Elementary

4th/5th: Week of Mar 24

General News We had a great first week back from a nice LONG break! The Gammas jumped back in wonderfully. Kids received their at-home Theme P&P project packet guide. (All the info is duplicated on Whippermathers.com if you would like to access directions/deadlines.) Each Monday, a small “chunk” of the project will be due. (We’re teaching some executive function skills along with studying the human body!) Next Monday, Gammas should have completed a snappy Google form to tell us their body systems preference. We’ll continue to scaffold the project week-by-week until kids bring home a poster to decorate to market […]

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Elementary student gives presentation at project based school.

K/1st: Week of Feb 24

This week in Alpha! Wyatt wows Alphas with another amazing feat of magic! As we approach the end of our third quarter, our class time is filled with review, wrap-up, and assessment conferences with individual students. It’s a busy time, and we have little patience for the high-jinks of Larry the Leprechaun. Thank you to our families for the cardboard donations—we look forward to using our 3D skills to build traps to catch the mischief-maker! In our Bigger Backyard… This week, we learned about the original inhabitants of the coastal plains through the perspective of a European explorer who made

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Kindergarten student draws 3d figures at private school in Austin.

2nd/3rd: Week of Feb 24

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group is wrapping up their geometry unit by partitioning shapes into equal parts. This lead us into an introduction of fractions – primarily halves and fourths. We started with the basics, fairly sharing cookies, a sandwich and pizza. At the end of the week we learned the terms numerator and denominator and practiced counting sets objects, coloring a “special” # of them, and turning that into a fraction. Ms. Kelly’s crew tackled the challenge of finding the area AND perimeter of rectilinear shapes with missing sides—no easy task, but they rose to the occasion! Their

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Elementary students read together at GT school.

4th/5th: Week of Feb 24

General News The final part of their Theme project is due this Monday, March 3rd. We will start presenting our speeches and visual art creations. Get ready for a Gamma Soul Food Potluck on Wednesday, March 5th. Details can be found on this flier and we’ll offer this sign-up sheet so others can get a feel for your offering. We’d love to have your participation, but know that bringing a dish is optional. If you can bring one, great! (Don’t forget an ingredient card!) Don’t forget about these awesome events coming up at the Haskell house! Check out this document

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Elementary student paints history at project based school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Feb 10

This week in Alpha! Why AHB? WE LOVE that we can be ourselves – even with Middle Schoolers & we LOVED having your help making our friendship keychains (L-R) Yuki, Nicolle, Pippin, Willow, & Scarlet! Larry the Leprechaun struck twice this week: He switched out of book baskets AND he mixed up our table team supplies! The teachers said if he does ONE MORE THING we might have to make Larry Traps to teach that mischief-maker a lesson! In our Bigger Backyard… Alphas learned that Paleo-Indians in east Texas discovered as they followed their food throughout the year, that the

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Kindergarten map at project based school.