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3rd/4th: Week of September 21, 2026

Gamma Newsletter 2026-2027 Quarter 1 – Week 6: Sept. 21 – 24 We had a learning filled week in the Gamma room! Our donation drive is underway to help the unhoused in our community, and we’re excited to see how our Gammas are coming together to make a difference. Thank you so much for your donations! We had a blast at recess playing Four Corners and enjoyed a special guest speaker who shared his many contributions to our world. Be sure to ask your Gamma about this! It’s hard to believe there are only two more weeks in Q1, and

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2nd: Week of September 21, 2026

Week of September 21st Thank you so much to the Austin Geological Society for enriching our theme! Also…Happy Birthday Justin!!! Thanks for sharing a treat with us :) In ELA with Ms Andrea…This week our reading & writing was on geese! Together, we read an informational text called A Goose Migrates. Next, we dissected the reading to determine its “gist.” Then we turned our attention to our prompt of the week, which specifically asked about goslings. I am so proud of our young writers’ tenacity as we work to build their writing stamina. They worked hard and produced wonderful paragraphs

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K/1st: Week of September 21, 2026

This Week in Alpha A Note About Show & Tell… Due to its popularity, we are going to add a little structure to this very fun opportunity to practice public speaking AND add a nice layer of SEL sense of “influence” and “connection” at the same time – we would like for Show and Tell to run as follows: We’ll host Tuesday: Cherries in the Snow Table Wednesday: Blue Table Thursday: Red Table Please limit your Show & Tell to ONE item (which might be a rock collection – if it is a “type of toy collection” take a photo

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K/1st: Week of September 7, 2026

This Week in Alpha What a great week to practice flexibility! We had no school on Monday, Ms. Kim taught on Tuesday, and Ms. Alexa and Ms. Alyssa were in the classroom for the rest of the week. The students got to guide their substitutes in finding supplies, learning classroom procedures, and following the classroom schedule. We are super happy to report that they have their Alpha routines down pat! In Language Arts, we reviewed vowels and consonants, and we fixed our very jumbled classroom alphabet by rearranging the letters into the correct order. The students practiced writing the letters

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3rd/4th: Week of September 7, 2026

Gamma Newsletter 2026-2027 Quarter 1 – Week 4: Sept. 7 – 10 It was a great short week in the Gamma class. We hope you all enjoyed a nice, relaxing Labor Day weekend. It’s so exciting to see the friendships that are building in our class. Thank you to all of our families who joined us for Parent Support Night! We loved having the opportunity to connect with you. Your partnership means so much to us! Math Gamma ones wrapped up our Place Value unit, and we had some fun along the way! We finished things off with an Amazing

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