More than half of students from low鈥慽ncome households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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My kindergarteners have amazing ideas about the world around them! They love to show these big ideas through building using 鈥渟mart鈥 materials. These are materials that can be used for many different purposes. A popsicle stick can be used as a puppet, a plank for a pirate to walk, a musical instrument, and so much more! These materials are also used as provocations that lead the kindergarteners to ask questions and investigate answers. Through collaboratively building, they build important social skills such as sharing, turn taking, and negotiating fairly.
I have some of these materials in this classroom, but the materials in this grant will give them greater chances to creatively extend their ideas during play workshop. They will use these materials to build small worlds that will bring the stories they create during play to life. The goal is to let the students keep up their creations for days so that they can continue to grow in complexity across the week. For example, a castle built out of Magna-tiles on Monday, might get signs clothes-pinned to it on Tuesday (which supports literacy skills) and by Friday might become an entire Medieval village with a combination of many different materials. As the materials grow, the complexity of their stories grow which supports their concept of storytelling. During this time, students are also developing their social skills as they collaborate with others.
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My kindergarteners have amazing ideas about the world around them! They love to show these big ideas through building using 鈥渟mart鈥 materials. These are materials that can be used for many different purposes. A popsicle stick can be used as a puppet, a plank for a pirate to walk, a musical instrument, and so much more! These materials are also used as provocations that lead the kindergarteners to ask questions and investigate answers. Through collaboratively building, they build important social skills such as sharing, turn taking, and negotiating fairly.
I have some of these materials in this classroom, but the materials in this grant will give them greater chances to creatively extend their ideas during play workshop. They will use these materials to build small worlds that will bring the stories they create during play to life. The goal is to let the students keep up their creations for days so that they can continue to grow in complexity across the week. For example, a castle built out of Magna-tiles on Monday, might get signs clothes-pinned to it on Tuesday (which supports literacy skills) and by Friday might become an entire Medieval village with a combination of many different materials. As the materials grow, the complexity of their stories grow which supports their concept of storytelling. During this time, students are also developing their social skills as they collaborate with others.