Peek In Our Week ÷ Mr. John’s Class ÷ Week Of May 3, 2021

Posted on May 8, 2021 at 10:43 pm.

Buckeye Room Bulletin

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Baby Animals- This week we looked at names of baby animals. I started out by saying that most people call human children “kids” and in reality a kid is a baby goat. with that said here are some other baby animal names.

Bear, lion, tiger- Cub
Cat- Kitten
Dog, seal, walrus- Pup
Cow, elephant, whale- Calf
Goat- Kid
Pig- Piglet
Kangaroo, koala- Joey

Did You Know? (Poor Ronald):
For decades, Ronald McDonald has been the face of McDonald’s, but in recent years… not so much, and it turns out that people have been calling for his head for a long time.

There was a major push back in 2011 to retire him. Why? Because, petitions said, he was being used to market unhealthy fast food items to kids, and that wasn’t good. McDonald’s was shifting their marketing more toward adults, and had already gotten rid of most of their other McDonaldland characters. Still, Ronald was being increasingly more often lumped in with mascots like Joe Camel, who represented a company now condemned for trying to make cigarettes appeal to the youth. Below was my McDonald’s experience with the placemat as a child.

A Message From Mr. John (The Breakfast Club) :

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 27 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Irish, Kiswahili, Irish, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Farsi, Turkish)

Peek In The Classroom:

He is working on the Trinomial Cube found in the Sensorial area. As with all Montessori sensorial materials, the cube has both a direct and an indirect purpose. The direct purpose of the binomial and trinomial cubes is for the child to practice the steps to properly disassemble and build the cube, while refining dexterity and visual acuity.

She is working with the Geometric Solids. The Geometric Solids are one of many Montessori materials that challenge and shape a child’s stereognostic sense, which is their ability to perceive and understand both the form and nature of objects through touch. By working with these materials, children become aware of how shapes form the basis for everyday objects.

Each of these two girls are working on their own math material

He is working on the Teen Board. Montessori Tens Board with Beads, also called Seguin Board B or Seguin Board 2 teaches a child (3-5 yo approx.) to associate the quantities and symbols from 10 to 90. Using the Tens Boards, the child explores the number names of the tens and the sequence of numbers 11–99. Notice he chose to compose 46…. hmmmm wonder who in his family is that age?

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Animal groups

Letter Of The Week-I i

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bud

Academic Enrichment:
Line Time: We added the conjunction to our stable of parts of speech. The conjunction acts as a bridge between two sentences and make a sentence flow better.

They(pronoun) gently(adverb) toss(verb) an(article) amber(adjective) apple(noun).

Handwriting:
We practiced writing sentences in cursive.

Next Week’s Lesson:
Weekly Theme: Preposition. It is a where word n a werewolf!

Synonym Of The Week: DULL, dark, dreary, somber, boring, tedious

Sight Words Of The Week: there their

Upcoming Events:
!!!!! Mr. John’s Birthday !!!!!

Last Day Of School/Field Day: Thursday June 3, 2021

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Let me explain this pic. They were huddled, whispering, and glancing at me. When I questioned them they stopped talking, sat straight, and pretended not to talk. I wonder what they were plotting.

No explanation needed for this pic except that every child ages 3 to 6 is obsessed with poop.

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things ():

Peek In Our Week ! Mr. John’s Class ! Week of April 26, 2021

Posted on April 30, 2021 at 2:29 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Buckeye Room Bulletin

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Food Chains- We learned about food chains. We knew that all living things ate/take in nutrients for energy and rely on plants and animals for their “food source”. It was discovered that a food chain can be as small as two parts and we found a five part food chain. We found out that when an animal eats another animal there are terms for that relationship. The animal hunting and eating is called the predator and the animal being eaten is the prey.

