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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

K/1st: Week of Oct 20

Compasses are cool… What’s Around Me? This week, we reviewed what’s inside us and what we, and all humans, need to thrive. Alphas learned that we are going to explore many regions across our continent of North America to learn about their resources and how people use them. We learned that ancient humans hunted and gathered their food – the technology they had came from the sun – it always came up from the same direction. The word “East” comes from an old word for dawn. The word “North” comes from an old word for “the left!” Alphas discovered that […]

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Kindergarten student paints geography at project based school.

7th/8th: Week of Sept 29

This week we brought back an AHB middle school tradition where each class has a class name! The 7th graders will now be called the Meatballs and the 8th graders will now be called the Oaks. Math: This week the Meatballs reviewed for and then took a check-in over solving equations. They ended the week with lessons over solving inequalities. The 8th grade Oaks practiced and reviewed all week for their upcoming check-in over solving equations. One practice sheet was dedicated to Eric because every answer was 6, 7, 67, 6.7, or 6/7. The Algebra Oaks learned point-slope form and

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Middle school students discuss book at gifted school in Austin.

5th/6th: Week of Sept 29

General News We are wrapping up end-of-quarter projects in all content areas. Please check your email if you want detailed information about project requirements and due dates! We are missing parent survey responses for HALF of the class! Please be sure to fill out this snappy form so we can better understand your conference needs! (Our conference scheduling is a little more complex this year so we appreciate your feedback so we can plan.) Here is the link to the conference sigh-up sheet if you need to check/change/add your time! Reading/Writing Update This week we continued to make progress with

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Four middle school girls work on clay project at school with small classes.

3rd/4th: Week of Sept 29

Lots of epic things were happening in Gammaland this week including a Viking raid! We are looking forward to a strong finish to quarter 1 and our celebration next Thursday. We are proud of our Gammas for how hard they have worked this quarter, and we are so grateful for your support! Math We are learning about multiplication. Gamma one learned that it is repeated addition and practiced setting up multiplication equations based on equal groups. Gamma two is moving on into two digit by two digit multiplication using several strategies including partial products and the standard algorithm. Memorizing the

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Elementary students paint at school with small classes.

2nd: Week of Sept 29

We are closing in on Quarter 1! In math we continue to compose, decompose, and compare numbers to the thousandth place. Next week will be a mix of skip counting practice, game days to reinforce place value concepts, and our second unit assessment! Here we come!! It was a busy week in phonics this week! We learned about twin letters: consonants that are doubled following syllables with short vowel sounds. Which consonants should we double, you ask? Silly Zebras Love Fries (s, z, l, f). We also learned that if twin letters come after an “a,” the vowel sound is

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Elementary student points to white board at private school in Austin.