Elementary

K/1st: Week of Mar 31

In our Bigger Backyard…WHAT’S ABOVE US?! We asked ourselves…what are clouds and where does WIND come from? We found out that the power of the sun and temperature has everything to do with how clouds and wind form. We revisited our knowledge about the 3 different states of water we learned about earlier in the year. We thought, again, about the water cycle and how water when heated transforms into vapor and moves upward it bonds together to form clouds. We conducted an experiment to see if we could make a cloud…and we did! Often we love to look at […]

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Kindergarten teacher assists student on science project at project based school.

2nd/3rd: Week of Mar 31

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group was reintroduced to the dime and the quarter! We practiced skip counting by 10s (easy peasy), and learned a new version of the Macarena, quarter style! “25, 50, 75, $1” – repeat & add hand movements! Then we played store and took turns buying items and paying for them using a combination of coins. After that – you guessed it – game day! We learned a new one and brought out several others. These guys and gals are doing an excellent job of counting mixed coins!! 🎉 Ms. Kelly’s crew kicked off the week

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Elementary student smiles proudly at private school in Austin.

4th/5th: Week of Mar 31

General News Believe it or not, there is no new news! We have really good pictures this week – check them out below! And don’t forget to stay on top of your at-home research for your human body systems project! (We gave Gammas the option to eat in the classroom on Thursday if they wanted to watch their body system once at school to get ready for the at-home work! Six Gammas took us up on the offer—Yippee!) ELA Update We started our ELA this week with book club meetings. These are not generated by genre this time around since

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Elementary student works with teacher at school with small class sizes

K/1st: Week of Mar 24

WELCOME TO Quarter 4 Alphas!!!! We came back from Spring break to discover that… Larry made a MESS of our traps – EVEN though he escaped, we made it tough enough that he lost a boot! AND he left a surprise for us in an empty Lucky Charms box… gold coins! Turns out they were the chocolate kind…he’s such a trickster!! (We had to figure out how many there were and how we could fairly divide them up!) In our Bigger Backyard…WHAT’S ABOVE US?! A shot of the troposphere from outer space… This week we talked about the troposphere –

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Kindergarten students give presentation at micro school.

2nd/3rd: Week of Mar 24

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group launched our unit on money & personal finance by taking a pre-test and being formally reintroduced to the penny and nickel. We practiced identifying the heads & tails sides of both coins, skip counting by 5s, counting combinations of pennies and nickels, sorting coins and learned a few new games. At the end of the week we practiced paying for items using a variety of combinations of pennies and nickels and held our first money game day! Ms. Kelly’s crew kicked off an exciting new unit—fractions! We started with the fundamentals: What exactly is

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Elementary student interacts with door at private school in Austin.