Two students drew their own food chain. As you can see one food chain has four parts and the other food chain has six parts. The four part food chain consists of grass eaten by the rabbit which is eaten by the snake which is eaten by an eagle. The six part food chain starts with grass then eaten by a cricket, then eaten by the spider which is eaten by a frog. Then the frog is eaten by the snake which is eaten by a hawk and owl.

Did you know? (At least give me the hashtag)
The # symbol isn’t officially called pound. Its technical name is “octothorpe” The “octo-” means “eight” to refer to its points, though reports disagree on where “thorpe” came from. Some claim it was named after Olympian Jim Thorpe, while others argue it was just a nonsense suffix.

April Birthdays:
The Primary Montessori classroom consists of students ages from 2.5 to 6 years old. Here are my newest six year olds.

A Message From Mr. John: (Banter)

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 27 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Irish, Kiswahili, Irish, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Farsi, Turkish)

Peek In The Classroom:

This student is working on the Nine Tray. The Nine Tray is designed for use on the floor. It is perfect for laying out the Large Number Cards and associating the golden bead values. The columns of each ‘place value’ are colored to match the Montessori Hierarchy Of Number.

She is working on the Teen Board. Montessori Teen Board is a great way to introduce the concept of teens to a child. Not only children see how tens and ones are being build to make teens, but they are also physically building teens themselves!

She is working on the Cards and Counters found in the Math area. The Cards and Counters bring the abstract to the concrete, allowing a child to feel the units as they count. Cards and Counters is a material that consists of 10 number cards, 1-10, and 55 round, red counters, each approximately the size of a nickel.

He is working on a Math material called the Second Introduction To Decimals. The aim of studying the decimal system is for the child to understand, organize and classify the numerical quantities into different hierarchies of units, tens, hundreds and thousands. One of the best thing about these golden beads material is that it provides a sensorial approach in learning mathematics. It appears he has a captive audience

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Animal Babies

Letter Of The Week- E e

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bic

Academic Enrichment:

Kinders pretending to eat cupcakes and linking the frosting.

Handwriting:
We practiced writing sentences in cursive.

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Conjunctions (they like as a bridge)

Synonym Of The Week: BRIGHT: Shiny, Glowing, Dazzling, Lighted, Vivid

Sight Words Of The Week: look many

Upcoming Events:
Breakfast Club For Buckeye Room: Friday May 7, 7-7:45am

!!! My birthday is closing in !!!

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Are headbands back in style? Remember Mike Reno (Loverboy) and John MacEnroe (tennis)?

Warm weather brings shorts which shows all those bruises and scrapes which is a good sign the child is active and that is a good thing. What a run on sentence.

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (Again, all dogs go to heaven):

Peek In Our Week % Mr. John’s Class % Week Of April 19, 2021

Posted on April 24, 2021 at 9:30 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Buckeye Room Bulletin

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Just working on International Festival stuff.

Did You Know (Johnny Appleseed was a lush?):
Yes, there was a real “Johnny Appleseed” named John Chapman who planted thousands of apple trees on U.S. soil. But the apples on those trees were much more bitter than the ones you’d find in the supermarket today. The apples that “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman favored for planting were small and tart “spitters”—named for what you’d likely do if you took a bite of one. But this made them ideal for making hard cider and applejack. This was a far more valuable crop than edible apples.

A Message From Mr. John (My Fave Time of the School Day):

Know Your Languages (Turkish):

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 26 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Irish, Kiswahili, Irish, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Farsi)

Peek In Our Classroom:

A student painting their section of our African Hut.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Food Chains

Letter Of The Week- A a

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bib

Next Language is Turkish

Upcoming Events:
*** Just ask me want I want for my birthday. ***

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: Adjectives, they describe nouns and pronouns.

Handwriting:
We practiced writing sentences in cursive.

Next Week’s Lesson:
Weekly Theme: Adverbs (describes verbs {adjectives and other pronouns})

Synonym Of The Week: Talk: speak, chat, gab, yak

Sight Words Of The Week: word when

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

The return of the dreaded Raspberry Fingers.

