Peek In Our Week _-_ Thee Buckeye Room -_- Week Of April 24, 2023

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

Line Time:
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

I had to pick the cutest babies

Did you know?
A Jiffy is an actual measurement of time. Computer scientists say it’s about 1/100th of a second; electrical engineers clock it at around 1/60th of a second, but physicists view it as the time light takes to travel the radius of an electron. Next, I will research if the terms “tad” and “smidgeon” are actual words for measurements of length. I use those two words often when I get a haircut.

Words from Mr. John (I like what I am seeing):

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, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish).

Enrichments (Art):

Art teacher extraordiniare! Mrs. Varella

Peek In The Classroom:

She is building 10s with color beads bars.
Doing Subtraction with borrowing. Notice how she is pointing to the ten 10s she borrowed from the 100 column?
Our newest reader.
Look who is reading chapter books.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time-  Animal Groups

Letter Of The Week- B b

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bud

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: 
Adverbs, they describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.

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

Synonym Of The Week: BRIGHT: shiny, glowing, dazzling, lighted, vivid

Sight Words Of The Week: which what

AMMS Strong!

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

The crowd favorites!
What happened to his hand?
You should have seen the other guy.
BFFs

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things: (Belt Colors)

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A Peek into the Cherry Blossom Classroom – week of April 17, 2023

Welcome Back Blossoms!

We are so excited to be back together at school! Also, I apologize for the delay in getting the blog out to you – I was experiencing some technical difficulties. Everything should be good to go now!

Ms. Tonya’s Lesson: Spring

Ms. Tonya led a discussion about the season of Spring this week. We reviewed the 4 seasons and then discussed the characteristics of spring. Spring brings lots of rain, but it also brings flowers! Lots of animal babies are born in the spring. Spring is a good time to begin your vegetable garden, and farmers are planting seeds as well. We took a close up look to some of the best spring flowers – tulips and daffodils! We also explored some cherry blossoms!

This preschooler is sorting pictures by season.

We used 4 of our 5 senses to learn more about daffodils and tulips!
The best time of the year – when the Cherry Blossom class gets to learn about the cherry blossom tree!

Ms. Sam’s Lesson: Earth Day

Ms. Sam introduced our Blossoms to Earth Day this week. We learned about different ways we can take care of our planet. We talked about ways to Reduce our impact. We explored items that can be Recycled and sorted them by the materials they are made out of. We practiced Reusing by making bird feeders out of toilet paper tubes. We hung the bird feeders outside so that we can meet the birds that live outside of our classroom window!

We sorted recyclables by metal, glass, plastic, and cardboard/paper.
We reused toilet paper tubes to make bird feeders.
Our bird feeders hanging in the tree waiting for birds… and also our new horse friend in the background. What a view!

Our Kindergarten Lesson: Grammar Symbols & Poetry

Kindergarteners dove into Grammar Symbols this week, both in Kindergarten Lesson and the classroom. They practiced finding nouns, verbs, articles, pronouns, and adverbs within sentences. Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop continued their study of Poetry. Kindergarteners wrote acrostic poems and color poems this week!

The Kindergarteners are working on their rough draft of their color poem. We worked on getting our ideas onto paper first, and then building our poem from there.

Enrichment Spotlight: Music, Art, & Science!

Music with Ms. Lisa, Art with Ms. Varela, and Science with Mr. John all resumed this week in their new spaces!

Music class with Ms. Lisa includes Gerry the Giraffe! We practice singing hello to Gerry with our piano and forte voices!
We made collage bird houses in Art with Ms. Varela!
Mr. John’s science experiment was a chemical reaction with baking soda and vinegar!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

A HUGE Happy Birthday to all of our April birthdays!!!!

Happy Birthday to our newest 5 year old, 6 year olds, and 7 year old!

We LOVE Our New Space!

Your children have had an amazing first week back to school! We love our new classroom and the extra space that it gives us. We absolutely love the view of the wildlife we see outside – horses, birds, and squirrels right outside of our classroom window this week! The field that we visit during our recess time is so big and giggles were had by all as they ran back and forth!

Our first line time in our beautiful new classroom space!
Lunch time with a view of the horses!
Check out our squirrel friend!
We can just run and run and run and run and run!

A Peek At Our Week – Aspen- 04/17/23 – 04/21/23 – WELCOME BACK!!!

Welcome back Aspen families! We are so happy to be back in the classroom following our daily routine while learning! We are so appreciative of all our parents for being so understanding and patient throughout this unique journey! Aspen is happily settling into their new classroom and appear to be adjusting to their new school environment! It was so nice to finally return to the classroom, play with friends we missed, and continue our learning! We really missed working with the activities and playing with our friends.

