Our grades 4-6 students who are not in the Fine Arts Academy have the opportunity to engage in some Makerspace activities 1 afternoon a week. A makerspace allows students to develop a maker mindset. They need to be able to engage in iterative thinking, creative thinking, critical thinking, they need to know how to pivot, how to change, how to revise, how to persevere. They need to solve complex problems. They need to think divergently. All of those are involved in that maker mindset.
In addition to engaging in designing, building and creating, students are also encouraged to play board/card games. In many ways, board games, card games, and dice games are all secret teachers: they can engage and sharpen children’s logic, reasoning, and creativity without them even realizing it. From pattern recognition and math problems to language and socialization, board games teach a variety of valuable skills are a great way to supplement and diversify children’s learning—and to help them make some new friends along the way.
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