I asked her if she lost her glasses. Nope! I asked her if she shaved her mustache. Nope! She got a haircut!!! Do you consider this a reoccurring “Dad Joke”?

He said it was a trap. For what? I do not know.

Peek In Our Week @@ Mr. John’s Class @@ Week Of April 12, 2021

Posted on April 16, 2021 at 3:50 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Buckeye Room Bulletin

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More International Festival stuff!

Did You Know? (Yellow Stop Signs, are you kidding me?):
In 1922, the American Association of State Highway Officials met to determine a standard design for stop signs, and that’s where they decided on the color—yellow. Wait, what? Yes, according to Business Insider, because they thought that yellow would grab drivers’ attention. They’d also considered red, but there was no dye available at the time that wouldn’t eventually fade. By 1954, however, sign makers had access to fade-resistant porcelain enamel, and could finally start making stop signs the red color we recognize today.

A Message From Mr. John (My birthday/My hair)

Know Your Languages (Turkish):
Faked you out again. Not until after the International Festival

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 25 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Irish, Kiswahili, Irish, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Farsi)

Peek In The Classroom:

Children listening to a student read. Even listening sparks interest in reading.

This girl is working with me on the Second Introduction Of Decimals in which we exchange equal quantities. The aim (s) are to introduce the child to the concept of the decimal system, To make the child familiar with the names and relative sizes of the categories, and to help the child with the difference in bulk between e.g. 6 units and 6 thousands.

These students are working on a color tablet work. You can see they are creating a pattern with the colors. Even more challenging the colors are different shades.

This boy is working on the Pink Tower and Brown Stairs but he made his own creation which is called an extension. Extensions are activities that are introduced after the initial presentation with a material, in order to encourage the child to re-visit the material and solidify the skills and/or concepts it’s designed to provide.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- International Festival stuff

Letter Of The Week- No letter of the week

Rhyming Word Of The Week- No rhyming word of the week

Next Language is Turkish but not until after the International Festival

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: Pronouns. Pronouns take the place of a noun and at times makes are lives easier. The pronouns we went over were he(boy), she(girl), it(not used for people because it is rude), we(a group of two or more we belong two), they(a group of two or more we do not belong to), you.

Handwriting:
We practiced writing sentences in cursive.

Next Week’s Lesson:
Weekly Theme: Adjectives (describes nouns)

Synonym Of The Week: No synonyms this week

Sight Words Of The Week: No sight words of the week

Upcoming Events:
Just remember my birthday is quickly approaching. My registry is on Amazon!

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

A silly Elvis The Pelvis or more like Frankenstien.

You should’ve seen the other guy but she said it was marker. Hehe

The best wat to open a juice pouch is with a fork. She thought of this by her self. She said the straw was not strong enough so she decided a fork would work better.

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (My Sister Lucy)

Peek In Our Week !!! Mr. John’s Class !!! Week Of April 5, 2021

Posted on April 9, 2021 at 3:01 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Buckeye Room Bulletin

Line Time:
Just working on International Festival stuff.

Did You Know? (I’m More of a Milky Way guy):
3 Musketeers bars got their name because they used to come with three flavors. The original 3 Musketeers bars of the 1930s came in three-packs, with a different nougat flavor in each: vanilla, chocolate, or strawberry. World War II rations made that triple treat expensive, so the company cut down to one which was the more popular, chocolate.

A Message From Mr. John :

Know Your Languages (Turkish):
Nope…. Not until after the International Festival.

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 26 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Irish, Kiswahili, Irish, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Farsi)

Peek In The Classroom:

Children preparing for the International Festival by coloring their African country’s flag.

Kinders working on the Bead Chains. The main purpose of the Bead Cabinet is to help develop children’s knowledge about numbers from the concrete to the abstract. By working with the material, children form a strong understanding of number sequencing, as they learn how to skip count by twos, threes, all the way through to tens.

