Calming Room

Name: 
Courtney Evans
Title: 
School Psychologist
School: 
Tomahawk Elementary
Amount Requested: 
$775.00
Deadline: 
12/31/2017
My Students: 
Students come from diverse backgrounds and bring varying levels of environmental and emotional needs. Some students demonstrate the need for a place to learn and develop their emotional regulation skills. Students who are emotionally regulated and depend less on 1-1 adult support are ready to learn.
My Project: 
Multi-sensory rooms soothe, calm and stimulate senses.Multi-sensory rooms prevent students from escalating behavior and needing emergency safety interventions.Our Goal:To provide students with sensory experiences resulting in emotional regulation and students who are ready to learn.Visually; low or dim lights, Auditorally; white noises and use of calming music, Touch; items that provide firm pressure, and Movement; items for rocking, swinging, gliding in slow, rhythmical and repetitive patterns.
My Students Need: 
Our students need resources and materials from each sense that will calm a student who is agitated or may become agitated without support for emotional regulation.
Discipline Area(s): 
Health/Physical Education
Special Needs
Other
Grade Level(s): 
K-5
Budget Info: 
Materials/Items: 
Light Covers
Cost: 
$75.00
Materials/Items: 
Pea Pod
Cost: 
$100.00
Materials/Items: 
Bean Bag Chairs (2)
Cost: 
$50.00
Materials/Items: 
Peanut
Cost: 
$20.00
Materials/Items: 
Conscious Discipline
Cost: 
$120.00
Materials/Items: 
Feeling Buddies Toolkit
Cost: 
$325.00
Materials/Items: 
Child Pod Swing
Cost: 
$45.00
Materials/Items: 
Zones of Regulation/Social Thinking
Cost: 
$40.00
Fully Funded Date: 
10/27/2017
$775.00
$0.00 still needed
3 donors