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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

3rd/4th: Week of Sept 1

Heil og sæl (to your health and happiness) dear Gamma families! What a lot of learning we squeezed into this short week. Even as we’re learning about reading, math, writing, and the Vikings, the Gammas are gaining valuable knowledge about compromise and working in teams–from deciding who will read first during book club to pitching in to clean up our classroom after building Viking longhouses together–everyone is a valuable member of our little community! Math We used our knowledge of place value to help us round numbers. ELA We continued studying character traits, conflict, and reaction/resolution to conflict by reading […]

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Two girls work together at micro school in Austin.

2nd: Week of Sept 1

The Betas were very busy this week! In math, we practiced ordering large numbers – in the hundreds! We also spent a day reviewing tally marks and tallied almost the entire classroom! Finally, at the end of the week we tackled identifying patterns in a series of numbers, using the pattern to determine a skip count rule, and using the rule to continue the series of numbers. It’s tricky stuff but the Betas did great! In phonics this week we reviewed blends that begin with /s/ or contain /l/. We played two new games – one to boost fluency and

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Student displays math work at STEM school

K/1st: Week of Sept 1

Our BRAIN is “What’s Inside Me” AGAIN this week… This week, we learned a lot about our neocortex! Alphas learned that one of the memories that stays with us the longest – stored in our temporal lobes – is our sense of smell. We told stories about a memory triggered by a scent from our sniffer-work. Alphas used their occipital lobes to sort objects by discrete attributes…and we used our frontal lobes to pay close attention to different tasks, like listening, or looking carefully! Alphas used their parietal lobes to adjust their body movements to be successful with a task!

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Two girls work together on rug at private school in Austin.

7th/8th: Week of Aug 25

Math: 7th graders added and subtracted rational numbers this week and started on their collaborative mural. 8th graders learned this difference between a rational and irrational number as well as practiced classifying numbers into sets. Algebra finished their first unit with infinite and no solution equations, proportions, and literal equations. The Algebra check in will be Tuesday! ELA: Our readers took a deep dive into our novel, Uprising, as we continued our journey into the immigration movement of the industrial age. Students journaled about their favorite characters and why they may have immigrated, reacting to the quote “No one leaves

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Middle school students celebrate at part time school.

5th/6th: Week of Aug 25

General News We’re all still adjusting to the new schedule of upper school! This week we added in flex time, where the kiddos rotate through the upper school teachers after lunch for different short blocks where they play math games, learn technology skills, and talk about social emotional learning topics. We have a new Delta joining our school family next week! Welcome Lia to the year 2 group! Reading/Writing Update This week in ELA we introduced a new method of going over our homework where we check everything together in class. The kiddos seemed to really enjoy this! Though time

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Two middle school students work on number line together at STEM school in Austin.