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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

K/1st: Week of Apr 21

A twirling, swirling playground dance performance! In our Bigger Backyard…WHAT’S ABOVE US?! “Houston…we have lift-off!” Alphas explored our Moon this week. We learned that this amazing satellite inspired myths and legends around the globe, and we got to know a few of them! We learned a hypothesis about how some scientists believe the Moon was formed and how far away it is from Earth. We explored how falling objects might displace matter to see if it could shed some light on those circular pits we see on the face of the Moon. Our table team challenge was to create a […]

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Kindergarten student throws ball into sand at hands on school in Austin.

2nd/3rd: Week of Apr 21

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group is deep into our graphing unit! We made T charts for our favorite weekend day and types of weather in Austin per month. We also made a tally chart and practiced reading a pictograph in which one picture represented 2 students. Next, we shifted our focus to surveys. After learning what they are, the Betas polled their peers, recorded data and analyzed their results. We devoted time to analyzing various graphs and drawing all sorts of information from them. And, we learned LOTS of new graphing games! Ms. Kelly’s crew has been hard at

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Picture of elementary student in space at project based school.

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.

Middle School: Week of Apr 21

Math: This week the Marionettes explored and modeled the area of rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids. The Saplings focused on sample spaces, and experimental vs theoretical probability. The Vroomshrooms learned how to solve quadratics using the square root method and by completing the square. ELA: We started the week with discussions about our novels then hopped back into mood and tone. The middle schoolers are deepening their understanding of how writers make very specific word choices to build mood and evoke the readers’ emotions. We used a page of text from our novels (for Marionettes that’s The Fourteenth Goldfish and

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Middle school girl recites poetry before class at project based school.

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.