Doh-Re-Mi, My Learning You'll See

School:: Sabal Palm Elementary
Subject:: Stem
Teacher:: Wendy Frields
: First Grade Team
Students Impacted:: 120
Grade:: 1
Date:: July 26, 2023

Investor

Thank you to the following investor for funding this grant.

A Champion for Learning - $291.00

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 130

Play-Doh was used to check for understanding, encourage critical thinking and reinforce learning. Play-Doh has helped to develop fine motor skills, improve handwriting, encourage creativity, improve social skills, and provide hours of FUN while learning and working together in all areas of the curriculum for Sabal Palm’s First Grade Students. When students were presented with Play-Doh as an option to show understanding of what they’ve learned, all students were engaged and creativity shined through in all of their work.

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Original Grant Overview

Goal

To employ kinesthetic activities using Play-Doh to check for understanding, encourage critical thinking and reinforce learning. Create is at the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy. When students are asked to synthesize what they’ve learned and make a sculpture, they are critically thinking. Play-Doh is a great way to keep students engaged, let them use their hands, employ creativity, and implement a new and different form of assessment that is fun.

What will be done with my students

Play-Doh Check for Understanding: Students will summarize what they read and choose a section to create a Play-Doh sculpture. Play-Doh Vocabulary: Students will either be assigned or choose a vocabulary word to write a sentence and create a sculpture that best reflects that word. Process Play-Doh: Students will use Play-Doh to artistically represent a process. Timeline Play-Doh: Students will create a timeline by placing a small Play-Doh sculpture in boxes. Students will explain their sculptures to someone else in a reflective activity. Reconstruction: Students will reconstruct a setting from a story. They can use clues from the text to make the construction. Model: Students will make models to show what they learned or for help in solving story problems. Math Story Problems: Students will make models of story problems and graphs. Gallery Walk: Students will share their creations. For Kinesthetic Students: Students that have difficulty sitting still, Play-Doh can be an option to help them. Show and Tell: In addition to the students sharing what they did over the break or weekend, they will sculpt it.

Benefits to my students

Play-Doh develops fine motor skills by building strength in their hands, improves handwriting skills, it is calming for children, it encourages creativity, enhances hand-eye coordination, improves social skills, supports all areas of the curriculum, and is FUN!

Budget Narrative

The Play-Doh will be ordered from Amazon. Six first grade classrooms will receive Play-Doh School Pack of 48 Cans and 3 pounds of Crayola Modeling Dough.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	Quantity 6: Play-Doh School Pack of 48 Cans	$186.00
2	Quantity 6: Crayola Modeling Dough 3 pounds	$105.00
	Total:	$291.00

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