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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

Middle School: Week of Mar 31

Math: The Marionettes took on inequalities this week. They learned how to solve for inequalities and how to graph solution sets. On Thursday they completed stations to review both equations and inequalities. The Saplings learned how to find the volume of both rectangular and triangular pyramids at the beginning of the week. They ended the week by starting Volumeville. In groups of 3, students are designing 3D buildings and calculating the total volume of the town. The Marionettes had lessons over graphing quadratics using vertex form and identifying transformations. They started a stained glass project which requires them to graph […]

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Middle school teacher leans over students to assist at STEM school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Mar 24

WELCOME TO Quarter 4 Alphas!!!! We came back from Spring break to discover that… Larry made a MESS of our traps – EVEN though he escaped, we made it tough enough that he lost a boot! AND he left a surprise for us in an empty Lucky Charms box… gold coins! Turns out they were the chocolate kind…he’s such a trickster!! (We had to figure out how many there were and how we could fairly divide them up!) In our Bigger Backyard…WHAT’S ABOVE US?! A shot of the troposphere from outer space… This week we talked about the troposphere –

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Kindergarten students give presentation at micro school.

2nd/3rd: Week of Mar 24

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group launched our unit on money & personal finance by taking a pre-test and being formally reintroduced to the penny and nickel. We practiced identifying the heads & tails sides of both coins, skip counting by 5s, counting combinations of pennies and nickels, sorting coins and learned a few new games. At the end of the week we practiced paying for items using a variety of combinations of pennies and nickels and held our first money game day! Ms. Kelly’s crew kicked off an exciting new unit—fractions! We started with the fundamentals: What exactly is

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Elementary student interacts with door at private school in Austin.

4th/5th: Week of Mar 24

General News We had a great first week back from a nice LONG break! The Gammas jumped back in wonderfully. Kids received their at-home Theme P&P project packet guide. (All the info is duplicated on Whippermathers.com if you would like to access directions/deadlines.) Each Monday, a small “chunk” of the project will be due. (We’re teaching some executive function skills along with studying the human body!) Next Monday, Gammas should have completed a snappy Google form to tell us their body systems preference. We’ll continue to scaffold the project week-by-week until kids bring home a poster to decorate to market

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Elementary student gives presentation at project based school.

Middle School: Week of Mar 24

Math: The Marionettes started their unit on equations this week working on solving one-step equations using inverse operations. The Saplings tackled volume. The Vroomshrooms began graphing quadratics. ELA: We welcomed Q4 with the ever-exciting unveiling of our new novels! 6th graders unwrapped The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm, while the 7th and 8th graders unwrapped The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly. Both these books tie right in to our theme of Organisms and Their Environments. Students learned to use bookmarks for jotting down quick notes and page numbers to use as references for future reading responses: plot

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Middle school students point to project work at STEM school in Austin.