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This week in Alpha! Why AHB? WE LOVE that we can be ourselves – even with Middle Schoolers & we LOVED having your help making our friendship keychains (L-R) Yuki, Nicolle, Pippin, Willow, & Scarlet! Larry the Leprechaun struck twice this week: He switched out of book baskets AND he mixed up our table team supplies! The teachers said if he does ONE MORE THING we might have to make Larry Traps to teach that mischief-maker a lesson! In our Bigger Backyard… Alphas learned that Paleo-Indians in east Texas discovered as they followed their food throughout the year, that the […]

Is that a Wyatt or is it a beaver? This week… In our study of Texas Regions we turned back from the deserts and mountains of the West, back across the Great plains, Hill country, and Blackland prairies to arrive in East Texas where we discovered…woods! Piney woods! In this primarily flat land of nutrient-filled soil from eons of flooding and receding waters, we find an ecosystem filled with trees, rivers, and thousands of oxbow lakes. This rich landscape supports a huge variety of flora and fauna. Creatures we haven’t met in other regions live there such as alligators, beavers,

Last week… WE explored the landscape and habitats west of the Great Plains and Panhandle. We found the Chihuahuan desert…home to many amazing creatures and cacti , the Davis and Chisos Mountain ranges with their juniper, small oak, and pinon trees, and Beautiful Big Bend National Park along the Rio Grande. We discovered that creatures adapt to their environments. Like the Kangaroo Rat that doesn’t drink water…it gets enough of it from it’s food AND it can kick a rattlesnake like nobody’s business! The javelina, a collard peccary whose favorite food is the prickly pear and guess what?! The cactus

This SHORT week in Alpha! Ace “Just keeps truckin’ on…” This week in Our Big Backyard… It was a crazy blur! We learned a lot about West Texas’ flora and fauna and got started on our West Texas diorama! We will upload an update on our journey’s progress next week! In Math… Ms. Kim’s Mathletes learned about a distinctive group of polygons this week: The Quadrilaterals! We also practiced turning the sums we created into equations – and we even crammed in some SEL with a great role-play on how to say “excuse me” when someone is in our way.

This week in Alpha… Wicked? No WAY! This week in Our Big Backyard… Alphas have a good understanding of the prairies and high plains’ resources, flora, and fauna but we haven’t talked much about the first humans who lived in Texas – particularly in that eco region! Alphas learned that when Europeans discovered Texas about 500 years ago, but didn’t explore the land for about 100 more years. They learned that they were NOT the first people to inhabit this state! Scientists have determined that human beings evolved in Africa around 2 million years ago and began moving into Asia.