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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

5th/6th: Week of Aug 18

General News We had a great (we mean capital G-R-E-A-T!!!) first week! Considering the amount of change we’ve all ingested, it was actually a freakishly wonderful first week. The honeymoon may end, but we said that the entire last year and it STILL continues. Thank you! Here’s a snippet from our first week’s student survey that will give you an idea of how the kids are feeling. (We’re off to a good start! ❤️) Reading/Writing Update Same as math, we didn’t have a ton of time devoted to structured ELA class this week as we were busy with community building […]

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Teacher uses iPad as part of assignment at STEM school.

3rd/4th: Week of Aug 18

We are off to a great start! We spent much of our time this first week getting to know each other, our space, and our new routine. We focused on community building and by midweek we were splitting into math and reading groups. Math We worked on place value with notetaking and games. ELA We began learning about character traits by reading books and looking for what characters say, do, think, and feel. Theme We just dipped our toes into Vikings by watching a video and discussing it. We listed interesting facts we learned and came up with questions we

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Elementary students stand around tree with clipboards at private school with small classes.

2nd: Week of Aug 18

Our new batch of Betas is off to a great start! This week we learned A LOT. Beyond routines and classroom jobs, these Betas dove into curriculum, reviewing short vowel sounds, learning to break VCCV words into syllables by splitting the consonants, reviewing the 120 chart, as well as even & odd numbers. The sense of community among these kiddos is already strong. They drafted their Beta Agreements with ease. We learned the benefits of having a Growth Mindset and how important it is to fill others’ buckets. At the end of the week, each new Beta was given a

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Students work together at micro school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Aug 18

Parents Please Note- Starting Monday, we will meet in the gym at 8:45. This is where we will meet on Mondays from now on. The rest of the week we’ll meet in our classroom. What a whirlwind of a first week! We had fun getting to know each other as we are learning about our new space! We talked about AHB Community – and thought about what a community is and how we can create a great one. We agreed that communities should feel safe for our bodies and our feelings. We sat in new tables teams every day and

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Three students smile proudly over project based activity.

4th/5th: Week of May 12

General News We forgot to pick up your Q4 learning logs! Oops! Please bring those to school on Monday (Thank you!) The Gammas are busy working on POP and we hope to see as many of you as can make it next week for POP and Talent Show! Thank you to parent volunteers who are able to help out with our upcoming building transition! ELA Update This week we were focused on creating great informational writing pieces about all of our learning this semester for POP. This is where we really make “the invisible visible” for guests by writing about

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Elementary students work together at private school with small classes.