Elementary

2nd/3rd: Week of Apr 1

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group launched our unit on money this week! We reviewed penny, nickel and dime values, examined their physical attributes, then practiced identifying heads and tails of each. We practiced counting them and learned 2 new math games! The Beta’s are doing a great job of recalling coin facts and the practice of counting mixed coins is proving beneficial. Ms. Kelly’s math group began perimeter on Monday! Perimeter is the distance around the outside of a shape. For example, if you walk around the edge of a playground, you’re measuring its perimeter. Area is the amount […]

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Second grader holds language arts assignment at alternative school.

K/1st: Week of Apr 1

Our Song and Poem Leader helping us singing-to-read… Around the World in 60 Days… This week we learned about the continent we live on: North America! Alphas remembered the mountains and plains in the USA, but they learned that when the first people arrived on this continent 30,000 years ago – they didn’t cross through Canada down to Mexico – it was all just one great undivided continent. The Mountains in the west actually continue past our borders, as do our great plains. We noticed that most of our country lies within the temperate zone, whereas, most of Canada is

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Two students work together on art project at private kindergarten in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Mar 25

Larry was here… and we must have nearly caught him because he was so hurried he lost one of his shoes and some of his gold! Ms. Eliza was a little disappointed when we discovered it wasn’t real gold, but chocolate instead. We all agreed it was a great treasure nonetheless! This week Around the World in 60 Days… We found out that it was just 60 years ago that humans saw the earth from space in photographs taken by astronauts. It gave us a whole different perspective of the land and oceans we all share. We learned some of

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Four kindergarten students water paint at project based school in Austin.

2nd/3rd: Week of Mar 25

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group reviewed geometry vocabulary, 3D shape attributes and played with fractions! We wrapped up our geometry unit by learning about perimeter. We also took our Unit 6 test and our Unit 7 pre-assessment. SO excited to move on to money! Ms. Kelly’s math group jumped right back into our multi step word problem warm up before delving into using the distributive property to find the area of a rectangle. The distributive property states that you can break apart a factor into addends and multiply each addend by the other factor to get a product. So,

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Second grade student writes in notebook at GT school.

4th/5th: Week of Mar 25

General News Reading/Writing Update This week in Gammaland we introduced our new novel Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun by Tọlá Okogwu. On Tuesday we started the week off with an introduction to the book by Tọlá Okogwu herself and read the author’s note to learn more about why she decided to write this book. We then read chapter 1 together as a class and had a discussion about the two main characters we know so far: Onyeka and Cheyenne. On Wednesday we explored our new novel study guide and the vocabulary work we will be doing through the

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Three fifth grade girls work together at private school.