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K/1st: Week of Feb 19th

Larry Alert! Larry Alert!!! Our leprechaun has returned with more mischief! It is looking more and more like we are going to have to build some traps again this year. Please bring in any 3D recyclables to help us in this math project! In the past we have appreciated receiving any cubes, rectangular or triangular prisms, cones, and cylinders (oatmeal boxes are AWESOME). 2024 could be our year! Larry mixed up our supply bins this week! Our intrepid early birds put things back where they belong! This week in the Ocean… Alphas know that the food chain and webs in […]

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Kindergarten and first grade students at micro school work on science project together.

K/1st: Week of 2/12

This week in Alpha… Alphas enjoying the movie Ezi made to cheer up our friend Anna when she was in hospital! Best medicine ever. This week in the Ocean… This week we learned how important the motion in the ocean is to the health of our planet and how global warming is putting that circulation in danger. If we put water in a tray, the water is very still – is the water at the shore still? Hereโ€™s how waves land on land – it doesnโ€™t stay there, it moves back out, UNDER the swells! No Alphas were hurt in

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Kindergarten student at private elementary school displays math work.

K/1: Week of Feb 5th

HEโ€™S BACK!!!!!!!! As you all are aware, we switched classrooms with the Gamma class this summer. What you MAY NOT know is that for YEARS, starting in February we have been pestered and tricked by a little Leprechuan who calls himself Larry. Last Monday, Larry made his first appearance in the new GAMMA room! Our our former Alphas knew that shamrock and wisely called a class meeting to kindly, but firmly redirect the mischief-maker to his proper domain. (…uh…thanks a LOT Gammas…) This week in the Ocean… We explored the deepest layer of the ocean: The Aphotic Zone! Ms. Kim

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Kindergarten student inspects leaf at STEM school.

K/1st: Week of Jan 29

Oceans This week we dove deeper into the ocean – 600 feet down to the beginning of the Disphotic or Twilight zone. Very little light reaches this deep. Disphotic gets its name from being a region where photosynthesis cannot occur and plants canโ€™t grow. To understand the differences between the two zones for the living organisms that live there we looked at sperm whales and giant squid. Alphas learned that Sperm whales are incredibly unique mammals. In some form of evolution they have been on earth 20 million years or more, can dive the deepest of any mammal (2,000-10,000 feet),

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Kindergarten student holds hands-on project at part time school.

K/1st: Week of Jan 22

This week we learned that the ocean has layers that are divided by how much light is in it. The first layer we explored is called the Euphotic Zone. We learned that most of the creatures in the ocean live in this layer, and just like all living things on land, these creatures require sunlight, air, water, and food to live. Alphas knew that many of the tidal zone creatures had adaptations that helped them capture microscopic food particles from the water, and we learned that those particles were actually living plants and animals called Phytoplankton and Zooplankton. We learned

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Kindergarten student displays project at project based school.