Elementary

3rd/4th: Week of Sept 29

Lots of epic things were happening in Gammaland this week including a Viking raid! We are looking forward to a strong finish to quarter 1 and our celebration next Thursday. We are proud of our Gammas for how hard they have worked this quarter, and we are so grateful for your support! Math We are learning about multiplication. Gamma one learned that it is repeated addition and practiced setting up multiplication equations based on equal groups. Gamma two is moving on into two digit by two digit multiplication using several strategies including partial products and the standard algorithm. Memorizing the […]

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Elementary students paint at school with small classes.

2nd: Week of Sept 29

We are closing in on Quarter 1! In math we continue to compose, decompose, and compare numbers to the thousandth place. Next week will be a mix of skip counting practice, game days to reinforce place value concepts, and our second unit assessment! Here we come!! It was a busy week in phonics this week! We learned about twin letters: consonants that are doubled following syllables with short vowel sounds. Which consonants should we double, you ask? Silly Zebras Love Fries (s, z, l, f). We also learned that if twin letters come after an “a,” the vowel sound is

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Elementary student points to white board at private school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Sept 29

This Week in Alpha “What’s Inside Me” this week? OUR Digestive System! Alphas knew that we feed our bodies with food, but the nutrients in an apple can’t feed our bodies until we break it down. Digestion is all about breaking down and absorbing. Breaking down begins in the mouth. We took a gander at our mouths to get a view of what’s going on in there… We spotted tongues, teeth, uvula… Alphas made a diagram of the anatomy of a mouth! We did a little experiment with pretzels. We pretended our fingers were “fingers” and broke the pretzels into

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Kindergarten student displays skeleton drawing at project based school.

3rd/4th: Week of Sept 22

Ahoy, crew! This week we officially launched our Viking longships and rowed into new learning adventures. Our fearless Gammas are absolutely rocking it. They’ve shown some serious leadership, keeping their learning space shipshape and staying on top of their tasks. We can’t wait to see where our Viking journey takes us next week. Full speed ahead! Math This week’s focus was all about solving word problems involving addition and subtraction of larger numbers. We practiced a strategy called UPSC (Understand, Plan, Solve, Check) to help students make sense of one and two step story problems. We also reviewed the algorithm

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Two elementary students work together at micro school.

2nd: Week of Sept 22

What a week! In math we are deep into our unit on Place Value. We’ve been representing and comparing numbers in the thousands! We’re also pushing our skip counting skills to their limits and extending them. Along the way we’ve been learning new math games and enjoying playing them with friends. In phonics this week we learned several letter combinations that create sounds that are GLUED together. That means we count them as 1 sound (ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk). We practiced building words, sounding out and spelling words with glued sounds, played a couple new games

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Elementary student molds clay at private school in Austin.