My students need books, building materials, and play items to simulate healthy lives. These materials will allow my students to build pretend communities that are healthy, practice themselves healthy choices, and hear stories about healthy characters.
My students are a wonderful mixture of students that are eager to learn through hands-on experiences. They come from diverse backgrounds and see the world through their own individual lenses. I have students learning dual languages, students from low income, high income, split and together families. They are though, undeniably the same in their thirst for knowledge.
My students specifically asked for more opportunities to experience healthy play.
When talking with them about how they could learn to be more healthy, they suggested "acting it out" which is exactly what this project would support! While my students vary in so many ways they all come to school, each and every day, truly wanting to learn more.
My Project
Donations to this project will allow my students to build a base understanding of what it means to be healthy. These students will hear stories about children being healthy, about what animals need to be healthy, and deepen their own understanding of health based on the similarities and differences. Personal healthy choices will be explored and learned through the play materials provided.
My students will begin to understand that the way they treat their body, what they put in their body, and their surroundings all account for their personal health.
So many of these resources will allow my students to simulate what it means to have a healthy life. Lego blocks, building materials, and props will be used through play based learning so that the students can pretend, and then apply in their lives, the type of healthy living that they so desperately need.
Many of my students come from low economic homes and health education is not the forefront of their lives. I want them to practice being healthy, read about being healthy, build pretend communities that are healthy, and take all of that knowledge back into their own communities, lives, and homes.
More than half of 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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