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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

5th/6th: Week of Sept 8

General News Here is the presentation from parent night if you were not able to attend! TLDR, your kids are phenomenal, they are rocking this transition, we are giving them time to grow into new skill sets, and we love them! Reading/Writing Update Five paragraph essays seem intimidating at first but we tackled them this week and got into a great flow! Before we wrote a full on research essay we decided to take a step back and write 5 paragraph essays on topics we are already experts on. The topics were fun and light hearted: how to care for […]

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Middle school students make latitude at project based school.

3rd/4th: Week of Sept 8

What a week of exploration and fun we have had in the Gamma room! Our week included the perfect combination of working individually and with others to reach our learning goals. Our Gamma community is really coming together! Math We reviewed rounding and place value with an “Amazing Math Race.” Then we applied our rounding skills to estimating answers to real life math problems. ELA We learned about cause and effect relationships and applied them in reading about the very first vikings. Our book clubs are going strong and the students seem to be enjoying their novels. Theme We learned

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Two third grade boys study math together at STEM school.

2nd: Week of Sept 8

The Betas keep chugging along! In math, we wrapped up our first unit on Number Sense and did an amazing job on the unit test! We had a well-deserved game day in between. Next up on the math agenda: Place Value! We’re starting off the year by focusing on fundamental concepts to set us up for future success. In phonics this week we reviewed beginning blends (gr, dr, br, tr, cr, pr, fr), 3 letter blends (scr, spl, str, spr, squ), and diagraph blends (shr, thr) We played Tic Tac Toe (5 in a row) by reading words with blends

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Second grade students work together on assignment on playground at micro school.

K/1st: Week of Sept 8

A ferocious Dragon-Snowman-Robot! “What’s Inside Me” this week?…BONES! Alphas’ appreciation of their brains made them realize just how important it was to keep them safe and protected. Reeder even made a helmet for his Travel Buddy when he took it for a ride on his bike! We learned that our bodies come with some protection: bones. In our skeletal system, we have bones that protect and bones that provide structure. Protector bones are our “axial” bones because they are in line with the middle part of our body – like this axis the Earth spins on – Alphas pointed out

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Teacher works with kindergarten student and bread at private school in Austin.

5th/6th: Week of Sept 1

General News Thank you so much for your open feedback on our Parent Support Night survey. If you haven’t filled out it yet–please do ASAP! We’d really love to make your night with us super aligned with your needs and we can only do that well if you tell us what you’re thinking! It’s snappy–we promise! Mark your calendars! Parent Support Night is next Tuesday evening, starting with a parent social at 5:30. With all the changes, we’d really appreciate your participation, if at all possible. Thanks! Big welcome to Lia and family! We’re so excited to have you join

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Students work on geography at project-based school.