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Preschool Panel: Finding the Best Fit School for Your Gifted Child
Join us tomorrow @ 1:00 pm at the Carson Nature Center in Littleton for our panel discussion - "Finding the Best fit School for your Gifted Child." Elementary school will set the foundation for your child’s education and lifelong learning. How can you give your...
Unmasking Design Thinking
When does a prototype look like a sparkly silver fuzz ball? When it has been designed by one Mack teacher for her colleague as a brilliant reminder to appreciate the little things. These past few months, Mackintosh Academy teachers and parents have been design...
Design Thinking: Building a Better Mouse Trap
By Jay Droeger, 7/8th Grade Lead Teacher Our Seventh and Eighth Grade Design Class tackled the challenge of creating a better mouse trap - live and cruelty-free! With our school located on an amazing 26 acres of land, including fields, a grove, a pond and running...
Great Gifts for Gifted Kids
By Darsa Morrow, Teacher and Mother of 3 Gifted Children Stepping on Legos with bare feet is a common parental gripe to be sure, and after my latest sole-piercing experience I vowed that this year I would not depend on Lego sets as go-to presents for my three boys....
Great Expectations: 4 Brain Science Tips for Holiday Success
By Kristi Pikiewicz, Mackintosh School Psychologist (from her post on Psychology Today website) If you had a six-foot tree last year, do you need a six-and-a-half foot tree this year? If last year’s Hot Wheels set had two loops does this year’s set need three...and a...
Emotional Regulation: Tools for Calming Body and Mind
Like most of my thoughts about emotional regulation, this post starts with my daughter. She’s six, though according to the laws of relativity she’s probably a little older than that because she moves so close to light speed. Recently she started a recess “club” at her...