Alpha

WELCOME TO Quarter 4 Alphas!!!! We came back from Spring break to discover that… Larry made a MESS of our traps – EVEN though he escaped, we made it tough enough that he lost a boot! AND he left a surprise for us in an empty Lucky Charms box… gold coins! Turns out they were the chocolate kind…he’s such a trickster!! (We had to figure out how many there were and how we could fairly divide them up!) In our Bigger Backyard…WHAT’S ABOVE US?! A shot of the troposphere from outer space… This week we talked about the troposphere – […]

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

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

Is that a Wyatt or is it a beaver? This week… In our study of Texas Regions we turned back from the deserts and mountains of the West, back across the Great plains, Hill country, and Blackland prairies to arrive in East Texas where we discovered…woods! Piney woods! In this primarily flat land of nutrient-filled soil from eons of flooding and receding waters, we find an ecosystem filled with trees, rivers, and thousands of oxbow lakes. This rich landscape supports a huge variety of flora and fauna. Creatures we haven’t met in other regions live there such as alligators, beavers,

Last week… WE explored the landscape and habitats west of the Great Plains and Panhandle. We found the Chihuahuan desert…home to many amazing creatures and cacti , the Davis and Chisos Mountain ranges with their juniper, small oak, and pinon trees, and Beautiful Big Bend National Park along the Rio Grande. We discovered that creatures adapt to their environments. Like the Kangaroo Rat that doesn’t drink water…it gets enough of it from it’s food AND it can kick a rattlesnake like nobody’s business! The javelina, a collard peccary whose favorite food is the prickly pear and guess what?! The cactus