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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

7th/8th: Week of Feb 2

Math: This week the 7th finished their unit with lessons over similarity and reviewed the entire unit. The 8th grade class read What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras? by Julie Ellis to introduce them to the Pythagorean Theorem and had then lessons over it and its converse. They then started a poster to showcase the difference between the theorem and its converse. The Algebra class completed lessons over simplifying square roots, including monomials, on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday they completed the unit review, and on Thursday they worked on two extension assignments. The first assignment was a poster illustrating the product, power, […]

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Middle school students walk together on sidewalk at micro school in Austin.

5th/6th: Week of Feb 2

General News Friendship Day is coming up next week! See this list for class names. Remember, if you choose to bring in any Valentine cards you must bring one in for everyone in the class. We’ll do the traditional paper bag decorating and card exchange on Thursday of next week and decorate kindness rocks to place around the school. Whit (and his mom) are organizing a before-school coffee club! They plan to meet at Violent Crown Coffee some days before school and then the kiddos will walk to school together. Look for an email coming from Emily soon with more information

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Middle school student works with graphing paper at GT school in Austin

3rd/4th: Week of Feb 2

So many exciting things happened in our class this week.  It was nice to have a full week of school with our sweet Gammas.  We have been enjoying the nice weather at recess and are looking forward to a fun Friendship Day celebration next week.   Math  Gamma 1’s wrapped up our study of fractions.  We did a fun activity dividing paper cookies that showed us how fractions relate to division.   They really seemed to get it and did well on the fraction check-in.    Gamma 2’s reviewed all things decimal with a  Starbucks menu assignment and knocked the

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Two elementary students work together at project based school.

2nd: Week of Feb 2

Math This week we completed our math unit on measurement & time! We also took a detour on Tuesday to focus our math minds on some logic puzzles and try our hand at writing story problems to match given answers. It took many attempts but we preserved – with creativity! ELA In Phonics this week we finished our study of the syllable: “consonant+le.” Our sight words were: answer, people, and sentence. Book clubs are charging ahead! Two clubs began new books this week! Our girl group is on their second book of Frog & Toad stories while the Here’s Hank

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Elementary student proudly displays outfit at project based school.

K/1st: Week of Feb 2

This Week in Alpha (Photo credit: Kristin Vrana, Ezra’s Mama!) Water, water, everywhere… Alphas continued their journey into the deep by admiring an incredible quality that many Twilight Zone creatures have: bioluminescence! We oohed and ahhed at their pulsating and flashing lights that they use to defend, mate, camouflage, and capture prey. Then, we used neon paints to create our own jelly fish, salps, vampire squid, ghost fish, and siphonophores, to name a few. Then we took an even deeper dive into the Aphotic Zone! We did a demonstration with salt water and flashlights to see for ourselves how light

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Kindergarten teacher demonstrates science at STEM school