by Darsa Morrow | Mar 6, 2015 | Littleton, News & Events, Our Students
Mackintosh-Littleton students traveled from Illyria to Whoville as they hit both ends of the literary spectrum in the past week. Middle school students performed the Shakespeare play The Twelfth Night on February 25th, and five days later on March 2nd the whole campus...
by Gia Medeiros | Mar 6, 2015 | Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts
Mackintosh Academy recognizes that gifted and creative children benefit deeply from a community of peers. Your child’s day does not end at 3:30 – and often neither does yours! And many parents see after school hours as a time to explore, engage and enrich learning ,...
by Darsa Morrow | Mar 1, 2015 | Growing Learners, News & Events, Older Posts, Student Work
“I don’t feel like my group is hearing me.” This could be the sentiment of most any adult debriefing after a challenging day at work. It was actually something heard by teacher Jim Parker in Mack-Boulder’s fourth grade classroom. One of his students was having a...
by Darsa Morrow | Feb 27, 2015 | Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Our Students
Three families, six adults, eight young boys, three dogs: one cabin in the woods. I knew it was going to be a whole lot of joyful chaos once we arrived, but in the car on the way up to the mountains, all I could think about was traffic, icy roads, and the many, MANY...
by Darsa Morrow | Feb 22, 2015 | Growing Learners, News & Events, Our Students, Student Work
I miraculously remained motionless as an enormous dirt-colored spider lumbered across the open notebook in my lap; its jointed legs and numerous eyes and what looked like giant jaws were extra startling against the white paper. But although it felt like an invading...
by Darsa Morrow | Feb 21, 2015 | Littleton, News & Events, Our Students, Student Work
What happens when a humanities-focused student meets the latest technology? The students of Mackintosh Littleton recently received the gift of a 3D printer. As teachers began exploring the multitude of ways to incorporate the printer into the curriculum, students were...