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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

3rd/4th: Week of Feb 23

Another successful week in the books for the Gammas. It’s great to be in the final stretch before spring break, and we are proud of our class for finishing strong. There is a lot of fun learning still happening as we end Q3 and begin the month of March. Watch for an email coming soon about signing up for optional spring conferences.  Math  Gamma 2’s were a bunch of smarties this week learning to  simplify fractions by finding the greatest common factor of the numerator and denominator.  I have been very impressed with their work ethic during the math lessons, and […]

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Two elementary students smile in corner at GT school.

2nd: Week of Feb 23

Math This week in math we wrapped up our study of shapes and moved on to fractions – cookie fractions, sandwich fractions and pizza fractions! We learned about halves, thirds, fourths and eighths, as well as equal parts (aka fair shares). We practiced identifying unequal parts, partitioning shapes into equal parts and even wrote fractions. These kids are sure picking things up quickly! ELA In phonics this week we began our study of Bossy R! We learned that when “r” comes after a vowel it changes the sound of the vowel. This week we learned that “ar” and “ar_e” spelling patterns

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Elementary student holds up work at school with small classes.

K/1st: Week of Feb 23

Larry Alert!!! Larry Alert!!! All week, Larry has bothered our classroom with his shenanigans. First, we were missing our table team supplies, then our lamps, then our peace corner pillows, and finally, OUR CHAIRS were switched with Betas’!!! We will DEFINITELY need to create some traps and need your help. Please drop off any recyclables you have to the Alpha classroom on Monday morning. For many years now, this Leprechaun has pestered our class during our 3rd quarter when we study Geometry – which is handy for us (the one, single convenient thing about this Leprechaun…), so we can justify building

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Kindergarten student poses happily at micro school.

7th/8th: Week of Feb 16

Math 7th graders continued the surface area unit with lessons over finding the surface area of triangular prisms and pyramids on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday they began building robots out of paper nets with the goal of calculating how much foil is needed to wrap the robot. The 8th graders worked on their study guide for the Pythagorean Theorem unit on Tuesday and Wednesday, and took their check-in on Thursday. The Algebra students had a lesson over dividing polynomials by monomials on Tuesday, then started factoring on Wednesday and Thursday. Factoring started with first factoring out the greatest common

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Middle school student paints at private school in Austin.

5th/6th: Week of Feb 16

General News We are in creative mode in Delta world! World religions projects, picture books, poetry and more! Ms. Lorrie had an “exciting” week and didn’t take any pictures for the newsletter. Forgive! Reading/Writing Update We started out our week going over our P&P from last week and having a lively discussion about the final sections we read from our novel Feathers. On Tuesday we took an end of unit quiz to check comprehension of overall plot points and themes in the novel – check your child’s P&P folder on Monday to see the results of this. We also had

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