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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

7th/8th: Week of Oct 27

Math: The Meatballs finished up their poster projects on Monday and completed a puzzle to practice proportions. Tuesday we had a lesson on unit rates. Wednesday we practiced more proportions with a train puzzle and a scavenger hunt. Thursday, for Halloween, we created Halloween scenes that needed to include various geometric shapes and definitions. The 8th grade students practiced finding slopes from graphs and given two points on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday they had a lesson on graphing linear equations in slope-intercept form. On Thursday they graphed linear equations that made the shape of a spider web! The Algebra students […]

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Middle schoolers jump rope at private school.

5th/6th: Week of Oct 27

General News The Halloween carnival was such a hit! The Deltas got some first hand experience hosting (and wrangling) the younger kids. It was a beautiful act of service for building community and fun was had by all! We also got to spend some time in the library and lounge downstairs for our new monthly tradition: Lit. Lounge! We enjoyed cider, hot chocolate, or peppermint tea, learned about the new library system, and got to check out some leisure reading books! We look forward to doing it again next month! Reading/Writing Update This week in class, we focused on character

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Middle school students work together at project based school.

3rd/4th: Week of Oct 27

Worms, radishes, tadpoles…oh my! Our classroom is teeming with life! What a fun week for our Gammas. We have worn many hats these past few days: gardeners, actors, and scientists. To top it all off, we enjoyed an exciting Halloween fair and parade on Thursday. It was so fun to see the cool and creative costumes. Math In Gamma 1 we played games to strengthen our knowledge of basic multiplication facts, and then moved up to two by one digit multiplication. They are picking it up quickly! In Gamma 2 we wrapped up our focus on multiplication by completing an

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Elementary students look at science project on window at STEM school.

2nd: Week of Oct 27

This week in Math we focused on strategies that we can use when adding numbers. After reviewing “Friends of 10” and the zero rule, we moved on to doubles and doubles +1. The aim is twofold: for Betas to understand the relationships between numbers in fact families and to develop fact fluency with addition and subtraction facts to 20 so that they don’t have to exhaust their brainpower solving smaller problems. Soon, we’ll learn to solve more complex problems and it will be beneficial for students to be able to draw on their fact knowledge or use mental math. In

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Three elementary students pose for halloween picture at school with small class sizes.

K/1st: Week of Oct 27

Happy Halloween Everybody! What’s Around Me? This week, Alphas learned that it took humans hundreds of thousands of years to get to North America. They traveled on foot following food. We laid out 10 rulers. Each inch represents 100 years. The first pencil marks where we are today…the second marks 1925…the screwdriver marks 1825…the final pencil marks when the first Europeans landed in the Southwest. The other 9 and a half rulers (or 11,400 years), North America was inhabited by the ancestors of the PaleoIndians who arrived during the Ice Age. Alphas knew that humans, as well as all living

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Middle school students work with kindergarten student at halloween carnival at micro school in Austin.