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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

7th/8th: Week of Feb 23

Math 7th graders spent all week working on building cardstock robots out of nets and then calculating the surface area of each shape to determine how much foil they need to cover their robot. The 8th graders also jumped into surface area this week. They learned formulas to find the lateral and total surface area of prisms. The Algebra students finished learning how to factor. They can factor the GCF out of polynomials, factor by groups, factor trinomials using the AC method, and factor difference of squares. Humanities/Theme Epsilon students REALLY got the message this week as they jumped head […]

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Middle school student sits in cockpit at history museum on private school field trip.

5th/6th: Week of Feb 23

General News We will be out of the building traipsing around Austin on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week visiting houses of worship. We’ll be visiting a Buddhist temple, Hindu temple, and Catholic church on Tuesday. On Wednesday we’ll visit a Jewish synagogue and a Muslim mosque. The Hindu temple and Muslim mosque have requested “modest attire” (no bare shoulders or knees) so remember to wear long pants and your AHB t-shirts on both days. Reading/Writing We started out the week going over our homework (aka sharing our beautiful picture book creations). These students have gotten so good at giving positive,

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Two middle school students work at table together at project based school.

3rd/4th: Week of Feb 23

Another successful week in the books for the Gammas. It’s great to be in the final stretch before spring break, and we are proud of our class for finishing strong. There is a lot of fun learning still happening as we end Q3 and begin the month of March. Watch for an email coming soon about signing up for optional spring conferences.  Math  Gamma 2’s were a bunch of smarties this week learning to  simplify fractions by finding the greatest common factor of the numerator and denominator.  I have been very impressed with their work ethic during the math lessons, and

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Two elementary students smile in corner at GT school.

2nd: Week of Feb 23

Math This week in math we wrapped up our study of shapes and moved on to fractions – cookie fractions, sandwich fractions and pizza fractions! We learned about halves, thirds, fourths and eighths, as well as equal parts (aka fair shares). We practiced identifying unequal parts, partitioning shapes into equal parts and even wrote fractions. These kids are sure picking things up quickly! ELA In phonics this week we began our study of Bossy R! We learned that when “r” comes after a vowel it changes the sound of the vowel. This week we learned that “ar” and “ar_e” spelling patterns

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Elementary student holds up work at school with small classes.

K/1st: Week of Feb 23

Larry Alert!!! Larry Alert!!! All week, Larry has bothered our classroom with his shenanigans. First, we were missing our table team supplies, then our lamps, then our peace corner pillows, and finally, OUR CHAIRS were switched with Betas’!!! We will DEFINITELY need to create some traps and need your help. Please drop off any recyclables you have to the Alpha classroom on Monday morning. For many years now, this Leprechaun has pestered our class during our 3rd quarter when we study Geometry – which is handy for us (the one, single convenient thing about this Leprechaun…), so we can justify building

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Kindergarten student poses happily at micro school.