Students will launch the Kindness Corner project by creating personal name art, practicing welcoming words and emotion cues with the school counselor, and beginning shared ideas for classroom routines that help everyone belong.

Students will gather evidence about what helps first graders feel welcome by interviewing classmates, practicing emotion role-play with the school counselor, and making a shared feelings map with welcoming phrases they can use later in the Kindness Corner design work.

Students will sort empathy evidence from earlier interviews and role-play, name a shared classroom need, generate several Kindness Corner ideas, give feedback to peers, and choose one class direction for the next phase using simple evidence-based discussion and voting.

Students will build and improve low-fidelity Kindness Corner prototypes, test them with classmates, use peer feedback to make changes, and prepare a refined version that they can explain to visitors using evidence from empathy interviews, role-play, and earlier design choices.

Students will welcome an authentic audience to the Kindness Corner Open House, present their name art, feelings tools, and class routines, and show what they learned about helping everyone belong.