Peek In Our Week === Mr. John’s Class === Week Of January 28, 2019

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Line Time:
This week we learned about Internal Organs.  We learned the brain is the control center of your body that sends and receives.  Our lungs help us breathe, the heart pumps our blood and the stomach begins to digest our food with acid.  The small intestines digest the food and send nutrients to the rest of our body and the large intestines push through the waste that creates our bowel movements (poop). The children were fascinated that our kidneys process the body’s water and the liver filters toxins, that’s why is important to take lots of water, even when you’re not home. The waste water is called urine (pee).  The children learned where the organs are located with the help of our Living Internal Organ T-shirt.  The shirt helped the children find the organs location by velcroing the organs to the spot on the t-shirt. 

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 19 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili).

 

Peek In Our Classroom:

Between the ages of 3 to 6, the child needs to practice, perfect, and consolidate the body’s movements. For this reason, Dr. Montessori began using the “Walking on the Line” as a Practical Life exercise. This exercise helps the child control his body, develop balance and perfect equilibrium, as well as to strengthen the mind’s control of its body’s movements. The “line” used during this exercise is a continuous and permanent shape in the environment.  During this exercise, you may want to play some soft, steady, and calm music in the background. I use Pachelbel’s Canon D Major which is exactly 5 minutes (well, 4 minutes 57 seconds but who is splitting hairs?). You can notice the “safe hands” and “bubbles” as the students walk the line

 

 

You may already know a bit about the Montessori work period, also known as the work cycle. A Montessori work cycle is an uninterrupted block of time. During this time children are able to explore the prepared environment and engage with materials of their own choosing. Walk into any Montessori classroom and you will see children completely engaged in their work. This is due to the fact that the heart of a Montessori program is the three-hour work cycle. The early childhood environment focuses on concentration, coordination, order, and independence. Therefore, children must be given the time they need to fully submerge themselves in the work in order for these traits to manifest themselves. Everything in a Montessori classroom has and educational purpose. Yes, children do what they like AND like what they do in a Montessori classroom.  Here you notice, a typical scene, (left to right)  some socializing, individual work, putting back materials/cleaning after herself, a teacher giving a lesson, and two friends working together.

 

Next Week:
Line Time- Pollution/Recycling

Letter Of The Week- S s

Rhyming Word Of The Week-bup

Next Language will be- Welsh

Snack will be brought to you by Ever

 

Upcoming Events:

<<<<<<<<  All School Dance February 9, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm  >>>>>>>

 

((((((((((((  Open House February 24, Sunday 2pm to 4pm  )))))))))))

 

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—–Recess attire….  winter coat, hat, gloves or mittens that are waterproof (not cloth or yarn), boots, and snow pants! 

        If the child does not have one or all of these items they may be asked to stay in.

 

Fun, Frolic, and Friends:

    

 

     

 

 

Academic Enrichment === Cuyuhoga Falls Campus === Week Of 1/28/2019

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Lesson:
We learned how to subtract with the 9 tray.  We learned the terms of equation, addend and sum.

Purpose For The 9 Tray:
The Nine Tray is an important lesson in the sequence of the golden bead work.  This presentation allows the child to concretely see the growth of numbers and the progression through the hierarchy from one level to the next. Children are ready for this work when they can identify numbers 1-9 and after they have been introduced to the golden beads and the language of place value: units, tens, hundreds and thousands.

Handwriting:
We practiced cursive… of  q, r, s, t, u.

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 20 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog,  Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish).

 

Next Week:
Lesson- Division

Sight Words Of The Week- other  some

Synonym Of The Week- Bad:  incorrect, awful, unsatisfactory, faulty, defective

The next language will be- Dutch/Flemmish

 

Academic Enrichment +++ Cuyahoga Falls Campus +++ Week Of 1/21/2019

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Lesson:
We learned how to multiply with the 9 tray.  We learned the terms of equation, addend and sum.

Purpose For The 9 Tray:
The Nine Tray is an important lesson in the sequence of the golden bead work.  This presentation allows the child to concretely see the growth of numbers and the progression through the hierarchy from one level to the next. Children are ready for this work when they can identify numbers 1-9 and after they have been introduced to the golden beads and the language of place value: units, tens, hundreds and thousands.

 

Handwriting:
We practiced cursive… of Ll, Mm, Oo, Pp.

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 20 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog,  Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, and Welsh).

 

Next Week:
Lesson- Subtraction

Sight Words Of The Week- first than

Synonym Of The Week- Appropriate:  suitable, fitting, apropos, correct, proper

The next language will be- Dutch/Flemmish

 

Academic Enrichment ….. Cuyahoga Falls Campus ….. Week of 1/14/2019

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Lesson:

The Kindergarten students were introduced to do addition with carry overs (Dynamic Addition).

 

The Exchange Game

Handwriting:
We practiced cursive… Hopping hippos help.  Ill impalas itch.  Jazzy Jim jumps.  Karma keeps kicking.  Lions love licking.

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 19 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog,  Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, and Kiswahili).

