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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

K/1st: Week of Apr 15

Rainy days and Tuesdays, never get us down… Around the World in 60 Days… We headed to Europe this week! Visiting the second smallest continent we discovered that the Ural Mountains separate Europe from Asia. And as we detailed our own maps we saw that there are several seas with interesting names that surround a good part of the westward jutting peninsulas. Names such as Caspian Sea, Baltic Sea, Mediterranean Sea.. We listened to the story of The Littlest Matryoshka – all about the beautiful Big sister doll who carries her little sisters within her. We looked at what traditional, […]

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Private kindergarten student writes math on board at school with small class sizes.

2nd/3rd: Week of Apr 15

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group was formally introduced to our final coin: the half dollar. We practiced identifying and counting them, along with other coins. We learned several new money math games and had a couple of game days – always a hit! In between there was a lively discussion about spending vs saving and giving to charity. Midweek, our math minds went to work solving coin riddles and money word problems. We also made a simple bar graph showing the types of shoes we were wearing and used our data to draw conclusions about the most & least

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Second graders lay in reading corner at part time school.

4th/5th: Week of Apr 15

General News Reading/Writing Update We started the week off with a review of last weeks study guide again and read chapter 13 together. We had an interesting discussion about what Onyeka needs to do to learn to control her Ike that is different from what she has been doing most of her life; she needs to release, feel, and anchor her emotions instead of repress them! We also practiced summarizing events using first, next, then, last with some major events in the chapter. On Tuesday we revisited our super powers project by writing about our Academy of the Sun house

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Math teacher sits on floor at micro school in Austin.

Middle School: Week of Apr 15

Math: Monday, Da Sprouts solved a puzzle and a cut and paste matching exercise as final practice with solving inequalities. On Tuesday they completed the unit with a check in. Wednesday we moved into the geometry unit with a lesson teaching that every triangle’s angles add to 180 degrees. Finally Thursday, they started exploring area and how area of a rectangle can be used to find the area of triangles and parallelograms. Evershrooms finally got back to their robots and finished them this week. Polar Bears Started their surface area unit by learning the formula for finding the surface area

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Four students hold ball to learn about physics and STEM middle school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Apr 8

We learned how shoes can become handy dandy pencil holders… …and so can upper lips! Around the World in 60 Days… We celebrated the world’s fourth largest continent of South America by learning about some of its magnificent natural wonders, games children in South America play, and the special treat on Thursday of Gabriel’s mom, Laura, sharing what it was like growing up in Rio Grande do Sol region of Brazil. Laura brought with her a cup of traditional matte chimayo… She shared that gauchos and ranching are a large part of life in the southern part of Brazil, so

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Kindergarten student uses playing cards to learn math at STEM school.