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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

5th/6th: Week of Apr 13

General News We made it through testing week! We then bid a temporary farewell to Ms. Lorrie on Thursday with a walk to Little Deli for pizza and to celebrate our hard work with the first round of testing. We know things won’t be the same around here without Ms. Lorrie, but are so happy we can support from afar by giving her the time to focus on healing after all she has done for us. Big thanks to Anne (Henry’s mom), Alexa (Andrew’s mom) and Christa (Stella’s mom) who singlehandedly took care of the entire pizza process–from ordering, paying […]

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Middle school student works on project at micro school.

3rd/4th: Week of Apr 13

Thank you for sending in all the cool trash.  We are excited to turn it into an artist creations next week.  Save the date and stay tuned for information about a May 5th field trip to Barton Springs.  Next Wednesday, we are going to combine with the Beta class for some fun Earth Day activities! Math Gamma twos put their geometry and measurement skills to work this week learning to identify types of triangles – equilateral, isosceles and scalene.  They will wrap up geometry next week learning about symmetry and reviewing categories of quadrilaterals.  Gamma ones learned about the difference

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Elementary students proudly display work at private school in Austin.

2nd: Week of Apr 13

Math This week in math we completed our money unit by playing lots of games and taking our post assessment! Next up is Graphs & Data. ELA In phonics this week we met the diphthong /aw/. Diphthongs are special types of sounds that glide from one vowel sound to another. The spelling patterns for /aw/ are: au (taut), and aw (paw). Our sight words were: think, thought and through. Another book club has finished their novel! TWO clubs will be starting new books on Monday!! Stay tuned… Theme Our insect fictional final drafts are almost complete! All we need to

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Elementary student labels parts of worm at STEM school.

K/1st: Week of Apr 13

Jon and his Hojalata self portrait… Where in the World?! This week we headed further south. We could see on our big wall map that we were in Equator-territory, once we made it to the continent of South America. All first year Alphas take a trip around the Sun when we learn about patterns and cycles like the seasons – but we reviewed it in order to see what happens to the seasons in the Southern hemisphere… Have Dolly, Will Orbit…Here we find our Earth (played by Max) heading into Spring, in the Northern Hemisphere, and Fall in the Southern.

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Kindergarten student works with dirt at half day school.

7th/8th: Week of Apr 6

Math This week 7th grade students had lessons over finding sample spaces, experimental probabilities, and making predictions from simulations. Additionally, they retook their volume check-in with partners and notes. This helped students find their mistakes and understand why they missed the problems they did on the check-in. The 8th graders took a check-in over volume on Monday then moved into their statistics unit. They worked on reading and creating scatter plots which included gathering data from their classmates. The Algebra class learned how to solve quadratic equations 3 ways: factoring, square root method, and completing the square. Next week they

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Middle school students work together at school with small classes.