by kristi | Jan 21, 2025 | Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, LIttleton Kindergarten, LIttleton Pre-K, News & Events
How can you tell if a young child might thrive in a gifted preschool or kindergarten? We all know the stereotype of young gifted children – nerdy prodigies who began to read at age three, have an SAT-level vocabulary and can calculate pi to the 1000th digit....
by kristi | Sep 26, 2023 | Fifth Grade, Gifted Education, Growing Learners, International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds, LIttleton 5th & 6th Grade, News & Events, Sixth Grade
At Mackintosh Academy in Littleton, Colorado, embracing an inquiry-based education model for gifted students is central to our teaching philosophy, and we recognize the immense value of experiential learning. Recently, our fifth and sixth-grade students and teachers...
by kristi | Feb 28, 2023 | Eighth Grade, Global Action, Keen MInds, Littleton 7th & 8th Grade, Middle Years Programme, News, News & Events, Seventh Grade
The World Affairs Challenges gives students the opportunity to address real-world issues. At Mackintosh Academy, seventh and eighth grade students have been participating in the World Affairs Challenge (WAC) since 2014. This annual challenge asks students to work...
by kristi | Mar 16, 2022 | Events, Gifted Education, Keen MInds, Middle Years Programme, News & Events, Primary Years Programme, Student Work
Mack students and teachers celebrated Pi (π) Day on Monday. First declared an unofficial holiday in 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw, Pi Day celebrates the mathematical constant of pi (Greek letter π), which begins with 3.14 and has been calculated to over 50 trillion...
by kristi | Apr 7, 2020 | Fourth Grade, Keen MInds, LIttleton 3rd & 4th Grade, News & Events, Our Students, Third Grade
How’s home learning going for your family? Our third and fourth graders are now a week into our MackFLEX learning program, and they have some tips for kids and parents alike to create a great home workspace. Check out this slideshow for their advice. Some of our...
by kristi | Dec 19, 2018 | Growing Learners, International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds, Littleton, LIttleton 3rd & 4th Grade, News & Events, Our Students
Mackintosh Academy Littleton third and fourth graders recently completed their “Where We Are in Time and Place” International Baccalaureate unit of inquiry, focusing on the history of Ancient Greece. This unit invited them to explore how the people, beliefs and values...
