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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

K/1st: Week of Oct 27

Happy Halloween Everybody! What’s Around Me? This week, Alphas learned that it took humans hundreds of thousands of years to get to North America. They traveled on foot following food. We laid out 10 rulers. Each inch represents 100 years. The first pencil marks where we are today…the second marks 1925…the screwdriver marks 1825…the final pencil marks when the first Europeans landed in the Southwest. The other 9 and a half rulers (or 11,400 years), North America was inhabited by the ancestors of the PaleoIndians who arrived during the Ice Age. Alphas knew that humans, as well as all living […]

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Middle school students work with kindergarten student at halloween carnival at micro school in Austin.

7th/8th: Week of Oct 20

Math: The Meatballs started proportions this week. They had a review lesson on solving proportions Tuesday and started a project Wednesday and Thursday. First we read If You Hopped Like a Frog by David M Schwartz. This book had comparisons like, if you scurried like a spider you could run a football field in 2 seconds. We used those ratios and our body measurements to solve how far we could scurry. The 8th grade class learned functions are like vending machines on Tuesday and had lessons over slope on Wednesday and Thursday. They can now identify the slope of a

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Middle school students play in gym at school with small class sizes.

5th/6th: Week of Oct 20

General News We are so happy to be back together again! Conferences have been delightful and we look forward to more tomorrow! We got into the groove of Q2 together quickly this week! We’ve started preparing for the Halloween carnival next week – upper school is in charge of making games and activities for the lower school! The Deltas are delighted to be taking on a leadership role in the school. Reading/Writing Update This week we jumped into a new unit. Delta students were offered two book options: The 14th Goldfish by Jennfer Holm or The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

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Science project on display at micro school.

3rd/4th: Week of Oct 20

We are so excited to have our Gammas back for quarter 2. They seem rested and ready to go! Although we are sad to leave the Vikings, our study of plants and animals is sure to be a lot of fun. We are looking forward to an amazing quarter! Math We kicked off this quarter by continuing our work on multiplication. The students enjoyed playing games to strengthen their skills this week . Gamma ones have been learning different ways to represent multiplication like arrays, area models and skip counting. Gamma twos have been honing our two by two digit

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Elementary students work with earth worms at private school in Austin.

2nd: Week of Oct 20

We kicked off our Addition & Subtraction Unit by learning about (and using snap cubes to create models of) fact families! We reviewed the commutative property of addition – it does not matter which addend comes first. We then used our sum to create matching subtraction sentences within the same fact family. On Thursday we worked so hard flipping addition problems to create groups of ten. 10 is such a friendly number to work with that once we formed a group of ten, adding the leftovers to it is easy peasy. In phonics this week we studied possessives. We learned

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Two elementary students display math work at STEM school.