This week, group lessons have centered around acclimating to our new environment, reviewing classroom expectations, and picking up where we left off before our unexpected and extended break from classroom fun! This week we also began our more in-depth research on Asia and Australia, learning the names and locations of countries, exploring culture and ways of life on these continents, and discussing Asian and Australian Biomes while learning about animals living in these biomes. It was a very busy but happy week in Aspen!

In Kindergarten Workshop, the kindergarteners learned all about the Parts Of Speech and engaged in a few review lessons. In Readers Workshop, the Cardinals and Chickadees reviewed their thematic unit on poetry and wrote an All About Me Poem. Both groups then created their very own self portrait. While writing our poems we explored phonics, phonograms, and rhyming. We also discovered repetition of sounds when writing our sentences. In Writers Workshop the Cardinals and Chickadees explored the world of color and created and wrote our own a Color Poems

Exploring quantity with the Spindle Boxes!

Pouring Water! Learning how to control movements, focus, and complete tasks independently. Check out that smile!!!

Fun with Phonics!! Creating words with the Moveable Alphabet!

Practicing tricky letters in cursive with the dry erase board.

Lots of group activities during the work period this week. We really missed our friends!

See you next week!


Peek In Our Week ^^^ Thee Buckeye Room ^^^ Week Of April 17, 2023

IT IS GOOD TO BE BACK !!!

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

Line Time:
We talked about how our plans may be interrupted, changed, or cancelled. Basically, sometimes things do not go the way we planned them and when that happens we have to adjust and make the best of the situation. We went over new things at the new school and learned where the classrooms and more importantly the restrooms are located. Ahhhh, those life lessons at such a young age.

Did You Know?:
Are you a fan of The Office? Do you bop your head when the theme songs comes on? Well, originally the theme song was to be “Better Things” by The Kinks. This is one of my all time fave songs because it is so full of hope and good wishes. FYI… I saw The Kinks on this tour circa 1984. Bonus- name two artists that either did a cover or sang this song with The Kinks.

A Message From Mr. John (AMMS Strong):

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, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish).

Bring Your Parent To School:

A dad patiently listening to stories about roaches.

Peek In Our Classroom:

This student is working on the Moveable Alphabet. The key purpose of the Moveable Alphabet is to prepare children for writing, reading, and spelling. The child’s use of the material progresses from single words, to phrases, and eventually to stories. In this way, the Moveable Alphabet teaches children how to symbolize their own thoughts, and begin to write creatively.
She is learning her consonant blends.
She is working on Color Box 3. The purpose is to help children develop their sense of color discrimination. Also, she has to match the shade then grade the shade from lightest to darkest. This skill will help her with recognition of symbols in Language and Math. Notice the photobomb?
Students chipping in to put all the pieces of the Continent Puzzle Maps in their proper place place. The pieces were scattered during the move.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Animal Babies

Letter Of The Week- A a

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bib

Upcoming Events:
International Festival- TBA

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

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

Synonym Of The Week: SMALL, tiny, miniature, minute, little, petite

Sight Words Of The Week: word then

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Breakfast Club Buddies reunited.
You shuddah seen the other guy.
Human Sling Shot
A mummy? A chrysalis? Again! You just go about your business.

Your Kids Say the Darndest Things (Does not like new people?)


Peek In Our Week /\/\ Thee Buckeye Room /\/\ Week Of March 20, 2023

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

Line Time:
This week the students were introduced to the continents in preparation for the International Festival. 

Did you know you can get your eyeballs tattooed?:
If you’re looking to get your entire body tattooed, you don’t need to stop at your eyeballs! Many hardcore tattoo fans are getting the whites of their eyes injected with ink of all kinds of colors ranging from green to purple. However, there are some risks involved such as pain and prolonged blurred and double vision.

I am officially freaked out!!!!!!!!!

Message From Mr. John (9.5 days off):   

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, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish).

Our high school intern Allie:

Allie will be with us for the month of April. I remember her when she was in preschool. Allie is an alumnus of AMMS!!!

Peek In The Classroom:

He is learning how to exchange and is reinforcing his knowledgeable of the 1, 10, 100, 1,000 columns.
Team work! At the end of the day the students stack tables and chairs.
Math is in the air…
Notice the focus with the boy at the table and the girl carrying a tear the correct way.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Practicing International Festival 

Letter Of The Week- No Letter Of The Week

Rhyming Word Of The Week- No Rhyming Word

No new language will be presented

Academic Weekly Theme: Nouns and Verbs
Next Week
: Articles

Synonym Of The Week: No synonym of the week.

