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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

K/1st: Week of Jan 8

Our penguins chillin’ in the Peace Corner Alphas started Q3 off with new table team goals for the New Year! We are learning how to take responsibility for our team-environments and our team relationships. We will be taking on daily team-jobs and learning how to recognize conflict and how to respectfully deal with it! Table teams deciding who’s responsible for daily table jobs including… Pencils, Cans on and off, Sweeper, and Spray and Scrub… Pao and Leo spraying down their tables… Water, Water Everywhere! This week Alphas reviewed the essential things all living things need: air, water, and food. They […]

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Kindergarten student looks through magnifying glass at progressive school.

2nd/3rd: Week of Jan 8

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group launched their time unit by creating a giant clock on the rug as well as their own clocks. We refreshed our memories of reading analog time by the half hour, quarter hour, counting by 5’s – down to the minute. We played partner games with dice and spinners for even more practice. Happy to report that it’s all coming back to us! This year we’ll focus on precision and tackle some more complicated story problems dealing with time. Ms. Kelly’s math group is wrapping up their multiplication strategies unit (Next week we begin division!)

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Second grade student practices physics concepts at STEM school.

4th/5th: Week of Jan 8

General News It was delightful to get the ol’ gang back together again following a nice, long break. We implemented a new routine to try: Tune-In and Tune-Out Tuesdays! During morning meeting, we’ll alternate between exploring an SEL power skill (Tune-IN! This week’s was “Be Kind to Your Mind!”) and musical performances (Tune-OUT! Kids can volunteer to play us a little diddy on Ms. Lorrie’s keyboard she purchased on impulse a month or so ago!) Reading/Writing Update Gammas came back from the break refreshed and ready to work hard! We needed to power through the final chapters of the The

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Fifth grade students study while laying on ground together at micro school.

Middle School: Week of Jan 8

Math: Da Sprouts started their new unit on percents this week. They learned a percent is always out of 100, how to model percents, and how to convert percents to fractions to decimals. As an extension activity students had to shade in a design on 9 different boxes only using red and blue. Once they had their design, they then had to estimate what percent of the box was red and what percent was blue. EverShrooms had lessons over the constant of proportionality, . They learned how to calculate from both tables and graphs. Polar Bears are learning all about

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Private middle school students collaborate while building car.

K/1st: Week of Dec 4

What’s Around Us?! This week in Alpha we learned more about Europeans that made first contact with indigenous people in North America. People have been living in North America between 13 and 40 THOUSAND years. The first Europeans to land on the continent were the Vikings and they got the idea to go west from stories they hears about strange fishermen in small seal skin boats landing in Ireland who indicated that they’d come from the WEST. The Vikings had the best technology for sailing so they set out about 1000 years ago and settled in Iceland, Greenland, and New

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Private kindergarten student proudly raises paper mache creation.