WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT VOTING? “VOTERCYCLES!” – LEO

Guiding ideas:
What does it mean to vote? / ¿Qué significa votar?
What is important to us? / ¿Qué es importante para nosotros?

Ingredients for today’s Lab:
Tools for making buttons, a boom box with the radio playing, worms, pumpkins, kid-safe knives, and hay.

What just happened?!:
As the boom box hummed between music and words, suddenly the radio began talking about voting, ¡votar! The amigues leaned in, listening closely. Some proudly showed their “I Voted” stickers from voting with their families, sharing that voting is a way for people to make choices together.

So we wondered aloud: ¿Y si votáramos en Mi Casita? / What would we vote for here? The answers came rushing in, full of joy, imagination, and appetite:

Pizza shaped like pizza. Triangle pizza. Circle pizza. Heart-shaped pizza. Puppies. And “puppy-roni pizza.”
TYLER voted for banana bread.
SUNNY for bebés and rainbows.
IRIS for música.
REY for big sticks and rocks.
OLI for pingüinos.
ZOYA and LIVNEH for libros — to which everyone cheered together, “¡Más libros! ¡Más libros! ¡Más libros!”
JACK voted for airplanes.
TINO for more playgrounds.
And LEVI? Levi voted for “an airplane for mommy, penguins for mama, a duck for LJ, and swimming for me.”

As ballots filled the air like confetti, we reflected: voting is not only about choosing, it’s about being heard, imagining together, and taking turns to decide what matters.

In the end, we realized that every decision, big or small, is a kind of vote — whether it’s choosing pizza, sharing banana bread, or giving space for someone else’s voice.
At El Lab, democracy tastes a little like sugar, sounds like laughter, and feels like community.