MordecaiL2007 – ACCELLA Learning Centre

August 21, 2012

Good job! You earned those books and DVDs!

Accella is different from other learning centers in many ways. Foremost among those differences is the fact that all of of our students receive original →

April 22, 2012

If you want children to read, it helps to give them books.

The title of this post represents one of Accella's core principles -- namely that, if you want children to read often and at length, you need to provide →

January 28, 2012

Chicken korma, perhaps, and a few crunchy poppadoms too ! (on reading Grk Smells a Rat)

Above, you can see OliverH enjoying the flavorful crunch of his poppadom. We've been reading Grk Smells a Rat in some of our classes and had reached →

December 24, 2011

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !!!

Above, you can see Cherry unwrapping her copy of Heads On and We Shoot: The Making of Where the Wild Things Are. That's Ching Kiu perusing her →

August 8, 2011

Party tricks with sugar cubes

Who likes magic tricks? We do! A few days ago, for the in-class portion of a writing lesson in some of our summer classes, we demonstrated a simple →

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 →

September 11, 2010

He touched down on the rough boards of the tree house and began to set up his new home.

Above: Erin taking a bite from her pretzel. The Curse of the Bologna Sandwich features a young superhero, recently graduated from the Superhero →

July 8, 2009

Thank you, 2008-2009 students! Congratulations, valedictorians!

After averaging all of our students' 2008-2009 term quiz, homework, and in-class participation scores together, we identified the student in each class →

May 26, 2008

Twenty questions with your favorite cartoon characters

In our P1 classes for the past two days, we played a variant of Twenty Questions using cartoon character masks as a way of tackling the subject of →