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

Kinders acting out their favorite verb.

Upcoming Events:
A few days off and other stuff.

DAYS OFF:
-No School: SPRING BREAK- March 27 through April 2 — Returning Monday April 3
-Early Release/No Aftercare: Good Friday April 7. ***** Dismissal 12 noon/NO AFTERCARE *****
-No School: Easter Monday, April 10

OTHER STUFF:
International Festival (REHEARSAL): Wednesday, April 26 at 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm …
Cuyahoga Falls high School/Big Auditorium (details to follow)

International Festival (MAIN EVENT): Friday, April 28 at 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm …
Cuyahoga Falls high School/Big Auditorium (details to follow)

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Again, a voice in my head says “Don’t ask.” And a photo bomb.
I am not sure if this is mud make up or Lord Of The Flies.
New Miles and old Miles.
Don’t dare sing a Beatles song near her or you’ll get an eye roll.

Your Children Say The Darndest Things (The reason I do not like jellybeans):


A Peek into the Cherry Blossom Classroom – week of March 20, 2023

Our Focus Lesson: Outer Space

This week we learned all about Outer Space! We studied the eight planets found in our solary system, learned about orbits, talked about the sun and the moon, were introduced to asteroids and comets, and were in awe of pictures of our galaxy. Your children now know that Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are rock planets while Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are gas giants. They know that Saturn’s rings are made of pieces of rock and ice, Venus is the hottest planet, and that Pluto is now one of our Solar System’s dwarf planets. We really loved our lessons this week!

Our Preschool Lesson: Layers of the Earth

Ms. Sam and our preschool students took a deep look at our planet, Earth. They learned the layers of our planet from the crust that we live on to the incrediably hot inner core! We ended the week taking a look at the Stromboli Volcano off the coast of Italy. Preschoolers learned that the mantle is made up of magma, but when it comes out of a volcano we then call it lava!

Kindergarten Lessons:

During Kindergarten Lesson this week, our older Blossoms were introduced to nouns and verbs. We know that nouns are a person, place, or thing and that verbs are action words or something that you do. During Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop, kindergarteners continued their study of poetry with Ms. Kelley and Ms. Tonya. They practiced writing an Alliteration Poem about Spring together as a group, and created a rough draft of their 5 Senses Poem about a topic of their choosing!

“Spring. I see flowers. I hear birds tweet.”

Indoor Recess Skills

We practiced some different gross motor skills in the gym this week during Indoor Recess. We participated in a bean bag toss game, practiced our hula hooping skills, had fun bouncing and catching a ball, and learned how to jump rope! We also danced around to Baby Shark!

One Last Cozy Day Before Spring Break!

We ended our cozy pajama day with a snack and a movie! We watched Space Buddies to celebrate our lessons this week!

Peek Into Next Week!

NO SCHOOL NEXT WEEK – SPRING BREAK

School resumes on Monday, April 3!

Focus Lesson & Preschool Lesson: Continents

Kindergarten Lesson: Articles

Important Dates:

Friday, April 7: Early Release 12pm for Good Friday

Monday, April 10: No School for Easter Monday

Wednesday, April 26: International Festival Rehearsal

Friday, April 28: International Festival!

Bring Your Parent to Work Days: There are only 4 more Bring Your Parent to Work Dates this school year! Sign up and come observe your child at work!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a8a92da6f94-cblossom#/


A Peek At Our Week – Aspen- 3/13/23 – 3/17/23 – Rainbows and The Light Spectrum

This week in Aspen, we dove into the world of color again by exploring rainbows and the light spectrum! The Aspen children investigated why and how rainbows occur; we named the colors within the rainbow, discussed the light spectrum, and engaged in experiments involving bending and refracting light. Each day during group lessons, we took a look at the science of rainbows and the exploration of color. We discovered that rainbows occur when sunlight hits a water droplet. When this happens, some of the light is reflected and refracted creating a rainbow! As we researched this topic, we further discovered that light is made up of different wavelengths and each wavelength is reflected at different angles; therefore, the light spectrum is separated and the result is a rainbow! In order to illustrate this concept while gaining hands on experience, we engaged in an activity refracting light to create our own rainbows using a flashlight and a prism. Aspen also read Pink Is Not a Color and This Book Is Gray by Lindsay Ward. Lindsay Ward a local children’s author from Peninsula, Ohio. The book is hilarious, full of educational information, and encourages kindness and uniqueness. Aspen highly recommends this book, so check it out!!

