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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

7th/8th: Week of Oct 20

Math: The Meatballs started proportions this week. They had a review lesson on solving proportions Tuesday and started a project Wednesday and Thursday. First we read If You Hopped Like a Frog by David M Schwartz. This book had comparisons like, if you scurried like a spider you could run a football field in 2 seconds. We used those ratios and our body measurements to solve how far we could scurry. The 8th grade class learned functions are like vending machines on Tuesday and had lessons over slope on Wednesday and Thursday. They can now identify the slope of a […]

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Middle school students play in gym at school with small class sizes.

5th/6th: Week of Oct 20

General News We are so happy to be back together again! Conferences have been delightful and we look forward to more tomorrow! We got into the groove of Q2 together quickly this week! We’ve started preparing for the Halloween carnival next week – upper school is in charge of making games and activities for the lower school! The Deltas are delighted to be taking on a leadership role in the school. Reading/Writing Update This week we jumped into a new unit. Delta students were offered two book options: The 14th Goldfish by Jennfer Holm or The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

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Science project on display at micro school.

3rd/4th: Week of Oct 20

We are so excited to have our Gammas back for quarter 2. They seem rested and ready to go! Although we are sad to leave the Vikings, our study of plants and animals is sure to be a lot of fun. We are looking forward to an amazing quarter! Math We kicked off this quarter by continuing our work on multiplication. The students enjoyed playing games to strengthen their skills this week . Gamma ones have been learning different ways to represent multiplication like arrays, area models and skip counting. Gamma twos have been honing our two by two digit

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Elementary students work with earth worms at private school in Austin.

2nd: Week of Oct 20

We kicked off our Addition & Subtraction Unit by learning about (and using snap cubes to create models of) fact families! We reviewed the commutative property of addition – it does not matter which addend comes first. We then used our sum to create matching subtraction sentences within the same fact family. On Thursday we worked so hard flipping addition problems to create groups of ten. 10 is such a friendly number to work with that once we formed a group of ten, adding the leftovers to it is easy peasy. In phonics this week we studied possessives. We learned

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Two elementary students display math work at STEM school.

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.