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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

7th/8th: Week of Jan 5

Math: The 7th graders jumped into their geometry unit this week. Monday, they had a lesson over complementary angles and supplementary angles, and learned the interior angles of a triangle have a sum of 180 degrees. That independent practice extended into Tuesday where they also practiced measuring and drawing angles with a protractor. On Wednesday we read Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi to learn pi is equal to the circumference divided by the diameter. We then used the number pi to calculate the circumference of circles. Thursday the completed a maze to practice finding circumference and then started […]

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Middle schooler works on project at school with small classes.

5th/6th: Week of Jan 5

General News See an important from Shari regarding new sign-out procedures for upper school students. Next week (Tuesday, January 13th) we will head to the Bob Bullock museum to experience our delayed field trip! We have plenty of drivers now (thank you!) Reading/Writing Update We will be incorporating the 5 major world religions into our reading and writing lives this quarter! We will read many different stories (mostly through the form of picture books) that include elements of these different religions before creating our own picture books towards the end of the quarter. Ms. Ansley’s friend from grad school actually

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Three middle schoolers present report at project based school.

3rd/4th: Week of Jan 5

It was wonderful to have the Gammas back this week. What a fantastic start to the new quarter! Even though we may have been a little tired, we really enjoyed jumping right back into the swing of things.. It was especially cool to see our little tadpoles growing their legs and our radishes getting bigger. We are excited for the new quarter and our new theme…Asia. Math Gamma 1’s dove into the world of fractions, learning to recognize fractional parts of a whole. Gamma 2’s jumped right into decimals…reading and writing decimal numbers to the hundredths place and representing decimal

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Three elementary students work on ELA at GT school.

2nd: Week of Jan 5

Math Q3 math kicked off with a pre-test (no stress!) for our next unit on time and measurement. After our first week back we’ve mastered telling time to “o’clock” and :30, next week we’ll work on solidifying: quarter past, quarter till, and beyond! ELA Book Clubs are charging ahead at full speed. All three groups will be starting a new novel within the next couple of weeks. I’m particularly impressed with the level of quality that I’m seeing in the Beta’s journals. In phonics this week we studied spellings of the long o sound: o, o_e, oa, oe and ow

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Two elementary students read together at private school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Jan 5

New Quarter, New Table Team! We have been sharing what skills and talents we bring to our new buddies, as well as things we like to do, want to do, and don’t like to do. We are figuring out how to take turns sharing fun and not-so-fun tasks, and how to remind each other of our responsibilities in ways that aren’t harsh or hurtful. What’s Around Me? What happens when we go from land in any direction? Eventually, we reach the ocean… WATER, Water Everywhere… This week, we “walked” to the Gulf of Mexico. The first thing we noticed was

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Two kindergarten students work together at micro school