She has completed the Spindle Box. The spindle boxes have important purposes of reinforcing the idea that the symbols represent certain quantities of separate objects, introducing the concept of zero and its symbol, and reinforcing the sequence of the numerals.

This boy is sorting beads. He has nice e sections with nine colors. He has colors of different shades. Maria Montessori’s sensorial work uses “sorting” in specific ways that work to use all of the child’s senses, one at a time, in order to refine them. The goal is to train the brain to create more organized thoughts and ways of retrieving information.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- International Festival Stuff

Letter Of The Week- No letter of the week

Rhyming Word Of The Week- No rhyming word of the week

Next Language is Turkish (psych! not until after the International Festival)

Upcoming Events:
Nothing really going on so let me throw out that my birthday is fast approaching. Start preparing now for the fanfare.

Practice your child’s International Festival lines that I sent.

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: Articles a, an, the. “A” goes with all the consonants. “An” is a bit pickier and she goes with only vowels. The is not so picky and he goes with anything.

Handwriting:
We practiced writing sentences in cursive.

Next Week’s Lesson:
Weekly Theme: Pronouns

Synonym Of The Week: No synonym this week

Sight Words Of The Week: No sight words this week

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Showing off her Easter Basket Booty. Notice how she sorted them by color.

Lol, you should have seen the other guy. Do you see it?

Just having fun and being goofy like children should be.

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (Easter brought some good stuff):

Peek In Our Week $$ Mr. John’s Room $$ Week Of March 22, 2021

Posted on March 26, 2021 at 11:47 am.

Written by John Kotradi

Buckeye Room Bulletin

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We discovered the traditions, weather, food eaten in certain African countries. We learned about Madagascar where this is the only place that has lemurs. Egypt has the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx and the Congo is the home of the Mountain Gorillas. Africa has strange and unique creatures such as the elephant, rhinoceros, hippos, giraffes, and lions.

Did you know?
The Goodyear Blimp is the official bird of Redondo Beach, California. Whaaaaaaaat?

The Goodyear Blimp is nothing short of iconic, but we wouldn’t classify it as a bird. Still, that didn’t stop Redondo Beach—a coastal city situated near the Goodyear Blimp’s home airport in Carson, California—from passing a resolution in 1983 to make the blimp its official bird.

Message From Mr. John (MSB): As I side note my buddy lives in Atlanta and found the album Stagepass on 8 Track (and bought it for 3$) a week before Michael Stanley passed.

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 25 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Irish, Kiswahili, Irish, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay,)

Know Your Languages: (Farsi)

Peek In The Classroom:

Introduction to Numerals of the Decimal System is a Montessori Math Early Childhood lesson is pretty straightforward, the goal of this lesson is to introduce the numerals of the decimal system. The child is introduced to the Montessori color coding of the numerals, 10 units equals 1 ten, 10 tens equals 1 hundred, etc. This work we play a game of exchanging the appropriate quantities.

Why is cutting with scissors important? It is simple… It enhances independent movements of each finger and strengthens hand muscles. Enhances bilateral coordination skills (two-handed coordination), visual and motor skills (eye-hand coordination), visual perceptual tasks (directionality), fine motor skills (separation of hand, finger dexterity), and promotes grasp pattern, focus and attention. Phew….. that was a lot!

A kinder student working on her second phonics book. Her work space looks like Einstien’s desk. Lol

The Cards and Counters bring an abstract and concrete concept to this math activity. The cards and counters reinforces the knowledge that each number is made up of separate quantities. The child will see the sequence of numbers and how many separate units go to form each number.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- N. America/S. America

Letter Of The Week- No letter of the week.

Rhyming Word Of The Week- No rhyming word of the week.

Next Language is Farsi

Academic Enrichment:
Handwriting: This week we practiced writing sentences in cursive.

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Articles

Synonym Of The Week: No synonym of the week.

Sight Words Of The Week: No sight words of the week.

