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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

K/1st: Week of Nov 10

Welcome to the stage of Influence! “Influence” is the second stage of group development. We know we’re there when students’ sense of safety and trust in their peers allows them to contribute more and more to the group. This includes disagreeing with one another, which naturally leads to conflict. During this stage, our focus as teachers is on supporting students’ sense of worth and agency. We work on identifying triggers and guiding students to treat them as cues for curiosity rather than moments to react harshly. For example: “When something doesn’t feel right, before getting angry, check with your friend […]

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Kindergarten students play tether ball together at private school in Austin.

7th/8th: Week of Nov 3

Math: The Meatballs tackled measurement conversions and percents this week. The 8th grade class continued to work with slope-intercept form. They had lessons on multiple representations where they wrote verbal descriptions, equations, tables, and graphs of linear functions. The Algebra class had a check in over direct and inverse variation on Monday then jumped into the system of equations unit. They can solve systems of equations by graphing and substitution. Next week we will cover the elimination method. Humanities: Our Humanities topic of Short Stories is getting longer! This week, we continued our look at the topic by reading stories

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Middle school student uses microscope at micro school.

5th/6th: Week of Nov 3

General News We are wrapping up our outlines (due Monday) for Theme research on kids’ individualized self-selected history of the earth topic. Mr. Steve will be sending out a refresher video to help support kids as they learn how to make an outline. Reading/Writing Update Science meets storytelling! This week we worked on a really fun assignment! We continued our exploration of famous Earth scientists, but this time we added a creative fiction twist. After reading articles about modern-day scientists, students identified character traits, challenges, and moments of growth in their lives. We took a deep dive into Jane Goodall’s

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Middle school students work on computers at private school in Austin.

3rd/4th: Week of Nov 3

Wow! This week really flew by. These Gammas impress us every day with the knowledge they have and their eagerness to learn cool new things! Math Gamma ones wrapped up multiplication by solving and creating word problems. We will be setting our sights on division next week, but please keep working on memorizing those basic facts. In Gamma 2 we learned about factors and multiples and played “Factor Captor”. Our week was rounded out by learning the rules of divisibility which will help as we tackle long division. ELA This week Gammas read several fables and learned the characteristics of

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Elementary teacher works outdoors with group at school with small class sizes.

2nd: Week of Nov 3

This week in Math we learned many strategies for solving subtraction problems! Several carry over from our repertoire of addition strategies – such as fact families. We learned how to turn missing addend problems into subtraction problems and use tools like numberlines to help us find the difference between numbers. In phonics this week we learned exceptions to the closed syllable/short vowel rule. Specifically, we learned about word chunks: old, ost, olt, ild and ind. Let me tell you, these kids hit their Thursday dictation out of the park!! I am so proud of them. Our sight words were: both,

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Elementary student creates lever at STEM school in Austin.