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A ferocious Dragon-Snowman-Robot! “What’s Inside Me” this week?…BONES! Alphas’ appreciation of their brains made them realize just how important it was to keep them safe and protected. Reeder even made a helmet for his Travel Buddy when he took it for a ride on his bike! We learned that our bodies come with some protection: bones. In our skeletal system, we have bones that protect and bones that provide structure. Protector bones are our “axial” bones because they are in line with the middle part of our body – like this axis the Earth spins on – Alphas pointed out […]

Our BRAIN is “What’s Inside Me” AGAIN this week… This week, we learned a lot about our neocortex! Alphas learned that one of the memories that stays with us the longest – stored in our temporal lobes – is our sense of smell. We told stories about a memory triggered by a scent from our sniffer-work. Alphas used their occipital lobes to sort objects by discrete attributes…and we used our frontal lobes to pay close attention to different tasks, like listening, or looking carefully! Alphas used their parietal lobes to adjust their body movements to be successful with a task!

Monday Gym offers a little sumpin’ for EVERYONE… Parents Please Note- No School on Monday! Our BRAIN is “What’s Inside Me” this week… This week, we explored some of the evolutionarily ancient parts of our brains: the parts that keep us alive, and parts that protect us and keep us safe, and the parts that help us learn. The medulla oblongata lives in the brainstem. Alphas knew that to stay alive, their bodies needed food, water, and most of all AIR. The medulla oblongata takes care of that, so our thinking-brain doesn’t have to remember to do those things! It

Parents Please Note- Starting Monday, we will meet in the gym at 8:45. This is where we will meet on Mondays from now on. The rest of the week we’ll meet in our classroom. What a whirlwind of a first week! We had fun getting to know each other as we are learning about our new space! We talked about AHB Community – and thought about what a community is and how we can create a great one. We agreed that communities should feel safe for our bodies and our feelings. We sat in new tables teams every day and

Playing Lava Monster tag, Wyatt found a great strategy to remain lava-free!! In our Bigger Backyard…WHAT’S ABOVE US?! This week, we first finished our Moon Mission team projects. We finalized what our mission plans were, the name and emblem of our mission and we designed astronaut suits for our peeps. Each team presented them. We then traveled 193 million miles up to visit our closest star…THE SUN! We learned that it is HOT, HOT, HOT (12,000 degrees at its core) and GINORMOUS! (if we filled it up 1.3 million earths could fit inside). We saw where we’re located in our