Help me give my students hands on building opportunties using Legos to reinforce their fine motor skills, visual spatial awareness, and imagnations through play.
I see our students as the little caterpillar from the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" written by Eric Carle. Preschool is the first school experience for our students and they come to us excited to learn and grow. As we teach them new concepts and they experience new themes and academic concepts, they continually grow into beautiful butterflies, ready and prepared to fly into kindergarten.
Our class consists of 20 students from diverse backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses.
We service students identified with specials needs, students with English as their second language, and students who are peer models.
Our school is located in the urban school district of Cleveland, OH where 100% of our students are on free or reduced meals.
My Project
Children in preschool learn best through play. Through the use of Legos children can not only build and interact with eachother, they can apply literacy, science, math, and social studies concepts. Through the use of Legos, our students can explore communities by building a city, a farm, and a house. The possibilities are endless!
Creativity is intelligence having fun!
Building with Legos helps my students to reinforce colors, shapes, visual spatial awareness, fine motor skills, cooperative play, and concepts taught in school. My students can go through the planning process by drawing a blueprint of their design and applying it to their Lego building.
Nearly all 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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