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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

K/1st: Week of Feb 24

This week in Alpha! Wyatt wows Alphas with another amazing feat of magic! As we approach the end of our third quarter, our class time is filled with review, wrap-up, and assessment conferences with individual students. It’s a busy time, and we have little patience for the high-jinks of Larry the Leprechaun. Thank you to our families for the cardboard donations—we look forward to using our 3D skills to build traps to catch the mischief-maker! In our Bigger Backyard… This week, we learned about the original inhabitants of the coastal plains through the perspective of a European explorer who made […]

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Kindergarten student draws 3d figures at private school in Austin.

2nd/3rd: Week of Feb 24

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group is wrapping up their geometry unit by partitioning shapes into equal parts. This lead us into an introduction of fractions – primarily halves and fourths. We started with the basics, fairly sharing cookies, a sandwich and pizza. At the end of the week we learned the terms numerator and denominator and practiced counting sets objects, coloring a “special” # of them, and turning that into a fraction. Ms. Kelly’s crew tackled the challenge of finding the area AND perimeter of rectilinear shapes with missing sides—no easy task, but they rose to the occasion! Their

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Elementary students read together at GT school.

4th/5th: Week of Feb 24

General News The final part of their Theme project is due this Monday, March 3rd. We will start presenting our speeches and visual art creations. Get ready for a Gamma Soul Food Potluck on Wednesday, March 5th. Details can be found on this flier and we’ll offer this sign-up sheet so others can get a feel for your offering. We’d love to have your participation, but know that bringing a dish is optional. If you can bring one, great! (Don’t forget an ingredient card!) Don’t forget about these awesome events coming up at the Haskell house! Check out this document

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Elementary student paints history at project based school in Austin.

Middle School: Week of Feb 24

Math: All classes are wrapping up units for the quarter this week. The Marionettes worked on a review Monday and Tuesday and took their check-in Wednesday. Thursday they started a research project to finish out the quarter. The Saplings finished up their robots all week and took their check-in on Thursday. The Vroomshrooms learned how to factor. This included factoring out the gcf, factoring by grouping, factoring trinomials using the AC method, and factoring a difference of squares. Their check-in will be Tuesday. ELA: Everyone (including the teacher) returned on Monday eager to discuss the ending of Animal Farm! We

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Middle school student paints egg at STEM school.

K/1st: Week of Feb 10

This week in Alpha! Why AHB? WE LOVE that we can be ourselves – even with Middle Schoolers & we LOVED having your help making our friendship keychains (L-R) Yuki, Nicolle, Pippin, Willow, & Scarlet! Larry the Leprechaun struck twice this week: He switched out of book baskets AND he mixed up our table team supplies! The teachers said if he does ONE MORE THING we might have to make Larry Traps to teach that mischief-maker a lesson! In our Bigger Backyard… Alphas learned that Paleo-Indians in east Texas discovered as they followed their food throughout the year, that the

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Kindergarten map at project based school.