Help me give my students toys to play with at home, such as Lego, Plus Plus, Straws and Connectors, and Interlox.
$599 goal
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Hooray! This project is fully funded
My Students
My students are preschoolers with Autism spectrum disorders. Our classroom uses the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis to teach children functional skills.
The children come from financially and linguistically diverse families in a suburb of Washington, DC.
My school is a Title I school and we have a large population of English Language Learners. Our school hosts a variety of preschool programs, including children with and without disabilities. Our families from all the preschool classes will be invited to the family night- 165 families in all.
My Project
This project is about family engagement. Many of our students do not have access to high-quality open-ended toys in their homes. Some children spend up to six hours each day with screens- tablets, phones, or watching television. I know that young children need to play with appropriate toys to develop math, science, language, and problem solving skills.
With the support of generous donors, my team and I will host a family learning night to show families how to help their children learn with open-ended building toys.
We will invite parents and children to participate in exploration and play with a variety of building toys that we use at school. My colleagues and I will model how to use the toy sets and inform parents of the educational benefits of each set. We will also create handouts for parents giving tips and ideas to enrich play at home. Each family will be able to choose a toy to keep and use in their home.
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