Our school is a designated Title I campus, with over two-thirds of our students being English Language Learners. Very few of our students have attended prekindergarten or HeadStart. We are located in a rural town in a small, county-wide school district. Access to food, clean clothes, and other necessities, as well as to technology and school supplies, is drastically limited for my students.
Our Early Childhood/Pre-Kindergarten students come from a high-poverty, diverse community.
Our classes are filled with many students who have not been away from their families until coming to school. The students come eager to learn, but unsure how. Many behavioral challenges are due to not knowing what is expected in a formal school setting.
Due to the socioeconomic levels, we are a Title I school with a high rate of free or reduced-price lunches. We speak many different languages, but all desire to learn no matter the subject.
My Project
We use dough to strengthen our hand muscles almost daily. Most parents supply two small containers per the school supply list at the start of the year. This runs out by Winter Break during a normal year. This year, each kid has to have their own container due to the current health crisis.
We are completely out of dough to play with and the year isn't even halfway over.
These giant balls of dough would be divided up into 20 smaller balls, one for each kid for the remainder of the school year. The multicolor pack is bright and cheerful. The multicultural skin tone pack would be perfect for making dough version of ourselves as a self-portrait sculpture.
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