Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

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This week we went back in time and took a look at Ancient Greece and talked about Greek Mythology. The Greek Gods hung out on Mt. Olympus and we learned the King of all Gods was Zeus and if you made him angry he had a lightning bolt in his hand that he would throw at you.  Zeus had a wife named Hera and she was the Goddess of Marriage.  If you were a sailor you dare not make Poseidon angry because he was the the God of the Seas and held a trident (a fork like spear) in his hand.  Zeus had a brother that he sent to the under world and that God was named Hades.  Hades had a pet that was a three headed dog named Cerberus.  We also learned about Pan and Medusa.

Did you know (Barbie):
Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts. Barbie was named after Ruth Handler’s daughter, Barbara, and Ken after her son, Kenneth. She is from (fictional) Willows, Wisconsin, where she attended high school.

A Message From Mr. John (Hair Cuts. Your Hair Knows):

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 25 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, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay)

Know Your Languages (Malay):

Flower measuring and tracking:

Peek In The Classroom:

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Hibernation/Migration/Adaption

Letter Of The Week- W w

Rhyming Word Of The Week- beg

Next Language is Hindi

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: Fractions

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Geometry

Synonym Of The Week: BAD: incorrect, awful, unsatisfactory, faulty, defective

Sight Words Of The Week: then out

Upcoming Events:
A few days off and other stuff.
-No School: SPRING BREAK- March 27 through April 2 — Returning Monday April 3
-Early Release/No Aftercare: Good Friday April 7. ***** Dismissal 12 noon/NO AFTERCARE *****
-No School: Easter Monday, April 10

OTHER STUFF:
Dr. Seuss Week: Monday 2/27/2023 thru Friday 3/3/2023. A flyer and Remind message already sent.
Akron Art Museum Field Trip:  Thursday, March 9 (from 9 am to 12 pm)  IT IS FREE! (Forms sent via Remind and in take home folders)

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (swings and making Mr. John nervous):

Buckeye Room Bulletin

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We went back in time and learned about Ancient Egypt.  We learned that the leaders or kings were called Pharaohs and when a king died they used a method to preserve them called mummification.  The pharaohs that were mummified look nothing like you see at Halloween or on cartoons.  The ancient Egyptians had a a written language called hieroglyphics which incorporated symbols such as cats,humans, and other daily objects. We also learned that the ancient Egyptians were responsible for building the Great Pyramids and The Sphinx which has the body of a lion and a head of a man. 

                       

Did You Know? (Russia is GiNormous):
Russia has a whopping 11 time zones within the country, which gives you an idea of just how large it is.

A Message From Mr. John: Your fave Movie(s):

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 24 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, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano)

Know Your Languages (Cebuano):

Tracking and Recording(Flower):

Peek In The Classroom:

Peek Into Next Week: Line Time- Ancient Greece

Letter Of The Week-V v

Rhyming Word Of The Week- ben

Next Language is Malay

Academic Enrichment Weekly Theme:
Division with borrowing (dynamic)

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Fractions

Synonym Of The Week:  GOOD,  pleasant, fine, honorable, wonderful, valuable

Sight Words Of The Week: write them

Upcoming Events:
A few days off and other stuff.

DAYS OFF:
-No School: Monday, February 20th (President’s Day)
-No School: SPRING BREAK- March 27 through April 2 — Returning Monday April 3
-Early Release/No Aftercare: Good Friday April 7. ***** Dismissal 12 noon/NO AFTERCARE *****
-No School: Easter Monday, April 10

OTHER STUFF:
Akron Art Museum Field Trip:  Thursday, March 9 (from 9 am to 12 pm)  IT IS FREE! (Forms sent via Remind and in take home folders)

 Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (Shampoo):

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

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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 Joe Biden 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. 

Presidents Of The United States Of America (Wasn’t that a 90’s band? Gunna eat a lot of peaches!)…

       

   

What’s The Diff? (Supper and Dinner)?
Dinner and supper are both used to refer to the main meal of the day, and especially to that meal as eaten in the evening. Supper is used especially when the meal is an informal one eaten at home, while dinner tends to be the term chosen when the meal is more formal.

A Message From Mr. John (Ear bugs):

Half Birthdays:

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 23 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, Serbo-Croation)

Know Your Languages (Serbo-Croation): Audio only

Enrichments (Music):

Measuring and Recording Data:

Peek In The Classroom:

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Ancient Egypt

Letter Of The Week- U u

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bet

Next Language is Cebuano

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: Division without borrowing (static)

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Division with borrowing (dynamic)

Synonym Of The Week: Appropriate:  Suitable, fitting, apropos, correct, proper

Sight Words Of The Week:  would about

Upcoming Events:
A few days off and other stuff.

