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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

7th/8th: Week of Mar 23

Math: This week was a busy one for the 7th graders. They covered finding the volume of rectangular prisms, triangular prisms, rectangular pyramids, and triangular pyramids. The 8th graders also started their volume unit with finding the volume of cylinders and cones. The Algebra students began their final unit. They learned how to graph quadratics in standard and vertex form. Humanities: A new quarter means new reading! On Tuesday the Epsilons jumped into a holdover from our look at the World Wars by starting The Diary of Anne Frank. They set up a stage in a spare room and took […]

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Middle school students work on science project at STEM school in Austin.

3rd/4th: Week of Mar 23

It was a pleasure to have our Gammas return to class this week.  They enjoyed seeing  friends and sharing spring break experiences with each other.  We also eased right back into academics with some fun activities. This quarter is going to be so much fun! Math Gamma 1’s reviewed multiplication, division and problem solving by working on a math mystery.  We  also started off our measurement unit by practicing telling time on analog clocks.  Gamma 2’s reviewed fractions and dove right into geometry by learning the first of many vocabulary terms including point, line, plane, perpendicular, parallel and intersecting. ELA

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Elementary students read together at school with small classes.

2nd: Week of Mar 23

It’s been a wild week back in Beta!! Math This week in math we reviewed pennies, nickels and dimes. The Betas carefully examined the heads and tails sides of each coin and did a lot of skip counting by 5s! By the end of the week we were counting mixed coins and playing store. On Thursday we held a game day! ELA In phonics this week we continued our study of Bossy R, focusing on how it affects the vowel o! The spelling patterns we learned this week were: or, ore, and oar. The best part is that they all

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Elementary student proudly holds bug at project based school

7th/8th: Week of Feb 23

Math 7th graders spent all week working on building cardstock robots out of nets and then calculating the surface area of each shape to determine how much foil they need to cover their robot. The 8th graders also jumped into surface area this week. They learned formulas to find the lateral and total surface area of prisms. The Algebra students finished learning how to factor. They can factor the GCF out of polynomials, factor by groups, factor trinomials using the AC method, and factor difference of squares. Humanities/Theme Epsilon students REALLY got the message this week as they jumped head

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Middle school student sits in cockpit at history museum on private school field trip.

5th/6th: Week of Feb 23

General News We will be out of the building traipsing around Austin on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week visiting houses of worship. We’ll be visiting a Buddhist temple, Hindu temple, and Catholic church on Tuesday. On Wednesday we’ll visit a Jewish synagogue and a Muslim mosque. The Hindu temple and Muslim mosque have requested “modest attire” (no bare shoulders or knees) so remember to wear long pants and your AHB t-shirts on both days. Reading/Writing We started out the week going over our homework (aka sharing our beautiful picture book creations). These students have gotten so good at giving positive,

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Two middle school students work at table together at project based school.