More than half 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.
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Sensory is all around us. It is our world. My students struggle with overstimulation and understimulation of their senses. By practicing daily, we can make this a less scary thing for them.
These activities will carry over to their real world experiences in the community. For example, we will place fake worms and insects in the flowerpot of sand. Students will reach in and find the fake worms using sense of touch. At the beginning, this can be a scary thing for students with sensory difficulties. Students can use the mini gardening tools to not only practice fine motor skills but also help maneuver through the sand. By using practice and repetition, students get used to the feel of the sand while using their fine motor skills to grasp the items and pull them out of the bin. This creates independence and takes fear out of so many daily activities.
More examples of what items will be used for are ping pong balls and velcro to make snowmen. Velcro will be placed on the wall and students will get to mix and match differently decorated ping pong balls to create different looking snowmen. We will use plastic bins to store all of our new goodies and children will use their sense of touch in order to locate smaller items within the bins such as acorns in the leaves, coins within waterbeads and birds inside raffia grass. These are all used to help students that are oversensitive to get used to these feelings, but to also calm students that struggle to process everything within the world around them. Other calming tools I am requesting are a bubble timer used to help decompress after a high-demand activity. I appreciate any and all help you can give!
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Sensory is all around us. It is our world. My students struggle with overstimulation and understimulation of their senses. By practicing daily, we can make this a less scary thing for them.
These activities will carry over to their real world experiences in the community. For example, we will place fake worms and insects in the flowerpot of sand. Students will reach in and find the fake worms using sense of touch. At the beginning, this can be a scary thing for students with sensory difficulties. Students can use the mini gardening tools to not only practice fine motor skills but also help maneuver through the sand. By using practice and repetition, students get used to the feel of the sand while using their fine motor skills to grasp the items and pull them out of the bin. This creates independence and takes fear out of so many daily activities.
More examples of what items will be used for are ping pong balls and velcro to make snowmen. Velcro will be placed on the wall and students will get to mix and match differently decorated ping pong balls to create different looking snowmen. We will use plastic bins to store all of our new goodies and children will use their sense of touch in order to locate smaller items within the bins such as acorns in the leaves, coins within waterbeads and birds inside raffia grass. These are all used to help students that are oversensitive to get used to these feelings, but to also calm students that struggle to process everything within the world around them. Other calming tools I am requesting are a bubble timer used to help decompress after a high-demand activity. I appreciate any and all help you can give!