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.
Why do your fingers wrinkle in water?
For a long time, people thought the water caused skin to swell up and get puffy. Now researchers believe wrinkly fingers could be an autonomic nervous system reaction. … Because it’s easier to pick up wet objects with wrinkly fingers. Wrinkles on your fingers may give you more grip, kind of like treads on a car tire.
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).
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 Cebuano
Upcoming Events:
Akron Art Museum Field Trip: March 12, Thursday. Forms and emails sent.
Spring Break: Friday, March 20th returning Monday March 30th
Friends, Frolic, and Fun:
Academic Enrichment Weekly Theme:
The kindergartners learned about fractions this week. We learned what that a numerator is the number on the top in a fraction that shows how many parts are taken from the whole number and Denominator is the number on the bottom of a fraction that represents the total number. We broke down fractions using circles, squares, triangles, and how many boy/girls were in the classroom.
Handwriting:
We practiced writing in cursive writing sentences (sometimes silly sentences).
Cultural Subjects:
We now can count to ten in 24 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).
Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Telling Time to the hour
Synonym Of The Week: Good: pleasant, fine, honorable, wonderful, valuable
Sight Words Of The Week: write them
Language Of The Week: Hindi