This week we began or Asia and Oceania studies by having Noah’ s mom, Anum Ali, come in to teach us all about Pakistan. She brought amazing pictures depicting the culture and life in Pakistan, and she brought in many visual aides and items to share as she talked about her culture. Mrs. Ali taught us so much and answered our many, many questions! She even taught us some words! Ask your child about their amazing lesson on Pakistan! A very big thank you to Anum for all of her hardwork and preparation, sharing her knowledge with us, Buckeye, and Cherry Blossom! I also would like to personally thank all of the Aspen parents and children for selecting and submitting their countries for the festival. We have begun our in-class research projects because of this!

This week in Kindergarten lesson, the Kindergarteners began their in-depth lesson with the Function of Words activities, exploring consonants, vowels, and articles. In Readers Workshop, both groups practiced their copy writing skills, fluency, and handwriting with reading comprehension books/worksheets. They practiced finding information within a text while answering comprehension questions. We also practiced writing in complete sentences when answering comprehension questions. Both groups also took a quick look at rhyme, alliteration, hyperbole, and onamatapeoia to explore poetry condepts. In Writers Workshop, both groups practiced writing poetry as a group (picture below).

Matching Uppercase and Lowercase letters!

Learning how to find information in books. Practicing our research skills researching life in our Asian country!

Guiding and helping our friends during the work period! The combined age groups of a Montessori classroom provides opportunities for children to exercise independence while assuming leadership roles guiding younger peers.

Skip Counting with the Cube Chain!

Kindergarten Poetry Fun!!


Peek In Our Week ::: Thee Buckeye Room ::: Week Of March 13, 2023

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

Line Time:
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 toa d/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? (Cotton Candy was invented by a dentist)
It is not known whether William Morrison had an ulterior motive for inventing the soft confection, but the dentist no doubt helped ensure others in his profession continued drawing in plenty of customers. In 1897, he partnered with candy-maker John C. Wharton to develop the Cotton Candy machine (which at the time was known as “Fairy Floss”), and it’s been bringing kids cavities ever since.

A Message From Mr. John (I think I got the crud)

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, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish)

Know Your Languages (Turkish):

Enrichments, sort of (upper elementary’s experiment):

These Upper Elementary students performed an experement to see the effects of talking nicely to moist rice and talking meanly to the other cup of rice. There is definitely a difference.
For International Festival a mom came in and talked to the school about Pakistan.

Shaun O’Keefe (our reappearing class leprechaun):

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

Views from the Shamrock Classroom:

The shenannigans of Sean O Keefe!

Peek In The Classroom:

She is working on the Pink Rhyming found in the Language area. This reinforces knowing 3 word, short vowel sounds (cvc).
She is working on a pre reading work called Phonics Folders. This concentrates on the (cvc) short vowels words.
She is composing numbers with the 9 tray. As you notice she is composing a number with an empty column. Composing numbers reinforces the relationship between the symbol and quantity. She can now compose numbers from 1 to 9,999.
She is working on the Number Rods which reinforces the relationship between symbols and quantity. Do you see the attempted photobomb?

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Preparing For The International Festival

Letter Of The Week- Y y

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bac

Next Language is No New Languages will be Introduced


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

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:
A few days off and other stuff.

DAYS OFF:
-No School: SPRING BREAK- March 27 through April 2 — Returning Monday April 3
-Early Release/No Aftercare: Good Friday April 7. ***** Dismissal 12 noon/NO AFTERCARE *****
-No School: Easter Monday, April 10

OTHER STUFF:
International Festival (REHEARSAL): Wednesday, April 26 at 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm …
Cuyahoga Falls high School/Big Auditorium (details to follow)

International Festival (MAIN EVENT): Friday, April 289 at 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm …
Cuyahoga Falls high School/Big Auditorium (details to follow)

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Ms. Angela hearding cats as the students are making the Leprechaun Trap.
I sensed someone was looking at me. I looked up and saw this. Should I be concerned?
You shouldah seen the other guy.
Thats some thick bread

A Peek into the Cherry Blossom Classroom – week of March 13, 2023

Focus Lesson: Weather

This week, we learned about Weather in the Cherry Blossom classroom. We discussed what types of weather we find here in Ohio, such as sunny, rainy, snowy, and windy. We learned that countries closer to the Equator have different weather patterns than we do and that we live in a temperate climate. We spent our week keeping a Weather Journal and were lucky enough to witness 5 different types of weather this week! Yay Ohio!

We also learned about the Water Cycle. Ask your child about evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. We ended the week learning about different types of clouds and the messages that they give us. Cumulus clouds tell us that the weather is good, and Stratus clouds tell us it is either going to rain or snow. But did you know that if you see Cirrus clouds that it will rain or snow within 24 hours?

