Our Academic Enrichment time is daily from 12:00-1:00pm.  This time is specifically designed for our Kindergarten students to join together as a group to work and progress through the advanced materials and lessons in the Montessori primary curriculum. Throughout the school day in their classroom they are still working individually with their classroom teacher on these and other materials at their level.

5/4: Introduction to conjunctions
• Rules of the conjunctions
• Worksheets, diagramming sentences

5/11: Introduction to interjections
• Rules of the interjections
• Worksheets, practicing with interjections

5/18: Introduction to punctuation (end of a Sentence)
• Rules of the punctuation
• Worksheets, diagramming sentences

5/25: Introduction to capitalization
• Rules of capitalization
• Worksheets, practicing our capitalization

6/1: Review of the year
• Telling time, landforms
• Coins, paper money
• Mathematical operations
• Geography

Synonyms of the week
5/4: UNDER, below, beneath, underneath
5/11: QUICK, fast, swift, rapid, speedy, hasty
5/18: NEAT, tidy, clean, arranged, well-ordered
5/25: LOOK, see, glance, stare, gaze
6/1: FUNNY, silly, playful, crazy, foolish

Letter / Sight Words
5/4: Aa / at
5/11: Ee / ET word family book look, I, see, a, big, that, is, in, my, he, down
5/18: Ii / big
5/25: Oo / up
6/1: Uu / UG word family book look, I, see, a, big, that, is, in, my, he, down

Things to do at home this month to reinforce our themes:
• Look for our words of the week when reading a story, cut out pictures beginning with the letters of the week.
• Practice using the different synonyms of the week in a sentence together.
• Practice identifying different parts of speech when reading together.

Our Academic Enrichment time is daily from 12:00-1:00pm.  This time is specifically designed for our Kindergarten students to join together as a group to work and progress through the advanced materials and lessons in the Montessori primary curriculum. Throughout the school day in their classroom they are still working individually with their classroom teacher on these and other materials at their level.

4/6: Introduction to Pronouns

• Rules of the pronouns
• Worksheets, grammar symbols, diagramming sentences

4/13: Introduction to Adjectives

• Rules of the adjectives
• Worksheets, grammar symbols, diagramming sentences

4/20:  Introduction to Adverbs

• Rules of the adverbs
• Worksheets, grammar symbols, diagramming sentences

4/27: Introduction to Prepositions

• Rules of the prepositions
• Worksheets, grammar symbols, diagramming sentences

Synonyms of the week

4/6: NICE, friendly, courteous, good, pleasant, charming
4/13: SNEAKY, underhanded, dishonest, tricky, secretive, sly
4/20: BRIGHT, shiny, glowing, dazzling, lighted, vivid
4/27: DULL, dark, dreary, somber, boring, tedious

Letter / Sight Words

4/6: Yy / that
4/13: Zz / not
4/20:  AT Word Family / I, see, a, the, look, at
4/27:  IG Word Family / I, see, a, the, look, my, can, you, it, for, big

Things to do at home this month to reinforce our themes:

• Look for our words of the week when reading a story, cut out pictures beginning with the letters of the week.
• Practice using the different synonyms of the week in a sentence together.
• Practice identifying different parts of speech when reading together.

Our Academic Enrichment time is daily from 12:00-1:00pm.  This time is specifically designed for our Kindergarten students to join together as a group to work and progress through the advanced materials and lessons in the Montessori primary curriculum. Throughout the school day in their classroom they are still working individually with their classroom teacher on these and other materials at their level.

4/06:  Introduction to Pronouns

• Rules of the pronouns
• Worksheets, grammar symbols, diagramming sentences

4/13:  Introduction to Adjectives

• Rules of the adjectives
• Worksheets, grammar symbols, diagramming sentences

4/20: Introduction to Adverbs

• Rules of the adverbs
• Worksheets, grammar symbols, diagramming sentences

4/27: Introduction to Conjunctions

• Rules of the conjunctions
• Worksheets, grammar symbols, diagramming sentences

Sight Words of the Week: Try to find each word in books as you read to your child.
4/27: look many

Synonyms of the Week: Try to find each word in books as you read to your child.
4/27: Talk

Mr. John will be sending homework home to reinforce these lessons. Please turn homework into the BLUE box outside of Mr. John’s classroom

Our Academic Enrichment time is daily from 12:00-1:00pm.  This time is specifically designed for our Kindergarten students to join together as a group to work and progress through the advanced materials and lessons in the Montessori primary curriculum. Throughout the school day in their classroom they are still working individually with their classroom teacher on these and other materials at their level.

