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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

5th/6th: Week of Sept 29

General News We are wrapping up end-of-quarter projects in all content areas. Please check your email if you want detailed information about project requirements and due dates! We are missing parent survey responses for HALF of the class! Please be sure to fill out this snappy form so we can better understand your conference needs! (Our conference scheduling is a little more complex this year so we appreciate your feedback so we can plan.) Here is the link to the conference sigh-up sheet if you need to check/change/add your time! Reading/Writing Update This week we continued to make progress with […]

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Four middle school girls work on clay project at school with small classes.

3rd/4th: Week of Sept 29

Lots of epic things were happening in Gammaland this week including a Viking raid! We are looking forward to a strong finish to quarter 1 and our celebration next Thursday. We are proud of our Gammas for how hard they have worked this quarter, and we are so grateful for your support! Math We are learning about multiplication. Gamma one learned that it is repeated addition and practiced setting up multiplication equations based on equal groups. Gamma two is moving on into two digit by two digit multiplication using several strategies including partial products and the standard algorithm. Memorizing the

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Elementary students paint at school with small classes.

2nd: Week of Sept 29

We are closing in on Quarter 1! In math we continue to compose, decompose, and compare numbers to the thousandth place. Next week will be a mix of skip counting practice, game days to reinforce place value concepts, and our second unit assessment! Here we come!! It was a busy week in phonics this week! We learned about twin letters: consonants that are doubled following syllables with short vowel sounds. Which consonants should we double, you ask? Silly Zebras Love Fries (s, z, l, f). We also learned that if twin letters come after an “a,” the vowel sound is

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Elementary student points to white board at private school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Sept 29

This Week in Alpha “What’s Inside Me” this week? OUR Digestive System! Alphas knew that we feed our bodies with food, but the nutrients in an apple can’t feed our bodies until we break it down. Digestion is all about breaking down and absorbing. Breaking down begins in the mouth. We took a gander at our mouths to get a view of what’s going on in there… We spotted tongues, teeth, uvula… Alphas made a diagram of the anatomy of a mouth! We did a little experiment with pretzels. We pretended our fingers were “fingers” and broke the pretzels into

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Kindergarten student displays skeleton drawing at project based school.

7th/8th: Week of Sept 22

Math: 7th graders tackled two-step equations this week including equations involving integers and writing equations. The 8th grade took the week to learn and practice solving equations with variables on both sides. Algebra had lessons over slope-intercept form and standard form, x and y intercepts, and horizontal and vertical lines. Humanities: What an exciting week as students started the final section of their Uprising novels! The fire was raging, and the students started to evaluate the characters to begin the writing process for their final projects: writing literary essays. We began by looking at the effects of the strike in

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Middle school students work together on screen at project based school.