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Week 35
Our Quest this week has been working on our gardens. We have been designing a garden and getting it ready to be planted. So far the Eagles' gardens sound like they are going to be beautiful. I look forward to the beautiful flowers and the delicious veggies that will be... Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 34
This week we started our Gardening Quest! We are experimenting to better understand plants and how they execute life functions like eating, breathing, and growing. We are exploring this through targeted experiments like coloring carnations, showing how capillary action draws water up plants. During music this week we kept working... Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 33
Thank you to everyone who joined our E-ship Exhibition! The Eagles were excited to share their musical accomplishments and their businesses and booths that they created during the Entrepreneurship Quest. This week we finished Civilizations for the year with the fall of Rome. The Eagle's insight into the end of... Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 32
This week during Entrepreneur quest time we have been focusing on our ability to sell. Creating sales pitches and practicing them. This has been helping us get ready for the Children's Business Fair and for the exhibition. which is coming up soon. We will be "selling" our products and seeing... Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 31
In the Entrepreneurship Quest this week the Eagles have been working on their businesses. They worked on the unit economics of their business and how much profit they can make. They stepped into the role of the boss and began to think about how many employees they could have and... Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 30
This week has been a flurry of online activity. Civilizations this week focused on Julius Ceaser and Rome ending with the rise of Octavius to the position of "First Citizen" and the title of Augustus Ceaser. The Eagles shared some excellent thoughts on the right of succession and earning respect.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 8, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 29
We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during these challenging times. We have been having a rewarding and new experience of learning remotely. Luckily for us, we have Eagles who were up to the challenge! It is wonderful to see the Eagles taking charge of their learning and experiences... Continue reading
Posted Apr 4, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 28
This has been the first full week of our social distancing and/or quarantine. So far things seem to be going well. We have continued having morning and closing circles, core skills, civilizations, communication, and quest. There has definitely been some adjustment to the new online chat platform, but overall we... Continue reading
Posted Apr 4, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 27
What an adventure this week has been. We are moving fast and adapting to our new experiences with grace and fortitude. On Monday and Tuesday, we were in the studio. Monday was a fairly normal day. We launched on COVID-19 focusing on the facts that were available at the time... Continue reading
Posted Mar 20, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 26
This week has been very interesting. The Quest this week has been called Natural Disaster! It has challenged the Eagles to cope with issues and find ways to work around them. The Eagles have done an excellent job working through all of the problems that we have encountered. This includes:... Continue reading
Posted Mar 18, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 25
This week has been incredibly fun! Last week the Eagles were challenged by Mr. TJ to beat him in an engineering contest and they were successful. This meant that they earned an extra session of adventure time for this week. We used it to explore the pyramid park (Bartlett Beach)... Continue reading
Posted Mar 18, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 24
We welcomed the Eagles back to the studio this week after their break! For this session will be doing multiple, mini Quests. Our first quest project is called Edison's Lab! This quest is focused on the scientific process and inquisition. We started by practicing our observational skills and then started... Continue reading
Posted Mar 3, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 22
We had the completion of our quest tournament on Monday. It has been a lot of fun during Chess Quest learning and playing along with the Eagles! We had a great launch on the Definition of Excellence and how it is a moving target, also how it surpasses the common... Continue reading
Posted Feb 15, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 21
This week for adventure we went on our pitch-a-field trip adventure to Fun Spot. In order to earn this field trip the Eagles had to write a persuasive essay that included how the trip would be educational. We will have this Essay to check out at our Exhibition at the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 15, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 20
A week full of accomplishments! The Eagles have had stellar focus on their core skills over the last 5 days with what we think might be the most points earned in one week ever. They all showed how much they have become Eagles and can work to accomplish goals. We... Continue reading
Posted Jan 31, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 19
The week started with a lack of focus, then ended very strong with stellar focus and effort!! On Tuesday in music we learned a new song on the piano and practiced the same song on the ukulele and rhythm for it on the drums. During art, we continued working on... Continue reading
Posted Jan 27, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 17
What a week coming back from break! Our new overarching Question for Session 4 is: How will you tackle challenges? The Eagles have dove back into Core Skills and our quest for this session: Chess! Some Eagles can already play and others are learning fast. We are using www.chesskid.com and... Continue reading
Posted Jan 10, 2020 at Our First Year
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Week 16
It has been quite a whirlwind in our final week in the session. We want to start by thanking everyone who came to the Exhibition & Holiday Party and supported our Eagles. We also want to thank all those who supported our Eagles in numerous other ways we can't even... Continue reading
Posted Dec 20, 2019 at Our First Year
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Week 15
We had an excellent week. This week at music we practiced our piano skills, as well as learning a new instrument, the recorder. We also spent some time working on rhythm skills individually with Ms. Karen. In art with Miss Sani we made holiday cards so look forward to seeing... Continue reading
Posted Dec 14, 2019 at Our First Year
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Week 14
This week was the start of our Animation Quest! The Eagles were challenged with creating a story board and a flip book as they build up to making a stop-animation greeting card. During Writer's Workshop the Eagles worked on "Pitching a Field Trip" where, over the course of 3 weeks,... Continue reading
Posted Dec 9, 2019 at Our First Year
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Week 13
This week has been a flurry of activity! We worked hard on planning out our exhibition. We spent our quest time focusing on creating a valuable experience for our families that joined us. The eagles were excited to show all their work and really shined in getting ready. For specials... Continue reading
Posted Nov 22, 2019 at Our First Year
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Week 12
This week in Writer's Workshop we published our poems! We look forward to sharing our poems with you at the exhibition. Most Eagles chose to do a free verse and the creativity flowed. We also had a nice discussion about whether or not music and songs are poetry. We would... Continue reading
Posted Nov 15, 2019 at Our First Year
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Week 11
This week has been exciting and fun. For adventure we got the garden ready for winter by cutting down the raspberries, then we went to Bartlett Beach park and played on the tower there. The Eagles enjoyed playing a game of our own devising called pyramid tag. It was very... Continue reading
Posted Nov 8, 2019 at Our First Year
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Week 10
We have had an eventful week. During music we worked on playing the harmonicas and also learned to play spooky music on the pianos. During Art, Ms. Sanni taught the Eagles how to do the square knot and to start making macrame. We went to a park on Lake Winnisquam... Continue reading
Posted Nov 1, 2019 at Our First Year
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Week 9
We completed our cartography quest this week and will be going hiking to Guinea Pond in the Sandwich Wilderness. The Eagles earned this by completing a World Fact Book during quest time learning about different countries on all 6 populated continents (Antarctica does not have its own countries). Each day... Continue reading
Posted Oct 24, 2019 at Our First Year
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