Author name: Christa Spraggins

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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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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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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Middle School: Week of Sept 5

Math: Da Sprouts completed their last lesson for the Numerical Representation unit on Tuesday which was over absolute value and opposites. On Wednesday they completed a review over the entire unit. EverShrooms worked on multiplying and dividing integers and rational numbers. Polar Bears compared and ordered real numbers on Tuesday and learned how to write numbers in scientific notation on Wednesday. Mountain Lizards had a lesson over solving multi-step inequalities on Tuesday and spent Wednesday catching up on activities they may not have completed. Thursday was an exciting start for the Stock Market Game (SMG)! This year Da Sprouts and

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4th/5th: Week of Sept 5

General News We look forward to seeing you next week at Parent Night on the 13th! In preparation for that event, we’d love to recruit your feedback on this super snappy check-in. It will allow us to tailor our presentation to your needs! Thank you for taking a minute to tell us about your initial experience this school year. Our surprise cake party and class book for Ms. Lorrie’s birthday on Thursday was a sweet success! The Gammas did an amazing job collaborating and keeping the surprise under wraps until the very last minute! Reading/Writing Update This week in writing

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