Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

Line Time:
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 calm before the storm. Drinking sugar water (sweet).

Then BOOOOM! Unsweetened baking chocolate that is representing bitter!

I present to you the collage of disgust.

A Message From Mr. John:

January 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.

Did You Know?

Dolphins are known to be one of the smartest animals on the planet—possibly because they can conserve their brain power. Because they must be constantly on the lookout for predators, the marine mammals have developed a neat trick of maintaining partial consciousness even as part of their brain sleeps. Researchers have tested whether this “half sleep” negatively impacts the animals’ alertness during the day, but have found that even after five days of having their nocturnal alertness constantly tested, they’ve remained as alert and perceptive as ever. ******* Sleep With One Eye open. Clutching Your Pillow Tight. Enter light….. ******** Who knows that song?

Know Your Languages:

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)

Academic Enrichment: (Science)

How much water can a diaper hold? One of these children found out not more than 5.5 cups and got a wet head.

Peek In The Classroom:

One of my Kindergarten students decided to write a book called “The Life Of A Frog”

Girls working on a phonics worksheet and a photobomb

If it ain’t messy it ain’t fun. Using shaving cream to practice handwriting.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- MLK/diversity

Letter Of The Week- P p

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bun

Next Language is Irish

Upcoming Events:

Pajama Day and Show and Tell Friday January 14, 2021, No weapons and girls wear shorts under nightgowns

*** MLK DAY Monday January 17, 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)