March 21 - 25

The Eagles are working hard on their Quest builds this week. They had the opportunity to purchase materials with their Quest Bucks, and toward the end of the week, they were able to rummage through the Garage Sale of remaining supplies to add to their game. Thanks to everyone who donated supplies. Our heroes are excited to show off their Arcade games next week! The competition is going to be exciting for everyone. Our teams also worked on their Quest poster this week highlighting the 3 simple machines they’ve included in their game, their company name and logo, game name, and advertising the cost to play their game. They have used a ton of imagination throughout this Quest!

 

To inspire heroes this week, we took a look at a couple of real-life heroes at Launch: Stephen Hawking and Nivay Anandarajah from a Day in the life of a Mechanical Engineer. We discussed what those two heroes accomplish day to day and what inspires them to work hard and persevere. Some Eagles are interested in mechanical engineering and others are still thinking about that career path.

Despite having a Snow Day this week, we were able to spend some time outside for Free Time and P.E. This week our leaders had the group work through warm-ups and a workout before playing Capture the Flag. We finally had sunshine on Friday and enjoyed the warm weather.

Writing Buddies came to Acton this week to help our Eagles working on their Technical Writing Writer’s Workshop badge. The writing buddies gave our writing heroes valuable feedback that they used to improve their writing. The Eagles have several sets of instructions we will be able to publish to share with all Eagles in the future in our Big Book of Instructions. Our heroes also decided on a Community of Editors to offer feedback to our writers. This is another step in the editing process that helps Eagles learn to write excellently.

The Eagles voted to have a Journalism Committee beginning this session. The three members are responsible for taking photos and videos during Quest, P.E., Art/Drama, Exhibition, and Writers Workshop in the Studio. We discussed technology and journalism guidelines as a group. The Eagles chose 3 members (they have to take a week off) and each member must be in Flying or Soaring levels, and working in Level 3 Math and Language Arts. We are excited to see what the journalists record as we work together in the Studio.





As a Fun Friday reward this week, our heroes had to work together to get a total number of 75 points in Lexia, with everyone earning at least 7 points each. The Eagles accomplished this goal even while missing one day for our Snow Day. The hard work and collaboration in the studio has inspired everyone to work hard, help each other overcome challenges, and discover winning together as a group. We took our computers to the Auditorium to enjoy computer game time on Friday. The friends who worked the hardest in Core Skills found their motivation and earned the most computer game time.