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Weekly View of Why Students Love Learning at AHB

5th/6th: Week of Sept 22

General News The quarter is wrapping up quickly–we can hardly believe it! It is time to begin scheduling parent conferences (and also find out what you’d most like to discuss as conferences also zoom by quickly!) Since our school has grown, we’ll be hosting conferences on two days: Monday, October 20th and Friday, October 24th. Please take a moment to fill out this brief survey and then head to this link to sign-up for a conference slot. Be sure to sign up for a time with the teacher(s) whose content area(s) most match your preferred conference focus. Thank you! Big […]

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Middle school students learn comfortably on sofa at school with small classes in Austin.

3rd/4th: Week of Sept 22

Ahoy, crew! This week we officially launched our Viking longships and rowed into new learning adventures. Our fearless Gammas are absolutely rocking it. They’ve shown some serious leadership, keeping their learning space shipshape and staying on top of their tasks. We can’t wait to see where our Viking journey takes us next week. Full speed ahead! Math This week’s focus was all about solving word problems involving addition and subtraction of larger numbers. We practiced a strategy called UPSC (Understand, Plan, Solve, Check) to help students make sense of one and two step story problems. We also reviewed the algorithm

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Two elementary students work together at micro school.

2nd: Week of Sept 22

What a week! In math we are deep into our unit on Place Value. We’ve been representing and comparing numbers in the thousands! We’re also pushing our skip counting skills to their limits and extending them. Along the way we’ve been learning new math games and enjoying playing them with friends. In phonics this week we learned several letter combinations that create sounds that are GLUED together. That means we count them as 1 sound (ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk). We practiced building words, sounding out and spelling words with glued sounds, played a couple new games

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Elementary student molds clay at private school in Austin.

K/1st: Week of Sept 22

“What’s Inside Me” this week? OUR MUSCLES! We learned that our muscles are always helping us out, whether we tell them to or not. One of our most important muscles is our HEART! This incredible muscle keeps our blood pumping all day and all night. Sometimes our heart works extra hard…like when we exercise! We used a stethoscope to listen to our hearts before and after running. Alpha students noticed a HUGE difference in the amount of beats. Before the exercise, some students could barely hear the beat, but after it, it sounded like their hearts might jump out of

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Kindergarten student uses stethoscope at STEM school.

7th/8th: Week of Sept 15

Math: 7th graders took their first check in this week and spent time making corrections on those check ins. They ended the week with a lesson over simplifying expressions and combining like terms. The 8th graders tackled equations this week. They solved one, two and multiple step equations that included combining like terms before isolating the variable. The Algebra students reviewed for and took a check in over relations and functions. On Thursday they started their linear equations unit with a lesson over slope. Humanities: We are beginning to wind down our reading and examination of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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Middle school students sit around candle at school with small class size.