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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

5th/6th: Week of Apr 6

General News Happiest of birthdays to 66% of our Delta team! : ) Thank you for the birthday love to Mr. Steve & Ms. Ansley. Special thanks to Meagan Noble and Navassa Hilbertz for whipping up many sweet treats so the Deltas/Episolons could celebrate together. Speaking of treats, next week is Iowa testing. We are looking for volunteers to provide snacks and/or “work the booth” for a short period on Monday – Wednesday. Those of you with STAAR PTSD, please note that this is a much more casual affair (shorter testing windows, shorter test, etc) We had a ‘bubble’ party to get the

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Two middle school students work at table at STEM school in Austin.

3rd/4th: Week of Apr 6

We appreciate  the interesting (clean)  trash donations and will be collecting for a few more days. Thank you if you’ve already donated.  The Gammas have been hard at work so far this quarter, and it is flying by….only 5 ½ weeks left! Math Geometry is going great in Gamma 2.  This week we reviewed  vocabulary and practiced finding the measurement of different types of angles.  We concluded our study of lines and angles with a fun “Alphabet Angle” project. Gamma 1’s refined their perimeter skills, including  finding the length of a missing side when given the perimeter of a shape.

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Elementary students work together at micro school.

2nd: Week of Apr 6

Math This week in math we were introduced to the half dollar. We also did a lot of counting of mixed coins and played a lot of games along the way. Next week we’ll wrap up our Money & Financial Literacy unit! ELA In phonics this week, we met the diphthong /ow/. Diphthongs are special types of sounds that glide from one vowel sound to another. The spelling patterns for /ow/ are: ou (cloud), and ow (howl). We had no sight words this week :) Another book club finished their novel – the Eerie Elementary group will be starting a new chapter

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Elementary students play in gym at private school.

K/1st: Week of Apr 6

YAY Division I is going to the tournament this weekend!  Not every Math Pentathlete will be able to go, but every member of Math Pentathlon practiced good gamesmanship and showed up each week to learn and have fun learning new strategies and games. We LOVE Math Pentathlon! Where in the World?! This week was full of fabulous guest speakers who educated Alpha students on our bordering countries – Mexico and Canada! First, we explored Mexican tradition by making cascarones (confetti eggs) with Ms. Emma’s step mom and assistance from dad. Step 1: Hollow out our shells…. Step 2: Add some

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Two kindergarten students make cascarones at project based school in Austin.

7th/8th: Week of Mar 30

Math: The 7th graders completed their unit on volume this week with a review and check-in. On Wednesday, they kicked off their probability unit with a game of Deal or No Deal. On Thursday, they had a lesson on simple probability and complements. The 8th-grade class practiced finding the volume of cylinders and cones with a scavenger hunt on Monday. They had a lesson on finding the volume of spheres on Tuesday. They worked as a class to play BINGO to practice finding the volume of spheres on Wednesday. Then, finally, on Thursday, they started their unit review. The Algebra

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Middle school students create planets at STEM school.