Elementary

4th/5th: Week of Apr 21

General News The Gammas are rooting for Apollo to be released from Dell! We will keep you posted as we hear updates.Thank you for your continued kindness and support. Ms. Ansley is dropping off the homemade card bag later tonight. ELA Update This week we launched our study of poetry! We discussed the purpose of poetry (to express emotion) and a few of the different types including lyrical, free verse, and narrative poetry. We also discussed the tone and theme of poetry and how an author goes about communicating these things in an abbreviated amount of time by using certain […]

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Two elementary girls dress up for project at GT school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Apr 14

When the worlds of Legos and hair clips merge!!! In our Bigger Backyard…WHAT’S ABOVE US?! This week we took a tour of the higher layers of our atmosphere discovering why it starts cold in the stratosphere and gets warmer the higher up we go because of all the UV light being captured in the Ozone layer. We talked about how earth’s relationship with the sun gives us life on earth, but how the ozone layer truly makes life possible by blocking the harmful rays from entering our Troposphere. We also discussed how our actions here on earth (cars, aerosols, and

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Kindergarten student works on innovative math work at school with small classes.

2nd/3rd: Week of Apr 14

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group wrapped up our unit on $ & financial literacy by counting & comparing sets of coins, solving coin riddles and story problems, and learning & playing a lot of new games! We also worked on balancing scales, by counting the coins on one end of the scale and building the same amount on the other end using a different combination of coins. Our Beta 1s have become expert coin counters. On Thursday they ROCKED their unit assessment. Way to go, Betas! Ms. Kelly’s crew continues to practice mapping fractions greater than one on number

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Elementary student uses post it notes on ELA work at private school in Austin.

4th/5th: Week of Apr 14

General News Check out this link to view the project pacing guide for their Theme P&P this quarter. And this link to view the Gamma calendar for upcoming due dates. If your child is in Pets and Tech, we’d love to get some dog treat donations for Monday’s dog-treat-making activity. (Optional, of course!) We have Shipe Park day next week on Thursday! Remember to wear your shirts! You should have received an email about signing up for the talent show (optional) the last day to sign up for the talent show is May 8th. ELA Update This week we were

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Elementary students work together on math work at STEM school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Mar 31

In our Bigger Backyard…WHAT’S ABOVE US?! We asked ourselves…what are clouds and where does WIND come from? We found out that the power of the sun and temperature has everything to do with how clouds and wind form. We revisited our knowledge about the 3 different states of water we learned about earlier in the year. We thought, again, about the water cycle and how water when heated transforms into vapor and moves upward it bonds together to form clouds. We conducted an experiment to see if we could make a cloud…and we did! Often we love to look at

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Kindergarten teacher assists student on science project at project based school.