John Kotradi, Author at Absorbent Minds Montessori School Archive

Peek In Our Week ### Thee Buckeye Room ### Week Of 2/10/25 through 2/14/25

Posted on February 15, 2025 at 5:23 pm.

Thee Buckeye Bulletin

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Presidents Of The United States –
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.

Presidents Of The United States Of America (Wasn’t that a 90’s band? Goin to the country. Gunna eat a lot of peaches!)…

Line Time (the other stuff):
Letter Of The Week: U u
Rhyming Word Of The Week: bet

Did You Know(Elephants Can Not Jump)?:

Elephants are unable to jump because their legs are designed for stability and strength, not for jumping. Their bones point downward, which prevents them from springing off the ground. I would of thought it was because of their weight.

A Word From Mr. John(Antiquin’!):

Cultural Subjects:

Foreign Languages:
Your children can now count to ten in 13 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic in the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog).

Know Your Languages (Tagolog):

Specials Spot(Art):

Peek In Our Week:

A proud girl showing off her fine motor skills of tracing, coloring and labeling. Montessori Zoology Puzzles encourage a natural curiosity about animals and the environment. By visually and physically interacting with representations of animals, children become more interested in the different species they encounter in everyday life.

*He is working on the Vowel Tree/Vowel Substitution a pre-reading work. The vowel tree reinforces skills for all learners; tactile learners, auditory learners, and visual learners.*

She is working on the snake game which is a Math material. The Montessori Snake Game aims to enhance children’s memorization of addition combinations and subtraction facts, providing a hands-on approach for them to practice addition with combinations of 10 and subtraction with minuends of 10 or less.

*The older students are taking an assessment of Aimsweb which translates information from the Montessori environment to traditional schools.*

Peek Into Next Week:

Weekly Theme: Preparing for International Festival
Letter Of The Week: Not this week
Rhyming Word Of The Week: Not this week
Next Language is not until International Festival is over.

Academic Enrichment aka Kindergarten:

This Week in Kindergarten: Fractions
Synonym Of The Week: APPROPRIATE- suitable, fitting, apropos, correct, proper
Sight Words Of The Week: would about

Next Week in Kindergarten:
Construction Triangles
Synonym Of The Week: Not this week
Sight Words Of The Week: Not this week

Special Kindergarten Group/SKG:

No SKG this week due to our in-service day.

Future Happenings:

*NO SCHOOL for President’s Day – Monday, February 17th
*Akron Art Museum Field Trip – Friday, March 14th (details to follow) It is FREE!
*International Festival – Friday, March 21 (details to follow)
*NO SCHOOL for Spring Break – March 22 through March 30 {Return Monday March 31}

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

*A very happy Super Bowl win for this excited boy!*

*Yous shoulda seen the other guy. Her words were “I know I look ridiculous.”*

*I was hearing the barrage of “Mr. John, take a picture.” Of course I caved.*

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things(I am a cat):

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Peek In Our Week ()()() Thee Buckeye Class ()()() Week Of 2/3/2025 through 2/7/2025

Posted on February 8, 2025 at 1:46 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Thee Buckeye Bulletin

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Hibernation, Adaptation, Migration-
During the winter months is a great time to learn about Hibernation, Migration, and Adaptation. Migration is seasonal movement of animals from one region to another. Such as all those birds flying south in the Fall. Hibernation is the condition or period of an animal or plant spending the winter in a state of dormancy. Bears and even reptiles and amphibians. Sometimes Mr. John in his man cave with a TV remote in hand. Adaptation is the action or process of being adapted or adapting. Over time animals may develop thicker fur during the colder months or have blubber to keep them warm in arctic weather.

