Elementary

4th/5th: Week of Jan 27

General News ELA Update This week was all about finishing up our fiction stories and the laborious task of editing. Ms. Ansley played the role of publisher and editor! As each student finished their writing she went through and highlighted areas to be reviewed for CUPS (capitalization, understanding, punctuation, and spelling). Once that was all done they had the super fun task of making cover art, back covers, and about the author pages in Canva. These were then sent off to the publisher (Ms. Ansley) for lamination and binding. If your kiddo hasn’t quite finished typing up their story you […]

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Elementary student working on computer at STEM school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Jan 20

This SHORT week in Alpha! Ace “Just keeps truckin’ on…” This week in Our Big Backyard… It was a crazy blur! We learned a lot about West Texas’ flora and fauna and got started on our West Texas diorama! We will upload an update on our journey’s progress next week! In Math… Ms. Kim’s Mathletes learned about a distinctive group of polygons this week: The Quadrilaterals! We also practiced turning the sums we created into equations – and we even crammed in some SEL with a great role-play on how to say “excuse me” when someone is in our way.

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Private school kindergarten student works hard with marker and paper.

2nd/3rd: Week of Jan 20

For a two day week, we sure got a lot done! Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group wrapped up their discussion of schedules and activities that are done in the AM vs PM and dove right into measurement! We began with non-standard units of measurement, using items such as coins, chains, cubes, etc. to measure classroom items. We learned the proper way to measure and the importance of always estimating before measuring, because we won’t always have a measuring tool with us, we want our estimating skills to also be top notch. Ms. Kelly’s math group leaped right into division

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Micro school elementary student holds up language arts work proudly.

4th/5th: Week of Jan 20

General News All Subject Update In the spirit of the funky week, we’re keeping this section consolidated as all classes took a slight curve in the road to accommodate the holiday, snow day and Flu-Fest 2025. With half the class out (teachers included!) the name of the game was flexibility. For kiddos in class, we accomplished a long division scavenger hunt to practice those pesky long division steps. In theme, we explored the Underground Railroad to follow-up on last week’s exploration of the abolitionist movement. We did a mapping activity on Wednesday and followed it with a “meaningful quote” technology

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Two part time elementary school students do math together at table.

K/1st: Week of Jan 13

This week in Alpha… Wicked? No WAY! This week in Our Big Backyard… Alphas have a good understanding of the prairies and high plains’ resources, flora, and fauna but we haven’t talked much about the first humans who lived in Texas – particularly in that eco region! Alphas learned that when Europeans discovered Texas about 500 years ago, but didn’t explore the land for about 100 more years. They learned that they were NOT the first people to inhabit this state! Scientists have determined that human beings evolved in Africa around 2 million years ago and began moving into Asia.

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Kindergarten student holds electric creation at part time school.