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4th/5th: Week of 9/9

General News ELA Update This was an extra fun week in ELA! In addition to our usual Monday P&P recap and literature discussion circle, we also split our time between persuasive writing about the benefits of spending time in nature and crafting hornbooks (like the kind Kit gives to Prudence to teach her how to read in our book). A classic Puritan hornbook is very simple and no frills – not very fun to craft – so many chose to make fancy ones that would have been more likely to be owned by wealthy Loyalists or people living in England. […]

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Fifth grader presents with fourth grader at school with mixed ages.

Middle School: Week of 9/9

Math: Marionettes completed their first check-in on Monday and then continued onto their next unit: Positive Rational Numbers! They completed 4 lessons in two days over adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals. Wednesday was a particularly impressive day. All Marionettes worked diligently on long dividing decimals. I was so proud they earned Division Champ badges! On Thursday, they made a graphic organizer to remember the different rules for each operation and started an error analysis. They will finish finding the mistakes in pretend student work next week. The Saplings reviewed for their check in on Monday and Tuesday and took

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Head of private school in Austin looks over shoulders of sixth graders working on computers.

Middle School: Week of 9/2

Math: The Marionettes started the week with a cut and paste activity to help practice the difference between opposites and an absolute value. That was their final topic for this unit, so they moved onto a review packet and then a final project. The final project involved making a timeline of their life with the year they were born being year zero. The Saplings extended their rational number operations to multiplying and dividing. They started with multiplying and dividing integers, then moved onto fractions and decimals. They ended the week by finding errors in pretend student’s work and correcting the

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Sixth grade girls work together at private middle school in Austin.

4th/5th: Week of 9/2

General News Operation Ms. Lorrie’s Birthday Surprise was a huge success! There were cookies, cupcakes, cards, and more! We worked in secret on an interactive writing exercise throughout the past two weeks during ELA class and presented her with a “spooky” and hilarious story about sardines (complete with illustrations) during her “unbirthday” ceremony, as well as a framed poster that she loved. You can read the story here! ELA Update For a short week we sure packed a lot in! In addition to working on our interactive writing piece for Ms. Lorrie this week, we also worked on our class

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Fourth grade student works on computer at STEM school.

2nd/3rd: Week of 9/2

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group continued working on ordering numbers in the hundreds. We talked about the clues that help you find the bigger or smaller number (hint, hint: we used place value!). Then we reviewed tally marks and practiced making tallies for some numbers past 100! On Wednesday we tallied the classroom!! (Almost) EVERYTHING! On Thursday the Beta 1s did an excellent job of figuring out various skip count rules (ex: +2, +5 or +10) for many series of numbers and continued the pattern. Then, we played a new game called Fill to 100 that involved a spinner

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Third grade student tests static electricity at project based school.