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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

K/1st: Week of Sept 15

“What’s Inside Me” this week?… MY CIRCULATORY SYSTEM! This week, Alphas knew that when they get a scrape or cut, blood comes out – and it’s red, and dries up, and new skin forms under the scab. We learned that blood is made up of a lot of things, like… …Water! Blood is mostly made out of water… …and plasma that’s full of nutrients… …and platelets that mend our skin when we get scrapes and cuts… …and white blood cells to hunt down germs and bacteria… …and red blood cells that carry oxygen!!! We documented our model-building activity, too! We […]

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Three kindergarten boys check out science project at STEM school.

7th/8th: Week of Sept 8

Math: 7th Graders practiced operations with rational numbers all week. Monday they completed multiplication and division application problems. Tuesday they completed mazes to practice multiplication and division. Wednesday they completed a scavenger hunt for rational operations, and an error analysis where they had to find mistakes in pretend student’s work. Thursday they created their own rational operation problems given certain restraints. The 8th graders completed their unit study guide on Monday and Tuesday, so they could take their check on Wednesday. Thursday they began their linear equations unit with simplifying expressions. The Algebra students completed a pyramid puzzle on Monday

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Middle school teacher works with student at school with small class size.

5th/6th: Week of Sept 8

General News Here is the presentation from parent night if you were not able to attend! TLDR, your kids are phenomenal, they are rocking this transition, we are giving them time to grow into new skill sets, and we love them! Reading/Writing Update Five paragraph essays seem intimidating at first but we tackled them this week and got into a great flow! Before we wrote a full on research essay we decided to take a step back and write 5 paragraph essays on topics we are already experts on. The topics were fun and light hearted: how to care for

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Middle school students make latitude at project based school.

3rd/4th: Week of Sept 8

What a week of exploration and fun we have had in the Gamma room! Our week included the perfect combination of working individually and with others to reach our learning goals. Our Gamma community is really coming together! Math We reviewed rounding and place value with an “Amazing Math Race.” Then we applied our rounding skills to estimating answers to real life math problems. ELA We learned about cause and effect relationships and applied them in reading about the very first vikings. Our book clubs are going strong and the students seem to be enjoying their novels. Theme We learned

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Two third grade boys study math together at STEM school.

2nd: Week of Sept 8

The Betas keep chugging along! In math, we wrapped up our first unit on Number Sense and did an amazing job on the unit test! We had a well-deserved game day in between. Next up on the math agenda: Place Value! We’re starting off the year by focusing on fundamental concepts to set us up for future success. In phonics this week we reviewed beginning blends (gr, dr, br, tr, cr, pr, fr), 3 letter blends (scr, spl, str, spr, squ), and diagraph blends (shr, thr) We played Tic Tac Toe (5 in a row) by reading words with blends

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Second grade students work together on assignment on playground at micro school.