Look at this beautiful snowflake one of our preschoolers drew!

Preschool Lesson: Colors

Our younger Blossoms learned about Colors this week. We reviewed Primary and Secondary colors, discussed hues and shades, and practiced our Rainbow order. We built rainbows, colored rainbows, mixed paint, and ended our week with a Green Scavenger Hunt!

This child is receiving a lesson with the Color Puzzle where we learned about mixing colors and creating new colors.

Kindergarten Lessons:

Our older Blossoms learned to differentiate between consonants and vowels this week during Kindergarten Lesson. In Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop, our kindergarteners have started their poetry unit. They worked as a group to write these poems about a butterfly and flowers!

Enrichment Spotlight:

In Music class with Ms. Lisa, our Blossoms were introduced to the piano. They each had a turn to play a duet with a classmate!

Special Visitors:

We had two special visitors to our class this week! Elementary students came to show us their Science Experiment. They put rice into cups and then spoke nicely to one cup of rice and spoke meanly to another cup of rice. The cup they spoke kindly too grew a little bit of mold, the cup they spoke meanly to grew a lot of mold! Next, they are going to try the same experiment with plants!

One of the parents of an Aspen student gave us a presentation about Pakistan! She showed us the map of Pakistan, the clothing people wear there, what their schools and vehicles look like, and what sort of food they eat. We loved learning more about this country found in Asia as we begin preparing for the International Festival!

If you or someone you know would like to also come talk to us about another country, we would love to have them come visit us!

Indoor Recess:

As much as we love to go outside and play on the playground, we also have so much fun in the gym during Indoor Recess! This week we built an obstacle course! There was balancing, jumping, and running!

St. Patrick’s Day Shenanigans!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from the Cherry Blossom Classroom! We built a trap as a class to catch that pesky leprechaun but Sean O’Keefe tricked us again! He ate all of the Lucky Charms we left for him, and left us a pot of chocolates to share! He also pulled out all of the green materials in our classroom and threw them all of the room!

Peek into Next Week!

Focus Lesson: Outer Space

Preschool Lesson: Layers of the Earth

Kindergarten Lesson: Nouns and Verbs

Important Dates: Spring Break – No School – March 27-31


Peek In Our Week {}{} Thee Buckeye Room {}{} Week of March 6, 2023

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

Line Time:
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, Monet, and Andy Warhol.

Who can name this album cover? Free tuition for the first to identify it….. OK, no free tuition. Kelly and Brandy just scolded me!  🙁

Did You Know? (Ringo Star played only one drum solo while he was with The Beatles):

Ringo would never do drum solos, Paul Mcartney said. He hated drummers who did lengthy drum solos. We all did. And when he joined the Beatles we said, ‘Ah, what about drum solos then?’ and he said, ‘I hate ’em!’ We said, ‘Great! We love you!’ And so he would never do them. Except one which was done on the last song (The End) of the last album (Abbey Road) of The Beatles. Truly an end of an era!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12R4FzIhdoQ

A Message From Mr. John (This week went well):

Know Your Languages (Hindi):

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, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi)

Enrichments (Music):

Ms. Lisa utilizes movement in her music class. For example this picture shows the students raising their hands in response to a high note being played.

Akron Art Museum Field Trip:

If it ain’t messy It ain’t fun. If it ain’t fun, it ain’t art. I call the piece “The Crime Scene”

March Birthdays:
A Montessori classroom prides itself on a mixed aged classroom of ages between 2 1/2 and 6.  Here are our newest 4 and six year old students.

Notice the two photobombs. I didn’t see them when I took the photo.

Peek In The Classroom:

These mazes are getting more sophisticated.
Working in Practical Life with pippetes to strengthen her pinscher grip and concentration.
Students will use the beginning and ending sounds the read words created by changing the vowel sounds as they move through the vowel tree.
He is doing equations in division, with carry overs in all columns with manipulatives.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Life Cycles

Letter Of The Week-Y y

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bac

Next Language is Turkish

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: Geometric Solids (3D shapes).

kinders with their favorite Geometric Solids.

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:
DAYS OFF:
A few days off and other stuff.
-No School: SPRING BREAK- March 27 through April 2 — Returning Monday April 3
-Early Release/No Aftercare: Good Friday April 7. ***** Dismissal 12 noon/NO AFTERCARE *****
-No School: Easter Monday, April 10

OTHER STUFF:
International Festival Line Request:
This communication was sent via email and Remind.(( Any questions just ask )).

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Oh! The drama!!!
Thats a big slice.
You shoulda seen the other guy.
Offering for our roaches.

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things: (Her Cats)