*Adaptation… we found how it feels to have a layer of blubber like a penguin. They placed one hand in water without butter and one in a bag of butter. Needless to say we had some very cold hands.*

Line Time (the other stuff):
Letter Of The Week: T t
Rhyming Word Of The Week: bed

Did You Know(Neck Ties = Brain Damage, lol):

Wearing a necktie can reduce blood flow to the brain up to 7.5%. This can happen because the tie squeezes the arteries and veins in your neck. No wonder I was in a fog when I worked in the business world.

*One of my favorite shows as a child was “Lancelot Link*, Secret Chimp. *They were talking chimps that were spies.*

A Word From Mr. John (Never buy canned greens):

Cultural Subjects:

Know Your Languages(Swedish):

Weird Scenes Inside the Nature Center:

*A snake and his mouse/ A girl and her snake. She watched the entire process from the strike to the disappearance of the tail. She asked many good questions about this event.*

A Visit From The Dentist/Dental Hygienist:

*She explained what are good and bad foods, how to brush are teeth, and other fun filled activities.*

Peek In Our Week:

She is intently working on the 100 Board. The Hundred Board is a key Montessori Mathematics material, which helps children make the leap from the recognition of numbers, to understanding how they belong in a sequence.

*She is working on the Continent Puzzle Map that is found in the Cultural Subjects Area*. Montessori continent puzzle maps teach children geography through hands on exploration. They help children understand the world by building spatial awareness and a sense of the relative sizes and locations of continents and countries.

*Both of them are working on language workbooks.*

*He is writing numbers from 1 to 100. This will help his fine motor skills, concentrations, and help him recognize the pattern of the ten column.*

Peek Into Next Week:

Weekly Theme: Presidents of the USA
Letter Of The Week: U u
Rhyming Word Of The Week: bet
Next Language is Tagolog

Academic Enrichment aka Kindergarten:

This Week in Kindergarten:
Greater Than > , Less Than < , equal to =
Synonym Of The Week: FAT- Overweight, big, bulky, heavy, plump
Sight Words Of The Week: more these

Next Week in Kindergarten:
Review Telling Time
Synonym Of The Week: APPROPRIATE- suitable, fitting, apropos, correct, proper
Sight Words Of The Week: would about

Special Kindergarten Group/SKG:

*We collected data on eye color last week. This week we transferred that data to a bar graph. Three children have blue eyes, 1 green eyes, 5 have brown eyes, and 2 have hazel eyes.*

Future Happenings:

*NO SCHOOL for Teacher In-service Day – Friday, February 14th

*NO SCHOOL for President’s Day – Monday, February 17th

*Akron Art Museum Field Trip– Friday, March 14th (details to follow) It is FREE!

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

*I have the kinders fill my water bottle and put flavoring in it. I got new flavors and they were pretty excited.*

*She was really getting into a story she was telling me*

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (Turtles):

Peek In Our Week ^^^ Thee Buckeye Class ^^^ Week Of 1/27/2025 through 1/31/2025

Posted on January 31, 2025 at 6:03 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Thee Buckeye Bulletin

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The 5 Senses:

This week we delved in the subject of the five senses. We decided the sense of touch is not limited to your fingertips but almost everywhere on your body(did you ever step on a Lego in your bare feet?). The foot sends a message to the brain and the brain tells you that you should say “OUCH!” We can hear loud/soft, high/low pitched sounds. As the sound travels though or ear canal and hits our eardrum the vibrations send a message to the brain on what kind of sound you hear. We see with our eyes and see bright and dark colors. We smell with our nose and particles land in the cilia. Then the cilia sends a message to the brain and the brain decides if the smell is good or bad. We have taste buds on our tongue and when the food or drink hit the buds a signal is sent to the brain. The brain then tells you if it is yucky or yummy. We experimented with all senses but the experiment of taste was the most fun…. see below The Wall Of Disgust.

*After eating unsweetened baking chocolate(bitter)*

*The spitfest that ensued after the baking chocolate.*

Line Time (the other stuff):
Letter Of The Week: S s
Rhyming Word Of The Week: bup

A Word From Mr. John(I “heart” Grandparents Day):

Did You Know(I am sure this brings so much joy to every little girl in Scotland.):

Scotland’s national animal is a unicorn. In Celtic mythology, the unicorn represented purity, innocence, masculinity, and power.

