Lessons: Conjunctions- a word used to connect clauses or sentences. It acts like a bridge. We focused on and, but, or.
Cultural Subjects: We can now count to ten in 28 different 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, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish).
Next Week:
Line Time: Prepositions
Sight Words of the Week: None planned due to International Festival practice
Synonym of the Week: None planned due to International Festival practice
Line Time: This week we got a big jump on learning our song for the International Festival and learning our lines for the show.
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 25 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, and Malay).
Trivia Question: In high school my football jersey was number 86. Why did I chose this number? This is a tough one!
Hint: My biggest life influences were music, television, and movies.
For those of you who are interested I played wide receiver/flanker and defensive backs position for the Amherst Fighting Comets.
Guest Reader:
Pastor Kirk reads “We Don’t Eat Our Classmates” A story about how others feel.
Peek In Our Classroom:
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. To use the Vowel Tree: Have the child take two consonants from small pieces of paper . Place one consonant in front of the letter “a” and one after. Have the child say the word that is formed, combining the first two letters into one blended sound. Then have them slide the letters down to the next vowel and say the word. Continue all the way down the tree. For the purposes of this work, they can say a word even if it’s a “nonsense” word, just for the practice of saying the vowel sounds.
This is a sorting material found in the Sensorial are. There are nine compartments and nine colors (each color has a different shades). Each color gets its own compartment.
The Montessori Pink Series is a set of language cards that represent a CVC/ word and have a matching index card. The Pink Rhyming material uses three letter/short vowel sounds.
This child is working on the United States Puzzle Map. What she has done is trace the individual state/piece and is coloring and identifying the state.
Next Week: Line Time- International Festival Preparation
Letter Of The Week- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Rhyming Word Of The Week- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Next Language will be- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Snack will be brought to you by Dorothy
Upcoming Events:
(((((((((( Easter Monday NO SCHOOL Monday 4/22/2019 ))))))))))
International Festival Practice, Wednesday, May 1st | Cuyahoga Falls High School, 6pm-7pm
International Festival, Friday, May 3rd | Cuyahoga Falls High School, 5:30pm | Early Dismissal 12 Noon
—Moms and Muffins, Friday May 10th, 7am to 7:45am—
Fun, Frolic, and Friends:
It was time to clean and she was angry she had to stop her work.
Are they real or fake specs?
A great pose by these two and a sneaky photo bomb by one.
Line Time: This week we got a big jump on learning our song for the International Festival and learning our lines for the show.
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 25 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, and Malay).
Random Thought: There were a few things that disappointed me as a child and one thing was the misrepresentation or false marketing of cereal. For instance Grape Nuts. I expected a sweet grape flavored cereal and all I got was cereal that was hard as rocks and without flavor. Grape Nuts, right! More like Gravel Nuts. In the 1970’s Ralston create the Chex Mix line (Rice, Wheat, and Corn). They were marketed beautifully with vibrant blue, red and yellow colored boxes and pictures of plump blueberries, strawberries, and bananas. Then you tasted the cereal and it tasted similar to what the box they were stored in or what I imagined the box would taste like. The only remedy to stomach these cereals was to pour a half of a cup of sugar on the cereal. #tooth decay
See the below picture ant tell me what a six year old kid is expecting.
Peek In Our Classroom:
This student is working on the color bead bars that is found in the math area The direct aim for this work is the color bead stair clearly distinguishes each number up to 9 as separate entities of differing quantities. The bead bars that compose it facilitate the construction of the numbers from 11 to 19 and show respectively their relation to the quantity of 10.
She is working on the metal insets and found in the language area. The metal insets have many purposes. these aims are but not limited to…. **Grip and hold the pencil (and hold the pencil upright) **Refine hand control to steady the pencil **Develop movements of straight and curved lines, in preparation for letter formation or a continual line which can assist with cursive **Develop hand-eye coordination, to make small coordinated movements Experience the result of pressure on the pencil (light and dark) **Experience graduation of color **Develop fine muscles in the hand but also the larger muscles required for sitting and maintaining posture for writing Focus the mind, **Develop and strengthen the child’s concentration **Make movements up and down and left to right (when filling in or shading), this is significant when reading and writing Practice order **Repetition, and memory recall **Develop geometric sense including the name of each shape, how it is constructed, how it looks when turned or moved, how it relates to other shapes **Develop the ability to plan and carry out artistic designs. #WeReally Got Our Money Worth
This scene depicts an older student helping a younger student put on their shoes. In a Montessori classroom the older children naturally have the need to help others.