 

Next Week:
Lesson- Multiplication

Sight Words Of The Week- now made

Synonym Of The Week- FAT: big, overweight, bulky, heavy, plump

The next language will be- Welsh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Enrichment // Cuyahoga Falls Campus // Week of 1/7/2019

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Lesson:
Using the 9 tray we learned how to do static addition (no carry overs) with manipulatives.  We used equations that every column (units, tens, hundreds, and thousands) were fill and we used equations that some of the columns were empty (zero) in the column.  We learned some new terminology such as addends (the numbers being added) and sum (the answer of the equation).

 

 

 

Handwriting:
We practiced cursive… Bill buys bags.  Cam cuts cots.  Dogs dig dirt.  Fun fish feel. Grumpy geese go.

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 18 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog,  Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, and Irish).

 

Next Week:
Lesson- Dynamic addition (carry overs).

Sight Words Of The Week- could who

Synonym Of The Week- skinny

The next language will be- Kiswahili

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Enrichment — Cuyahoga Falls Campus — Week Of 12/17/2018

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Lesson:
Intro to Decimals (unit, ten, hundred, and thousand) and the 9 tray. The 9 Tray purpose(s):

Direct
To make the child familiar with the different categories of numbers, especially with regard to reading the symbols.  To give the child the wording of large numbers

Indirect
For the hierarchy of numbers, that is, that while the significant figure are always from 1 to 9, it is the place they occupy in the complex number which gives them the importance of 1, 10, 100 or 1000.
For the fact that in a large number made up of two or more categories, the zero merely shows an empty place. That is, that one of the categories is lacking (in 1065, for instance, the hundreds are missing).
For the fact that only 9 of each category are necessary to form any number.

 

 

Handwriting:
We practiced our cursive pit, big, fist, tick.

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 17 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog,  Hebrew, Korean, and Hungarian).

 

Next Week:
Lesson- Composing Numbers / Addition

Sight Words Of The Week- come number

Synonym Of The Week- quiet

The next language will be- Irish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Enrichment | Cuyahoga Falls Campus | Week Of 12/10/2018

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Lesson:
Rulers- The Week of December 10th we discovered the ruler and started measuring things.  We learned how to line the ruler to whatever we were measuring and learned how to measure in inches (in, “) and centimeters (CM).

They are making sure the long edge of the paper in 11 inches or 28 cm. I could not get the picture to rotate so we are stuck with a surreal picture reminiscent of the TV series Batman.

 

Handwriting:
We practiced our cursive bed, men, deck, egg.

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 17 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog,  Hebrew, Korean, and Hungarian).

 

Next Week:
Lesson- My fave subject…. MATH!

Sight Words Of The Week- Giving them a break before break.

Synonym Of The Week- Giving them a break before break.

The next language will be- Giving them a break before break.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Enrichment | Cuyahoga Falls Campus | Week of 12/3/2018

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Lesson:
Parts of Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Birds, and Fish –

We also learned the characteristics of those animals.  All of the above animals are vertebrates, some are cold blooded (amphibians, reptiles, and fish) and some are warm blooded (mammals and birds).  Some are born from jelly eggs (fish and amphibians), hard shell eggs (reptiles and birds), or born alive (mammals and fish).  All the animals skin is different.

 

The Kindergarten Students pretending to be their fave animals. From left to right…. flamingo, horse, frog…..

 

Handwriting:
We practiced our cursive fax, rag, pal, tack.

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 17 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog,  Hebrew, Korean, and Hungarian).

 

Next Week:
Lesson- Using Rulers

Sight Words Of The Week- No lessons due to Christmas Show Practice.

Synonym Of The Week- No lessons due to Christmas Show Practice.

The next language will be- No lessons due to Christmas Show Practice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Enrichment | Cuyahoga Falls Campus | Week Of 11/26/2018

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Lesson:
Parts of insects, Arachnids, Plants-

We learned about the parts of the insect and arachnid (see below).  Insects are ants, bees, butterflies, and dragonflies.  Arachnids are spiders, scorpions, and ticks.

Art work created by the kindergarten students. An insect has a head, thorax, abdomen, six legs, and two antennae. An arachnid has a head and thorax, and eight legs. Can you tell which is the insect? The arachnid?

 

Handwriting:
We practiced our cursive Bl, cat, dog.

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 17 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog,  Hebrew, Korean, and Hungarian).

 

Next Week:

Lesson- Parts of Animals

Sight Words Of The Week- No lessons due to Christmas Show Practice.

Synonym Of The Week- No lessons due to Christmas Show Practice.

The next language will be- No lessons due to Christmas Show Practice.

 

Academic Enrichment | Cuyahoga Falls Campus | Week Of 11/19/2018

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Lesson:
Currency / Paper Money-

 

 

 

 

 

 

Handwriting:
We practiced our cursive letters cat, rag.

 

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 17 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog,  Hebrew, Korean, and Hungarian).

 

Next Week:

Lesson- Parts of Plants, Insects, and Arachnids

Sight Words Of The Week- No words due to practicing for the Christmas Show 

Synonym Of The Week- No synonyms due to practicing for the Christmas Show

The next language will be- No languages due to practicing for the Christmas Show