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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.

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.

Middle School: Week of Mar 24

Math: The Marionettes started their unit on equations this week working on solving one-step equations using inverse operations. The Saplings tackled volume. The Vroomshrooms began graphing quadratics. ELA: We welcomed Q4 with the ever-exciting unveiling of our new novels! 6th graders unwrapped The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm, while the 7th and 8th graders unwrapped The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly. Both these books tie right in to our theme of Organisms and Their Environments. Students learned to use bookmarks for jotting down quick notes and page numbers to use as references for future reading responses: plot

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Middle school students point to project work at STEM school in Austin.

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.