This scene captures students working on a variety of materials. The back upper right a student is working on the continent puzzle map which teaches the location of the seven continents. In the upper left two students help each other with a United States puzzle. In the foreground this student is working with a rhyming work that focuses consonant blends such as BLOCK, clock.. TRUCK, stuck. Children learn the phonic sounds of each letter and then begin reading words within word families. Children that have been exposed to rhyming can hear the similarities in words which aids them in early reading and spelling skills! And my big ole knee is present in this pic.
Next Week: Line Time- International Festival Preparation
Letter Of The Week- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Rhyming Word Of The Week- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Next Language will be- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Snack will be brought to you by Katie
Upcoming Events:
(((((((((( Easter Monday NO SCHOOL Monday 4/22/2019 ))))))))))
International Festival Practice Wednesday, May 1st | Cuyahoga Falls High School, 6pm-7pm
International Festival Friday, May 3rd | Cuyahoga Falls High School, 5:30pm | Early Dismissal 12 Noon
—Moms and Muffins, Friday May 10th, 7am to 7:45am—
Fun, Frolic, and Friends:
You should the other guy.
What’s a little chocolate pudding on your face among friends.
Just some happy students in Mr.John’s classroom!
Frazzled at the end of the day. We really work our students.
Line Time: This week we started our International Festival blitz by looking at landmarks close to home and learning a little bit about our home state. Ohio has a lot of official “things”. For instance: The official…
Tree- Buckeye
Nickname- Buckeye State
Flower- Scarlet Carnation
Insect- Lady Bug
Drink- Tomato Juice
Rock and Roll Song- Hang On Sloopy
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 25 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, and Malay).
April Birthdays: The Montessori classroom is made up of 2 1/2 to 6 year olds. Here are the newest 4 and 5 year old students.
Peek In Our Classroom:
These two boys are working with one of the science bins. This bin is the bone bin that includes a cow femure and a small nocturnal skull (not sure of the animal).
This student is putting away her work/material. Notice her concentration and how particular she is placing the materials exactly how she found them.
This student is working on the 9 tray that is a math work. She is identifying the symbols/numbers,
These two girls are working on the United States Puzzle Map. The purpose is to identify the shape and location of the states. Also, the small white knobs help with fine motor skills.
Next Week: Line Time- International Festival Preparation
Letter Of The Week- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Rhyming Word Of The Week- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Next Language will be- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Snack will be brought to you by Lily B.
Upcoming Events:
International Festival Practice Wednesday, May 1st
International Festival Friday, May 3rd
(((((((((( Easter Monday NO SCHOOL Monday 4/22/2019 ))))))))))
Fun, Frolic, and Friends:
I love these shirts . She decided to do half yellow and half silver.
Same color outfits and forced to take a picture.
The two boys with glasses. I tell them to smile and see what I get?
I absolutely love when students celebrate science day!
I absolutely love when students celebrate donut day!
She begged me to take her picture. How could I refuse?
Since last week was an abbreviated week and I caught a nasty stomach bug and was on the edge of death this blog will be a little sparse. Next week I will resume with a normal blog.
Line Time: This week we took a look at life cycles of humans, frogs/toads, and butterflies/moths. Humans have relatively boring life cycle compared to the butterfly/moth and toad/frog. We are born, we live, we die. YAWWWWN. The toad and frog start with being jelly eggs in the water. They hatch into tadpoles and eat algae, then they turn into a froglet which has a head of a frog and a tail. Then the tail falls off and an adult frog/toad lives the rest of its life on land. The butterfly/moth starts as an egg. The a caterpillar is hatched and it eats A LOT. Then a butterfly spins its chrysalis/ moth spins a cocoon. Then a buttery comes out of its chrysalis and moth comes out of the cocoon. I posed the question “which came first the egg or the butterfly?”
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 26 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi).
Peek In Our Classroom: Nothing to see here folks. Come back next week.
Next Week: Line Time- Landmarks of Ohio and The USA
Letter Of The Week- None planned due to International Festival practice
Rhyming Word Of The Week- None planned due to International Festival practice
Next Language will be- None planned due to International Festival practice
Snack will be brought to you by Logan Gall
Upcoming Events:
######## International Festival Country Sign Up is on the classroom door ########
——– Spring Pictures Wednesday 4/3/2019 ———-
******** Dads and Donuts Friday 4/5/2019 7:00am to 7:45am *******
((((((( Spring Break week of 3/21/2019 [Thursday] to 3/29/2019. ))))))
(((( Returning [Monday] 4/1/2019 ))))
(((((((((( Easter Monday NO SCHOOL Monday 4/22/2019 ))))))))))
Fun, Frolic, and Friends: Under construction. We will be back soon.
Line Time: We had fun this week looking into the world of art. We went over the primary and secondary colors. We learned there are different ways to create art such as, drawing with pencils, coloring with crayons, and painting. We looked at artists such as Michael Angelo, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol.
