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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

Middle School: Week of Apr 1

Math: Everyone spent Monday working on the Stock Market Game. The game only has two weeks left! Tuesday, Da Sprouts worked on review stations and Wednesday they started a review worksheet for their upcoming check in. Evershrooms started a surface area project to build foil robots. They will complete their robots after the Iowa Assessments. Polar Bears worked with dilations on coordinate planes on Tuesday. With transformation lessons complete, they worked at identifying different transformations given clues on Wednesday. Mountain Lizards learned how to solve quadratics using both the square root method and by completing the square. Thursday everyone watched […]

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Two sixth grade boys recreate eclipse using household goods at progressive private school in Austin.

4th/5th: Week of Apr 1

General News Reading/Writing Update On Monday we started the week off reviewing our at-home study guides and going over the new vocabulary and questions for this week. We then read chapter 5 all together and answered some response questions and had a lively class discussion. On Tuesday we learned all about present-day Nigeria so that we can better compare and contrast the fantasy Nigeria from the book and modern day Nigeria. We learned about Nigeria’s economy, government, and farming and agriculture. We also got to use Google Earth to walk around Lagos (where Onyeka is headed in the book). On

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Fifth grade students work together at table at project based school.

2nd/3rd: Week of Apr 1

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group launched our unit on money this week! We reviewed penny, nickel and dime values, examined their physical attributes, then practiced identifying heads and tails of each. We practiced counting them and learned 2 new math games! The Beta’s are doing a great job of recalling coin facts and the practice of counting mixed coins is proving beneficial. Ms. Kelly’s math group began perimeter on Monday! Perimeter is the distance around the outside of a shape. For example, if you walk around the edge of a playground, you’re measuring its perimeter. Area is the amount

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Second grader holds language arts assignment at alternative school.

K/1st: Week of Apr 1

Our Song and Poem Leader helping us singing-to-read… Around the World in 60 Days… This week we learned about the continent we live on: North America! Alphas remembered the mountains and plains in the USA, but they learned that when the first people arrived on this continent 30,000 years ago – they didn’t cross through Canada down to Mexico – it was all just one great undivided continent. The Mountains in the west actually continue past our borders, as do our great plains. We noticed that most of our country lies within the temperate zone, whereas, most of Canada is

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Two students work together on art project at private kindergarten in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Mar 25

Larry was here… and we must have nearly caught him because he was so hurried he lost one of his shoes and some of his gold! Ms. Eliza was a little disappointed when we discovered it wasn’t real gold, but chocolate instead. We all agreed it was a great treasure nonetheless! This week Around the World in 60 Days… We found out that it was just 60 years ago that humans saw the earth from space in photographs taken by astronauts. It gave us a whole different perspective of the land and oceans we all share. We learned some of

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Four kindergarten students water paint at project based school in Austin.