A Gander At Grandparent’s Day:

Cultural Subjects:

Know Your Languages(Swedish):

Chinese New Year(Year of the Snake):

**Year the snake 2025** – The snake is a wood animal, which represents growth, flexibility and tolerance.

Peek In Our Week:

Two students working on the knobbed cylinders and It did turn into a race. Children begin working with the Knobbed Cylinders from the age of three years old. They are primarily used to teach children to visually discriminate between dimensions; however, as competency grows, child can begin to differentiate with touch.

*She is working on matching lids to the bottles which promotes visual discrimination and fine motor skills. It may look like she is pained to work with this material but she really enjoyed it.*

*She is tracing and labeling internal organs. When she finishes an organ she shows me, I quiz her on the organ, and she gets the answer correct.*

Peek Into Next Week:

Weekly Theme: Pollution, Recycling
Letter Of The Week: T t
Rhyming Word Of The Week: bed
Next Language is Tagolog

Academic Enrichment aka Kindergarten:

This Week in Kindergarten:
Reviewing Telling Time
Synonym Of The Week: SKINNY- thin, lean, emaciated, scrawny, slender
Sight Words Of The Week: other some

Next Week in Kindergarten:
Review Telling Time
Synonym Of The Week: FAT: overweight, big, bulky, heavy, plump
Sight Words Of The Week: more these

*The kinders are choosing their own books and writing them down on their wish list.*

Special Kindergarten Group/SKG:

Sorry, no pics. It’s been a crazy week. We took a count of how many boys and girls were in the lesson. We also recorded the color of eyes of the student. With this information we will put the gathered data in a chart form.

Future Happenings:

–NO SCHOOL for Teacher In-service Day ‐‐ Friday, February 14 -‐

–NO SCHOOL for President’s Day — Monday, February 17th —

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

*One of my feeder crickets escaped. The children observed with a magnifying glass. Eventually, they drew and labeled his parts.*

*She came back from holiday with a new hairstyle. We be jamming, mon!*

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things(States and Things):

Peek In Our Week ### Thee Buckeye Room ### Week Of January 20, 2025 through January 24, 2025

Posted on January 24, 2025 at 5:44 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Thee Buckeye Bulletin

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This week we learned a bit about the internal organs. We started with the brain which is like the computer of the body. It tells our body how fast to breathe and how fast our heart should beat. We discovered the lungs help us breathe and puts oxygen in our blood. Our stomach digests food, the small intestine take nutrients out of our food and large intestine gets the remaining water from indigestible food and creates waste (poop)(that word produced laughter) or as I referred to a bowel movement. The kidneys process excess water and creates pee (more laughter) or urine. The liver removes toxins from the body. We found out that the largest organ of the human body is the epidermis. The liver is my fave internal organ. What is yours?

*This brave and dazed boy is modeling the Internal Organ work.*

Line Time (the other stuff):
Letter Of The Week: R r
Rhyming Word Of The Week: but

Did You Know(Numbers, Letters…):

Imagine someone writing out the numbers one through 1,000—the word forms, not the numbers. One, two, three, four…and so on. Eventually, this person might start to notice the conspicuous absence of one letter (the second most common in the English Language) no less. It wouldn’t be until this person reached 1,000 that they would finally write the letter A. You may say one hundred AND one but that would actually be 101.1 (one of my pet peeves)!

1,000 Thousand A

GO BUCKEYES.
2025 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!

A Word From Mr. John (College Cuisine):

Cultural Subjects:

Foreign Languages: Romanian
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).

Know Your Languages: (Romanian)

January Half Birthdays: A Montessori classroom prides itself on having a multiage class. Here is our newest 3 and a half year old student.