The kinders completed the tracking of the flower and realized there was a work in the room that looked very similar to the plant. The stalk measured 24in/60cm.

Upcoming Events:
Spring Break: Monday, March 29 through Monday, April 5. Returning Tuesday, April 6— (I cancelled my plans for a Daytona Beach Bash and decided to chillax at home)

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

These two handsome boys did not lose their glasses. They did not shave their mustaches. They got haircuts! The photo bomber first said he got a haircut then he told me no. The jury is still out on him.

I really have no idea what they are trying to accomplish.

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (All dogs go to heaven):

Peek In Our Week … Mr. John’s Room … Week Of March 15, 2021

Posted on March 19, 2021 at 2:34 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Buckeye Room Bulletin

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This week we took a look at life cycles of humans, frogs/toads, and butterflies/moths. Humans have relatively boring life cycle compared to the butterfly/moth and toad/frog. As humans we are born, we live, we die. YAWWWWN. The toad and frog start with being jelly eggs in the water. They hatch into tadpoles and eat algae, then they turn into a froglet which has a head of a frog and a tail. Then the tail falls off and an adult frog/toad lives the rest of its life on land. The butterfly/moth starts as an egg. The a caterpillar is hatched and it eats A LOT. Then a caterpillar spins its (butterfly) chrysalis/ moth spins a cocoon. Then a buttery comes out of its chrysalis and moth comes out of the cocoon. I posed the question “which came first the egg or the butterfly?” This created some heated conversation!

Did You Know? (Don’t Listen To What Your Mother Said):
Although chewing gum is designed to be chewed and not swallowed, it generally isn’t harmful if swallowed. If you swallow gum, it’s true that your body can NOT digest it. But the gum doesn’t stay in your stomach. It moves relatively intact through your digestive system and is excreted in your stool. Did your mom tell you it would take seven years to digest? Mine did.

Below is the gum where the flavor lasts a whole eight seconds. I also thought it says “vapes” in action.

A Message From Mr. John (How I Became Your Teacher) Part 3. P.S. At the previous school I mentioned I was Kelley Laney’s assistant. Funny how things come together.

Know Your Languages (Hindi):

Shaun O’Keefe (our reappearing class leprechaun):

Shaun O’Keefe causes a quite a ruckus! That cheeky leprechaun.

St. Patrick Day spirit and ready to drive the snakes into the sea.

Peek In The Classroom:

These two are working together on the 100 Board. Around three or four years of age, depending on how quickly the child has grasped the concept of counting to 100, and also helping them to understand number order. Through their work, the children are able to correct any mistakes independently, as the control card guides the activity.

This is week two for tracking the growth of the the flower. The stalk is now approximately 23 inches and 52 centimeters.

The direct purpose of the Sandpaper Numbers is to teach children the symbols that represent each number, allowing them to visually identify any number from 0 – 9. In Montessori education this is specifically taught separately to counting from 0 – 9, where children often fall back on rote memorization.

Montessori Teen Board with Beads, teaches a child (3-5 yo approx.) to associate the quantities and symbols from 11 to 19. Using the Teen Boards, the child explores the number names of the teens and the sequence of numbers 11–19.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Africa

Letter Of The Week-X x

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bac

Next Language is Hindi

Academic Enrichment:
This week we learned all about vowels (a, e, i, o, u) and consonants (the rest of the letters).

Below the Kindergarten Students sing the Kindergarten Song which they made up all by themselves. The only reason they call me Mr. Pain is they needed a word that rhymed with Loraine, really!

Handwriting:
We practiced writing sentences in cursive.

Next Week’s Lesson:
Weekly Theme: Nouns/Verbs

Synonym Of The Week: No synonyms this week

Sight Words Of The Week: have this

Upcoming Events:
Spring Break: Monday, March 29 through Monday, April 5. Returning Tuesday, April 6—(Look for me on MTv’s Daytona Beach Edition) !

