JasmineL2007 – ACCELLA Learning Centre

June 12, 2012

JasmineL and TammyL, thanks for sharing your experiences at the Odyssey of the Mind 2012 World Finals!

JasmineL and TammyL both graciously agreed to share their experiences competing with their school's team in the Odyssey of the Mind 2012 World Finals, →

July 2, 2011

Thank you, 2010-2011 students! Congratulations, valedictorians!

We average together all of our students' quiz, grammar and comprehension homework marks, and in-class participation scores at the close of each academic →

June 24, 2010

Secret Father’s Day messages

In our Intermediate English Fun class, we've been reading one of Michele Torrey's excellent Doyle & Fossey: Science Detectives books, The Case →

February 19, 2010

Books, books, and more books!

Books are best enjoyed as jumping-off points for exploring the wider world and we always look for opportunities to tie the books that we're reading →

December 4, 2008

You’ve earned it!

Above: RachelL holding the Spongebob Squarepants DVD that she earned for consistently outstanding performance in class and on her homework and quizzes. →

June 16, 2008

Sometimes digressions can be interesting too: of terror birds and Haast’s eagles

A few weeks ago, our P2 classes were finishing up reading The Tail of Reepicheep, a children's book whose story ties into the latest Narnia movie, →

June 16, 2008

The flowers bend aside and the trees lean away to let him go by

Believe it or not, but the ideas behind the mega-successful Shrek DreamWorks CGI film franchise didn't spring fully-developed from the minds of the →

December 13, 2007

Who is the tallest/oldest/youngest/fastest/kindest … and who has got the longest hair?

When we buy a new sweater, make a new friend, or encounter a new taste or smell - or a new anything, in fact - comparison is the best and sometimes →

October 17, 2007

Quiz Time! (class features series)

At Accella, every class begins with a brief quiz that covers the grammar and vocabulary introduced in the previous lesson. Here's a snapshot Sunday →

September 5, 2007

Little Writers’ hard work pays off

Above: Students in one of our Little Writers classes hard at work on pages for their storybooks. We were pleased that the majority of the students →

August 4, 2007

To the whiteboard!

Above, you can see the students of one of our P3-P4 summer classes standing proudly in front of their reading comprehension answers. Naturally, →