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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

7th/8th: Week of Feb 16

Math 7th graders continued the surface area unit with lessons over finding the surface area of triangular prisms and pyramids on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday they began building robots out of paper nets with the goal of calculating how much foil is needed to wrap the robot. The 8th graders worked on their study guide for the Pythagorean Theorem unit on Tuesday and Wednesday, and took their check-in on Thursday. The Algebra students had a lesson over dividing polynomials by monomials on Tuesday, then started factoring on Wednesday and Thursday. Factoring started with first factoring out the greatest common […]

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Middle school student paints at private school in Austin.

5th/6th: Week of Feb 16

General News We are in creative mode in Delta world! World religions projects, picture books, poetry and more! Ms. Lorrie had an “exciting” week and didn’t take any pictures for the newsletter. Forgive! Reading/Writing Update We started out our week going over our P&P from last week and having a lively discussion about the final sections we read from our novel Feathers. On Tuesday we took an end of unit quiz to check comprehension of overall plot points and themes in the novel – check your child’s P&P folder on Monday to see the results of this. We also had

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3rd/4th: Week of Feb 16

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” Even though it was a  short week, our classroom has been full of energy! Students loved exploring proverbs and learning about Confucious.   They had so much fun doing the  dragon dance in the AHB parking lot and learning about its cultural meaning.   Gaga ball has been a huge hit at recess, with students eagerly jumping into the pit for fast-paced fun.  What a great week! Math  All the Gammas explored problem solving about a real life scenario – planning a Lunar New Year party.  This was a great

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Elementary students perform at recess at school with small classes.

2nd: Week of Feb 16

Math Polygons! Quadrilaterals! Congruent vs similar shapes! This week we also investigated 3D solid figures, identifying their faces, edges and vertices. On Thursday we explored the hallways & gym on a 3D shape hunt! ELA In phonics this week we studied suffixes: er, est, full, less and ly. Our sight words were: become, before, behind, small, long and well. These kids have come so far this year – they are champions! Theme Book clubs are on a roll! Our Frog and Toad girls have finished their book. Meanwhile, the Here’s Hank and Ralph S. Mouse groups are reading their final chapters

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Three elementary students work under table at project based school.

K/1st: Week of Feb 16

Larry Alert!!! Larry Alert!!! We gave Larry back his boot — along with a lot of really kind notes of love and appreciation, and what does he do?  He hid all the composition books from Ms. Kim’s group and put all the math manipulatives into the Language Arts’ shelves, and all the handwriting and fine motor activities into the Math shelves … What are we going to do?! Water, water, everywhere… This week, we learned about whales! Thanks to Malin’s lovely Blue Whale, Alphas knew that they were not only the largest whale in the sea, but the largest animal

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Kindergarten student looks up from work at micro school.