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 25 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, and Malay).
Art Museum Field Trip:
St. Patty’s Day:
The annual visit from Shawn O’Keefe the cheeky leprechaun that messes up the room but leaves candy for the children (and teachers).
Peek In Our Classroom:
The ever so popular and visually appealing and engaging Pink Tower. The Pink Tower is a the corner stone material from the Sensorial Area of the Montessori classroom. The Pink Tower, iconic to the Montessori classroom, embodies the direct and indirect purpose of most Montessori materials. Stacking the cubes calls for visual discrimination, coordination, and precision. Indirectly, a child is preparing himself or herself for understanding cubed roots in later math. Here the students are working on an extension of finding the relationship between the pink tower and brown stairs.
This student is working on the Ten Board and is in the second phase of this work. Phase 1 is to place the appropriate number of ten bead bars next to the number. The correlation between quantity and symbol. Phase 2 is to compose numbers by adding units. Do you see the pattern she has discovered and do you see the look of concentration on her face.
This student is working with the Knobless Cylinders found in the sensorial area. The purposes of this work is grading by size, to train the eye to perceive fine differences in dimensions, to recognize difference and similarities (when using more than one set), and co-ordination of movement. Do you see how she is finding the relationship of the three colors?
The Metal Insets are a delightful way for the child to prepare for writing. Holding a colored pencil to carefully trace shapes helps a child develop the fine motor control needed to write small letters. Creating patterns and designs is a secondary goal, but also increases a child’s ability to manipulate a pencil.
Next Week: Line Time- Life Cycles
Letter Of The Week- Y y
Rhyming Word Of The Week- bac
Next Language will be- Hindi
Snack will be brought to you by Stella S.
Upcoming Events:
######## International Festival Country Sign Up is on the classroom door ########
——– Spring Pictures Wednesday 4/3/2019 ———-
******** Dads and Donuts Friday 4/5/2019 7:00am to 7:45am *******
((((((( Spring Break week of 3/21/2019 [Thursday] to 3/29/2019. ))))))
(((( Returning [Monday] 4/1/2019 ))))
(((((((((( Easter Monday NO SCHOOL Monday 4/22/2019 ))))))))))
Fun, Frolic, and Friends:
I have not had a haircut in awhile in hopes to catch up to these two boys.
Line Time: The month started off by going back in time and studying the Ancient Romans. The Ancient Romans had similar Gods as the Ancient Greeks. The king of all Gods in Rome was Jupiter and his wife Juno who was the Goddess of Marriage and childbirth. Pluto was the God of the Underworld, Neptune was the God of the Seas, and finally we came across the God of War, Mars. Did you notice that a lot of these Gods had planets named after them?
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 24 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, and Cebuano ).
The Paz:
Pastor Kirk reading The Kissing Hand where a mother’s kiss sticks to her son’s hand and he gets a kiss from that kiss on his hand when he is lonely.
Dental Hygienist Visitor:
We had a Dental Hygienist visit and she discussed what is good and bad for your teeth.
Peek In Our Classroom:
This student is working on the Teen Board. This work focuses on the correlation between quantity and symbol of the teen numbers. Some students have difficulty identifying the number 11, 12, 13, and 15 since they do not follow the rules that 14, 16, 17, 18, 19 follow. It is not “two teen, three teen, five teen”
She is working on the Second Introduction to Decimals (exchanging). This gives the child the concept that 10 ones equals 1 ten, 10 tens equals a hundred, 10 hundreds equal a thousand. This also prepares the child to recognize the different columns ( unit column, ten column, hundred column, and thousand column).
This boy had an impromptu urge to do some house cleaning. He voluntarily started to dust the shelves. This is an example of Care of the Environment: this child became aware of the accumulation of dust and is helped to dust independently.
One of the great things about the Montessori materials is the extension. These extensions give the student the opportunity to revisit works. They create interesting shapes and find the relationship between two or more materials. This student discovered the relationship between the knobbed cylinders and knobbless cylinders.
Next Week: Line Time- Art
Letter Of The Week- X x
Rhyming Word Of The Week- bel
Next Language will be- Malay
Snack will be brought to you by Harper G.
Upcoming Events:
***** Bring Your Parent To School ***** follow the link to sing up https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a8a92da6f94-mrjohns9
<<<<<< Akron Art Museum Field Trip March 14, Thursday in the morning >>>>>>
(((((((((( Spring Break week of 3/25/2019 to 3/29/2019. Returning Monday, 4/1/2019 ))))))))))
###### International Festival sign up on my classroom door. ######
Fun, Frolic, and Friends:
These glasses are just a fashion statement. hehe Another photo bomb?
