This week, as usual, I will start with sharing more about Acton Academy’s Learning Design before the weekly updates. We are now on the 7th post in “curriculum,” moving to the next stage of the Pyramid: Integration. This week, I will focus specifically on Civilization. What’s Civilization? From Laura’s post, by an anonymous Eagle in […]
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Physics! What sort of emotions spark when you hear this word. Is it joy, or is it ambivalence, or worse—distress and disgust? We enter Sprint 4, where both studios are studying Physics, using experiments and models. The Elementary School will end with a Newton Toy exhibition, while the Middle School will showcase a Classical Physics
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This week is Exhibition Week. And we are now on the 5th article about Learning Design. Like the previous four weeks, I will cover about a topic on Learning Design followed by updates of ActonKL this week. We’ve been diving deep into Core Skills, which consists of the foundation of Math, Reading, & Communication. This week,
Growing Curiosity & Building the Tribe + Friendship Quest. Sprint 3 Week 5 Read More »
This week, we look into writing at Acton Academy. I will start by changing the mindset of writing, a quick brief at writing at Acton Academy, and then a recap of the week’s happenings. Of all the Core Skills, writing is by far the hardest—both for Eagles and Guides. It is a pain: writer’s block,
Growing Curiosity & Building the Tribe + Friendship Quest. Sprint 3 Week 4 Read More »
We are digging deep into Acton’s Learning Design. Last week, we looked into Maths. This week, we will investigate reading. Naturally, next week we will look into writing, as reading and writing are a tight pair of language skills that are essential to navigating the modern world. First, let’s understand what is reading. Reading, technically,
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This blog post is the 2nd part of the Learning Design series blog that started last week. This week, we will cover Math. After that, there are snippets of ActonKL happenings! Look at the equation above. Math! This very word might trigger anxiety. Or you might be a Math nerd and love to teeth into these
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Happy New Year! Welcome to Sprint 3 of 2018/9 calendar cycle! This post and the next eleven blog post will take a twist. The first half of the blog post will be about Acton Academy’s Learning Design. In between, I will share the weekly activities as concrete examples. The second half is about the remainder
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It’s exhibition week! The whole week was a dash to the finish line for our Eagles. Weeks of learning about psychology for our MS Eagles and detective science for our ES Eagles has culminated into this exhibition. The ES Eagles painstakingly crafted a crime scene for our guests. Luckily the perpetrator was sloppy and he
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Oh boy, what an interesting week. There were guts and intestines and a real heart in Acton today. Yes, that’s an actual heart that has been plasticised. Some of the ES Eagles were really brave and were touching the organs and exploring them, some were a little apprehensive. But it looks like everyone enjoyed themselves.
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What a week! The busiest we’ve ever been. Including a pre-school trial going on and some ES & MS trials, there were an additional 16 Eagles on trial in Acton this week. The week started with kindness. An ES Eagle fell and an MS Eagle took the time to give first aid. Then on Tuesday,
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