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Flexible seating and hands-on activities will help keep my kids moving and involved, since all of my students are very active learners! Flexible seating helps my students become more engaged in our daily activities. This project will provide seating options of floor seats, kid's office chairs, and floor computer desks for my class. All of my students need movement and a variety of ways to sit and move at the same time, ensures students will have a way of feeling comfortable and at home while being successful. This project will also give my very active learners hands on math manipulatives called Math in a Flash to fill in the gaps they have missed in years passed, which is part of my role as their special education math teacher. These discovery bins are filled with hands-on activities to set up stations and visually learn what they could apply to everyday life (including fractions, money, measurement, and geometry). Kids learn better by doing, rather than listening. It is important to use the other manipulatives and hands-on activities to incorporate visuals and fun lessons by using the dry erase dice (used for reading, writing, and math), buzzers (to show what they know by doing games such as jeopardy) and dry erase puzzle pieces to create well written sentences. When students are provided comfortable and flexible choices for their seating and discovering activities, the focus on learning becomes easier. Students are able to be comfortable and these will all create a learning environment that works best for all their needs!

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Flexible seating and hands-on activities will help keep my kids moving and involved, since all of my students are very active learners! Flexible seating helps my students become more engaged in our daily activities. This project will provide seating options of floor seats, kid's office chairs, and floor computer desks for my class. All of my students need movement and a variety of ways to sit and move at the same time, ensures students will have a way of feeling comfortable and at home while being successful. This project will also give my very active learners hands on math manipulatives called Math in a Flash to fill in the gaps they have missed in years passed, which is part of my role as their special education math teacher. These discovery bins are filled with hands-on activities to set up stations and visually learn what they could apply to everyday life (including fractions, money, measurement, and geometry). Kids learn better by doing, rather than listening. It is important to use the other manipulatives and hands-on activities to incorporate visuals and fun lessons by using the dry erase dice (used for reading, writing, and math), buzzers (to show what they know by doing games such as jeopardy) and dry erase puzzle pieces to create well written sentences. When students are provided comfortable and flexible choices for their seating and discovering activities, the focus on learning becomes easier. Students are able to be comfortable and these will all create a learning environment that works best for all their needs!

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