by kristi | Dec 21, 2017 | 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. But most...
by kristi | Dec 18, 2017 | Growing Learners, International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds, Littleton, LIttleton Kindergarten, News & Events, Our Students, Student Work
Did you know that the Gingerbread Man can spark an opportunity for scientific inquiry? Or that Jack and his beanstalk can inspire a hands-on engineering challenge? Our kindergarten learners, through the exciting world of fairy tales, have embarked on a journey that...
by Darsa Morrow | Nov 20, 2017 | Community, Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, Littleton, Littleton 7th & 8th Grade, News & Events, Our Students, Student Work
Spoiler alert: parenting adolescents isn’t any easier than walking the floor at midnight with a newborn. The belief that parents can worry less as their children age washes away as parents witness their child go through adolescence—a period of change rivaling that of...
by Darsa Morrow | Nov 20, 2017 | Community, Global Action, Growing Learners, Keen MInds, News & Events, Older Posts, Our Students, Student Work
Imagine being able to reconnect today with someone you helped through service twenty years ago. Better still, imagine that not only has that person grown to be an amazing adult, but that he is also living a life of service to others? Former Mack parent, Mara Rose,...
by kristi | Oct 16, 2017 | Community, Compassionate Hearts, Core Values, International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds, Littleton, News & Events
With the cooler fall weather comes a time of year that many of us cherish, a time that brings some of our favorite traditions. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Diwali, Christmas: these celebrations and the traditions associated with them can be exciting, comforting...
by kristi | Oct 13, 2017 | Community, Global Action, International Baccalaureate, Keen MInds, Littleton, LIttleton 5th & 6th Grade, News & Events, Our Students, Our Team, Student Work
¿Cuánto cuesta? ¡Es demasiado! Mack Littleton 5th and 6th graders created a Latin American mercado (market) in alignment with the International Relations Unit of Inquiry. Inspired by a conversation with a student who suggested that it would be fun to have a market,...
