May 31 - June 3

This week in Quest we had the opportunity to grow our curiousity about various topics from visitors!  

Mrs. Nabours explained to the Eagles how drones are used to survey land for building.  To test out this concept, groups were challenged to create a flat pad of dirt that measured 6"x8"x2".  Sadly, all groups would have been fired for their failure to meet the specs.  To test out their foundation, Eagles were then challenged to build a house that would withstand an earthquake.  One set of builders chose to create a foundation under the dirt that stabilized their house and kept it from falling.  

  

Friday, Mrs. Farabough studied density with the Eagles.  She passed around various density cubes and disussed what makes them more or less dense.  After a demonstration with many different liquids, the Eagles were challenged to create their own poly-density bottle.  They combined salt water, poly beads, alcohol, and palmer beads together to observe what happen when mixed.  They learned that the salt effects how the solids and liquids seperate within the bottle, causing the beads to join in the middle. 

   
In our Creative Writer's Workshop, writers are working on improving their story with word choice; using interesting and juicy words, including descriptive language, not afraid to use new words, and using figurative language.  They were challenged to find and include each skill in their pieces. 

To end the year strong, Eagles recorded their weekly goal on the board for everyone to see.  Like all our goals here at Acton, they were required to be SMART; specific, measurable, achievable, relevent, and tough.  A little extra incentive was added and the Eagles who reached their goals this week celebrated with a movie and popcorn.  Those who did not reach their goals, were given that extra time to complete them. 

In PE this week, Miss Karsen challenged the Eagles to something new! Tuesday, they competed in a hula hoop workout, completing 5 synchro burpees then running down the field together in their hula hoop.  They then crowned Oliver as the Hula Hoop winner after he held onto his hoop for over 5 minutes! Thursday, the Eagles competed against one another with wall sits.  One friend lasted 20 minutes! I bet she'd beat most adults with a time like that! 

  

Since we couldn't go outside Wednesday, we enjoyed some DEAR and Core Skills afternoon work in the church's Sunroom.  It was so nice to change up the scenery and get some tough, intentional work done!