Peek In Our Week “”” Mr. John’s Class “”” Week Of February 10, 2020

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Presidents Of The United States Of America (Wasn’t that a 90’s band? Gunna eat a lot of peaches!) We first learned about George Washington and how he was our first president and was the General of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln came from a poor family,  freed the slaves and was president during the Civil War.  We were introduced to Franklin D. Roosevelt and how he was president during World War II and how John F. Kennedy fought for equal rights.  We then learned that Donald Trump was current president. The children were taught that the president’s wives are called the first lady and that the president lives in the white house in Washington DC, and flies on a jet called Air Force 1.  We discussed what responsibilities the President has.  The children came up with keeping us safe, keeping the world safe, and running the country. 

 

February Birthdays:
The Montessori classroom is comprised of 3 year old to 6 year old students.  Here are our newest 4 old student. 

 

 

Which do you prefer?
Salad dressing (Miracle Whip) or Mayonnaise?  I am in the Miracle Whip camp.  In fact, my parents told me when I was growing up Miracle Whip was mayonnaise.  

 

 

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 22 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish).

 

Peek In The Classroom:

The colored bead stair is a quintessential Montessori math material because it has so many different mathematical benefits. The youngest child in primary all the way through upper elementary learns one-to-one correspondence, connecting quantity to symbol, square roots and cubes, basic operations, and complex algebraic equations.

 

A lot is going on here… A student is working with the color tablet work, a student is observing him work on the color tablets. and a child is rolling the her rug. All part of a Montessori classroom scene.

 

Two kindergarten students working on their World Fair project (coloring their maps of the country they chose).

 

This child found the relationship between these two materials. The relationship of smallest to biggest for these two works. This is called an extension. Extensions are activities that are introduced after the initial presentation with a material, in order to encourage the child to re-visit the material and solidify the skills and/or concepts it’s designed to provide.

 

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Ancient Egypt

Letter Of The Week- U u

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bet

Next Language is Serbo-Croation

 

Upcoming Events:
President’s Day:   NO SCHOOL Monday February 17th

Akron Art Museum Field Trip:  Thursday March 12th:  Details to follow and permission slips to follow.   Free Event/ Free Parking.

 

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

You should’ve seen the other guy.

 

Two guys working nicely together. One having fun the other looks scared!

 

It is all about hair fashion.

 

Having fun and being cute!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peek In Our Week ^^^ Mr. John’s Classroom ^^^ Week Of February 3, 2020

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The class went green for the week learning about recycling, conserving energy, and pollution.  I explained that pollution was anything that made our environment dirty.  We learned there is littering.  Littering can be people throwing trash on the side of the road or dropping a candy wrapper in the woods.  We now know that we need to put trash in an appropriate container.  We learned that air pollution is created by factories’ smokestacks and cars exhaust,  but cars are just one of the factors that produce air pollution, there are also other reasons.  Water Pollution is caused by factories dumping chemicals in the water or people throwing trash in the water instead of putting it in a trash can.  The 3 R’s were introduced and now we all know to reduce, reuse and recycle!  We thought of ways to conserve energy.  We came up with turning off lights in rooms we are not in or turning off the TV if we are not watching it.  We thought of turning off the water while we are brushing our teeth or turning down the heat and wearing a sweater instead.  During the kindergarten lesson a student realized the room was just as light with the lights off as it was if the lights were on.  Now we do our kindergarten lesson without lights.

 

What’s The Diff:
What is the difference difference between a bison and a buffalo?

Contrary to the song “Home on the Range,” buffalo do not roam in the American West. Instead, they are indigenous to South Asia (water buffalo) and Africa (Cape buffalo), while bison are found in North America and parts of Europe. … Bison are the hipsters of the two animals, sporting thick beards. Buffalo are beardless.
www.britannica.com 

 

 

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 21 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish).

 

 A visit from the Dental Hygienist:

 

 

Peek In The Classroom:

The key purpose of the Moveable Alphabet is to prepare children for writing, reading, and spelling. The child’s use of the material progresses from single words, to phrases, and eventually to stories. In this way, the Moveable Alphabet teaches children how to symbolize their own thoughts, and begin to write creatively.

