Third grade design thinking project for the Waltham Families School

The third grade visited our preschool friends at the Waltham Families School and spent the morning in choice time, playing games in the gym, and getting to know their parents who are enrolled in the ESL program there. We brought board games to teach to the parents and interviewed them to learn about their backgrounds.

Now, in Ms. Meeta's math class, students are design thinking a solution for picture book storage at home for their new found friends. 

Before visiting, students came up with a list of four year old traits. 

Before visiting, students came up with a list of four year old traits. 


 

Circle time in preschool.

Circle time in preschool.

Meeting the teachers

Meeting the teachers

Empathy Map after our visit..

Empathy Map after our visit..

Students organizing more questions to ask of their clients.

Students organizing more questions to ask of their clients.

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Playing with our friends. 

Fifth graders teach Kindergarten about Tangrams

The Meadowbrook School has cross-grade buddies and gives time for students from different grades to work on projects together. Yesterday was one of those precious moments. The fifth grade visited their Kindergarten buddies and taught them about the coordinate grid system so that they could draw tangram shapes on a grid, color, cut them out and solve puzzles with them. Next, the fifth grade will produce them in gravit.io and lasercut a wooden set for their kindergarten friends. Thanks to Math teacher Dotty Corbiere for the inspiration fir this project!

 

 

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