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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

7th/8th: Week of Sept 22

Math: 7th graders tackled two-step equations this week including equations involving integers and writing equations. The 8th grade took the week to learn and practice solving equations with variables on both sides. Algebra had lessons over slope-intercept form and standard form, x and y intercepts, and horizontal and vertical lines. Humanities: What an exciting week as students started the final section of their Uprising novels! The fire was raging, and the students started to evaluate the characters to begin the writing process for their final projects: writing literary essays. We began by looking at the effects of the strike in […]

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Middle school students work together on screen at project based school.

5th/6th: Week of Sept 22

General News The quarter is wrapping up quickly–we can hardly believe it! It is time to begin scheduling parent conferences (and also find out what you’d most like to discuss as conferences also zoom by quickly!) Since our school has grown, we’ll be hosting conferences on two days: Monday, October 20th and Friday, October 24th. Please take a moment to fill out this brief survey and then head to this link to sign-up for a conference slot. Be sure to sign up for a time with the teacher(s) whose content area(s) most match your preferred conference focus. Thank you! Big

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Middle school students learn comfortably on sofa at school with small classes in Austin.

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.