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7th/8th: Week of Jan 12

Math: This week the 7th graders practiced finding the area of a circle. They ended the week by designing rooms, calculating the square footage, and the area of the furniture inside their rooms. The 8th graders learned the angle-angle criterion and how to identify if triangles are similar. They practiced sorting triangles into similar and non-similar and with task cards reviewing the unit. Algebra students learned how to deal with negative exponents. They practiced the entire unit with a review game and a scavenger hunt. monomials. Humanities: It was a week filled with emotions as out our novel War Horse […]

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Middle school student looks at T-rex at micro school.

5th/6th: Week of Jan 12

General News We had a great (we mean capital G-R-E-A-T!!!) first week! Considering the amount of change we’ve all ingested, it was actually a freakishly wonderful first week. The honeymoon may end, but we said that the entire last year and it STILL continues. Thank you! Here’s a snippet from our first week’s student survey that will give you an idea of how the kids are feeling. (We’re off to a good start! ❤️) Reading/Writing Update Same as math, we didn’t have a ton of time devoted to structured ELA class this week as we were busy with community building

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Middle school students graph together at STEM school.

3rd/4th: Week of Jan 12

Quarter 3 is well underway and the Gammas are enjoying the beautiful weather at recess. We are looking forward to our many un-birthday and birthday celebrations that are coming up. Our class had a great start to cursive handwriting this week, and they are really getting it! Looking ahead, we will be entering the world of poetry. Gamma poets will be reading different types of poems and writing some of their own. Enjoy your four day weekend and see you Tuesday! Math Gamma 1’s composed and decomposed fractions this week looking at parts of a whole and fractional parts of

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Two elementary students work on Silk Road poster at project based school.

2nd: Week of Jan 12

Our time unit is wrapping up! The Betas have been working SO hard at telling time to the exact minute! They’ve just about got it. Next week we’ll wrap it up and begin our unit on measurement! ELA Everyone has begun a new book for Book Clubs this week! The current line up includes: Here’s Hank, Ralph S. Mouse and Frog & Toad. I’m so proud of this batch of burgeoning readers! In phonics this week we studied spellings of the long u sound (both /yoo/ and /oo/): u, u_e, ue, and ew and ow. Our sight words were: move,

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Two elementary boys sit beside each other and write at school with small classes.

K/1st: Week of Jan 12

CJ meeting one of the hermit crabs! Our foster pets for the week (thank you Ezra!) Water, water, everywhere… This week, we investigated what many rocky seashores offer…shelter and food for some of the world’s most adaptable creatures in the intertidal zones. (oh! how we wish we had tidal pools to explore in our neighborhood!) The ecosystem hangs on for dear life as the tides ebb and flow….and what creates tides? Small but mighty, the pull of the moon’s gravity creates 2 high tides and 2 low tides on earth each day. Even more so, twice a year the sun’s

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Kindergarten student displays writing at private school in Austin.