I work at a school where 61% of the students receive free or reduced lunch. My class is an integrated prekindergarten room, which consists of students aged 3 to 5 years old. The class consists of 30% students who have Individualized Education Plans. The students are learning through investigation, exploration, and building their curiosity through a science based curriculum every day. Their success is vibrant through their dedication, perseverance, and above all their smiles through the numerous unit-learning projects we have completed. Some ending projects include, creating a “save the millipedes” video that was broadcast on our daily news to the whole school, to working with Scholastic Books to publish a book about “Building Around the World.” My ultimate goal is to build every students’ love for learning, and to keep enriching my students’ lives to help assist them in building the best educational foundation I can.
My Project
Having these materials will allow the students to have access to hands-on materials to enrich our science and stem curriculum. My prekindergarten students are eager and curious to learn about the structures in their environment and around the world. Students creativity can be seen daily as they use classroom materials to construct the Eiffel Tower, the Capital Building, and many more. Around them and these materials allow me to bring some of the wonders of the world into the classroom. Two of our units include nature and water.
The students are enthusiastic about trying to recreate the wonders of the world and learning through trial and error about how building and structures are made.
Tools like the Young Architects Design Blocks , and the See-Inside Magnetic Blocks will give the students an array of materials to inspire their curiosity and engineering of structures they love.
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