Friday, June 4, 2021

June 1-4

Welcome to Session 7! Our final session of our first year at Acton Academy Amarillo! 

This session is all about games! Eagles are focusing on teamwork, learning new strategies, encouragement, and conflict management.  They are being challenged to games at 3 different levels.  They will move through each level by completing various types of games; strategy, physical, social, and performance. 

    

For this Quest, Eagles are split into 2 different teams, or Squads.  To kick off our session, the Squads were challenged to a Scavenger Hunt.  Each Squad solved clues that lead them to 8 different stations.  At these stations, they completed various games in an attempt to beat the other Squad's score.  

   

In one game, Squads had to stack 55 cups into a tower and unstack it without letting it fall!  One team took 15 minutes and many attempts, but persevered and used teamwork and came up with a strategy to complete the challenge! 

 

Squad 2 is in the lead with 70 points over Squad 1!  But each team displayed excellent teamwork and kindness to earn their Squad 50 points! 

For our Writer's Workshop, we are focusing on reflection.  Digging deep into our thoughts, the reasons for our actions, and how it affects our teammates.  As a group, Eagles are reflecting on their experiences during the Games Quest, then head off to handwrite or type their own thoughts.  

  

On Fridays, Eagles buddy up with their peers to edit and revise their reflections.  As editing and revising buddies, they are challenged to identify one change they recommend their friend should make to his/her work.  

Last session, an Eagle brought up the idea of a Wonderland Night for Acton.  The Eagles unanimously agreed and that Eagle was challenged with finding a date and creating flyers for the studio.  The Eagles went above and beyond by setting up a meeting with Wonderland to donate proceeds of the ticket sells to Acton.  Thursday night, many Eagles met at Wonderland to have fun with their peers outside of the studio.  Such a great idea! 

  


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