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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

5th/6th: Week of May 11

General News We look forward to fun next with POP, talent shown, and graduation! ELA This week we discussed our final chapter in a Rover’s Story and completed our check-in on the book with a few multiple choice, short answer, and long answer questions. This was a good chance to also check in about writing in more formal, complete sentences – which was a big part of our P&P this quarter. After we did our check-in we had time to finish up our Rover’s Story comics. We also wrote interview questions for Resilience and acted them out together. Everyone got to ask their […]

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Middle school student explains to other students at project based school.

3rd/4th: Week of May 11

The final countdown is on!  We are in the home stretch, and the excitement is REAL! The Gammas are busy wrapping up units and assignments and look forward to a fun week next week! Math Gamma twos are completing their final math unit on area and perimeter by creating a blueprint for a zoo! It’s been fun to watch them apply their math skills in a real life way!  Gamma ones had a blast this week surveying  AHB students and creating graphs to display the data. ELA Persuasive essays are almost complete!  It’s so impressive to see how much they

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Elementary student interviews middle schooler at micro school.

2nd: Week of May 11

Math This week, the Betas completed their multiplication post-test and end-of-year exam! These guys nailed multiplication and showed so much tenacity throughout! ELA We finished off phonics with… assessments! After that we teamed up to perform partner plays (a sneaky way to work on reading fluency ;) – and so entertaining! I’m so proud of their growth this year!  With writing projects finished, we continue to pursue poetry. This week we tried our hand at writing Triplet and Season style poems. Theme Two Hives was awesome! A bit muddy but we made seed bombs, tasted Fall & Spring samples of

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Elementary student wears beekeeper outfit at experiential school.

K/1st: Week of May 11

Joe McDermott in Concert! Where in the World?! Thanks for bearing with us as we careen to the close of the year- we are assessing, wrapping up projects, hanging art (and practicing volleyball for our challenge against the 8th graders this Monday – please light candles for us)! Even so, we managed to visit the continent down under and even got a fantastic glimpse of Australia’s neighbor, New Zealand! Alphas know that climate and resources affect the way people live. They know that the scarcer the resource, the more precious it becomes. We saw that Australia is mostly desert and

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Kindergarten students work together on geography at private school in Austin.

7th/8th: Week of May 4

Math The 7th graders are almost done! They had lessons over how to measure variability with the interquartile range and mean absolute deviation. They also had a lesson over comparing dot plots by finding the mean, median, IQR, and MAD. On Thursday they took time to organize their math binders in preparation for POP. The 8th grade class took their check-in on Monday then began their final unit, transformations. We went over 4 basic transformations, translation, reflection, rotation,and dilation, on Tuesday. Then on Wednesday and Thursday they practiced translations on a coordinated plane. The Algebra students had their check-in on

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Middle school students participate in on campus planetarium at private school in Austin.