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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

Middle School: Week of Feb 19

Math: Da Sprouts spent Tuesday and Wednesday reviewing their short unit over expressions. Evershrooms completed a performance task this week. They were tasked to design a scale model blueprint of two rooms in a home. Each room had special area requirements and the area of all furniture, round and rectangular, were measured. Polar Bears finished their last lesson on Pythagorean Theorem solving 3D application problems. Mountain Lizards spent the week trying to escape! Only one student has escaped so far. The rest will have one more day next week to try. Thursday “math block” was spent working in Stock Market […]

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Student at private middle school holds key to escape room.

K/1st: Week of 2/12

This week in Alpha… Alphas enjoying the movie Ezi made to cheer up our friend Anna when she was in hospital! Best medicine ever. This week in the Ocean… This week we learned how important the motion in the ocean is to the health of our planet and how global warming is putting that circulation in danger. If we put water in a tray, the water is very still – is the water at the shore still? Here’s how waves land on land – it doesn’t stay there, it moves back out, UNDER the swells! No Alphas were hurt in

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Kindergarten student at private elementary school displays math work.

K/1: Week of Feb 5th

HE’S BACK!!!!!!!! As you all are aware, we switched classrooms with the Gamma class this summer. What you MAY NOT know is that for YEARS, starting in February we have been pestered and tricked by a little Leprechuan who calls himself Larry. Last Monday, Larry made his first appearance in the new GAMMA room! Our our former Alphas knew that shamrock and wisely called a class meeting to kindly, but firmly redirect the mischief-maker to his proper domain. (…uh…thanks a LOT Gammas…) This week in the Ocean… We explored the deepest layer of the ocean: The Aphotic Zone! Ms. Kim

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Kindergarten student inspects leaf at STEM school.

2nd/3rd: Week of Feb 12th

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group wrapped up measurement, reviewed telling time and took their unit test. Now we will begin geometry! Ms. Kelly’s math group will be wrapping up their division unit next week and are squeezing in just a bit more practice. It has been division work, multi-step word problem and multiplication fluency practice extravaganza all week! Literacy – In reading, book clubs continue to run smoothly- one group just began a new one- Bunnicula! Lots of word work is always happening, including contractions and syllabication this week, using our low tech “computers” to make words. We are

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Third grade student stands at board doing multiplication at school with small classes.

Middle School: Week of Feb 12th

Math: Da Sprouts jumped back into their expression unit. Monday they practiced finding the exponent form, expanded form, and standard form of numbers with a cut and paste matching activity. Tuesday they had a lesson over the distribution property and Wednesday they had a lesson over changing verbal descriptions into expression and equations. Thursday the group worked at stations to review the unit. Evershrooms continued with area this week. They learned how to find the area of parallelograms, triangles, trapezoids, and composite shapes. Thursday they started a performance task where each student has to design two rooms and make a

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Middle school student raises finger during theater performance at project based school.