 

The Knobbed Cylinders are a Montessori Sensorial material, designed to assist children in making distinctions in their immediate environment. This material primarily engages the senses of touch and sight. The material is comprised of 10 different cylinders with ‘knobs’ used to hold each object using the pincer grip.

 

These girls are working on the skeletal puzzle (Elvis the Pelvis) and the internal organ work. They combined the two works and identified where the internal organs are located in reference to the skeletal system.

 

This student is working on her consonant blended sounds of CH, SH, TH… Matching the words that begin with those sounds to the appropriate consonant blend.

 

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Presidents of the USA

Letter Of The Week- T t

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bed

Next Language is Polish

 

Upcoming Events:
Valentines Party: Friday, February 14, 2020

NO SCHOOL: Monday, February 17, 2020

Akron Art Museum Field Trip:  Thursday March 12, 2020 (morning) … Save the date, it is a FREE field trip!  Details to follow.

 

 

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Too stinkin cute.

 

That look on his face. lol

 

Just being goofy like she should.

 

What a great portrait this would be.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Enrichment ^^^ Cuyahoga Falls Campus ^^^ Week Of 2/3/2020

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Weekly Theme:
This week we discovered many geometric shapes such as there are 3 basic triangles (scalene, isosceles, equilateral). we discovered the trapezoid, chevron, rhombus, and a square is a special rectangle., polygons, and that all four sided shapes are called quadrilaterals.

 

 

 

Handwriting:
We practiced writing in cursive writing sentences (sometimes silly sentences).

 

Cultural Subjects:
We now can count to ten in 23 languages (English, Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation).

 

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Geometry, Geometric Solids

Synonym Of The Week: Fat: overweight, big, bulky, heavy, plump

Sight Words Of The Week: more these

Language Of The Week: Cebuano

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Enrichment ,,, Cuyahoga Falls Campus ,,, Week Of 1/27/2020

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Weekly Theme:
We were introduced to division with manipulatives (golden beads/static, borrowing).

Surly kindergarten students. After I told them they did NOT have homework. hehe

 

Handwriting:
We practiced writing in cursive writing sentences (sometimes silly sentences).

 

Cultural Subjects:
We now can count to ten in 21 languages (English, Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish).

 

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Geometry, Constructive Boxes and Geometric Cabinet

Synonym Of The Week: Skinny: thin, lean, emaciated, scrawny, slender

Sight Words Of The Week: other, some

Language Of The Week: Serbo Croation

 

 

 

 

Peek In Our Week ,,, Mr. John’s Class ,,, Week Of January 27, 2020

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This week we learned a bit about the internal organs.  We started with the brain which is like the computer of the body.  It tells our body how fast to breathe and how fast our heart should beat.  We discovered the lungs help us breathe and puts oxygen in our blood. Our stomach digests food, the small intestines take nutrients out of our food and large intestines gets the remaining water from indigestible food and creates waste (poop) or as I referred to a bowel movement.  The kidneys process excess water and creates urine.  The liver removes toxins from the body. The liver is my fave internal organ.  What is yours?

 

 

 

Did you know?
Q) What is the difference between a Cantaloupe and Muskmelon?

A) A Muskmelon is a member of the reticulatus group, characterized by a net like ribbed rind and sweet orange flesh. A Cantaloupe is a member of the cantalupensis group, named for Cantalupo, a former papal villa near Rome. This group is characterized by a rough, warty rind and sweet orange flesh.

The below picture the Muskmelon is to the left and Cantaloupe is to the right.

 

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 15 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh).

 

Peek In The Classroom:

Working with the Internal Organ shirt. This is a work that shows where the internal organs are located.

 

The Cards and Counters bring the abstract to the concrete, allowing a child to feel the units as they count. Cards and Counters is a material that consists of 10 number cards, 1-10, and 55 round, red counters, each approximately the size of a nickel. Then the appropriate amount of counters are put under the appropriate number.

 

The Vowel Tree is a tactile, engaging way to teach and practice decoding words. This manipulative can be used with beginning readers to more advanced readers. Originally developed as a Montessori material, the vowel tree reinforces skills for all learners, tactile learners, auditory learners, and visual learners.

 

Meet our newest reader.

