North Carolina Early Childhood.
Pre-K students should be having fun learning, and should not be worrying about whether they will have snacks.
Also, many of our students ride the bus from the other side of the city to come to our special program. Some of the students get onto the bus as early as 6 am. It is a very long day for these young 3-5-year-olds, and they get really hungry and upset. My students need seventeen kinds of snacks including graham crackers, fruit snacks, drinks, chips and goldfish to enjoy in class while working on their communication skills and self-help skills.
Please help me reach the students by making sure they have a snack every day.
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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