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K/1st: Week of Oct 16

WELCOME TO QUARTER 2!!!!! A Golden Compass What’s Around Us?! The Regions of the United States of America! There was a wild flurry of activities this super-short week! We got new table teams, celebrated two birthdays, and started learning about the land and resources that make up our country. Alphas add oceans around our country… Alphas making their own compass roses… Each table team is studying a different region of the country; they are a team of explorers! We did some team-building and we made portraits and added interesting information we learned about our table mates. Meet the Southwest Art […]

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K/1st: Week of Sept 25

As Ms. Eliza and Ms. Kim careen towards the end of our first quarter, this week’s newsletter will be more of a visual re-cap of the week! Travel Buddies!!!! What’s Inside Alphas THIS WEEK! Our Digestive System! PLUS: A Visit from the Delta Class! Digestion is about BREAKING food down – and it all begins in the MOUTH! Alphas made observations of all they saw in their mouths… The tongue is might muscle; try to talk without it! Flossing not only rids your teeth of plaque and bacteria, it EXERCISES your gums! Saliva is mostly water, but it has helpful

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Kindergarten and first grade students use math manipulatives at hands on private school.

2nd/3rd: Week of Sept 25

Math This week, Ms. Andrea’s math group practiced skip counting, compared LOTS of numbers, and practiced breaking #’s down into expanded form and putting them back together in standard form. We also played a Teacher vs Students version of Place Value War, 5 In A Row, and a lively fishing game with our hungry alligators (really the greater than & less than symbols). Ms. Kelly’s math group spent the majority of the week reviewing everything they have learned over the last six weeks. They went on a place value review math hunt , finding and answering questions around the room

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Student creates paper mache ant at small private school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Sept 18

What’s Inside Alphas THIS WEEK! Our Travel Buddy visits shared a wealth of knowledge of how to care for our circulatory systems… “Shhh…Nobody move a muscle!” This is how our unit on our Muscular systems started…but some of our involuntary muscles were moving anyway – without us even thinking about it. Jumping off of the information we learned about our circulatory system we talked about our busiest muscle – our hearts. We worked on feeling for our pulse in our neck or our wrists to count the beats per minute. We had our own PE circuit workout session with stations

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First grader displays science project at progressive micro school.

K/1st: Week of Sept 11

What’s Inside Alphas THIS WEEK! Our Travel Buddy Visits taught us a LOT about how we can take care of our BONES! Helmets protect our skulls when Leo and Bun Bun moved their long and short bones AND we ride bikes or skate! we learned that Leo actually BROKE a bone in his foot! Rowan showed Willow how she pounds calcium to her Graham and Garciano taught us about bones by doing Jiu jitzu! eating healthy foods for our bones! AND Pao shared his adventures with Buoyant and taught us that leafy greens and delicious beans are a great way

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Kindergarten students use water to learn about blood at progressive microschool.