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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

A twirling, swirling playground dance performance! In our Bigger Backyard…WHAT’S ABOVE US?! “Houston…we have lift-off!” Alphas explored our Moon this week. We learned that this amazing satellite inspired myths and legends around the globe, and we got to know a few of them! We learned a hypothesis about how some scientists believe the Moon was formed and how far away it is from Earth. We explored how falling objects might displace matter to see if it could shed some light on those circular pits we see on the face of the Moon. Our table team challenge was to create a

When the worlds of Legos and hair clips merge!!! In our Bigger Backyard…WHAT’S ABOVE US?! This week we took a tour of the higher layers of our atmosphere discovering why it starts cold in the stratosphere and gets warmer the higher up we go because of all the UV light being captured in the Ozone layer. We talked about how earth’s relationship with the sun gives us life on earth, but how the ozone layer truly makes life possible by blocking the harmful rays from entering our Troposphere. We also discussed how our actions here on earth (cars, aerosols, and