They say it comes in threes:

–*If you are a baseball fan, then you know who Bob Uecker/Mr. Baseball was. I enjoyed his work*.

–Big Chuck/ Charles Schodowski was a Cleveland personality. If you were at a sleepover (in my day) you were found in front of the TV watching The Hoolihan and Big Chuck Show. RIP Big Stache (the certain ethnic pierogi eater)!

-David Lynch a giant among men in the film industry. I was not familiar with him until 1986 when I took a date to see Blue Velvet at Oberlin College. After that I was hooked on his use of the surreal clashing with the mundane. RIP and I hope you are enjoying that black cup of coffee and a slice of cherry pie.

Specials Space (Music):

In Music Class the students are learning about Peter and the Wolf and how the different instruments represent the different characters. The above picture the students are walking like grandpa (2 hurting backs and one walking with a cane). During this one of your children said “We are walking like Mr. John.” I love your children!

Peek In Our Week:

Two friends working together. The Stamp Game is an educational tool designed to teach mathematical concepts to young learners using the Montessori method. This hands-on activity helps children develop a concrete understanding of basic mathematical operations, including addition, subtraction, and eventually multiplication and division. Also, it’s an introduction into the abstract.

The main purpose of the Montessori Number Rods (the material she is working on) is to help children associate the names of the numbers with their respective quantities as well as help children understand the sequencing of measurements and quantities. She was pretty excited to completed the work and she let out a giggle. This attracted the attention of another student.

They are working on the Triangle Construction Box. What does the child learn by working with the Triangular Box? This activity encourages the child to become more patient, it promotes his level of concentration and this activity also prepares the child for geometry that will be done later on in mathematics.

Again, as I call them, Mutt and Jeff, are working together again. They are working on the Six Bead Chain. The long bead chains represent quantities from 1-100 and are arranged in repeating bead sequences to facilitate skip counting, number patterns, and multiplication. Additionally, when each section of a long bead chain is folded end to end, it creates a square, representing the square of a particular number

Peek Into Next Week:

Weekly Theme: 5 Senses
Letter Of The Week: S s
Rhyming Word Of The Week: bup
Next Language is Korean

Academic Enrichment aka Kindergarten:

This Week in Kindergarten:
Reviewing Telling Time
Synonym Of The Week: NICE- kind, pleasant, delightful, good, helpful
Sight Words Of The Week: first then

Next Week in Kindergarten:
Review Telling Time
Synonym Of The Week: SKINNY- thin, lean, emaciated, scrawny, slendy
Sight Words Of The Week: other some

Special Kindergarten Group/SKG:

Due to the short week I decided to keep the students in the classroom.

Future Happenings:

******* Please read the email or Remind message about the PEANUT ALLERGY in the classroom ******

-Grandparents’ Day: Thursday January 30, 2025. Follow the link to sign up…..
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090B48A8A92DA6F94-45787189-buckeye#

–NO SCHOOL for President’s Day — Monday, February 17th —

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

*I was going to say you should have seen the other guy. Then I noticed one dot was red and the other orange. False alarm. Just paint!*

*The boys. A rare sight in the classroom.*

*Taking a break from a rigorous work cycle.*

*I want to fly like an eagle…. He’s a fan!*

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things(Don’t Go Chasing Unicorns):

Sing the tune “Don’t go Chasing Waterfalls” by TLC.

Peek In Our Week %%% Thee Buckeye Room %%% Week Of 1/13/2025 through 1/17/2025

Posted on January 17, 2025 at 8:10 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Thee Buckeye Bulletin

Line Time:

This week we looked at the skeletal system and if we didn’t have a skeleton we would be one messy blob on the ground (insert a flagellant sound). We learned the skull protects our brain, the rib cage protects our lungs, and the spine keeps us sitting and standing straight. We learned technical terms for our arms, leg and our digits which is a funny name called phalanges. We brought our life sized foam puzzle into our room. His name is Elvis because we learned about the pelvis and it was a cool rhyming name.

