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The NYCDOE has taken many actions toward fostering a world where people are increasingly more aware of their health, including and extending to physical, mental, social-emotional, and beyond. As a Pre-K specific school, we are responsible for the students' very first experience with schooling and education. As part of our mission as Pre-K educators, we begin to cultivate the ideas that begin students' educational lives. As such, we have academic and social-emotional curricula that we utilize during the day. However, being that we are fully equipped with those resources, I've decided to dedicate my specific project toward where my school lacks: the physical fitness and health of my students. Without feeling physically well, it is impossible for students to be successful at learning and using their brains to think, analyze, describe, create, and all the other many attributes we require from our students on a daily basis. Thus, it is imperative that our students begin to recognize the importance of maintaining a physically healthy body. One of the ways students can do this is to make the most of our "active play" time. In Pre-K, students are not merely sent to recess like they are in older grades; it is a specific, instructional time where teachers are given almost one full hour to invigorate students through exercise and active play. Although we have a beautiful gym, we lack the necessary resources to make the students' active play experience the best one possible. What little resources we do have is broken, with no ways of fixing; there are balls without air and no pump; there is a small basketball hoop that is broken, there are balance "beams" that are flattened, etc. Please help our teachers to create the gym and physical fitness goals of our dreams! We would be forever grateful!
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