DAYS OFF:
-No School: Friday, February 17th (Teacher In Service day)
-No School: Monday, February 20th (President’s Day)

OTHER STUFF:
Akron Art Museum Field Trip:  Thursday, March 9 (from 9am to 12pm)  IT IS FREE! (Details To Follow)

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Your Kids say The Darndest Things (Cupcakes):

Buckeye Room Bulletin

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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.

Did you know? (I Really Don’t Know Clouds, At All)…One of my guilty pleasures. Originally written by Joni Mitchell at age 23 she stated that her lyrics were way beyond her years. Lyrically this is an awesome song. I digress   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPoWpkBzmM
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.
Clouds are not as light and fluffy as they appear. In fact, researchers have found that a single clouds weigh more than 1.1 million pounds. How do they know? Well, that number is calculated by taking the water density of a cloud and multiplying it by its volume. Fortunately, the cloud can still “float” at that weight because the air below it is even heavier.

A Message From Mr. John: Audio Only video Not Working

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)

Know Your Languages (Polish): Audio Only video Not working

Chinese New Year: ( (新年好) /Mandarin)  |  ( 恭喜发财/Cantonese)

Peek In The Classroom:

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 Serbo-Croation

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: Subtraction with borrowing (dynamic)

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Division without borrowing (static).

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

Sight Words Of The Week:  more these

Upcoming Events:
A few days off and other stuff.

DAYS OFF:
-No School: Friday, February 17th (Teacher In Service day)
-No School: Monday, February 20th (President’s Day)

OTHER STUFF:
Akron Art Museum Field Trip:  Thursday, March 9 (from 9am to 12pm)  IT IS FREE! (Details To Follow)

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Your Kids say The Darndest Things (The Boy Who Loved Cheesecake):
reminds me of this…… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9inOtq0Ayek

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

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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 intestine take nutrients out of our food and large intestine gets the remaining water from indigestible food and creates waste (poop)(that word produced laughter) or as I referred to a bowel movement.  The kidneys process excess water and creates pee (more laughter) or urine.  The liver removes toxins from the body. We found out that the largest organ of the human body is the epidermis.  The liver is my fave internal organ.  What is yours?

A Message From Mr. John (Perception of time): AUDIO ONLY VIDEO NOT WORKING

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) 

Know your Languages (Dutch/Flemmish): AUDIO ONLY VIDEO NOT WORKING

Did You Know?:
Dead skin cells are the main ingredient for household dust.
Here’s an interesting science fact for you: According to researchers at Imperial College London, humans shed around 200 million skin cells each hour—and they have to go somewhere when we’re indoors and it becomes dust.

Grandparents Day:

Enrichments (Sign Language):

Peek In The Classroom:

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Pollution and Recycling

Letter Of The Week- S s

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bup

Next Language is Polish

Academic Enrichment:
Subtraction without borrowing (Static). We also learned the terms of subtraction.
9 (minuend) – 4 (subtrahend) = 5 (difference)

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Subtraction with borrowing (Dynamic).

Synonym Of The Week: skinny

Sight Words Of The Week:  other some

Upcoming Events:
A few days off and other stuff.

DAYS OFF:
-No School: Friday, February 17th (Teacher In Service day)
-No School: Monday, February 20th (President’s Day)

OTHER STUFF:
-Readiness Conferences (Incoming Kindergarten Students/Incoming First Graders):
(Details To Follow)

Akron Art Museum Field Trip:  Thursday, March 9 (from 9am to 12pm)  IT IS FREE! (Details To Follow)

Frolic, Friends, and Fun:

Your Kids say The Darndest Things (My sister Lydia):

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

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Skeletal System- 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.

A Message From Mr. John (The Food Thief):

Did You Know?
If you chill your onions you won’t cry when you cut them…..

There’s nothing worse than chopping and onion and bursting into tears. Not because you’re sad for the onion, but because your eyes sting from a chemical reaction. A simple solution is to stick your onion in the freezer for about 15 minutes beforehand. This will prevent the acid enzymes working properly and stop you from tears! ***** P.S. It doesn’t work. I tried it and still felt like I got pepper sprayed *****

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 19 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) 

Know Your Languages (Welsh):

Enrichments (Science):

Peek In Our Week:

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Internal Organs

Letter Of The Week- R r

Rhyming Word Of The Week- but

Next Language is Dutch/Flemmish

Academic Enrichment aka Kindergarten:
This Week’s Theme: Multiplication, stamp game with and without carrying overs (including 0).

