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This equipment will continue to allow all students to be successful and independent across all lessons.","fullyFundedDate":1752503954811,"projectUrl":"project/adapted-pe-equipment/9458989/","projectTitle":"Adapted PE Equipment","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7412698"},{"teacherId":10055884,"projectId":9412550,"letterContent":"In my classroom, the adaptive materials I've implemented have become an integral part of our daily routine. I've crafted specialized pencil grips to assist my students in holding writing utensils with greater ease and comfort. These grips have significantly improved their ability to engage with various writing activities. Each day, the students eagerly use dot markers, markers, and crayons for journal writing and other creative writing exercises. 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This process has been both enlightening and transformative, enabling them to express themselves more clearly and confidently.\r\n\r\nTo facilitate this journey, we have utilized the tools we received to explore emotions more thoroughly. These tools have provided invaluable insights, helping students to delve into the complexities of their feelings. By engaging with these resources, they have gained a better understanding of their emotional responses, leading to personal growth and improved emotional intelligence.","fullyFundedDate":1755112080610,"projectUrl":"project/social-emotional-tools-for-my-classroom/9412553/","projectTitle":"Social Emotional Tools for My Classroom","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Sara","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp10055884_orig.jpg?crop=1:1,smart&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1749932019045","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/10055884"},{"teacherId":9407656,"projectId":8100295,"letterContent":"Over the last couple of years my students have enjoyed the sensory and leisure activities for the classroom. The bean bag is a favorite and has been a beneficial space to allow my students to regulate their emotions and body. Another hit for the students was the sensory changing lights which my students have enjoyed engaging in and changing the colors of the light. We have had a lot of fun working on our leisure skills with the different items. Students have been trying new leisure skills and some students have developed new preferences for leisure time.","fullyFundedDate":1702522922619,"projectUrl":"project/sensoryleisure-activities/8100295/","projectTitle":"Sensory/Leisure Activities","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Bell","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-9_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/9407656"},{"teacherId":8255312,"projectId":8752844,"letterContent":"There are not enough words to express my gratitude for your generosity. Providing our special needs students with new sensory and learning items for the classroom keeps them engaged and interested in learning. Having new items to give the input they need to keep thriving in their environment is something that is hard to describe to people that do not work directly with students in this population. It's a unique classroom with students who have different sets of learning techniques. Giving them such an array of items to hold, play with, manipulate while also learning things like colors, numbers, sorting is an amazing gift.\r\nThe boxes came over a number of days and each time I brought a new one into the classroom, the students gathered around the table practically taking them out of my hands before I could even take them out of their individual boxes. One student in particular took each item to the back of the room to \"review\" it for his classmates so he could show them how to use it. They continually return to these new items in the classroom and use them appropriately as intended and sometimes make up their own ways to use it. \r\nI cannot thank you enough for helping us fill the classroom with these amazing items that we could otherwise not afford to buy with our limited budgets. It's people like you who put the smiles on these students' faces!!!","fullyFundedDate":1733176493323,"projectUrl":"project/hands-on-learning/8752844/","projectTitle":"Hands On Learning!","teacherDisplayName":"Mrs. Borkowski","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://storage.donorschoose.net/dc_prod/images/teacher/profile/orig/tp8255312_orig.png?crop=828,827,x0,y146&width=272&height=272&fit=bounds&auto=webp&t=1678905288400","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/8255312"},{"teacherId":7412698,"projectId":8509295,"letterContent":"With this donation students are able to engage in activities with a variety of adapted equipment. Students are able to grasp and participate with minimal assistance by utilizing the adapted toys. With the equipment purchased my early childhood students were able to engage in activities using smaller adapted equipment that is geared more towards their age. Students were successful and able to be engaged in the equipment. Students love the adapted toys especially the gripper balls. Thank you again","fullyFundedDate":1723396626655,"projectUrl":"project/physical-education-toys-for-early-childh/8509295/","projectTitle":"Physical Education Toys for Early Childhood Special Education Students","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7412698"},{"teacherId":7412698,"projectId":8920244,"letterContent":"With this project I was able to incorporate literacy with movement in the PE setting. Students focused on alphabet awareness as well as spelling words from their literacy units. Students participated in bowling, throwing and relay races to engage in literacy activities using the letters. All students were engaged and it help with cross curricular learning as well as incorporating literacy into daily PE activities. All students loved the activities we did with the letters and we continue to adapt and engage in literacy activities using the alphabet letters.","fullyFundedDate":1733252198129,"projectUrl":"project/literacy-in-pe/8920244/","projectTitle":"Literacy in PE","teacherDisplayName":"Ms. Anderson","teacherPhotoUrl":"https://cdn.donorschoose.net/images/placeholder-avatars/272/teacher-placeholder-10_272.png?auto=webp","teacherClassroomUrl":"classroom/7412698"},{"teacherId":4324567,"projectId":8990296,"letterContent":"I want to thank you so much for your donations. The boxes coming in were like getting birthday gifts. We were all so excited to see what was in each package. We all enjoyed looking at the items and talking about how we were going to use them. These donations are going to help students work on their life and social skills while also learning about math, science, social sciences and language arts. The bonus is that it's so much fun!\r\n\r\nThe class talked about things that they were interested in cooking. We narrowed it down to 4 recipes for this month. We made visual shopping lists and went on a trip to the grocery store to purchase the items. I think the favorite part of the trip was scanning items at the self check out.\r\n\r\nGiven that we received all of our items, we can now start cooking! We plan to make personal pizzas, pancakes and bacon, mac-n-cheese and strawberry, banana, blueberry and OJ smoothies within the next 4 weeks. 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