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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

7th/8th: Week of Sept 15

Math: 7th graders took their first check in this week and spent time making corrections on those check ins. They ended the week with a lesson over simplifying expressions and combining like terms. The 8th graders tackled equations this week. They solved one, two and multiple step equations that included combining like terms before isolating the variable. The Algebra students reviewed for and took a check in over relations and functions. On Thursday they started their linear equations unit with a lesson over slope. Humanities: We are beginning to wind down our reading and examination of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire […]

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Middle school students sit around candle at school with small class size.

5th/6th: Week of Sept 15

General News We’ll be sending home unfinished theme art projects next week for P&P (with no packet to complete other than an interest survey regarding our end-of-quarter continental culture project!) Reading/Writing Update This week we chose our topics and began researching to write five paragraph essays about medieval Korea. The topics selected vary widely and these will be very fun to research, write, and share! Across the Delta room we are learning about the government of the Goryeo dynasty, social hierarchy during this time, festivals, religion, and, of course, celadon pottery. We started the week off with choosing our topic

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Middle school student wears head band at micro school in Austin.

3rd/4th: Week of Sept 15

This week we set sail on our Viking longships! Our Gammas are in full swing now and doing an amazing job. We feel like we are really getting to know them, and we are proud of how responsible they are with assignments keeping our classroom clean and organized. We had an action-packed week, and are looking forward to another great one! Math We practiced adding and subtracting large numbers using the standard algorithm as well as strip diagrams. We also learned to check our subtraction by using addition. ELA We taught our students the “five finger rule” to use when

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Elementary student holds cardboard tool at project based school.

2nd: Week of Sept 15

The Betas had a very full week! In math we began a new unit focusing on Place Value. We reviewed the importance of the placement of digits within a number and how it affects their value. These kids already know so much! When we finish our work early, we learn a new game to play to help reinforce skills. This week we used base ten blocks often to build numbers, so that the Betas have a good, concrete understanding of the quantities that various numbers represent. In phonics this week we reviewed blends commonly found at the end of words

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Elementary student reads comfortably on floor at private school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Sept 15

“What’s Inside Me” this week?… MY CIRCULATORY SYSTEM! This week, Alphas knew that when they get a scrape or cut, blood comes out – and it’s red, and dries up, and new skin forms under the scab. We learned that blood is made up of a lot of things, like… …Water! Blood is mostly made out of water… …and plasma that’s full of nutrients… …and platelets that mend our skin when we get scrapes and cuts… …and white blood cells to hunt down germs and bacteria… …and red blood cells that carry oxygen!!! We documented our model-building activity, too! We

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Three kindergarten boys check out science project at STEM school.