Line Time: 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.
Greek Warrior and Wisdom Goddess Ashlie came to visit.
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 23 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, and Serbo-Croation).
This is what I think about: Sometimes I wonder the amount of weight staples and paper clips are manufactured in a year. How is the measurement of the manufacturing of staples? By unit (and would that unit be 1 individual staple or is a unit a sleeve or box) or by weight? If anyone can enlighten me it will eliminate many sleepless nights.
Peek In Our Classroom:
Ms. Ashlie giving a presentation on the knobbed cylinders. The knobbed cylinders are the first materials to be presented in the sensorial area. They contain 4 blocks, each containing 10 cylinders with knobs, each cylinder fitting into its respective hole. The direct aim is visual discrimination. The indirect aims are preparation for writing; coordination of the fingers used to hold the pencil. Also refinement of voluntary movement. The child will be able to fit the cylinders with one precise movement. Preparation for mathematics.
These students are working with one of my science bins which happens to the rock bin. As you can see one student is using a magnifying glass to better see the texture of the rock.
This child is working on the 9 tray. He has already mastered identifying and composing numbers from 1 to 9,999. Now he is using this material for doing addition. For the sum he got 7,777. What did you get?
This girl is working on color box 3 which the aim is visual discrimination but she discovered what we call an extension. Montessori extension lessons offer additional experiences that increasingly become more complex and abstract than the baseline concept. She described this extension as a rainbow sun.
Next Week: Line Time- Ancient Rome
Letter Of The Week- W w
Rhyming Word Of The Week- beg
Next Language will be- Cebuano
Snack will be brought to you by Morgan
Upcoming Events:
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^^^^^^ Pre K and Pre Elementary conferences ^^^^^
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<<<<<< Akron Art Museum Field Trip March 14, Thursday in the morning >>>>>>
(((((((((( Spring Break week of 3/25/2019 to 3/29/2019. Returning 4/1/2019 ))))))))))
Fun, Frolic, and Friends:
Stickers on their lips, closely dressed, too cute.
Get a load of this giant strawberry.
Eeeww pink hands
This boy was showing me his treasure map he made. Then poof! More photo bombing.
Line Time: 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.
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 21 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, and Polish).
RIP Peter Tork:
Guest Reader:
Pastor Kirk reading the book The Three Horrible Pigs. It was about being nice to others.
Peek In Our Classroom:
This student is working on geometry. The aim is the discrimination of form, to provide the child with the key to orient himself in the world of shapes.
I gave this student the responsibility of putting this set of books in order.
This student is working in her work binder. She is practicing her handwriting.
These student are working with the sound cylinders. The purpose of this work is to make the child consciously aware of sounds and to train the ear to distinguish similar sounds.
Next Week: Line Time- Ancient Greece
Letter Of The Week- V v
Rhyming Word Of The Week- ben
Next Language will be- Serbo-Croation
Snack will be brought to you by
Upcoming Events:
***** Bring Your Parent To School ***** follow the link to sing up https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a8a92da6f94-mrjohns9
<<<<<< Akron Art Museum Field Trip March 14, Thursday in the morning >>>>>>
(((((((((( Spring Break week of 3/25/2019 to 3/29/2019. Returning 4/1/2019 ))))))))))
Fun, Frolic, and Friends:
I am not really sure what I was taking a picture of before I got photo bombed.
Line Time: 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.
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 21 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, and Dutch/Flemmish )
Valentine Party:
Momma son loveSibling Valentine love!
Peek In Our Classroom:
The aim of this work, cards and counters, is to solidify quantity and symbol. Another aim is to identify odd and even numbers. Notice how every other number/counters are staggered?
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.
Color Box 1 primary purpose is to identify and match the primary colors. If you notice the dots on the edge of the tablets the students and teachers are to line the dots. This an extension to enhance concentration and focus.
These buddies are working with one of the science bins (rocks). This bin has the physical rocks, a book to find the rockes, and a magnifying glass to see the texture of the rocks better.
Next Week: Line Time- Ancient Egypt
Letter Of The Week- U u
Rhyming Word Of The Week- bet
Next Language will be- Polish
Snack will be brought to you by Khoury
Upcoming Events:
(((((((((((( Open House February 24, Sunday 2pm to 4pm )))))))))))
***** Bring Your Parent To School ***** follow the link to sing up https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a8a92da6f94-mrjohns9
<<<<<< Akron Art Museum Field Trip March 14, Thursday in the morning >>>>>>
—–Recess attire…. winter coat, hat, gloves or mittens that are waterproof (not cloth or yarn), boots, and snow pants!
If the child does not have one or all of these items they may be asked to stay in.