Line Time (the other stuff):
Letter Of The Week: Q q
Rhyming Word Of The Week: bub

Did You Know:

Koalas have fingerprints that are almost identical to human fingerprints. Koalas are the only non-primate animals with unique fingerprints.

A Word From Mr. John (I refuse to accept old age):

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).

Know Your Languages: (Romanian)

Specials Space (Science):

We learned about how Polymers love each other and like to hug each other tightly. But if they are too far apart they can’t touch each other shown when pencils pierce a plastic freeze bag and when you pull out the pencils.

Peek In The Classroom:

*Look who is reading her first novel… Charlotte’s Web*

*She is working on the Five Chain. This will help in skip counting and multiplication.*

Montessori Puzzle Maps are educational tools designed Montessori Puzzle Maps are educational tools designed to teach geography to preschool-aged children through hands-on learning. These wooden maps break down the world into different regions, allowing children to explore continents, countries, and bodies of water by handling individual puzzle pieces through hands-on learning. These wooden maps break down the world into different regions, allowing children to explore continents, countries, and bodies of water by handling individual puzzle pieces. *He traced and labeled all the continents.*

*Her job is to sort 40 books/ 4 sets of 10. See how she organized her task?*

Peek Into Next Week:

Weekly Theme: Internal Organs
Letter Of The Week: R r
Rhyming Word Of The Week: but
Next Language is Korean

Academic Enrichment aka Kindergarten:

This Week in Kindergarten:
Reviewing Telling Time
Synonym Of The Week: MEAN: selfish, unkind, malicious, hurtful, evil
Sight Words Of The Week: now made

Next Week in Kindergarten:
Review Telling Time
Synonym Of The Week: NICE: kind, pleasant, delightful, good, helpful
Sight Words Of The Week: first than

*An action shot* of the *kindergarten students doing their assigned chores*.

Special Kindergarten Group/SKG:

*Class of 2025 Kindergarten Class*. We learned about the Great Lakes and that they make up 20% of the world’s fresh water supply. We learned a really cool acronym of HOMES and a little about the Edmund Fitzgerald. We even played the song The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

I remember riding my bike uptown Amherst and bought this 45 record from Ben Franklins in 1976. As we got older my friends and I would joke… if you want the party to end play The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald. LOL

Future Happenings:

******* Please read the email or Remind message about the PEANUT ALLERGY in the classroom ******

-NO SCHOOL Monday January 20 for MLK Day. Don’t be that family that shows up.

-Grandparents’ Day: Thursday January 30, 2025. Follow the link to sign up…..
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090B48A8A92DA6F94-45787189-buckeye#

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

*She is the first to be dismissed and last to finish. So type b. In her defense on this day she was telling EVERYONE that passed that she was 3 years old.*

*Cheetah print is the crowd favorite. Two subjects in the background and the adult has cheetah print.*

*There’s A New Kid In Town (sung to the tune of that 1976 Eagles song)… that hit the ground running.*

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (Danny Go and Dad):

What is with my voice then the overcompensation.

Peek In Our Week * Thee Buckeye Room * Week 1/6/2025 thru 1/10/2025

Posted on January 10, 2025 at 9:23 am.

Written by John Kotradi

Thee Buckeye Bulletin

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To honor the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we learned a bit about his life and his accomplishments. The students became actresses and actors as they recreated Rosa Parks making her stand on a bus in Montgomery Alabama. The students enjoyed playing the part of the bus driver, Rosa Parks, “the mean guy”, a police officer, Martin Luther King Jr., and passengers on the bus. We discussed our differences such as skin color, eye color, hair color, and gender. Then we discussed how we are similar. We talked about discrimination and segregation. We talked about if someone with red hair wouldn’t be allowed to do art “just because” they have red hair or if anyone who had blue eyes would have to go to a different classroom with less materials, broken crayons, or no books “just because” they have blue eyes. I had only boys fetch the chairs for the skit and brought that to the attention of the class. We had some very sad girls…. I did let the girls take the chairs back after the skit.

