Another great week at Acton! We are in our second week of Session Two, continuing to work on our Entrepreneurship Quest. On Monday, Michael explained to the Eagles the cost of goods. "If you sell $100 of lemonade, did you make $100? That had them all bringing up great points.. the lemonade mix! the card table! the sugar and ice and cups!"
Yesterday we played Roborush, an economics game. The Eagles were introduced to concepts like selling door to door, opening a store and hiring an employee, and opening a factory.
The Eagles continue to learn about Poetry. On Tuesday they learned about haikus, and on Thursday they learned about free verse poetry. Here is an example written from one of our Eagles!
"We have spiky backs, people think we are so cute. We sleep to the max."
What am I? A hedgehog!
"They live in the jungle, they have black skin. They are very strong."
What am I? A gorilla!
In civilization, we learned about the Egyptians and the first writing, hieroglyphs. We asked the Eagles to imagine that they were a citizen in an early civilization like Egypt. "What is more important, progress in communication and science or progress in defense and weaponry, and which one makes for a better future?" We also asked the Eagles to write about significant historical writings and how they shaped the world. They then shared these with their fellow Eagles!
To begin the year we let the Eagles use different learning programs and online games for math and language arts. Now that we are in Session Two, we have asked the Eagles to only work on things that will help them with their badge plan! The older Eagles are working in Khan for math, and the younger Eagles are in DreamBox. Everyone is working in IXL for language arts, and we also encourage reading during our Drop Everything and Read Time. Many have been working through the unit tests, and are showing great progress! When things get tough, we remind them that they can do hard things.
It is a privilege to be a part of each learner's journey, and we believe that our best days are ahead of us!
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