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This Week in Alpha August 23-26, 2026 This Week in Alpha… What a week! Our theme this quarter, Community, feels especially relevant during these early days of the year, as we learn how to take care of new responsibilities and get to know each other. Alphas know that a community is full of people. This week we talked about how each one of us is a unique individual, but when we come together, we have similar needs and goals like “…we came to AHB for friends,” “…we came to learn experiments,” “…we came to read chapter books.” We also learned

Joe McDermott in Concert! Where in the World?! Thanks for bearing with us as we careen to the close of the year- we are assessing, wrapping up projects, hanging art (and practicing volleyball for our challenge against the 8th graders this Monday – please light candles for us)! Even so, we managed to visit the continent down under and even got a fantastic glimpse of Australia’s neighbor, New Zealand! Alphas know that climate and resources affect the way people live. They know that the scarcer the resource, the more precious it becomes. We saw that Australia is mostly desert and

Planetarium visit! Theme: Where in the World?! This week we traveled to Earth’s largest continent – Asia!. We found the oldest and deepest lake (lake Bikhal in Russia), the highest mountain in the world (Mt. Everest), the Gobi desert, and a sea that has not a living plant or animal and 10x the amount of salt in the ocean – the Dead Sea – all unique to Asia. We learned that 4.75 billion people live on the continent! First we labeled and colored our maps of Asia… Then we took a tour through Japan from the eyes of Ms. Emma’s

My, how we’ve grown since August! Theme: Where in the World?! This week we headed to the great continent of Africa… We learned where it is and what it’s made of- like DESERT! The Sahara is the world’s largest desert; almost all of the United States could fit inside it! Africa has a tropical jungle in the Congo, and grassy plains (not unlike our grassy plains in Texas) called the savannah, it has big coasts, tall mountains and the world’s longest river: the Nile! Alphas mapping out regions and biomes of Africa… When we think of Africa, some of our