Lesson: Preposition- I described as a “where word” NOT a werewolf. It identifies where or when something is.
Look at all those colors. This sentence had a noun, verb, article, pronoun, adjective, adverb, conjunction, preposition. Can you identify all the parts of grammar? My kindergarten students can!
Cultural Subjects: We can now count to ten in 28 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, Farsi, Turkish).
Next Week: Line Time: Interjection
Sight Words of the Week: which what
Synonym of Week: SNEAKY (underhanded, dishonest, tricky, secretive, sly)
Line Time: We progressed with learning our songs for the International Festival and learned our lines for the show. I have to say the students ROCKED the International Festival. A big shout out to Kathleen and Ashlie for getting the students ready with he songs, lines, and craft. Also, I want to recognize Yao An for volunteering her time to teach the students to sing in Chinese.
On a sad note: This was the last International Festival my favorite and only daughter will attend. She started out as a first grader running around the auditorium handing out programs to unsuspecting adults. She did this until she became a teen and it seemed had less energy for the running of the laps. She since has attended to see the cuteness and food. For the next four springs she will be located in Bowling Green, Ohio/BGSU. Appreciate your children when they are actually children because before you know it they will be teenagers waiting to go to university.
The students patiently waiting during practice. Except, maybe, not the boy in the front row. LOL
After returning from spring break, we started reading books from the library for reading group. Our first book was A Big Guy Took My Ball by Mo Willems. This story is from the Elephant and Piggie series. In the book, Piggie tells Elephant (Gerald) that a big guy took the ball that he found. Gerald tells him that he will get the ball back for him. Well, Gerald finds out just how BIG this “big guy ” is. He ends up being a whale and the ball belonged to him. The big guy was sad because no one would play with him. Instead of getting mad, Piggie and Gerald invite the whale to play together.
The kindergartners particiated in activities that went along with the story. They wrote their own questions about the story, drew pictures of their interpretations of the how the characters felt and diferent scenes, along with particitpated in discussions. By the last reading of the book, they were all reading the story along with me!
A Peek Into the Next Two Weeks
-The Kindergartner will be listening to another Elephant and Piggie book.
-The students will be participating in interpretive and evaluative acivites.
Line Time: We are progressing with learning our songs for the International Festival and learning our lines for the show. I have to say the students are doing very very well.
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 25 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, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, and Malay).
Trivia Question: In high school my football jersey was number 86. Why did I chose this number? This is a tough one!
Hint: It is a reference to a 1960’s television show. {you can not google this} bwahahaha
For those of you who are interested I dislocated my right thumb in practice my senior year.
You Ever Notice?: You get gobs of left overs for Thanksgiving but no one gives leftovers for the Easter Meal (especially if lamb is served).
Peek In Our Classroom:
An odd thing has been happening in my classroom. It is a phenomenon of an increased interest in puzzle maps. It may be that many students are in a sensitive period or they saw an older student (who is in a sensitive period) work with the puzzle map and they followed. In any event I have never seen this kind of interest in puzzle maps but I am lovin it!
The Hundred Board is a fun and educational exercise found in the Montessori classroom to help children with their counting from 1 to 100. This is a material that breaks away from the concrete to the abstract portion of math.
I have science cards in my classroom. They are three part cards (one with just a picture, one with the picture and word, and one with just the word.) This student is working with the amphibian box.
This student is working on the teen board found in the math area. The numbers 11-19 are more of a challenge for a child to learn as their names are more complicated than those of the rest of the number system (11,12,13,15 do not follow the rules like 14,16,17,18,19). The teen board helps to develop an understanding of how these numbers are formed from a ten and units and this teaches the foundations of the decimal system. The child associates between the quantity (concrete) and the numbers (abstract).
Next Week: Line Time- International Festival Preparation
Letter Of The Week- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Rhyming Word Of The Week- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Next Language will be- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Snack will be brought to you by Hunter
Upcoming Events:
International Festival Practice Wednesday, May 1st | Cuyahoga Falls High School, 6pm-7pm
International Festival Friday, May 3rd | Cuyahoga Falls High School, 5:30pm | Early Dismissal 12 Noon
—Moms and Muffins, Friday May 10th, 7am to 7:45am—
—Grandparents Day, Tuesday May 14—
Fun, Frolic, and Friends:
My long hair is catching up with his. He claims I will never catch up with him. We will see.