Below is a picture after the skit where everyone can sit where they want. The thumbs up means the students approve.

Line Time (the other stuff):
Letter Of The Week- Q q
Rhyming Word Of The Week- bub

Did You Know wombats poop is in the shape of a cube?:
Yes, you read that correctly. This furry Australian marsupial squeezes out nearly 100 six-sided turds every day. How does this happen you may ask? The wombat’s intestines contract in sections, with the stiffer parts contracting faster than the softer parts. The softer parts squeeze more slowly, molding the final corners of the cube.

A Message From Mr. John (Great week to start 2025):

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).

Know Your Languages: (Romanian)

Specials Space (Science):

*We learned diapers are more absorbent than paper towels.*

Peek In The Classroom:

*She is working on the Spindle Box where she is learning the concrete relatio0nship of quantity and symbols from 0 to 9.*

*He is working on the First Introduction of Decimals. He is learning the concrete relation ship of the unit, ten, hundred, and thousand columns (quantity) and then symbols.*

*She is working on the Nine Tray where she delves deeper in the unit, ten, hundred, and thousand columns. Here she will compose numbers wit quantity and symbol from 1 to 9,999.*

Peek Into Next Week:
Skeletal System
Letter Of The Week- Q q
Rhyming Word Of The Week- bub
Next Language is Korean

Academic Enrichment aka Kindergarten:

This Week in Kindergarten:
Reviewing Telling Time
Synonym Of The Week: SICK, weak, unhealthy, ailing, infected, frail, ill
Sight Words Of The Week: who could

Special Kindergarten Group/SKG:

*Your well behaved Kindergarteners studied the continents and Pangea.*

Pangaea was a super continent that existed 200 to 300 million years ago. It was made up of all the landmasses on Earth, including what are now North America, Africa, South America, and Europe. The name Pangaea comes from the Greek word pangaia, which means “all the Earth”.

Next Week in Kindergarten:
Review Telling Time
Synonym Of The Week: MEAN: selfish, unkind, malicious, hurtful, evil
Sight Words Of The Week: now made

Future Happenings:
******* Please read the email or Remind message about the PEANUT ALLERGY in the classroom ******

-NO SCHOOL Monday January 20 for MLK Day. Don’t be that family that shows up.

-Grandparents’ Day: Thursday January 30, 2025. Follow the link to sign up…..
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090B48A8A92DA6F94-45787189-buckeye#

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

*I am not sure what is going on here but it looks interesting. Then there is a photo bomb.*

*A comforting hand while discussing Martin Luther King and Rosa Park and how Afican Americans were treated before the Civil Rights Movement.*

Your Kids Say The Darndesat Things (rushing in the morning):

Peek In Our Week ^^^ Thee Buckeye Room ^^^ Week of December 16 – December 20, 2024

Posted on December 21, 2024 at 3:59 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Thee Buckeye Bulletin

Line Time:
We practiced A LOT for the show and it was worth it. What a great show!!!!!!!! We also talked about family. Moms, dads, brothers, sisters, grandparents, and cousins were mentioned. We came to the conclusion that pets are part of the family.

Did You Know? (No Saliva. No Taste)
Why you need saliva to taste foods. In order for food to have taste, chemicals from the food must first dissolve in saliva. Once dissolved, the chemicals can be detected by receptors on taste buds.

