Elementary

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.

2nd: Week of Jan 5

Math Q3 math kicked off with a pre-test (no stress!) for our next unit on time and measurement. After our first week back we’ve mastered telling time to “o’clock” and :30, next week we’ll work on solidifying: quarter past, quarter till, and beyond! ELA Book Clubs are charging ahead at full speed. All three groups will be starting a new novel within the next couple of weeks. I’m particularly impressed with the level of quality that I’m seeing in the Beta’s journals. In phonics this week we studied spellings of the long o sound: o, o_e, oa, oe and ow

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Two elementary students read together at private school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Jan 5

New Quarter, New Table Team! We have been sharing what skills and talents we bring to our new buddies, as well as things we like to do, want to do, and don’t like to do. We are figuring out how to take turns sharing fun and not-so-fun tasks, and how to remind each other of our responsibilities in ways that aren’t harsh or hurtful. What’s Around Me? What happens when we go from land in any direction? Eventually, we reach the ocean… WATER, Water Everywhere… This week, we “walked” to the Gulf of Mexico. The first thing we noticed was

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Two kindergarten students work together at micro school

3rd/4th: Week of Dec 8

This week was full of fun things for the Gammas. We enjoyed hibernation day on Tuesday, and since we earned 100 Twiggy tickets, we also got to have hot cocoa with marshmallows! We said goodbye to our last butterfly on Wednesday, and we had a blast on our field trip to the Wildflower Center Thursday. The weather was perfect and we learned so much. Tons of thanks to our parent drivers and chaperones. We couldn’t have done it without you. Math Gamma 2’s dipped their toes into algebra this week, by looking at patterns in tables. We were blown away

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Elementary students look at project at STEM school.