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Goal

The goal is to increase engagement and communication skills in students by providing them hands-on experiences through the use of Lego sets to retell stories. According to the Division of Early learning, reading books and telling stories are important ways to support young children’s communication and language skills. Children need to have opportunities to practice communication skills in many interest areas in their learning environment. Children communicate and interact with adults and peers during unstructured play, participation in simple scientific inquiry experiments, painting and creating art, and asking and answering questions about their exploration and discoveries in their environment.  

 

Category

Learning Aids - Sunshine state book sets, robotics kits, puzzle boards, science models, engineering supplies, etc. 

 

What will be done with my students

Students will be taught to use the Lego materials to retell fictional stories and role play to increase language. Many students struggle with recalling details and retelling stories. These lego materials will allow students to build, solve problems and engage with peers to increase early literacy skills. The more a child is immersed in an activity, the more their ability to focus develops. Pre K students play with something for 5 minutes but as they mature and become involved in their play activities, the time they spend on an activity will grow. Unlike screen time which is a passive activity, any playtime where a child is actively involved in thinking will have a positive impact on their developing attention span.

I. PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT DOMAIN
A. HEALTH AND WELLBEING
a. Active Physical Play
1. Engages in physical activities with increasing balance, coordination, endurance and intensity
Benchmark a: Seeks to engage in physical activities or active play routinely with increased intensity and duration

I. PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT DOMAIN
B. MOTOR DEVELOPMENT
c. Fine Motor Development
1. Demonstrates increasing precision, strength, coordination and efficiency when using hand muscles for play and functional tasks
2. Increasingly coordinates hand and eye movements to perform a variety of actions with increasing precision
Benchmark a: Easily coordinates hand and eye movements to carry out tasks (e.g., working on puzzles or stringing beads together)
Benchmark b: Uses developmentally appropriate grasp to hold and manipulate tools for writing, drawing and painting
Benchmark c: Uses coordinated movements to complete complex tasks
II. APPROACHES TO LEARNING DOMAIN
A. EAGERNESS AND CURIOSITY
1. Shows increased curiosity and is eager to learn new things and have new experiences
B. PERSISTENCE
1. Attends to tasks for a brief period of time
C. CREATIVITY AND INVENTIVENESS
1. Approaches daily activities with creativity and inventiveness
D. PLANNING AND REFLECTION
1. Demonstrates some planning and learning from experiences
III. SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT DOMAIN
A. EMOTIONAL FUNCTIONING
1. Expresses, identifies and responds to a range of emotions
Benchmark a: Recognizes the emotions of peers and responds with empathy and compassion
2. Demonstrates appropriate affect (emotional response) between behavior and facial expression
C. BUILDING AND MAINTAINING RELATIONSHIPS WITH ADULTS AND PEERS
2. Develops positive relationships with peers
Benchmark a: Plays with peers in a coordinated manner including assigning roles, materials and actions
Benchmark b: Maintains friendships and is able to engage in prosocial behavior such as cooperating, compromising and turn-taking
3. Develops increasing ability to engage in social problem solving
Benchmark a: Able to independently engage in simple social problem solving including offering potential solutions and reflecting on the appropriateness of
the solution
IV. LANGUAGE AND LITERACY DOMAIN
A. LISTENING AND UNDERSTANDING
2. Increases knowledge through listening
Benchmark a: Identifies the main idea, some details of a conversation, story or informational text and can explicitly connect what is being learned to own
existing knowledge
Benchmark b: Demonstrates increased ability to focus and sustain attention, set goals and solve dilemmas presented in conversation, story, informational
text or creative play
VIII. CREATIVE EXPRESSION THROUGH THE ARTS DOMAIN
C. CREATIVE MOVEMENT
1. Continues to engage in individual and group movement activities to express and represent thoughts, observations, imagination, feelings,
experiences and knowledge
D. IMAGINATIVE AND CREATIVE PLAY
1. Expresses and represents thoughts, observations, imagination, feelings, experiences, and knowledge, verbally and non-verbally, with others using a
variety of objects in own environment 

 

Benefits to my students

These materials will promote creativity, imaginative storytelling, and language development. Students will be collaborating and develop speaking and listening skills as they build their stories and role play. Students will be able to express their creativity, retell stories, collaborate with peers and have fun while learning.  

 

Budget Narrative

The Lego Story tales will allow students to retell stories. The caring for animals at the farm will allow for students to build, be creative and role play with peers.  

 

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