My students need a play kitchen to begin expanding their play skills and imagination. They need a Toddler Hardwood Kitchen Set and Kid-Safe Appliances.
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This project expired on July 21, 2016.
This project expired on July 21, 2016.
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Who doesn't love to play house, especially when your a kid? At my autistic preschool students are working on expanding their play and working on imaginative play. Having a kitchen area added to our drama area would help enhance their play skills an important skill many autistic children are missing.
My class is an autistic preschool class consisting of 6-9 students who range in age from 3-5.
Many of them are non-verbal and have sensory, communication, motor, and social issues. There are a number of methods and techniques used in the education of autistic children that include modifying curriculum and materials to fit each student's individual learning style. We also use a variety of concrete and hands-on materials for students who learn well through their tactile senses and explore.
My Project
My class would use these materials to help the students work on expanding their play, social, and communication skills. Many students don’t know how to play with toys and prefer to use one item over and over in the same fashion. Giving them hands-on materials and visuals that a kitchen set would provide, would help them to learn how to play with other materials. Many autistic children don’t socialize well and having an area like a kitchen set would be a less frightening way to work on these social skills as well as communication skills as we talk about what is going on in the kitchen.
These donations would improve my classroom by giving us a play area with life-like materials that the students can use to work on several important skills.
Play, social, and communication skills are ones we work on daily with our autistic preschoolers. A kitchen play area would be a wonderful addition to our classroom learning materials.
Half of students from low‑income households
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This project will reach 8 students.
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