This past week we talked about the five food groups: fruits, vegetables, dairy, proteins, and grains. The students learned about MyPlate which is a healthy guide that shows how much to eat from each food group every day. As a group the children created a MyPlate chart and listed a variety of foods in each group. They also talked about how being active plays a big part of being healthy. The students learned that they should get at least one hour of exercise daily and eat healthy foods to live a healthy life.
A peek into next week: Pilgrims and Indians
Kindergarten: Addition
This week the kindergarten students used the stamp game to discover that when you put two small numbers together (addends) you get a larger number (sum) and that this process is called addition.
“There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” -Mahatma Ghandi
Today is our last day with Ms. Marlee. We want to thank her for all of her time and patience helping and teaching in our rooms. We will cherish our memories of all of her lessons, rap skills, and dance moves. We hope she cherishes all the moments we have forced her to love Harry Potter and insects. We love you, Ms. Marlee, and can’t wait for your next visit. Best of luck!
Weekly Theme: This weeek the K-kids did addition with carry overs (dynamic) using the manipulatives of the Golden Beads. Did you know the two numbers added together are called addends and the answer is called the sum?
Handwriting: We practiced writing in cursive vowel blends of ua, ue, ui, uo, uu.
Cultural Subjects: We now can count to ten in 17 languages (English, Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian).
Next Week: Weekly Theme: Addition with other materials
Synonym Of The Week: BIG, vast, gigantic, huge, large, enormous, colossal
This week in science class, Mr. John taught us about surface tension! We poured some pepper into a bowl of water, and then placed a cotton swab covered in dish soap into the bowl. We observed the pepper move away from the dish soap. Thank you for such a fun science class!
Line Time: This week we learned about insects and arachnids. Creepy Crawly, creepy crawly creepy creep creepy crawly (reminds me of The Who song, Boris The Spider). When we went over the five animals all of them were vertebrates (having a backbone and spine) but looking at Insects and arachnids they were invertebrates (no back bone or spine). Most had what we call an exoskeleton which is the skeleton is on the outside. This gives the creature support and protection. We learned insects have a head, thorax, and abdomen, six legs, and two antennae. We sang the characteristics of an insect to the tune of Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes. Some insects are ants, bees, and butterflies. Arachnids have a head and abdomen, and eight legs. Some examples of arachnids are spiders, scorpions, ticks and mites.
Did You Know: Since it is the season… Did you know there is a difference between apple juice and apple cider? Here is the explanation. Apple cider is made from apples that are washed, cut and ground into an “apple mash” similar to applesauce. The mash is then wrapped in cloth and pressed into fresh juice. On the other hand, apple juice undergoes filtration to remove pulp and is then pasteurized to extend the shelf life.
November Birthdays: A Montessori classroom consists of students ranging in age from three years to six years. Here are our newest four and five year old students.
Grandparent’s Day:
Alumnus Reader:
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).
Peek In The Classroom:
One of my readers is reading the chapter books Billy B. Brown.
Peek Into Next Week: Line Time- Dinosaurs
Letter Of The Week- L l
Rhyming Word Of The Week- bot
Next Language is Korean
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Art enrichments, learning how to listen and follow directions while using simple shapes to create a work of art!
Listening and observing how to draw owls using different types of media. This art class we earned the privilege of using a sharpie to draw our lines and contour for our owls!
Using our sharpies responsibly and drawing our owls. Next step, adding color with water color paints.
Mr. John’s super spooky Halloween science experiment! Fun with dry ice!
Adding our dry ice to water! Whoa, what happened? Bubbling water and lots of fog! How much dry ice can we add to our water? Experimenting and formulating our hypothesis is fun! Science!!
This week the students learned about different types of bats from micro to mega and even found out that there is a bat that is as small as a bumblebee! The students also discovered how and where bats sleep and that they find their food through echolocation. They were amazed to discover that bats are also mammals like them because they: have fur all over their bodies, born alive, drink mothers milk and are warm blooded. The students even learned that bats are nocturnal and that when we are sleeping they are eating all of the insects like mosquitoes, beetles and ants helping humans by stopping the spread of diseases and insects from eating crops.
A peek into next week: Food Groups
Kindergarten: Addition
This week the kindergarten students used the golden beads to discover that when you put two small numbers together (addends) you get a larger number (sum) and that this process is called addition.
“The only thing to fear, is fear itself…and children with Halloween candy.”
Our Halloween Party was a blast! Our students prepared games like pumpkin bowling and balloon hockey. Our decorations group prepared a mummy craft with masking tape and Popsicle stick spider webs. Our food committee planned for us to have Rice Krispy treats and ghost cookies. Our decoration committee did a spooktacular job!
Weekly Theme: This week we started our journey into MATH…. GULP! We started out by composing numbers with beads and symbols then worked our way into doing addition with manipulatives with the nine tray.
Handwriting: We practiced writing in cursive vowel blends of oa, oe, oi, oo, ou.
Cultural Subjects: We now can count to ten in 16 languages (English, Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean).
Next Week: Weekly Theme: Addition manipulatives (Dynamic/Carry Overs)
Synonym Of The Week: OLD: ancient, elderly, used, seasoned, mature