A Word From Mr. John (Happy Festivus):

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 11 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic in the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian)

Know Your Languages ( in January)

Glow Stick Party in the Dark:

Peek In The Classroom:

She is working on the number rods found in the math area. The Number Rods help children learn the names of numbers and their sequence and learn to correctly associate between the spoken number and its quantity. Children grow to understand that each rod represents a unique quantity and that each number is represented by a single object as a whole, separate from others. *Here she is counting the randomly place rods and finding the appropriate number.*

*Discovering where George our class Bearded Dragon is. This sparked a conversation about his spikes and eyes.*

*One of the kinders took control and lead an impromptu practice for the Christmas Show.*

Kindergarten aka Academic Enrichment:
No Kinder lesson as we were practicing

Enrichment (Science/Skittle Run):

*I love the laughter and in the second picture look at the tongue hanging out.*

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time-

Letter Of The Week-

Rhyming Word Of The Week-

Next Language is in January

Future Happenings:
-Christmas Break: Saturday December 21, 2024 returning Monday January 6, 2025

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

*Someone got hungry*. *Maybe the dog ate the homework.*

*Working together to catch a stray cricket.*

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (Elfie the Elf on the Shelf):

Elfie wearing the sister’s underwear?

Peek In Our Week * Thee Buckeye Room * Week of December 9 – December 13, 2024

Posted on December 14, 2024 at 1:28 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Thee Buckeye Bulletin

Line Time:
Diligently practicing for the Christmas Show. Rockin it out!

Did You Know? (Lets just cancel Monday, hehe)
According to an article published in Stroke, a 40-year longitudinal study revealed that the most common day of the week to have a stroke was Monday. In fact, for intracerebral hemorrhages, one-third occurred on a Monday. AND, the least common days of the week? Saturday and Sunday.

A Word From Mr. Mr. John (Pull, Crack, and Rub):

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 11 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic in the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian)

Know Your Languages ( in January)

Peek In The Classroom:

*One of the Kindergarten Students reading Chapter Books.*

Teen Beads and Boards provide valuable experience with understanding numbers 11-19. With this material, the child first learns that the quantities greater than 10 are all made up of 10 along with a number from 1 to 9. Next, the child is introduced to the symbols for those numbers with the wooden boards and cards. Finally, they associate the beads and the cards together and practice making and placing them in sequence.

*We work them hard in the classroom. No Benadryl was used in the making of this picture.*

Kindergarten aka Academic Enrichment:

SPK (Special Kindergarten Group):

This week we continued to gather data and it was the length of the kinders feet. We will gather the same data in May and compare the results. No one passed out due to stinky feet. Also, no one had holes in their socks and two students had mismatched socks.

Enrichments (Library):

*Stow Library comes every three weeks to read to the students.*

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Christmas Show Practice

Letter Of The Week- Taking a break to practice for the Christmas Show

Rhyming Word Of The Week- Taking a break to practice for the Christmas Show

Next Language is in January

Future Happenings:
-Christmas Show Rehearsal: December 18 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm at Cuyahoga Falls High School Auditorium Students arrive by 5:45. USE THE RESTROOM and drop off with assigned group.

-AMMS Annual Christmas Show: December 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm at Cuyahoga Falls High School Auditorium Students arrive by 5:30pm. USE THE RESTROOM and drop off with assigned group.

-Christmas Break: Saturday December 21, 2024 returning January 6, 2025

-Pajama Day/Show and Tell: Friday December 20, 2024

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things: ( I want to go home but I don’t know why)

Peek In Our Week … The Buckeye Bulletin … Week of Decmber 2, 2024

Posted on December 7, 2024 at 6:17 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Thee Buckeye Bulletin

Line Time:
Diligently practicing for the Christmas Show. Rockin it out!

Did You Know?:
A priest once told me there are the same number of stitches on a baseball as on a rosary. With a little research I’ve found this to be true at 108. Prove me wrong.

A Word From Mr. John (I’m baaaack):

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 11 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic in the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian)

December Birthdays: A Montessori classroom prides itself on having a multiage class. Here are our newest 4 and 5 year old students.

Know Your Languages ( in January)

We had a visit from St. Nicholas on December 6th which is St. Nicholas Day. He left a gift of Hershey Kisses in the children’s shoes. Sorry no pictures but when they discovered the gifts… chaos ensued.