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

You should have seen the other guy. Although, the “scratch” disappeared by lunch and may have been jelly.

The mysterious disease called ” Fudge Stripe Eyes”.

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things:(Preparing for baby sister)

Peek In Our Week “” Mr. John’s Classroom “” Week Of March 8, 2021

Posted on March 12, 2021 at 12:35 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Buckeye Room Bulletin

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We had fun this week looking into the world of art. We went over the primary and secondary colors. We learned there are different ways to create art such as, drawing with pencils, coloring with crayons, and painting. We looked at artists such as Michael Angelo, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol.

Did You Know? (chuuug it! Chuuug it!):
Drinking too much water can be deadly. When guzzling a lot of liquid, you can suffer from water intoxication or hyponatremia, which occurs after an obscene amount of water is consumed, often during endurance events when participants are also losing sodium through their sweat. There have been many notable cases, including the 2002 Boston Marathon competitor Cynthia Lucero, who died from overhydration.

A Message From Mr. John (How I Became Your Teacher/a play on the smash hit TV show How I Met Your Mother) Part 2:

Know Your Languages (Malay):

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 24 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Irish, Kiswahili, Irish, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano)

Peek In The Classroom:

Notice how he drew this from larger to smaller. ALSO, he created a pattern of black, green, brown, pink… This was all on his own. By the looks of this picture he is pretty proud.

We will tracking the growth of this bud for the next few weeks. The kinders will be tracking the height of the bloom in inches and centimeters and the students will draw the progress of the growth. Also, a non kinder is interested in the plant.

Compassion and empathy are a qualities that are encouraged in my classroom. Hugs for the downtrodden.

She found the relationship between two works.

Line Time- Life Cycles

Letter Of The Week-Y y

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bac

Next Language is Malay

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: This week we learned how to tell time to the quarter past/analog (:15), hands and such.

We are missing a kinder student. Where did she go? Notice how there is a space for the missing student. Their idea not mine.

Handwriting:
We practiced writing sentences in cursive.

Next Week’s Lesson:
Weekly Theme: Consonants/Vowels

Synonym Of The Week: Wet: damp, moist, soggy, drenched, soaked

Sight Words Of The Week: have this

Upcoming Events:
Spring Break: Monday, March 29 through Monday, April 5. Returning Tuesday, April 6

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Feeding time revisited. I got nothin on this pic.

This was a really cool wipe out on the playground and he didn’t cry! Trust me (I used to be a boy) being a boy his age not crying is a big deal.

I am not sure if this boy got a haircut. He tells me yes then laughs then tells me no then laughs. I’ll get to the bottom of it! I do know that he got new hair gel.

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (Dinos):

Peek In Our Week ^^ Mr. John’s Class ^^ Week Of March 1, 2021

Posted on March 5, 2021 at 2:37 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Buckeye Room Bulletin

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Happy March Everyone!

I am so excited that spring is just around the corner. We celebrated our first week of March with celebrating wonderful Dr. Seuss. We had the best time wearing silly socks, wearing crazy clothes and hair, wearing their favorite hat, wearing mustaches Wow! what a fun week.

Did you know (eternal snacking)?
Pringles innovator was buried in a Pringles can. Fred Bauer, the Procter & Gamble employee who devised the idea of stacking Pringles into cans, eschewed an urn upon his death and instead asked that his family bury him in one his signature cans.

A Message From Mr. John (How I Became Your Teacher/a play on the smash hit TV series How I Met Your Mother):

Know Your Languages (Cebuano):

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, Irish, Kiswahili, Irish, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation)

Peek In The Classroom:

This boy drew an outline of the human body. Then he drew, colored, cut, and pasted his drawings of internal organs. He thought of this all on his own. And he is darn serious about his work. Look at his expression.

This girl has completed the Geometry section of the classroom. She knows a plethora of shapes and knows there are three angles, acute, obtuse, and right. She is holding an obtuse/scalene/triangle.