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Subtraction (without borrowing)

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

Sight Words Of The Week: first  than

Upcoming Events:
Grandparent’s Day: January 26, 2023

No School: Friday, February 17 (Teacher In Service day)
No School: Monday, February 20 (President’s Day)

Fun, Frolic, And Friends:

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (My brother Theo):

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

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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.

Below is a picture after the skit where everyone can sit where they want.  The thumbs up means the students approve.

Food For Thought:
Deliveries from a “car” is a shipment but deliveries from a ship is cargo.

A Message From Mr. John (Ear Wax):

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 19 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) 

Know Your Languages (Kiswahili):

Enrichment (Science):

Peek In The Classroom:

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Skeletal System

Letter Of The Week- Q q

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bub

Next Language is Welsh

Academic Enrichment aka Kindergarten:
We learned how to multiply with manipulatives with carry overs.

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Multiplication With Other Materials

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

Sight Words Of The Week: now made

Upcoming Events:
*** MLK DAY January 16, 2023 ***  NO SCHOOL ***
***Don’t be that family that shows up and there is always one family that shows up, lol! ***

Grandparents Day: Thursday, January 26

Frolic, Friends, and Fun:

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (Playing Outside):

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

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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 iand 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!!!!

         

The Collage of Disgust!

A Message From Mr. John (Things Are Running Smoothly):

January Birthdays/Half Birthdays:
A Montessori classroom consists of students ranging in age from three years to six years.  Here is our newest three and six year old students abd some half birthdays.

Did You Know?
Animals that lay eggs do not have belly buttons.
It is where the umbilical cord attaches to the baby inside the mother’s womb. The umbilical cord provides nutrients from a mother to a baby mammal, allowing the baby to grow from a fetus to a full-grown baby ready to be born. In egg-laying animals, the baby never grows inside the mother, and therefore there is no need for the umbilical cord to form and nutrients to be passed along from mother to offspring. This means the bellybutton never forms.

Know Your Languages (Irish):

Cultural Subjects: Your children can now count to ten in 16 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic in the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish)

Alumni Readers:

Peek In The Classroom:

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:
*** MLK DAY Monday January 16, 2022 ***  NO SCHOOL ***
***Don’t be that family that shows up and there is always one family that shows up, lol! ***

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme:
We learned how to multiply w/o carry overs with manipulatives. We learned what the Multiplicand, Multiplier, and Product are.

5(multiplicand) x 3(multiplier) = 15(product)

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Multiplication with with carry overs

Synonym Of The Week: Sick: weak, unhealthy, ailing, infected, frail

Sight Words Of The Week: could who

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Your Kids Say the Darndest Things: (Pets are people too)

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

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We are practicing our lines and practicing the songs for the Christmas Show.

Did You Know?
Shrimp have their hearts inside of their heads. That would have helped me with relationships in my 20s and….. 50s. LOL 

A Message Mr. John (A domesticated animal):

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

Peek In The Classroom:

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- 5 Senses

Letter Of The Week- O o

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bug

Language Of The Week: Irish

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme:
Addition with the Stamp Game (Static/No carry overs and Dynamic/Carry Overs)

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Multiplication with Golden Beads (Static/No Carry Overs)

Synonym Of The Week: Healthy: hearty, athletic, sound, strong, fit

Sight Words Of The Week:  come number

Upcoming Events:
Christmas Break: Monday, December 19. Returning Tuesday January 3

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things ():

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

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We are practicing our lines and practicing the songs for the Christmas Show.

Did You Know?
Urine used to be used as a detergent? Yuck! In the past, urine was used to wash clothes because of its ammonia content, which helped get out tough stains. Still, some people might prefer having a dirty shirt than one that stank of wee!

A Message Mr. John (What Is Different?):

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

St. Nicholas Day (St. Nicholas visits the school):

Grace and Courtesy:

Peek In The Classroom:

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Practicing For The Christmas Show

Letter Of The Week- No Letter Of The Week

Rhyming Word Of The Week- No Rhyming Word Of The Week

No new languages until the next year

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme:
Addition with the Golden Beads (Dynamic/Carry Overs)

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Addition with other materials (Dynamic/Carry Overs)

Synonym Of The Week: No Synonyms

Sight Words Of The Week:  No Sight Words

Upcoming Events:
Christmas Show Rehearsal: Wednesday, December 14 at 6pm to 7pm (not a dress rehearsal).

Christmas Show: Friday, December 16.  Arrive at 5:30pm (take your children to the restroom.  Even if they say they do not have to go!)

Christmas Break: Monday, December 19. Returning Tuesday January 3

Friends, Frolic, and Fun: