Help me give my students life-like baby dolls to take care of while playing in the house keeping area during discovery time.
FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Smith's classroom raised $361
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My Students
The students in my classroom are three, four and five-year-olds.
My little learners are eager and enthusiastic about coming to school to learn through play.
Our school maintains 20 classrooms that serve over 700 at-risk, preschool-age children and their families on a daily basis. At-risk means that through a developmental screening process a child was found to have one or more characteristics that may adversely impact their readiness for kindergarten and further school success. One of these at-risk factors is low income and the majority of our school population is low income. Although the majority of our families are low-income we represent all socio-economic levels.
My Project
My students love to play in the housekeeping area during discovery time. The housekeeping area is where they can "play house" by dressing up, "making" food, and taking care of babies. The feels real baby dolls will be the perfect addition to our house keeping area. The students will enjoy caring for these babies by using the doll feeding set as well as the baby doll blankets, bottles and clothes set.
Playing with dolls helps students develop fine motor skills, social skills, responsibility, empathy and compassion, imagination and language skills.
When students play with baby dolls, they learn how to process emotions such as empathy and caring. By playing with baby dolls, students learn how to take care of one another, pets, and siblings. When playing with others in the housekeeping area, the student's language skills are strengthened by filling it with practical language.
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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