3/2:       Geometric Shapes and Constructive Boxes

• Geometric Cabinet
• Hexagon, rectangle and blue rectangle boxes, plus amazing candy boxes in portland or
• Creating triangles, rhombus, trapezoid, parallelogram, squares, etc

3/9: Parts of Speech/ Grammar

• Vowels, consonants and their rules

3/16: Parts of Speech/ Grammar

• Introduction to nouns and their rules (name of a person, place, or thing)
• Introduction to verbs and their rules (action word or something you do)
• Vowels, consonants and their rules
• Using worksheets, diagramming sentences and sandpaper letters

3/23: Parts of Speech/ Grammar

• Introduction to the article
• “the” hooks up with anything
• “a” or “an”/ “a” hooks up with only consonants, “an” hooks up with only vowels
• Using worksheets, diagramming sentences and sandpaper letters

Sight Words of the Week: Try to find each word in books as you read to your child.

3/02: write, them

3/09: then, out

3/16: they, that

3/23: have, this

Synonyms of the Week: Try to find each word in books as you read to your child.

3/02: WET, damp, moist, soggy, drenched, soaked

3/09: HEALTHY, hearty, athletic, sound, strong, fit

3/16: SICK, weak, unhealthy, ailing, infected, frail

3/23: MEAN, selfish, unkind, malicious, hurtful

Things to do at home this month to reinforce our themes:

• Look for our words of the week when reading a story, cut out pictures beginning with the letters of the week.
• Practice using the different synonyms of the week in a sentence together.

Mr. John will be sending homework home to reinforce these lessons. Please turn homework into the orange box outside of Mr. John’s classroom.  Please email him if you have any questions: jkotradi@thesmarterkids.com.

Our Academic Enrichment time is daily from 12:00-1:00pm.  This time is specifically designed for our Kindergarten students to join together as a group to work and progress through the advanced materials and lessons in the Montessori primary curriculum. Throughout the school day in their classroom they are still working individually with their classroom teacher on these and other materials at their level.

3/2: Geometric Shapes continued

• Introduction to geometric shapes and constructive boxes
• Geometric cabinet
• Hexagon, rectangle and blue rectangle boxes
• Creating triangles, rhombus, trapezoid, parallelogram, squares, etc.

3/9: Parts of Speech/ Grammar

• Introduction to nouns and their rules (name of a person, place, thing or idea)
• Introduction to verbs and their rules (action word or something you do)
• Vowels, consonants and their rules
• Using worksheets, diagramming sentences and sandpaper letters

3/16:  Parts of Speech/ Grammar

• Introduction to the article (a kind of adjective always used with and gives information about a noun)
• A definite article is the word “the”
• An indefinite article is the word “a” or “an”
• Using worksheets, diagramming sentences and sandpaper letters

3/23: Articles

• Rules of the articles
• Worksheets, grammar symbols, diagramming sentences

Synonyms of the week

3/2: WET, damp, moist, soggy, drenched, soaked

3/9: HEALTHY, hearty, athletic, sound, strong, fit

3/16: SICK, weak, unhealthy, ailing, infected, frail

3/23: MEAN, selfish, unkind, malicious, hurtful

Letter / Sight Words

3/2: Uu / he

3/9: Vv / go

3/16: Ww / we

3/23: Xx / in

Things to do at home this month to reinforce our themes:

• Look for our words of the week when reading a story, cut out pictures beginning with the letters of the week.
• Practice using the different synonyms of the week in a sentence together.

Our Academic Enrichment time is daily from 12:00-1:00pm.  This time is specifically designed for our Kindergarten students to join together as a group to work and progress through the advanced materials and lessons in the Montessori primary curriculum. Throughout the school day in their classroom they are still working individually with their classroom teacher on these and other materials at their level.

