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Gamma Newsletter 2026-2027 Quarter 1 – Week 2: August 24 – 27 Another super week for the Gammas! We’ve been busy learning, working together, and having lots of fun! A big THANK YOU to Amy, Lorelai’s mom, for spending her morning snapping some fun pictures for us. We appreciate you! Math In math, we’ve been diving into place value and learning that the value of a digit depends on the place it holds in our base-ten system. We’ve also been practicing writing numbers in different ways, including standard form, expanded form, and word form. Both Gamma classes had a great

What an amazing first week we had in Gamma: lots of smiles, laughter, and special moments. We are so proud of how eagerly they jumped into the new school year and can’t wait to see what amazing things are ahead! Math Both Gamma classes discussed the importance of math in our everyday lives, and collaborated to solve some fun thinking problems. They were introduced to our new problem solving stations and played some review games with classmates. We are really excited to dive into place value next week. ELA Gammas had a lot of laughs reviewing nouns, adjectives and verbs

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.

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