 

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Pollution and Recycling

Letter Of The Week- S s

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bup

Next Language is Dutch/Flemmish

 

Upcoming Events:
Valentines Party: Friday, February 14, 2020

NO SCHOOL: Monday, February 17, 2020

Akron Art Museum Field Trip:  Thursday March 12, 2020 (morning) … Save the date, it is a FREE field trip!  Details to follow. 

 

 

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Ode to Kobe Bryant.

 

You should have seen the other guy.

 

S squared

 

It is all about fashion. I present to you a paper hat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peek InOur Week … Mr. John’s Class … Week Of January 20, 2020

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This week we looked at the skeletal system and if we didn’t have a skeleton we would be one messy blob on the ground (insert a flagellant sound).  We learned the skull protects our brain, the rib cage protects our lungs, and the spine keeps us sitting and standing straight.  We learned technical terms for our arms, leg and our digits which is a funny name called phalanges. We brought our life sized foam puzzle into our room.  His name is Elvis because we learned about the pelvis and it was a cool rhyming name.

 

 

 

Did You Know:
Pteronophobia is a fear of being tickled by feathers.  It’s also a fear of feathers themselves. The word “ptero” is the Greek word for feather, and “phobia” is also Greek, meaning fear.

 

 

January Birthdays:
A Montessori classroom consists of students ranging in age from three years to six years.  Here are our newest four and six year old students.

 

           

 

                          

 

Pastor Kirk Reads The Useful Moose:

 

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 15 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili).

 

Peek In The Classroom:

This boy is working on the Pink Tower and Brown Stairs. He found an extension which further supports the relationship between the two materials.

 

This student is working on the Nine Tray and is composing numbers with the symbol and quantity. It is difficult to se here but she wanted to compose the “year” 2020.

 

This student is working on the Sandpaper Letters. The direct purpose of the sandpaper letters is to teach the child the sounds of the alphabet by means of muscular and visual memory. The indirect purposes of the sandpaper letters are preparation for reading and writing. The sandpaper letters are an exciting and important material for the children to discover the letters and letter sounds.

 

This Kindergarten Student is working on her kindergarten kinder which includes lessons in math, handwriting and language.

 

 Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Internal Organs

Letter Of The Week- R r

Rhyming Word Of The Week- but

Next Language is Welsh

 

Upcoming Events:
Valentine Party: Friday, February 14, 2020.  Details to follow.

Art Museum Field Trip: Thursday, March 12, 2020.  Details to follow.

 

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

This student, for the life of me I don’t know how, got yogurt on her face and almost in her eye.

 

Happy boy!

 

Just some children being goofy.

 

These cuties know what a camera is for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Enrichment … Cuyahoga Falls Campus … Week of 1/13/2020

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Weekly Theme:
We were introduced to division with manipulatives (golden beads/static, no borrowing).

 

Handwriting:
We practiced writing in cursive writing sentences (sometimes silly sentences).

 

Cultural Subjects:
We now can count to ten in 21 languages (English, Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish).

 

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Division w/ Golden Beads (dynamic / Borrowing)

Synonym Of The Week: Nice: kind, pleasant, delightful, good, helpful

Sight Words Of The Week: first, than

Language Of The Week: Polish

 

Peek In Our Week ::: Mr. John’s Class ::: Week Of January 13, 2020

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To honor the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we learned a bit about his life and his accomplishments.  The students became actresses and actors as they recreated Rosa Parks making her stand on a bus in Montgomery Alabama.  The students enjoyed playing the part of the bus driver, Rosa Parks, “the mean guy”, a police officer, Martin Luther King Jr., and passengers on the bus.  We discussed our differences such as skin color, eye color, hair color, and gender.  Then we discussed how we are similar.  We talked about discrimination and segregation.  We talked about if someone with red hair wouldn’t be allowed to do art “just because” they have red hair or if anyone who had blue eyes would have to go to a different classroom with less materials, broken crayons, or no books “just because” they have blue eyes.  I had only boys fetch the chairs for the skit and brought that to the attention of the class.  We had some very sad girls…. I did let the girls take the chairs back after the skit.

 

 

 

Meet my Fire Belly Toads:
They really ham it up for the camera!

 

 

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 17 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish).

