The Lab School of Washington
Washington, DC
Giving Tuesday
260 Acts of Kindness
Resources for Related Services
Support our students’ academic, social, and emotional success by contributing towards essential supplies for our speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists. Your donation also goes towards the larger School Challenge.
Examples of your gift at work include:
- $15 Phonics card games for Lower and Middle Schoolers to reinforce phonics and reading skills with fun.
- $22 Sensory mats with assorted textures to keep students in all divisions focused, calm, and relaxed.
- $30 Reversible sequin wall panels, which can paint a variety of images and letters to engage students creativity while also promoting focused learning.
- $60 Subscription to The Week Junior Magazine, which inspires 8- to 14-year-olds to discuss the news of the week with their parents, teachers, and friends
- $75 Set of 10 Phonic books in the Talisman 2 series, a fantasy/adventure story that teaches alternative vowel and consonant spellings, Latin suffixes, and variant spellings to Middle Schoolers
$85 Talisman card deck, a collection of illustrated cards that Middle School students can use to play a game that practices phonic skills.
$99 Set of 10 Phonic Books that make up the Amber Guardians series, a set of longer stories that build reading stamina and motivate middle school readers.
- $199 Nex Playground - A NEX Playground is great for Lab students utilizing OT services because it makes students move, learn, and have fun at the same time. The motion-based games help students practice gross motor skills, balance, coordination, and sensory processing in an engaging way. It also supports social skills like turn-taking and teamwork, since multiple students can play together. The OT’s can easily adjust the games to fit different ages and abilities, making it useful for many goals. Because it feels like play instead of work, students are more motivated to participate.
Completed Challenges
School Challenge
If we reach our goal of 260 supporters by the end of Giving Tuesday, we will unlock a combined $45,000 contribution from three generous sources: The Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation, The Dexter and Lydia Manley Foundation, and an anonymous donor.
Soft Seating for the Lower School Library
UNLOCKED! Help us transform the Lower School Library and create a comfortable, flexible and inviting space for our young readers. $500 unlocks 3 colorful saddle seats. Designed to be easily rearranged to create a welcoming work or lounge space.
UNLOCKED! $980 unlocks a Smith System Flowform Bean Bench. This colorful soft seating helps to create a comfortable, and effortlessly adaptable learning spaces. Each lightweight piece is designed to easily scale from individual use to group work to large common areas.
UNLOCKED! $900 unlocks a Restination Lounge Rocker. Designed to encourage connection and relaxation in your school or library.
UNLOCKED! Make it a pair! Another $900 unlocks a Restination Lounge Rocker. Designed to encourage connection and relaxation in your school or library.
$980 gets another bench and completes the set!
Middle School Trips to the Tetons and Philadelphia
Help make an unforgettable educational experience possible! Once again, our transformative 8th grade travel week will send students to either Philadelphia or Grand Tetons National Park. The cost for one student to attend is $2,250 and your support will ensure that all students have the chance to participate in this unique opportunity to build community, foster self-reliance, and sharpen leadership and communication skills. Last year, we raised enough money through Giving Tuesday to send 6 students on this trip. Your donation also goes toward the larger School Challenge.
*Lab is seeking to create a financial assistance fund to support student travel. Gifts to the Lab School Fund may be allocated to this fund. Any dollars not used in the fiscal year in which they are given will be held in a restricted fund to support financial assistance for student travel in future years.
Help us raise another $2,250 to make an unforgettable educational experience possible for a second student!
With your support, help send a third student to an unforgettable educational experience!
Look at the Middle School community go! Help send another student on this unforgettable trip!
With another $2,100 raised the community is on a roll! Will you help make this unforgettable trip possible for our Middle School Students?
Upper School Travel
Contribute to financial aid for our Upper School trips. These off-campus experiences are essential for increasing independence, creating stronger peer relationships, and deepening engagement with course material, and provide wonderful opportunities for our students to gain real-world experience and make life-long memories. This year, the Upper School has planned trips to align with our students’ academic and cultural interests.
- Spain and Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Visual Arts trip to New York City
- Performing Arts trip to NYC
*Lab is seeking to create a financial assistance fund to support student travel. Gifts to the Lab School Fund may be allocated to this fund. Any dollars not used in the fiscal year in which they are given will be held in a restricted fund to support financial assistance for student travel in future years.
Help us raise another $2,000 to make an unforgettable educational experience possible for a second student!
With your support, help send a third student to an unforgettable educational experience!