Peek In The Classroom:

To use the Vowel Tree: Have the child take the consonants card and place the card over the vowel. Have the child say the word that is formed, combining the the consonants and short vowel.

They are combining the Brown Stairs found in the Sensorial Area with Elvis the Pelvis. Looks like Elvis is chillin.

She is working in the Math Area and creating 10 in different ways. Did you know 10 is the magic number?

Look at the concentration cutting carrots. This is a Practical Life work to enhance focus.

Kindergarten aka Academic Enrichment:

My Kinder Students!

In my “Special Kindergarten Group” we are measuring height and documenting weight and then we will revisit this in May and compare our data.

Enrichments (Science):

Having fun inflating a balloon using baking soda and vinegar that creates my favorite gas… Carbon Dioxide!

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Christmas Show Practice

Letter Of The Week- Taking a break to practice for the Christmas Show

Rhyming Word Of The Week- Taking a break to practice for the Christmas Show

Next Language is in January

-AMMS Annual Christmas Show: December 20 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm at Cuyahoga Falls High School Auditorium Students arrive by 5:30pm. USE THE RESTROOM and drop off with assigned group.

-Christmas Break: Saturday December 21, 2024 returning January 6, 2025

-Pajama Day/Show and Tell: Friday December 20, 2024

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Look at the difference of the oldest/tallest child and the youngest/shortest child. She has taken on the moniker of the new peanut of the classroom.

Ya shouldah seen the other guy!

Empathy runs rampant in the classroom.

What’s going on here? I am not sure but it looks kind of cool.

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Posted on March 1, 2024 at 8:44 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

The Buckeye Bulletin

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.

Did You Know?

People used to say “prunes” when taking pictures. In the 1840s, it was considered childish to smile for pictures so it became popular for people to say “prunes” instead of “cheese” in order to keep their mouths taut.

A Message From Mr. John (Corroborating My Dad’s Story):

Corb sent a letter to NBC telling them that the guy was his dad. NBC sent him a 8×10 autograph picture of Ted Danson, LOLOLOLOLOL

***Mr. Corbin the blonde in the middle.***

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 23 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic in the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Hungarian, Korean, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation).

Know Your Languages (Serbo-Croation):

Nature Center:

***Spots first shed in the classroom.***

***Meet the newest addition the Pac Man Frog named Jabba!***

Know your languages (Serbo-Croation):

Peek In The Classroom:

***They are exploring the “Tree Bin” where they can find and feel different nuts and branches.***

***She traced and labeled Elvis the Pelvis.***

He is working on the 9 Tray. The aim of the 9 Layout lesson is **to help children understand number placement (1s, 10s, 100s, 1000s) as well as reiterate the association between quantity and numeral**. It’s one of the lengthier mathematics activities and is good for encouraging concentration.

***He is making creations with the Geometric Construction Boxes.***

Letter Of The Week- W w

Rhyming Word Of The Week- beg

Language- Serbo-Croation

Academic Enrichment aka Kindergarten:
Weekly Themes:
Cultural.. Telling Time (to the minute)
Math.. Multiplication Facts
Language.. Preposition
Geometry.. Review Triangle Box 1

Next Week:
Weekly Themes:
Cultural.. Coins
Math.. Multiplication Facts
Language.. Interjections
Geometry.. Review Rectangle Box 1

Synonym Of The Week: DRY, dehydrated, arid, parched

Sight Words Of The Week: they that

Future Happenings:
Spring Break: From March 25 to April 1/ RETURNING April 2

Upcoming Full Eclipse: Closing Monday 4/8/24

International Festival Rehearsal: Wednesday April 24 Cuyahoga Falls High School

International Festival Show: Friday April 26 Cuyahoga Falls High School

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

***I am not sure what was going on but I am glad I caught it.***

Your Children Say The Darndest Things (The Story Of A Gigantic Booger):

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