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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

5th/6th: Week of Aug 25

General News We’re all still adjusting to the new schedule of upper school! This week we added in flex time, where the kiddos rotate through the upper school teachers after lunch for different short blocks where they play math games, learn technology skills, and talk about social emotional learning topics. We have a new Delta joining our school family next week! Welcome Lia to the year 2 group! Reading/Writing Update This week in ELA we introduced a new method of going over our homework where we check everything together in class. The kiddos seemed to really enjoy this! Though time […]

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Two middle school students work on number line together at STEM school in Austin.

3rd/4th: Week of Aug 25

Góðan dag, Gammas! We are getting more and more comfortable with our classmates, routines, and expectations. We are building our Gamma community of learners where everyone feels safe and ready to take learning risks. This week we finalized and signed our Gamma Agreements and are ready to set sail for adventures in learning and friendship! Math We continued our study of place value in standard, word, and expanded form and started comparing and ordering numbers. Gamma 2’s also learned that each digit’s value is 10X more or less than its next door neighbor. ELA In reading we are still learning

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Display of small figurines at project based school.

2nd: Week of Aug 25

The Betas were very busy this week! In math, we continued our exploration of odd/even numbers and built the world’s tallest ice cream cone! It was filled with dozens of scoops featuring even & odd numbers. We also worked on ordering and comparing numbers using the symbols <, = and >. We played Mystery Number using clues like, “My number is greater than…” On our last day with the mystery bags we worked with a partner to count the number of items in several bags and record the number using digits and words. In phonics this week we reviewed digraphs.

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Two second grade girls work on assignment together at micro school.

K/1st: Week of Aug 25

Monday Gym offers a little sumpin’ for EVERYONE… Parents Please Note- No School on Monday! Our BRAIN is “What’s Inside Me” this week… This week, we explored some of the evolutionarily ancient parts of our brains: the parts that keep us alive, and parts that protect us and keep us safe, and the parts that help us learn. The medulla oblongata lives in the brainstem. Alphas knew that to stay alive, their bodies needed food, water, and most of all AIR. The medulla oblongata takes care of that, so our thinking-brain doesn’t have to remember to do those things! It

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Two kindergarteners inspect model brain at private school in Austin.

7th/8th: Week of Aug 18

Math: This was a wonderful first week! The 7th graders classified rational numbers on Tuesday and created their own nested diagrams. On Wednesday they reviewed how to add and subtract integers, and on Thursday they completed mazes and a solve and color to continue practicing. The 8th grade class reviewed how to convert between fractions and decimals on Tuesday, then dived into square roots. Wednesday they learned how to find the square root of perfect squares and on Thursday they learned how to estimate non-perfect square roots. The Algebra class jumped right in and covered four lessons this week: distribution,

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Two middle school girls work over candlelight at part time school.