My students need a community rug, vehicles, sensory sand, sensory clay, and other materials in order to improve my students' gross and fine motor skills!
$1,005 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
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.
What makes my students special? Having 250 sudents coming in and out of the Motor Lab every week means having 250 different personalities in my classroom every week. They are all special in their own way. Some are autistic, some have ADHD, some have OCD, ADD, ODD; but they're all intelligent, caring, kind and equally important to me. All these students need to improve their motor skills in a fun and engaging way. This will get them ready for their academic future.
My Project
After hurricane Harvey, my campus was split between four schools. This move was a difficult adjustment for our parents, students, and teachers. After 4 months of being away from our campus; we are finally back, and for the first time, we opened a classroom to use specifically as a Motor Lab which specializes in giving our PK students the adequate motor skills they desperately need in the classroom. Since it's the first time that our campus has had a classroom such as this one; we have a very small amount of material to use.
In the Motor Lab; aside from involving the students in simple exercises such as the crab walk, the bear walk, and teaching them to cross the mid line; the students will also learn to develop their ever growing imagination through the use of building blocks, magna tiles, and play dough.
Along with using their fine motor skills while utilizing the activity boards and alphabet mazes; they will have "play time" to learn to recognize the alphabet. The materials I have requested will be strongly utilized in our Motor Lab and our entire PK grade level will be able to use them. All these materials were specifically chosen to improve the motor skills (fine and gross) of these children who are preparing to start writing. These materials will give them the motor skills necessary before the pencil and paper phase.
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