The BEF New Project Match will match the first
$500 in contributions to this project.
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Beaverton Education Foundation has already provided $500 in matching contributions.
Help kindergarteners improve fine motor skills, calm busy minds and grow with sensory bins filled with opportunities to engage all the senses.
Currently, our sand bins only have a few toys in them, but they are still the most popular area for my class to use. Your support will help us purchase additional bins, sensory items (water beads, pompoms, gravel, sand, etc.) and tools to help investigate and explore (toy animals, dinosaur bones, fine motor tools and pretend play objects).
Senses guide children as they make sense of the world around them. They do this by touching, tasting, smelling, seeing, moving and hearing. Humans, children and adults learn best and retain the most information when they engage their senses. Providing opportunities for children to actively use their senses as they explore their world through ‘sensory play’ is crucial to brain development – it helps to build nerve connections in the brain’s pathways.
This project is supported by the Beaverton Education Foundation.
Founded in 1988, the Beaverton Education Foundation raises money to provide hands-on innovative academic enrichment and advancement programs & projects that go beyond normal school funding at all Beaverton public schools and is a 501(c)(3) community-based nonprofit organization. BEF mobilizes community resources to fund innovative classroom projects, summer and after-school programs.
In the event that this project does not reach its goal or exceeds its goal, BEF may apply the funds received to another similar project.
