Help me give my students Hardwood Hollow Blocks to promote STEM education, creativity, engineering and technical skills for the 21st Century.
FULLY FUNDED! Ms. B's classroom raised $453
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My Students
I teach in a low income, high poverty area. Our school is located in an urban neighborhood in New York City, 85% of our students are eligible for free and reduced-price lunches. The students are served breakfast and lunch. Our students rely on the school meals for their daily source of nutrition. The school services many homeless students. These students live in transient shelters. The homeless students have poor nutrition, resulting in poor health and are frequently absent. We have several special needs students in our class receiving special services.
There are 54 students, of different ethnic backgrounds and for many, this is their first school experience.
We have 8 students who do not speak English. The students speak Creole, Arabic, and Spanish. The students are African American, Haitian, Latino and Arabic. For the majority of the students, this is their first educational experience. Many of them have not heard stories being read aloud and do not have educational toys at home. The students come to my classroom to a place where they are comfortable, socially and emotionally.
My Project
Having Hardwood Hollow blocks in the classroom will help my students become natural engineers and builders. The children will benefit by beginning to develop motor skills and hand-eye coordination, spatial reasoning, cognitive flexibility, language skills, a capacity for creative, divergent thinking, social competence, and engineering skills.
My students are building creations, becoming engineers and architects while using blocks designed to fit into small hands working in small groups, which will build skills such as collaborative thinking, planning and team building.
There is also evidence that complex block-play is linked with higher mathematical achievement.
Blocks provide one of the most valuable learning experiences for young children. Block play stimulates learning in all domains of development, intellectual, physical, fine motor skills and social-emotional and language. The children are learning to use language to communicate which will help develop critical thinking and problem solving skills, while constructing and of course, having fun!
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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