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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

Middle School: Week of Feb 10

Math: This week the Marionettes had lessons over exponents and operation properties. We also spent time practicing solving order of operations problems like a dorito. The Saplings jumped into surface area. They learned how to identify 3D shapes by their nets and how to find the surface area of prisms. The Vroomshrooms entered their polynomial unit. They can now identify types of polynomials, add and subtract polynomials, and multiply monomials by binomials and trinomials. ELA: On Monday we learned about prepositional phrases with a fun game called “Where’s the Bunny??” Students found the bunny on the globe, under the couch, […]

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Middle school students work at board at micro school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Feb 3

Is that a Wyatt or is it a beaver? This week… In our study of Texas Regions we turned back from the deserts and mountains of the West, back across the Great plains, Hill country, and Blackland prairies to arrive in East Texas where we discovered…woods! Piney woods! In this primarily flat land of nutrient-filled soil from eons of flooding and receding waters, we find an ecosystem filled with trees, rivers, and thousands of oxbow lakes. This rich landscape supports a huge variety of flora and fauna. Creatures we haven’t met in other regions live there such as alligators, beavers,

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Kindergarten project on display at STEM private school in Austin.

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