Kinders working on their phonics workbook.

These two made their creation from the Pink Tower and Brown Stair. This is called an extension. Extensions are activities that are introduced after the initial presentation with a material, in order to encourage the child to re-visit the material and solidify the skills and/or concepts it’s designed to provide. This is a perfect example of an extension.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Art

Letter Of The Week- X x

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bel

Next Language is Cebuano

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: This week we learned how to tell time to the half hour/analog, hands and such.

My bedtime. Actually, it is past my bedtime.

All hugs from the kinders. One was not feeling it.

Handwriting:
We practiced writing sentences in cursive.

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Telling time to the quarter hour

Synonym Of The Week: DRY: dehydrated, arid parched

Sight Words Of The Week: they that

Upcoming Events:
Spring Break: Monday, March 29 through Monday, April 5. Returning Tuesday, April 6

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

A very unorthodox way to write… with her feet.

An ill advised mask fight that Mr. John put the kiebash on. I told them it is all fun and games until someone loses an eye but I liked the photo op.

More hair fashion. Mickey hair/ears with the Mickey shirt?

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (siblings):

Peek In our Week | Mr. John’s Class | Week Of February 22, 2021

Posted on February 23, 2021 at 2:54 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Buckeye Room 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 they call each other this morning?

Did you know (How does this affect my diet)?
The word “pound” comes from ancient Roman when the unit of measure was libra pondo, which meant “a pound by weight.” The English word “pound” draw from the pondo part of the phrase, according to the BBC. However, the abbreviation “lb” is derived from the libra part of the word.

A Message From Mr. John (Beatlemania part 2 and final):

Know Your Languages (Serbo-Croation):

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 22 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Irish, Kiswahili, Irish, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish)

Peek In The Classroom:

Notice how this boy found the relation between the four different sets of the Knobless Cylinders? Also, instead of stacking them in a straight line they are stacked curved. The purpose of these cylinders is to develop child’s fine-motor movements, concentration, hand-eye coordination, and visual perception of dimension.

The Montessori geometric shapes is part of the Montessori sensorial curriculum. The Montessori geometric shapes is a visual sensorial material. Composed of a variety of two-dimensional shapes, its purpose is to isolate visual distinctions between forms. The forms vary in both either shape or size.

The purpose of Montessori Botany puzzle is to increase their power of observation and knowledge in nature, also illustrates the component parts of a plant. Its wooden knob on each component of the leaf puzzle makes it easy to hold and can be used with many activities such as tracing or matching with cards. The wooden knows also strengthens fine motor skills.

Look at the concentration (tongue sticking out) of the one girl. These two girls are working on Practical Life works. Practical life in Montessori is purposeful activity, develops motor control and coordination, and develops independence, concentration, and a sense of responsibility. The exercises in practical life cover two main areas of development: care of self, and care of the environment.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Dr. Suess Week!
Monday, March 1^st: Fox in Sox-Students can wear silly socks!
Tuesday, March 2^nd: Cat in the Hat-Students can wear their favorite hat!
Wednesday, March 3^rd: Wacky Wednesday-Students can wear mis-matched clothes! Polka dots with stripes? Today is the day!
Thursday, March 4^th: The Lorax-Crazy hair and mustache day! Spikes and braids and colors everywhere! Don’t forget to draw on a crazy mustache!
Friday, March 5^th: Oh, the Places You’ll Go! – Students can dress up as what they want to be when they grow up! We can’t wait to see what everyone is aspiring to be!

********You are welcome to get as creative with these days as you would like! Also, if you have any Dr. Seuss books at home that you would like to share, please send them in! Make sure to have your name on the books somewhere so that we may get them back to you at the end of the week! Please let us know if you have any questions!**********

Letter Of The Week- W w

Rhyming Word Of The Week- beg

Next Language is Serbo-Croation

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: This week we learned how to tell time to the hour/analog, hands and such.