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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

2nd/3rd: Week of Feb 12th

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group wrapped up measurement, reviewed telling time and took their unit test. Now we will begin geometry! Ms. Kelly’s math group will be wrapping up their division unit next week and are squeezing in just a bit more practice. It has been division work, multi-step word problem and multiplication fluency practice extravaganza all week! Literacy – In reading, book clubs continue to run smoothly- one group just began a new one- Bunnicula! Lots of word work is always happening, including contractions and syllabication this week, using our low tech “computers” to make words. We are […]

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Third grade student stands at board doing multiplication at school with small classes.

Middle School: Week of Feb 12th

Math: Da Sprouts jumped back into their expression unit. Monday they practiced finding the exponent form, expanded form, and standard form of numbers with a cut and paste matching activity. Tuesday they had a lesson over the distribution property and Wednesday they had a lesson over changing verbal descriptions into expression and equations. Thursday the group worked at stations to review the unit. Evershrooms continued with area this week. They learned how to find the area of parallelograms, triangles, trapezoids, and composite shapes. Thursday they started a performance task where each student has to design two rooms and make a

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Middle school student raises finger during theater performance at project based school.

2nd/3rd : Week of Feb 5th

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group measured big things by “marking the spot” that our ruler ends with a finger and lining it up again without leaving any space in between. We also had fun making lots of conversions, such as feet into yards. We had Word Problem Wednesday and solved measurement problems using open number lines in partners and presented our results. So proud of the level of communication and thought process developing in this crew. At the end of the week we discussed capacity and area. We studied polygons and determined their area, then made some of our

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Student displays writing at private school with small classes.

4th/5th : Week of Feb 5th

General News Reading/Writing Update Memoir (aka and personal narratives) is always a tough unit! Writing fictional narratives tends to come so easily but writing about your own life is not an easy ask for everyone! Gammas spent weeks powering through writer’s block and the challenges of this unit and this week finally got to dive into publishing and illustrating their books! Gammas used Canva to type up their books and map out the story page by page and then got to work creating illustrations. Some kiddos chose to use the AI illustration feature on canva to create the illustrations and

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Students work together to finish task at micro school in Austin.

Middle School: Week of Feb 5th

Math: Da Sprouts spent Monday and Tuesday reviewing for a check in they took on Wednesday. Evershrooms studied circumference and area on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday they were given 5 tasks to further explore circles and reinforce their understanding. Polar Bears had a lesson over the Pythagorean Theorem on Monday and practiced with a maze on Tuesday. Wednesday they learned how to determine if a triangle is a right triangle using the Pythagorean Theorem Converse. Da Sprouts, half the Evershrooms, and Polar Bears spent Thursday making binary Valentines. Mountain Lizards tackled factoring this week. First they factored out the

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Student assembles work at private middle school.