 

Peek In The Classroom:

She is working on the first introduction to decimals found in the math area. This material helps the child understand the relative value of a unit, ten, one hundred, and one thousand. To help the child understand the decimal system. To teach the names unit, ten, hundred and thousand.

 

We are following this student through her Sensitive Period journey. She can not get enough of Geometry. The term refers to several overlapping periods of development where a child is sensitive to a particular stimuli or type of interaction. This occurs because it is very easy for children to acquire certain abilities during a specific sensitive period. In this case Geometry.

 

This student is working on the 9 Tray found in the Math area. To introduce the child to the concept of the decimal system. The aim of this material is to make the child familiar with the names and relative sizes of the categories and to help the child with the difference in bulk between e.g. 6 units and 6 thousands.

 

These two students are working together on a continent puzzle map. The purpose of this work After the Map of the World, a child might engage with Asia, Europe, Australia, South America, North America, or Africa. These continent maps include pegged pieces to represent every country on that continent. After taking the pieces out and putting them back together, a natural control of error occurs if the pieces don’t all fit correctly! The pegged pieces also help build the fine motor (pinscher grip).

 

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Skeletal System

Letter Of The Week- Q q

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bub

Next Language is Kiswahili

 

Upcoming Events:
MLK Day: We are off Monday, January 20th, 2020 ***** NO SCHOOL ***** 

 

 

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Unicorns!

 

Two buds.

 

You should have seen the other guy.

 

It is all about the fashion of the hair!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Enrichment ::: Cuyahoga Falls Campus ::: Week of 1/13/2020

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Weekly Theme:
We were introduced to subtraction with manipulatives (golden beads,dynamic/ borrowing).

 

 

 

Handwriting:
We practiced writing in cursive writing sentences (sometimes silly sentences).

 

Cultural Subjects:
We now can count to ten in 18 languages (English, Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh).

 

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Division w/ Golden Beads (Static/No Borrowing)

Synonym Of The Week: MEAN: selfish, unkind, malicious, hurtful

Sight Words Of The Week: now made

Language Of The Week: Dutch/Flemmish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peek In Our Week ||| Mr. John’s Classroom ||| Week Of January 6, 2019

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We started to learn about our body and how it works.  We learned about our five senses (touch, hearing, sight, smell, and taste).  Did you know you can “feel” with any part of your body? Of course parents know that.  Who has not stepped on a Lego in bare feet and screamed in pain? But we associate touch with our fingers (hot/cold, hard/soft, rough/smooth).  We hear loud noises, quiet noises, high and low noises, “Are we there yet?”.  We need light to see and if we close our eyes we can’t see.  The lights being turned on at 5 am on a Saturday morning.   There are good smells like cinnamon, vanilla and bad smells like a dirty diaper and vinegar.  My favorite was the taste test where we tasted sweet (sugar water), salty (salt water), sour (pure lemon juice), and bitter (unsweetened baking chocolate).  The children enjoyed “most” of the tastes.  Hehe!!!!

 

Our newest reptile (Milk Snake), Ian:

 

 

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 17 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish).

 

 

Peek In The Classroom:

This girl is brushing up on her multiplication. She is using the manipulative called the Golden Beads. As you can see she came up with the correct answer.

 

She is showing off her rendition of a snowflake that was made in the art area.

 

This student is showing me the correct way to carry a chair.

 

Children begin working with the Hundred Board once they have a clear understanding of numbers 1 – 10 and 11 – 20. This is usually around three or four years of age, depending on how quickly the child has grasped the concept of counting. This material builds on the mathematical foundation created by earlier Montessori work, by extending the child’s knowledge of numbers to 100, and also helping them to understand number order. As you can tell she discovered the pattern of where any particular number goes.

 

 

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- MLK/ Diversity

Letter Of The Week- P p

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bun

Next Language is Kiswahili

 

Upcoming Events:
Parent/Teacher Conferences: January 17, Friday 7am to 7pm.  Details and sign up to follow soon.

 ***** NO SCHOOL: January 20, 2020/ Monday for MLK Day. ******

 

 

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Muscle shirt and tats.

 

Ya shoulda seen the other guy!

 

Lunch time shennanigans.

 

Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon spent a record 917 in the top 200 charts!