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Four steps your child runs, over and over.
Every lesson follows the same shape. Your child meets a problem, investigates it, builds something, and then finds out whether it worked — and what they’d change.
Challenge
“The birds have nothing to eat this winter. How can we help?”
Analyze
They watch the birds and test which materials hold seeds.
Produce
They design and build a feeder from recycled materials.
Evaluate
They see which feeders birds actually use — and fix the ones that failed.
Most of what children carry out of a classroom isn’t the bird feeder. It’s the habit of trying something, watching what happened, and having another go.
Six things your child carries well past preschool.
Thinks critically
Works a problem through instead of waiting to be told the answer.
Asks good questions
Curiosity treated as something to develop, not something to quiet down.
Solves real problems
Learning attached to things that matter outside the classroom.
Creates with purpose
Makes things with their hands, toward something they chose.
Works with others
Teamwork, communication, and noticing what someone else needs.
Keeps going
Resilience, built by trying things that don’t work the first time.
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Questions worth asking your school
How do you decide what my child learns this month? · What happens when my child’s idea doesn’t work? · What will you be able to show me at our conference in March?
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