Cheesy grins and what looks like a student running in the background. He can not wait to work on the sandpaper letters.
You shoulda seen the other guy. Notice the scratch on her nose?
Lessons: Conjunctions- a word used to connect clauses or sentences. It acts like a bridge. We focused on and, but, or.
Cultural Subjects: We can now count to ten in 28 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, Farsi, Turkish).
Next Week:
Line Time: Prepositions
Sight Words of the Week: None planned due to International Festival practice
Synonym of the Week: None planned due to International Festival practice
Line Time: This week we got a big jump on learning our song for the International Festival and learning our lines for the show.
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 25 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, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, and Malay).
Trivia Question: In high school my football jersey was number 86. Why did I chose this number? This is a tough one!
Hint: My biggest life influences were music, television, and movies.
For those of you who are interested I played wide receiver/flanker and defensive backs position for the Amherst Fighting Comets.
Guest Reader:
Pastor Kirk reads “We Don’t Eat Our Classmates” A story about how others feel.
Peek In Our Classroom:
The Vowel Tree is a tactile, engaging way to teach and practice decoding words. This manipulative can be used with beginning readers to more advanced readers. Originally developed as a Montessori material, the vowel tree reinforces skills for all learners; tactile learners, auditory learners, and visual learners. To use the Vowel Tree: Have the child take two consonants from small pieces of paper . Place one consonant in front of the letter “a” and one after. Have the child say the word that is formed, combining the first two letters into one blended sound. Then have them slide the letters down to the next vowel and say the word. Continue all the way down the tree. For the purposes of this work, they can say a word even if it’s a “nonsense” word, just for the practice of saying the vowel sounds.
This is a sorting material found in the Sensorial are. There are nine compartments and nine colors (each color has a different shades). Each color gets its own compartment.
The Montessori Pink Series is a set of language cards that represent a CVC/ word and have a matching index card. The Pink Rhyming material uses three letter/short vowel sounds.
This child is working on the United States Puzzle Map. What she has done is trace the individual state/piece and is coloring and identifying the state.
Next Week: Line Time- International Festival Preparation
Letter Of The Week- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Rhyming Word Of The Week- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Next Language will be- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Snack will be brought to you by Dorothy
Upcoming Events:
(((((((((( Easter Monday NO SCHOOL Monday 4/22/2019 ))))))))))
International Festival Practice, Wednesday, May 1st | Cuyahoga Falls High School, 6pm-7pm
International Festival, Friday, May 3rd | Cuyahoga Falls High School, 5:30pm | Early Dismissal 12 Noon
—Moms and Muffins, Friday May 10th, 7am to 7:45am—
Fun, Frolic, and Friends:
It was time to clean and she was angry she had to stop her work.
Are they real or fake specs?
A great pose by these two and a sneaky photo bomb by one.
Lessons: Adverbs- We learned that an adverb describes verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
The Kindergarten Students showing their favorite symbol by way of kissy lips and a monocle.
Cultural Subjects: We can now count to ten in 28 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, Farsi, Turkish).
Next Week:
Line Time: Conjunctions
Sight Words of the Week: None planned due to International Festival practice
Synonym of the Week: None planned due to International Festival practice
Vowels and consonants: The students learned to recognize and distinguish vowels from consonants, which is an important step in the development of reading and writing skills. We talked about how all words contain at least one vowel. The students were quickly able to recognize the vowels, which is great because they will have a strong foundation for learning rules and spelling patterns for short and long vowels, final vowels, unaccented vowels, silent vowels and irregular spellings.
Cursive Handwriting: The students practiced writing the lowercase cursive words: last, frisk, grab, kid, hat and quest.
The kindergartners listened to the poem Where Would You Be. It was about where you would want to be during a storm. They discussed how they felt about storms and where they would rather be. We also discussed how the speaker describes the storm and why he/she used those specific descriptors.
Throughout the story the group got to write down their thoughts about the poem, drew what the storm looked like, and even wrote their own poem about specific weather.
Here are the kindergartners writing their own poem.
A Peek Into the Next Two Weeks
-More information will be sent out for what we will be doing the rest of the school year.
