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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

4th/5th: Week of Mar 25

General News Reading/Writing Update This week in Gammaland we introduced our new novel Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun by Tọlá Okogwu. On Tuesday we started the week off with an introduction to the book by Tọlá Okogwu herself and read the author’s note to learn more about why she decided to write this book. We then read chapter 1 together as a class and had a discussion about the two main characters we know so far: Onyeka and Cheyenne. On Wednesday we explored our new novel study guide and the vocabulary work we will be doing through the […]

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Three fifth grade girls work together at private school.

Middle School: Week of Mar 25

Math: Everyone had Stock Market Game time on Tuesday since it had been two weeks without checking their portfolios. On Wednesday, Da Sprouts were introduced to inequalities and how to graph solution sets. Thursday they learned how to solve one step inequalities. Evershrooms jumped back into surface area by completing a lesson on finding the surface area of pyramids on Wednesday. Thursday they worked on surface area application problems. Polar Bears completed lessons over identifying transformations and working with dilations. Mountain Lizards worked on finding roots (or zeros or solutions or x-intercepts) of quadratics. Next they learned how to simplify

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Middle school student stands in front of renaissance drawing on board at microschool.

2nd/3rd: Week of Mar 4

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group talked about fractions & how we can divide plane shapes equally. We’re getting great at writing them, remembering that the bigger number always goes on the bottom. Ms. Kelly’s math group dove into the concept of area. We learned that area is the amount of space within a 2D shape. It is measured in square units, such as cm², m², etc. We practiced finding the area of a rectangle two ways- by tiling and by multiplying the length and the width. We also brought out the tiles to create some area models before jumping

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Second grader works on autobiography at GT private school.

2nd/3rd: Week of Feb 26

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group practiced sorting congruent and similar shapes. Then we dove into solid shapes and examined faces, vertices and edges. We also did a 3D shape mix and mingle to form groups and practiced counting solid shape attributes. The kids learned how to play 5 In A Row and it’s all about STRATEGY! And a little luck. We closed the week by finishing up some geometry work and practicing identifying 2D and 3D shapes. Ms. Kelly’s math group began a new unit on area and perimeter. This week is all about reviewing some basic geometry- What

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Second graders display work at project-based school.