Frank Webb Home Grant: Play-Based Kindergarten: Block Design Teams
- School Year: 2024-2025
- Applicants: Mari Beth Hixson, Lead Applicant & Kelly Habif, Neda Sabino
- School: Morley
- Subjects: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Emotional Learning
This grant funding will provide all Kindergarten students at Morley with high-quality wooden blocks, including blocks with unique 3-D shapes, to support their experiences with block design collaborative play teams. Students will have the opportunity to use wooden blocks to engage in “block teams” in support of the recent Connecticut play-based learning statute. Block teams are a play-based learning structure in which small teams of 3-4 students select a local or international building of personal or architectural interest. Over the course of a week, the block team plans, designs and creates a block structure model. These grant-funded materials and play-based learning structure will advance the students’ Kindergarten science/engineering, language and social-emotional learning.