2/2: Introduction to multiplication continued

• Working with 9 tray / 45 layout
• Using single units, 10 bars, 100 square and 1000 cubes
• Working with stamp game
• Working with dot board 

2/9: Introduction to fractions

• Exploring fractions
• Fractional insets (whole up to 1/12)

2/16: Geometric Shapes

• Introduction to geometric shapes and constructive boxes
• Geometric cabinet
• Monday, February 16th President’s Day- NO SCHOOL

2/23: Geometric Shapes continued

• Introduction to geometric shapes and constructive boxes
• Geometric cabinet

Synonyms of the week

2/2: APPROPRIATE, suitable, fitting, apropos, correct, proper

2/9: BAD, incorrect, awful, unsatisfactory faulty, defective

2/16: GOOD, pleasant, fine, honorable, wonderful, valuable 

2/23: DRY, dehydrated, arid, parched

Letter / Sight Words

2/2: Qq / am

2/9: Rr / you

2/16: Ss / down

2/23: Tt / a

Things to do at home this month to reinforce our themes:

• Look for our words of the week when reading a story, cut out pictures beginning with the letters of the week.
• Practice using the different synonyms of the week in a sentence together.
• You can view this link to give you more information on how the math materials are used in the Montessori classroom http://www.montessorialbum.com/montessori/index.php?title=Math.
• You may also google the name of the work to find more videos and information on the purpose of that material.

Our Academic Enrichment time is daily from 12:00-1:00pm.  This time is specifically designed for our Kindergarten students to join together as a group to work and progress through the advanced materials and lessons in the Montessori primary curriculum. Throughout the school day in their classroom they are still working individually with their classroom teacher on these and other materials at their level.

2/02:     Exchanging

• Decimal System/Exchanging 1s, 10s, 100s and 1000s
• Using single units, 10 bars, 100 squares and 1000 cubes

2/09:     Introduction to Multiplication

• Exploring multiplication
• Operations with the golden bead material
• Practice with the nine tray and multiplication tables

2/16: Introduction to Fractions

• Monday 2/17– No School (President’s Day)
• Exploring Fractions
• Fractional Insets (whole up to 1/12)
• Monday, February 16th President’s Day- NO SCHOOL

2/23: Geometric Shapes

• Intro to Geometric Shapes, Constructive boxes
• Geometric Cabinet

Sight Words of the Week: Try to find each word in books as you read to your child.

2/02: first, than

2/09: other, some

2/16: more, these

2/23: would, about

Synonyms of the Week: Try to find each word in books as you read to your child.

2/02: APPROPRIATE, suitable, fitting, apropos, correct, proper

2/09: BAD, incorrect, awful, unsatisfactory faulty, defective

2/16: GOOD, pleasant, fine, honorable, wonderful, valuable

2/23: DRY, dehydrated, arid, parched

Things to do at home this month to reinforce our themes:

• Look for our words of the week when reading a story, cut out pictures beginning with the letters of the week.
• Practice using the different synonyms of the week in a sentence together.
• You can view this link to give you more information on how the math materials are used in the Montessori classroom http://www.montessorialbum.com/montessori/index.php?title=Math. You may also google the name of the work to find more videos and information on the purpose of that material.

As specified by RIC Publications Mr. John will be sending homework home to reinforce these lessons. Please turn homework into the orange box outside of Mr. John’s classroom.  Please email him if you have any questions: jkotradi@thesmarterkids.com.

Our Academic Enrichment time is daily from 12:00-1:00pm.  This time is specifically designed for our Kindergarten students to join together as a group to work and progress through the advanced materials and lessons in the Montessori primary curriculum. Throughout the school day in their classroom they are still working individually with their classroom teacher on these and other materials at their level.

