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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

Middle School: Week of 1/6

Math: The Marionettes started their unit on percents this week. They learned that a percent is always out of 100, and how to convert between fractions, decimals, and percents. The Saplings began the geometry unit. They had lessons over measuring angles, supplementary and complementary angles. Additionally the class read about Sir Cumference to discover pi, circumference, and area of circles. The Vroomshrooms graphed linear inequalities and systems of linear inequalities to finish up their unit. Next week they will begin exponential functions. ELA: After a long winter’s nap, we eased back into ELA with an activity that helped students understand […]

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Private middle school students dancing as part of history unit.

K/1st: Week of 12/9

One of our Class Helper’s jobs… giving our worm farm a good moisture-producing rain-spray! This week in Our Big Backyard… We talked about the rich, diverse community of Ponds. What is the water’s edge? How is it different from the muddy bottom, the surface film or the open water? What creatures thrive in Ponds? We looked at how energy is transferred in food chains through primary producers to primary consumers and on to secondary, tertiary and apex consumers. We realized humans like hawks, bears, and coyotes are also apex predators! We also looked at the series of stages a frog

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Kindergarten science experiment at STEM school.

2nd/3rd: Week of 12/9

Math – Ms. Andrea’s math group finished Unit 4 with a lot of hard work and determination. This week we tackled triple digit addition and subtraction with regrouping(!), word problems containing all of the above, and our unit test! Way to go, Beta 1s! Ms. Kelly’s math group knows how to represent division equations in so many different ways! We began the week practicing together, moving on with partners to tackle challenge work with division specifically. We also practiced using division to figure out the missing factors in a multiplication equation. Using a letter for the missing variable was very

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Elementary class works on project at GT school.

4th/5th: Week of 12/9

General News We’ll be having our bi-annual movie and PJ day next week on Wednesday, December 18th! This is a Gamma tradition to relax and celebrate all our hard work preparing for POP! It’s hard to believe it’s already the last week before winter break! ELA Update We had a fun week with more fiction writing! Early in the week we talked about descriptive language and the key role it plays in helping the reader engage with the story. We also talked about how authors create hooks for the reader by using different styles of leads. A few techniques authors

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Elementary students work together at computer at micro school in Austin.

Middle School: Week of 12/9

Math: This week the Marionettes finished up working with rates on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday they had a lesson over classifying whole numbers, integers, and rational numbers. Thursday they completed their review for their check-in on Monday. The Saplings worked at their own pace to complete their linear relationship review, check in, and then a performance task. The performance task involved ordering supplies for a chemistry lab and mixing proportional solutions. The Vroomshrooms learned the three ways to solve systems of equations: Graphing, Substitution, and Elimination. They will practice these methods more Monday and finish the unit next semester. ELA:

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Middle school students work in hallway at innovative private school.