Elementary

K/1st: Week of Jan 19

Water, water, everywhere… This week, we left the shore for open water to explore the euphotic zone!  This is the layer of the ocean that gets the most sunlight. We learned that this layer is closest to land, which means it is closest to humans, and the Alphas know that where there are humans, there is trash! The euphotic zone is where over half of our oxygen comes from; it also contains 90% of all marine life — which makes its proximity to humans a little scary. The continents are ringed in the light blue of the euphotic zone… Alphas, […]

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Kindergartener laughs while holding notebook at school with small classes.

3rd/4th: Week of Jan 12

Quarter 3 is well underway and the Gammas are enjoying the beautiful weather at recess. We are looking forward to our many un-birthday and birthday celebrations that are coming up. Our class had a great start to cursive handwriting this week, and they are really getting it! Looking ahead, we will be entering the world of poetry. Gamma poets will be reading different types of poems and writing some of their own. Enjoy your four day weekend and see you Tuesday! Math Gamma 1’s composed and decomposed fractions this week looking at parts of a whole and fractional parts of

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Two elementary students work on Silk Road poster at project based school.

2nd: Week of Jan 12

Our time unit is wrapping up! The Betas have been working SO hard at telling time to the exact minute! They’ve just about got it. Next week we’ll wrap it up and begin our unit on measurement! ELA Everyone has begun a new book for Book Clubs this week! The current line up includes: Here’s Hank, Ralph S. Mouse and Frog & Toad. I’m so proud of this batch of burgeoning readers! In phonics this week we studied spellings of the long u sound (both /yoo/ and /oo/): u, u_e, ue, and ew and ow. Our sight words were: move,

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Two elementary boys sit beside each other and write at school with small classes.

K/1st: Week of Jan 12

CJ meeting one of the hermit crabs! Our foster pets for the week (thank you Ezra!) Water, water, everywhere… This week, we investigated what many rocky seashores offer…shelter and food for some of the world’s most adaptable creatures in the intertidal zones. (oh! how we wish we had tidal pools to explore in our neighborhood!) The ecosystem hangs on for dear life as the tides ebb and flow….and what creates tides? Small but mighty, the pull of the moon’s gravity creates 2 high tides and 2 low tides on earth each day. Even more so, twice a year the sun’s

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Kindergarten student displays writing at private school in Austin.

3rd/4th: Week of Jan 5

It was wonderful to have the Gammas back this week. What a fantastic start to the new quarter! Even though we may have been a little tired, we really enjoyed jumping right back into the swing of things.. It was especially cool to see our little tadpoles growing their legs and our radishes getting bigger. We are excited for the new quarter and our new theme…Asia. Math Gamma 1’s dove into the world of fractions, learning to recognize fractional parts of a whole. Gamma 2’s jumped right into decimals…reading and writing decimal numbers to the hundredths place and representing decimal

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Three elementary students work on ELA at GT school.