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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

2nd: Week of Feb 16

Math Polygons! Quadrilaterals! Congruent vs similar shapes! This week we also investigated 3D solid figures, identifying their faces, edges and vertices. On Thursday we explored the hallways & gym on a 3D shape hunt! ELA In phonics this week we studied suffixes: er, est, full, less and ly. Our sight words were: become, before, behind, small, long and well. These kids have come so far this year – they are champions! Theme Book clubs are on a roll! Our Frog and Toad girls have finished their book. Meanwhile, the Here’s Hank and Ralph S. Mouse groups are reading their final chapters

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Three elementary students work under table at project based school.

K/1st: Week of Feb 16

Larry Alert!!! Larry Alert!!! We gave Larry back his boot — along with a lot of really kind notes of love and appreciation, and what does he do?  He hid all the composition books from Ms. Kim’s group and put all the math manipulatives into the Language Arts’ shelves, and all the handwriting and fine motor activities into the Math shelves … What are we going to do?! Water, water, everywhere… This week, we learned about whales! Thanks to Malin’s lovely Blue Whale, Alphas knew that they were not only the largest whale in the sea, but the largest animal

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Kindergarten student looks up from work at micro school.

7th/8th: Week of Feb 9

Math The 7th graders took their check-ins over the area and similarity unit on Monday and Tuesday. Students who finished early worked on completing and catching up on old projects. On Wednesday, they started the surface area unit with a lesson over nets. As a challenge problem students had to draw all 11 nets of a cube. Thursday they found the surface area of rectangular prisms. The 8th graders started applying the Pythagorean Theorem this week. They solved word problems on Monday and Tuesday, calculated diagonal lengths on a coordinate plane on Wednesday, and solved problems involving 3D figures on

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Middle schoolers work together at private school.

5th/6th: Week of Feb 9

General News Family Field Day is this Monday. Enjoy a day of learning with your family. Don’t forget about our World Religions field trip happening March 3rd and 4th! It’s going to be amazing! ELA On Monday of this week we had a lively discussion about our class novel. This story has been an interesting study in how the narrator explores her experience with religion, which you can see coming up in many of the picture books we’ve been creating. We are exploring many themes in our writing like acceptance, tolerance, self-discovery, as well as teaching about important holidays and

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Middle school student completes worksheet at school with small classes.

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.