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.
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We are looking to add more materials to our Block Area to help stimulate learning in intellectual, physical, and social-emotional, and language development. During Block Area play, children learn problem-solving skills, use their imagination and self-expression. Children also learn mathematic skills such as length, measurement, comparison, numbers, estimations, and balance. Block Area play also allows for children to be creative because blocks and loose part materials can be moved freely by children to be combined and recombined in countless ways. Children also can form and test out hypotheses and build on scientific reasoning on why something worked or didn't work. Most importantly, Block Play builds on children's self-esteem, because children have ideas and can bring those ideas to life through creating and transforming. Children also learn social-emotional skills through sharing materials and taking turns and learn to develop friends through play.
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We are looking to add more materials to our Block Area to help stimulate learning in intellectual, physical, and social-emotional, and language development. During Block Area play, children learn problem-solving skills, use their imagination and self-expression. Children also learn mathematic skills such as length, measurement, comparison, numbers, estimations, and balance. Block Area play also allows for children to be creative because blocks and loose part materials can be moved freely by children to be combined and recombined in countless ways. Children also can form and test out hypotheses and build on scientific reasoning on why something worked or didn't work. Most importantly, Block Play builds on children's self-esteem, because children have ideas and can bring those ideas to life through creating and transforming. Children also learn social-emotional skills through sharing materials and taking turns and learn to develop friends through play.