Upon entering the classroom, my students are eager to begin their day starting with our morning routine. As we shift throughout the day from one structured activity to another, the students are given a work time, where their imaginations soar and they take on several different roles.
As my students are part of an ELL classroom, we find the common ground on which all of the students stand and that is pretending.
Our students love to engage themselves in pretend play acting out the roles that they see in their own environment or roles that they see on television. They are imaginative in their play and carry out roles as they see them. Our program enables the students to build on their experience outside of school and carry it with them as they enter the classroom each day. It is a student-interest program with teacher guidance for support. Our program encourages students to question and research ideas no matter how big or small it may seem, as long as it is meaningful to the child.
My Project
As part of the national movement and Common Core Standards, College and Career Readiness is impacting students as young as 3 and 4 years old. As we prepare to expose our students to take on roles to better our world in the future, we need to provide them with materials such as the dramatic play materials in order for them to get a glimpse of what to expect. Encouraging them to take on roles in the classroom areas will allow them insight to the responsibilities and expectations that the future will bestow upon them.
Your generous donations will allow our students to expand on their pretend play each day when they enter our house area.
As they explore different types of roles that they can take on, their imaginations will enable them to think of a possibility for their futures. In this world, there are endless options as to what we can become in the future and the exposure that these materials will give to our students encourages even more roles than those that they may have had in their past.
More than half of students from low‑income households
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