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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

5th/6th: Week of Nov 3

General News We are wrapping up our outlines (due Monday) for Theme research on kids’ individualized self-selected history of the earth topic. Mr. Steve will be sending out a refresher video to help support kids as they learn how to make an outline. Reading/Writing Update Science meets storytelling! This week we worked on a really fun assignment! We continued our exploration of famous Earth scientists, but this time we added a creative fiction twist. After reading articles about modern-day scientists, students identified character traits, challenges, and moments of growth in their lives. We took a deep dive into Jane Goodall’s […]

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Middle school students work on computers at private school in Austin.

3rd/4th: Week of Nov 3

Wow! This week really flew by. These Gammas impress us every day with the knowledge they have and their eagerness to learn cool new things! Math Gamma ones wrapped up multiplication by solving and creating word problems. We will be setting our sights on division next week, but please keep working on memorizing those basic facts. In Gamma 2 we learned about factors and multiples and played “Factor Captor”. Our week was rounded out by learning the rules of divisibility which will help as we tackle long division. ELA This week Gammas read several fables and learned the characteristics of

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Elementary teacher works outdoors with group at school with small class sizes.

2nd: Week of Nov 3

This week in Math we learned many strategies for solving subtraction problems! Several carry over from our repertoire of addition strategies – such as fact families. We learned how to turn missing addend problems into subtraction problems and use tools like numberlines to help us find the difference between numbers. In phonics this week we learned exceptions to the closed syllable/short vowel rule. Specifically, we learned about word chunks: old, ost, olt, ild and ind. Let me tell you, these kids hit their Thursday dictation out of the park!! I am so proud of them. Our sight words were: both,

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Elementary student creates lever at STEM school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Nov 3

Scarlet demonstrates what the CVC word “beg” means… What’s Around Me? This week, Alphas learned that one reason we have deserts across the globe has to do with mountains – like the ones in the Pacific Northwest! We call this phenomenon the shadow effect. Half the Alphas act out mountains and the other half use cottonballs-clouds to rain on the land… Most of the rain falls on this side of the mountains…the other side of the mountains doesn’t get much rain at all – which contributes to the desert region of the Southwest… A diagram of the “shadow effect…” We

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Two kindergarteners lay on paper at project based school.

7th/8th: Week of Oct 27

Math: The Meatballs finished up their poster projects on Monday and completed a puzzle to practice proportions. Tuesday we had a lesson on unit rates. Wednesday we practiced more proportions with a train puzzle and a scavenger hunt. Thursday, for Halloween, we created Halloween scenes that needed to include various geometric shapes and definitions. The 8th grade students practiced finding slopes from graphs and given two points on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday they had a lesson on graphing linear equations in slope-intercept form. On Thursday they graphed linear equations that made the shape of a spider web! The Algebra students

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Middle schoolers jump rope at private school.