Elementary

3rd/4th: Week of Mar 23

It was a pleasure to have our Gammas return to class this week.  They enjoyed seeing  friends and sharing spring break experiences with each other.  We also eased right back into academics with some fun activities. This quarter is going to be so much fun! Math Gamma 1’s reviewed multiplication, division and problem solving by working on a math mystery.  We  also started off our measurement unit by practicing telling time on analog clocks.  Gamma 2’s reviewed fractions and dove right into geometry by learning the first of many vocabulary terms including point, line, plane, perpendicular, parallel and intersecting. ELA […]

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Elementary students read together at school with small classes.

2nd: Week of Mar 23

It’s been a wild week back in Beta!! Math This week in math we reviewed pennies, nickels and dimes. The Betas carefully examined the heads and tails sides of each coin and did a lot of skip counting by 5s! By the end of the week we were counting mixed coins and playing store. On Thursday we held a game day! ELA In phonics this week we continued our study of Bossy R, focusing on how it affects the vowel o! The spelling patterns we learned this week were: or, ore, and oar. The best part is that they all

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Elementary student proudly holds bug at project based school

3rd/4th: Week of Feb 23

Another successful week in the books for the Gammas. It’s great to be in the final stretch before spring break, and we are proud of our class for finishing strong. There is a lot of fun learning still happening as we end Q3 and begin the month of March. Watch for an email coming soon about signing up for optional spring conferences.  Math  Gamma 2’s were a bunch of smarties this week learning to  simplify fractions by finding the greatest common factor of the numerator and denominator.  I have been very impressed with their work ethic during the math lessons, and

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Two elementary students smile in corner at GT school.

2nd: Week of Feb 23

Math This week in math we wrapped up our study of shapes and moved on to fractions – cookie fractions, sandwich fractions and pizza fractions! We learned about halves, thirds, fourths and eighths, as well as equal parts (aka fair shares). We practiced identifying unequal parts, partitioning shapes into equal parts and even wrote fractions. These kids are sure picking things up quickly! ELA In phonics this week we began our study of Bossy R! We learned that when “r” comes after a vowel it changes the sound of the vowel. This week we learned that “ar” and “ar_e” spelling patterns

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Elementary student holds up work at school with small classes.

K/1st: Week of Feb 23

Larry Alert!!! Larry Alert!!! All week, Larry has bothered our classroom with his shenanigans. First, we were missing our table team supplies, then our lamps, then our peace corner pillows, and finally, OUR CHAIRS were switched with Betas’!!! We will DEFINITELY need to create some traps and need your help. Please drop off any recyclables you have to the Alpha classroom on Monday morning. For many years now, this Leprechaun has pestered our class during our 3rd quarter when we study Geometry – which is handy for us (the one, single convenient thing about this Leprechaun…), so we can justify building

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Kindergarten student poses happily at micro school.