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新不伦瑞克学校的学生们一直以一个问题为中心来学习：如何解决问题？我们三年级的学生们将无家可归视为我们社区中的一个问题，并认为“解决无家可归问题是每个人的责任。”他们带头组织了一项全校社会行动项目，支持芥菜籽组织。在我们举办全校参与的“为街上的人保暖”家庭活动之前，三年级的学生们到各个教室进行宣传，告诉其他人他们是如何努力为社区问题做贡献的，同时鼓励他人捐赠。一个学生说：“我们想要帮助需要物资的我们城市里的人。我们收集物品并告诉学校为什么这很重要。我们收集了很多物资，比我们能放进袜子里的物资还多！我为我们大家一起努力为他人过一个更好的圣诞节而感到自豪！”

随着捐赠的增加，学生们像数学家一样进行分类和计数，以确保每种物品足够填充超过350只袜子。2019年12月5日，新不伦瑞克学校的家庭被邀请一起来填写一只袜子，并将它放在我们的圣诞树下。由于捐赠超过袜子的数量，我们能够装满两辆车的袜子和额外的捐赠物品，并将它们送到芥菜籽组织。看到我们学校的家庭团结起来支持社区内的其他人，真是令人感动。正如一位学生所说：“我的爸爸妈妈对三年级的孩子们为帮助社区中的其他人做了多少事情感到惊讶。”

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Students at New Brighton School have been focusing their learning around the question: What do you do with a problem? Our Grade 3 students identified homelessness as a problem within our community and determined that “homelessness is everyone’s problem to solve.” They lead a school-wide social action project in support of the Mustard Seed. Leading up to our school-wide Warm Feet for the Street family event, Grade 3 students visited classrooms to inform others about how they were trying to contribute to a solution for a problem within our community while encouraging others to donate. One student said, “We wanted to help people in our city who needed things. We collected items and told our school why this was important. We collected so many supplies, more supplies than we could fit into the socks! I felt proud that we all worked together to make Christmas better for others!”

As donations rolled in, the students worked like mathematicians to sort and count to ensure there were enough of each item to fill over 350 socks. On Dec. 5, 2019, New Brighton School families were invited to come and fill a sock together, and place it under our Christmas tree. With the donations exceeding the number of socks, we were able to fill two vehicles worth of filled socks and additional donations to drop off at the Mustard Seed. It was wonderful to see our school families come together to support others within our community. As quoted by a student, “My mom and dad were amazed by how much Grade 3 kids could do to help others in our community.”