My students need multicultural family dolls and a dollhouse to learn social structures and experience how each child comes from a different background with different ideas.
Kindergarten students are so amazing! That is why I have named my class the Amazing Kinders! We are working this year to build our reading, math, and socializing skills and to increase our awareness of the big world around us.
My students come from a wide variety of cultures and languages.
Currently, our school has 41 different languages being spoken! It is very special for students to interact and learn from each other. While they are so different, they are also very much the same. Learning how each family is different, but special will lead to a lifetime of cultural understanding.
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My class is learning about each other and about the diversity in this world. Understanding our differences makes us a stronger community. We will use dolls of different cultures to learn about how each family is unique.
It is so empowering for young minds to have the opportunity to interact in a creative play environment with a common understanding that we all have a family and we all can be friends.
Using the requested dollhouse and dolls to role play will create a foundation of tolerance that is hard to accomplish.
It is my hope that giving students access to an activity that lets them be themselves and lets them share their values will allow new understanding to rub off on all other components of their lives by building confidence and tolerance wherever they might go.
More than half of students from low‑income households
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