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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

3rd/4th: Week of Sept 22

Ahoy, crew! This week we officially launched our Viking longships and rowed into new learning adventures. Our fearless Gammas are absolutely rocking it. They’ve shown some serious leadership, keeping their learning space shipshape and staying on top of their tasks. We can’t wait to see where our Viking journey takes us next week. Full speed ahead! Math This week’s focus was all about solving word problems involving addition and subtraction of larger numbers. We practiced a strategy called UPSC (Understand, Plan, Solve, Check) to help students make sense of one and two step story problems. We also reviewed the algorithm […]

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Two elementary students work together at micro school.

2nd: Week of Sept 22

What a week! In math we are deep into our unit on Place Value. We’ve been representing and comparing numbers in the thousands! We’re also pushing our skip counting skills to their limits and extending them. Along the way we’ve been learning new math games and enjoying playing them with friends. In phonics this week we learned several letter combinations that create sounds that are GLUED together. That means we count them as 1 sound (ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk). We practiced building words, sounding out and spelling words with glued sounds, played a couple new games

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Elementary student molds clay at private school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Sept 22

“What’s Inside Me” this week? OUR MUSCLES! We learned that our muscles are always helping us out, whether we tell them to or not. One of our most important muscles is our HEART! This incredible muscle keeps our blood pumping all day and all night. Sometimes our heart works extra hard…like when we exercise! We used a stethoscope to listen to our hearts before and after running. Alpha students noticed a HUGE difference in the amount of beats. Before the exercise, some students could barely hear the beat, but after it, it sounded like their hearts might jump out of

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Kindergarten student uses stethoscope at STEM school.

7th/8th: Week of Sept 15

Math: 7th graders took their first check in this week and spent time making corrections on those check ins. They ended the week with a lesson over simplifying expressions and combining like terms. The 8th graders tackled equations this week. They solved one, two and multiple step equations that included combining like terms before isolating the variable. The Algebra students reviewed for and took a check in over relations and functions. On Thursday they started their linear equations unit with a lesson over slope. Humanities: We are beginning to wind down our reading and examination of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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Middle school students sit around candle at school with small class size.

5th/6th: Week of Sept 15

General News We’ll be sending home unfinished theme art projects next week for P&P (with no packet to complete other than an interest survey regarding our end-of-quarter continental culture project!) Reading/Writing Update This week we chose our topics and began researching to write five paragraph essays about medieval Korea. The topics selected vary widely and these will be very fun to research, write, and share! Across the Delta room we are learning about the government of the Goryeo dynasty, social hierarchy during this time, festivals, religion, and, of course, celadon pottery. We started the week off with choosing our topic

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Middle school student wears head band at micro school in Austin.