High Need/Trauma Kindergarten Need Play Therapy Materials
My students need play therapy materials including blocks play, people from all community dolls, block play stores, cars, dinosaurs, and people shapes project.
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
"We are a high poverty high need population in northern California. Our school has no extra funds, we are without many things. Kindergarten is a time to explore and realize who you are who you would want to be and to feel safe. Unfortunately,almost 70% or more of my students are without many basics.
Therapeutic Play can serve in individual growth purposes.
In childhood, therapeutic play serves both social and personal function. Children who have had traumatic experiences can work out their demons encountered by their childhood experience as well as many challenges and anticipations of the future. I have seen immigrant students some from the poorest countries work out their new surrounding through play. Through the power of play, these students will gain sharing passions, work out problems perhaps they can never share. Almost half of my class alone has been abandoned in foster homes, and worse. I am asking for these play materials to help create a Dramatic play area where my students can feel safe.
My Project
My students need play therapy materials including blocks play, people from all community dolls, block play stores, cars, dinosaurs, and people shapes project. I know this is not "core academics", but to these children, these materials and play items, will create a fantasy world where for 40 minutes each day they can dress up, play house and be the Kindergartners, they are supposed to be. As a mother, I am astounded at their resilient nature and how in their short five years they have come to be so powerful. Please help what you can knowing for years to come these play items will go through many years and help so many children in need.
I want to thank you for your donation no matter how small, you make a difference.
These materials will go a very long way and help children with many issues of abandonment. THE POWER OF PLAY helps a child in so many ways relating directly to their academic performance. Please do what you can , and believe your powerful donation will make a difference in a child's life. Again I am asking for play items such as dinosaurs, dolls, cars for play area.
Mrs. M and Kindergarten
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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