Elementary

K/1st: Week of May 11

Joe McDermott in Concert! Where in the World?! Thanks for bearing with us as we careen to the close of the year- we are assessing, wrapping up projects, hanging art (and practicing volleyball for our challenge against the 8th graders this Monday – please light candles for us)! Even so, we managed to visit the continent down under and even got a fantastic glimpse of Australia’s neighbor, New Zealand! Alphas know that climate and resources affect the way people live. They know that the scarcer the resource, the more precious it becomes. We saw that Australia is mostly desert and

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Kindergarten students work together on geography at private school in Austin.

3rd/4th: Week of May 4

This week was amazing at AHB!  The Gammas loved their trip to Barton Springs on Tuesday and learned so much about Barton Springs and the Edwards Aquifer.  They enjoyed seeing wildlife, having lunch in the park, and had a blast playing on the playground! Thanks so much to our parents who were able to drive and chaperone. We appreciate you so much! YAY! We earned 100 TWIGGY tickets so Tuesday will be Crazy Hair Day Math Gamma twos wrapped up their study of data charts this week.  They were given  100 students’ birthdays and had to organize and display the data.

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Elementary students explore park on field trip at nonreligious school.

2nd: Week of May 4

Math This week in math the Betas continued on with multiplication! We can draw arrays, write and even solve multiplication number sentences! This is so much easier than we thought it’d be! So proud of all of these Betas!! ELA Our focus in phonics this week was on syllabication of words and a review of open/closed syllables. The skill of breaking words into chunks is a valuable one because it can help us identify and read new words, especially the longer words that we’ll encounter soon. We are finishing up our book club novels! These will be our last books

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Elementary student reads to class at micro school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of May 4

Planetarium visit! Theme: Where in the World?! This week we traveled to Earth’s largest continent – Asia!. We found the oldest and deepest lake (lake Bikhal in Russia), the highest mountain in the world (Mt. Everest), the Gobi desert, and a sea that has not a living plant or animal and 10x the amount of salt in the ocean – the Dead Sea – all unique to Asia. We learned that 4.75 billion people live on the continent! First we labeled and colored our maps of Asia… Then we took a tour through Japan from the eyes of Ms. Emma’s

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Kindergarten student works on math at STEM school.

3rd/4th: Week of Apr 27

It was a great week in the Gamma room.  Although the rain has been great, we are hoping for a sunny, hot day soon to test our solar ovens.  We look forward to our field trip to Barton Springs on Tuesday!  Thanks for filling out the chaperone/driver survey! Math Gamma twos began learning about ways to organize data including frequency tables, dot plots and stem & leaf plots.  They enjoyed collecting data about the favorite animals of AHB students.  Next week, they will organize their results using a stem and leaf plot. They will be able to create graphs to

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Elementary students work together at micro school.