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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

2nd/3rd: Week of Feb 3

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group wrapped up their unit on time & measurement by reviewing straight line measurements and the technique of “marking the spot!” We did some more measuring of large items in the room, this time in inches AND feet. Then we practiced converting our mixed measurements into just inches using vertical addition and regrouping skills from past units. We even had some time to break out our analog time games for a little bonus practice before we took our unit test on Thursday. Ms. Kelly’s math group attacked tough perimeter problems with missing sides, moved from […]

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Three elementary students point at board at micro school in Austin.

4th/5th: Week of Feb 3

General News ELA Update This week in ELA we started to spend more time diving into our novel. On Monday we went over P&P and got into small groups for discussion about our reading response questions. On Tuesday and Wednesday we explored figurative language and vocabulary from the novel. We learned about how to make an inference about the meaning of an unfamiliar vocabulary word through the equation of schema + context = inference. We did a little storytelling about times we were in a situation similar to characters in the book. We talked about our worst injury ever, a

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Elementary students walk outside at field trip at private school in Austin.

Middle School: Week of Feb 3

Math: The Marionettes had 3 lessons this week: expressions vs equations, exponents, and prime factorization. We also played I Have, Who Has, a matching card game, and exponent connect 4. On Wednesday, the Marionettes went to visit the Gammas 2s for Ms. Lorrie’s bottle flipping challenge. The Saplings worked on reviewing for their check in Monday through Wednesday. Thursday they started the check-in. The Vroomshrooms had lessons over simplifying square roots including square roots with variables. On Wednesday and Thursday they reviewed for their check-in on Monday. ELA: Students have spent the past four weeks reading class novels that tie

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Middle school student creates guillotine at project based school in Austin

K/1st: Week of Jan 27

Last week… WE explored the landscape and habitats west of the Great Plains and Panhandle. We found the Chihuahuan desert…home to many amazing creatures and cacti , the Davis and Chisos Mountain ranges with their juniper, small oak, and pinon trees, and Beautiful Big Bend National Park along the Rio Grande. We discovered that creatures adapt to their environments. Like the Kangaroo Rat that doesn’t drink water…it gets enough of it from it’s food AND it can kick a rattlesnake like nobody’s business! The javelina, a collard peccary whose favorite food is the prickly pear and guess what?! The cactus

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Kindergarten student plays on parachute at private elementary school.

2nd/3rd: Week of Jan 27

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group practiced estimating & measuring like crazy! We also had several discussions about measurement, how and why we do it and why accuracy is important. We looked at inches, feet and yards as well as centimeters and meters. Paxton chose to measure a popcorn kernel – that was the only time we delved into millimeters :) We measured some pretty large items by learning a new skill: “marking our spot” and there were calculations to be done – mostly inches into feet but also inches into centimeters! The Beta 1s practiced ordering sets of items

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Elementary teacher reads to students at project-based school.