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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

3rd/4th: Week of Feb 9

February is shaping up to be a busy and productive  month in our classroom! Students are  exploring the beauty of poetry and discovering real-world connections through geometry and fractions.  We celebrated Friendship Day with a fun class party and  appreciate our Gamma moms who helped make this happen.  We look forward to our Chinese New Year activities next Tuesday..  It’s been a wonderful blend of academics and celebrations! Math  Gamma ones have entered the realm of geometry, learning about two-dimensional shapes and their attributes. They’re learning lots of new geometry vocabulary, including polygon, angle, vertex, line segment, ray, etc…  Gamma […]

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Elementary student works on project at micro school in Austin.

2nd: Week of Feb 9

Math The Beta’s first week of geometry flew by! We reviewed 2D shapes by looking at many street signs. Next, we sorted shapes several ways, based on their attributes. We used our pattern blocks to create bigger shapes out of shapes and some really neat designs. Next week we’ll investigate each 3D solid shape and hunt for them in our environment. ELA In phonics this week we finished our studied prefixes: re (to do again), un (not), mis (to do incorrectly), dis (not or none) and pre (to do before). Our sight words were: across, again, another, animal, after and

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Elementary teacher knights student as part of project based learning.

7th/8th: Week of Feb 2

Math: This week the 7th finished their unit with lessons over similarity and reviewed the entire unit. The 8th grade class read What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras? by Julie Ellis to introduce them to the Pythagorean Theorem and had then lessons over it and its converse. They then started a poster to showcase the difference between the theorem and its converse. The Algebra class completed lessons over simplifying square roots, including monomials, on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday they completed the unit review, and on Thursday they worked on two extension assignments. The first assignment was a poster illustrating the product, power,

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Middle school students walk together on sidewalk at micro school in Austin.

5th/6th: Week of Feb 2

General News Friendship Day is coming up next week! See this list for class names. Remember, if you choose to bring in any Valentine cards you must bring one in for everyone in the class. We’ll do the traditional paper bag decorating and card exchange on Thursday of next week and decorate kindness rocks to place around the school. Whit (and his mom) are organizing a before-school coffee club! They plan to meet at Violent Crown Coffee some days before school and then the kiddos will walk to school together. Look for an email coming from Emily soon with more information

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Middle school student works with graphing paper at GT school in Austin

3rd/4th: Week of Feb 2

So many exciting things happened in our class this week.  It was nice to have a full week of school with our sweet Gammas.  We have been enjoying the nice weather at recess and are looking forward to a fun Friendship Day celebration next week.   Math  Gamma 1’s wrapped up our study of fractions.  We did a fun activity dividing paper cookies that showed us how fractions relate to division.   They really seemed to get it and did well on the fraction check-in.    Gamma 2’s reviewed all things decimal with a  Starbucks menu assignment and knocked the

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Two elementary students work together at project based school.