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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

5th/6th: Week of Mar 30

General News We had a fun week in Delta! We are moving through all of our new units with ease and curiosity! We also had a special “April Fool’s” cake on Wednesday, thanks to Daisy. If you were with us last year, you might remember our exquisitely pulled off prank cake from Apollo. Thank you, Daisy, for keeping the tradition alive with a positive twist! 😄 ELA This week in ELA was all about building a schema for Mars and the rovers we’ve sent there! On Monday, we went over P&P and introduced our new section of reading for the […]

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Middle school student works on computer at GT school.

3rd/4th: Week of Mar 30

Spring was in the air this week in the Gamma room, and April Fool’s Day was a lot of fun. Both Gamma math groups enjoyed outdoor learning this week in math, and our class garden is thriving! This quarter is off to a great start. Math Gamma ones figured out elapsed time using clocks and a number line strategy. They also started learning about perimeter. They applied it by measuring the perimeter of some of our playground areas in the AHB parking lot.  Gamma twos used their knowledge of lines and angles to design a robot with certain geometrical attributes.

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Two elementary students work together at micro school.

2nd: Week of Mar 30

Math This week in math we reviewed quarters, learned a new version of the Macarena (“25, 50, 75, $1”) and did a lot of counting of mixed coins. These Betas are doing a fantastic job with this complicated task. We also held a couple of discussions about wants vs needs and saving vs spending. ELA In phonics this week, we continued our study of Bossy R, focusing on how it affects the vowel u! The spelling patterns we learned this week were: ur, ur_e, and ure. They all say /er/ but ure can also sometimes say /yer/, as in “cure”

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Elementary student works with plants at project based school.

K/1st: Week of Mar 30

Popsicle party!!! Thanks to the donors who helped us meet our Bowl-a-thon fundraising goal!! Where in the World?! This week, we sailed around our very own continent of North America, noting the landforms like islands and lakes, isthmuses and straits, and peninsulas and bays. We noticed that of the three largest countries in North America, the United States occupies most of the temperate zone. Peninsula…bay… We spent a lot of time north of the U.S.A., learning about the land the earliest people found there — like the biggest waterfalls, rainforests, bays…Here’s a link to some of the slides we looked at

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Kindergarten student works on geography at private school in Austin.

7th/8th: Week of Mar 23

Math: This week was a busy one for the 7th graders. They covered finding the volume of rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, rectangular pyramids, and triangular pyramids. The 8th graders also started their volume unit with finding the volume of cylinders and cones. The Algebra students began their final unit. They learned how to graph quadratics in standard and vertex form. Humanities: A new quarter means new reading! On Tuesday the Epsilons jumped into a holdover from our look at the World Wars by starting The Diary of Anne Frank. They set up a stage in a spare room and took

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Middle school students work on science project at STEM school in Austin.