1/5: Introduction to 9 Tray/ 45 layout/composing numbers

• Learning what is and says ( 1, 10, 100, 1000)
• Reinforce by placement and identification of numbers within each decimal place
• Reinforce number placement with creation of numbers

1/12: Introduction to addition

• Working with 9 tray / 45 layout
• Using single units, 10 bars, 100 square and 1000 cubes

1/19: Introduction to exchanging

• Introduction of exchanging 1s, 10s, 100s and 1000s
• Using single units, 10 bars, 100 squares and 1000 cubes

1/26: Introduction to multiplication

• Working with 9 tray / 45 layout
• Using single units, 10 bars, 100 square and 1000 cubes

Synonyms of the week

1/5: LOUD, noisy, piercing, deafening, booming, crashing, boisterous, raucous
1/12: QUIET, peaceful, mute, calm, silent
1/19: SKINNY, thin, lean, emaciated, scrawny, slender
1/26: FAT, overweight big, bulky, heavy, plump

Letter / Sight Words

1/5: Mm / I

1/12: Nn / is

1/19: Oo / up

1/26: Pp / see

Things to do at home this month to reinforce our themes:

• Look for our words of the week when reading a story, cut out pictures beginning with the letters of the week.
• Practice using the different synonyms of the week in a sentence together.
• You can view this link to give you more information on how the math materials are used in the Montessori classroom http://www.montessorialbum.com/montessori/index.php?title=Math
• You may also google the name of the work to find more videos and information on the purpose of that material.

Our Academic Enrichment time is daily from 12:00-1:00pm.  This time is specifically designed for our Kindergarten students to join together as a group to work and progress through the advanced materials and lessons in the Montessori primary curriculum. Throughout the school day in their classroom they are still working individually with their classroom teacher on these and other materials at their level.

1/05:     Introduction to decimals/ columns

• Intro to decimals
• Learning what is and says ( 1, 10, 100, 1000)

1/12:     Introduction to 9 Tray/ 45 layout

• Recap of decimal system
• Reinforce by placement and identification of numbers within each decimal place

1/19: Composing Numbers

• Working with 9 tray / 45 layout
• Using single units, 10 bars, 100 square and 1000 cubes
• Reinforce number placement with creation of numbers

1/26: Addition

• Introduction of addition
• Using single units, 10 bars, 100 squares and 1000 cubes

Sight Words of the Week: Try to find each word in books as you read to your child.

1/05: oil, people

1/12: come, number

1/19: could, who

1/26: now, made

Synonyms of the Week: Try to find each word in books as you read to your child.

1/05: LOUD, noisy, piercing, deafening, booming, crashing, boisterous, raucous

1/12: QUIET, peaceful, mute, calm, silent

1/19: SKINNY, thin, lean, emaciated, scrawny, slender

1/26: FAT, overweight big, bulky, heavy, plump

Things to do at home this month to reinforce our themes:

• Look for our words of the week when reading a story, cut out pictures beginning with the letters of the week.
• Practice using the different synonyms of the week in a sentence together.
• You can view this link to give you more information on how the math materials are used in the Montessori classroom http://www.montessorialbum.com/montessori/index.php?title=Math. You may also google the name of the work to find more videos and information on the purpose of that material.

Mr. John will be sending homework home to reinforce these lessons. Please turn homework into the orange box outside of Mr. John’s classroom.  Please email him if you have any questions: jkotradi@thesmarterkids.com.

Our Academic Enrichment time is daily from 12:00-1:00pm.  This time is specifically designed for our Kindergarten students to join together as a group to work and progress through the advanced materials and lessons in the Montessori primary curriculum. Throughout the school day in their classroom they are still working individually with their classroom teacher on these and other materials at their level.

12/1: Use of a Ruler

• Inches and Centimeters
• Measuring with a ruler– practice with many different objects
• Recording measurements

12/8-12/19: Christmas Program

• We will be taking time with the children to practice and prepare for the Christmas Show.

12/21—1/4       Christmas Break—School Resumes Monday, January 5th

Synonyms of the week

12/1: NO, negative, never, nay, nope, nix
12/8: HAPPY, glad, cheerful, content, jolly, pleased, joyful, ecstatic

Things to do at home this month to reinforce our themes:

• Bake holiday treats together.
• Make homemade ornaments and festive decorations together.
• Watch classic winter and Christmas movies together.
• Go caroling as a family.
• Volunteer at a homeless shelter as a family.
• Play outside as a family and enjoy the winter weather.