Construction Boxes: The students used the constructive triangles in these boxes to learn that all plane geometric figures can be constructed from triangles. They worked with two different rectangular boxes, a triangle box, and a large and a small hexagon box. Each box they used contained triangles of different sizes, shapes, and colors. They used the boxes to explore and set a foundation for later concepts such as equivalency, similarity, and congruency.
A Peek at Our Week | Ms. Courtney’s Classroom | Week of March 19th
Butterflies and Caterpillars: The students learned that butterflies are insects. They also discovered that a butterfly’s life cycle is made up of four parts, egg, larva (caterpillars), pupa (chrysalis) and adult. We talked about how an adult butterfly will eventually emerge from the chrysalis where it will wait a few hours for its wings to fill with blood and dry, before flying for the first time. The students learned that butterflies often have brightly colored wings with unique patterns (symmetric). We read about how most butterflies feed on nectar from flowers and have taste receptors on their feet.
Work Time
Guest Readers
Reminders
March 26 – April 2 | Spring Break
A Peek into Science | 3/12 and 3/19 | Tallmadge Campus
Germination: We talked about how germination is the process of seeds developing into new plants. They learned how certain conditions need to meet in order for this process to take place. We discussed how there needs to be a lot of water so the seed can fill up starting the imbibition process. Which is where the water activates special proteins, called enzymes, that begin the process of the seed growth.
Week 1
Week 2
Peek In Our Week | Mr. John’s Class | Week of March 12, 2018
Line Time:
We had fun this week looking into the world of art. Most of the lessons were a review of what Ms. Renee had taught the students. 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.
Peek In Our Classroom:
Absorbent Minds Montessori School has a relationship with the University of Akron where Field Students come into the room. This week they are working with their “Roo Buddy” on letter recognition and letter sounds.
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can count to ten in 25 different languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo Croation, Cebuano, and Malay).
Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time Lesson- Landmarks of USA/The State Of Ohio
Letter Of The Week- Y y
Rhyming Word Of The Week- bac
Adding The Language Of Hindi
Upcoming Events:
Spring Break 3/26 to 4/2, returning 4/3/2018
Pizza Lunch 3/23/2018 (Friday). You do not have to bring a lunch !!!! Also pajama day and show and tell.
Dads and Donuts 4/6/2018 (Friday) 7am to 7:45am
Peek In Our Week | Academic Enrichment, Cuyahoga Falls | Week Of 3/12/2018
Lessons:
This week we learned about nouns and verbs. A noun is a person, place , or thing. A verb is an action word or something that you do.
Cultural Subjects:
We can now count to ten in 27 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, and Farsi).
Next week:
Line Time: Articles and the Rules of Articles
Sight Words of the Week: have this
Synonym of the Week: Mean
Adding Language of Turkish
A Peek at Our Week | Elementary | Week of March 12
“The greatest gift we can give our children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” -Maria Montessori
This week we have worked to prepare for the Science Fair. Students have finished collecting data and keeping track of their plants. We have started compiling our information for our trifold boards and some have completed their displays. We are practicing what we will say to visitors to our projects and are excited to show what we know! This week we also enjoyed a trip to the Lake Metro Parks Farmpark. We learned a lot about portion size and why we should put fresh food into our bodies instead of processed food and follow the best healthy delicious premium menus. We had two more kindergarten visitors that we were excited to help!
A Peek into Next Week
Next week, Lower Elementary students will continue work with polygons, will discuss pronouns, and will review Geographic Features. Third year students will continue measurement lessons by baking bread for the classroom! Fourth year students will do math with binomials and trinomials and will continue their bacteria studies.
REMINDERS:
- Tuesday, March 20 – Elementary Science Fair from 6-7 pm. Please invite your friends and family! We will also be having a Bake Sale to raise money for our Hydroponic System! Let me know if you will be able to send in baked goods to contribute to our Sale.
- Wednesday, March 21 – Pizza Party for Box Tops. The Elementary Classroom collected the most Box Tops and are celebrating with pizza (gluten-free will be available for those that need it) for lunch. We will also be having a dress-up day. Our students voted to dress as movie characters. Following the same rules we have for Halloween, please no scary characters, weapons, or masks.
- Friday, March 23 – Pajama Day. Your child may wear pajamas for the day and bring a board game for the afternoon. We will not be having gym this day.
- Monday, March 26 – Monday, April 2 – SPRING BREAK
- Friday, April 6 – Dads and Donuts
A Peek Into Reading Group
These last two weeks, we read a story called The Tin Forest. It was about an old man who lived far away from anyone and lived amongst trash. At night he would dream about a beautiful forest with plants and animals. He decided one day to build the forest of his dreams out of the trash. The students got to participate in vocabulary activities to enhance their understanding of the words, discuss questions about the strory, and complete writing prompts. They really enjoyed acting out the scene where the old man builds the forest out of trash.
A Peek Into Next Week
-The students will listen to a poem about a stormy night.
-The students will learn vocab words: howling, prowling, and whine.
-The students will to write their own poem.
Academic Enrichment | week of March 12th | Tallmadge
Geometric Solids: The kindergarten students learned the names for all ten of the geometric wooden solids: triangular prism, rectangular prism, cube, cylinder, cone, triangular pyramid, square pyramid, sphere, ellipsoid and ovoid.
A peak into next week: Construction boxes
A Peek at Our Week | Ms. Courtney’s Classroom | Week of March 12th
Plants and Flowers: We learned how plants grow in many places: parks, forests, yards, fields, deserts, lakes etc. We also discussed how all plants need sunlight, water, air and food to grow. The children learned the different parts of plants and their purposes. For example the stem helps move food and nutrients through the plant or flower in order for it to grow.
Work Time
Guest Reader
Reminders
March 23 | Pajama and Show N Tell Day
March 23 | Bring Your Parent to Work Time
March 26 – April 2 | Spring Break
A peak into next week: Butterflies and Caterpillars
Take A Peek Into Our Week/Ms.Kate/March 15, 2018
This week our class was getting ready for our field trip to the Art Museum . We had fun learning about different artists,such as Vincent Van Gough, Andy Warhol, Monet, Picasso, and Jean Michel Basquiat. The children learned about their art work,the meaning behind them, how the artists lived and where you can find their paintings. Ms. Ame had fun doing different crafts with them and showing videos.
Take A Peek Into Next Week:
Next week is all about Spring. They will learn all about what happens in spring, the different life cycles that happen during this time, the weather, flowers, and much much more!