Peek In Our Week +++ Thee Buckeye Room +++ Week Of November 14, 2022

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Native Americans/Thanksgiving-  We talked about Native Americans and how Indians were named Indians.  On student informed us that Christopher Columbus landed in North America but thought he was in India.  Hence, the name.  We talked about how Native Americans were indigenous.  Then the Pilgrims came over from Europe on a ship called the Mayflower.  The pilgrims had a rough go of it at the beginning because they didn’t have enough blankets or food.  They could not just go to Target or Giant Eagle to get supplies because at that time there were just woods and wild life. 

A Message From Mr. John (It is officially hate xichigan week!):

Did you know?:
Human teeth are the only part of the human body that can not heal itself. Teeth are coated in enamel which is not a living tissue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8ryyRxcSTM Go to the 50 second mark and you’ll see Paul has a chipped tooth. If my memory is correct he was in a minor moped accident. Don’t ask me how I remember this stuff.

Know Your Languages (Hungarian):

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

Specials Spotlight (Science):

An experiment about Surface Tension.

Operation Christmas Child:

Children packing boxes/gifts for less fortunate children.
A parent volunteer entertaining students during packing boxes.

Peek In The Classroom:

She is grinding coffee beans so mom and dad can have coffee in the morning. This work is found in Practical Life.
The Pink Series is the first stage of this series designed to help children learn to decode words with short vowel sounds. It consists of 3-letter phonetic words in a CVC, or consonant-vowel-consonant, format. It is important to note that the Pink Series’ vowels are short vowels only and do not include “y.”
During inclement weather/inside pickup we sometimes do Cosmic Kids Yoga.
She is working on her continents. She will trace, color, and label.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Thanksgiving (not really… It is Buckeye Week!)

Letter Of The Week- No letter Of The Week

Rhyming Word Of The Week- No Rhyming Work Of the Week

Next Language is No language next week

Upcoming Events:
THANKSGIVING BREAK: Wednesday, November 23 to Sunday November 27 (returning Monday, November 28)

Christmas Show Rehearsal: Wednesday, December 14 at 6pm to 7pm (not a dress rehearsal).

Christmas Show: Friday, December 16.  Arrive at 5:30pm (take your children to the restroom.  Even if they say they do not have to go!)

Christmas Break: Monday, December 19 Returning Tuesday, January 3

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme:
Currency – Identifying coins and bills

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Using a ruler (inches and centimeter)

Synonym Of The Week: No Synonym Of The Week

Sight Words Of The Week: No Sight Word Of The Week

Show me the money!

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

I am not sure. I did not ask. I did not want to know.
A lot of pink and a lot of sass.
You should have seen the other guy.
Just checking each other out, I guess.

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (Donuuuts):

Peek Into The Cherry Blossom Classroom – week of 11/14/22

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Our Focus Lesson & Preschool Lesson:

Our Blossoms discussed Community Helpers this week! We learned that Community Helpers are people in our community that help us or help others. We learned about firefighters, police officers, doctors, dentists, paramedics, counselors, mail carriers, teachers, and more! We learned how these people help us, what tools they use to help, and what clothing they wear in their jobs.

This child is sorting tools that community helpers would use!

We wrapped up our week of Community Helpers by helping others ourselves. We were very happy to participate in Operation Christmas Child. We discussed how there are children in other places of the world that either don’t have the things we have at home or won’t receive many items for Christmas. We learned that we can help those children through Operation Christmas Child! We packed boxes full of gifts for others and imagined all of the continents our boxes could go!

We hope these boxes we packed bring so many smiles to other children!
Inside of each of these boxes are basic necessities, toys, art supplies, and a special letter from one of our Blossoms. In the letter, our students told the recieving child what country they are from, their favorite food, and what they like to do for fun!
We are so thankful for our amazing parent volunteers!

Kindergarten Lesson:

Kindergarteners learned about coins with Mr. John this week. They even brought in coins from home to sort and count. In Handwriting, our Kindergarteners finished learning to write loop letters, and will be practicing writing words that contain loop letters next! Both in Reader’s Workshop and Writer’s Workshop, our Kinders learned about subjects and predicates. Our Readers learned how to find the subject within in a sentence and find the part of the sentence that tells what the subject is doing. And our Writers practiced “writing out the whole thought” in their new books, so that we can tell who and what happened within their stories!

Check out our Kindergarteners exploring different coins!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Happy Birthday to our newest 3 year old!

Brrrrr! It’s Cold Outside!

Our Ohio temperatures changed quickly this week! We will continue to play outside, weather permitting, as long as the feels like temperature is above 25 degrees. Please send your child to school with a coat, hat, gloves or mittens, and appropriate outdoor shoes each day. Hats and gloves can be kept in your child’s backpack! Thank you for your help!

All bundled up! We love to play outside, even in the cold!

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT – THE CHRISTMAS SHOW!

A Journey to the North Pole Christmas Show will be Friday, December 16! (Rehearsal will be Wednesday, December 14!) The Blossoms will be singing about Christmas Trees! Your child will need a plain, long sleeve, green shirt , black or green bottoms, and tennis shoes. PLEASE BRING YOUR CHILD’S GREEN SHIRT TO SCHOOL BY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1. We will be decorating our shirts to look like Christmas Trees here at school and will return them to you the week of the show.

Peek Into Worktime:

This child is working with cursive booklets. We use this work to help develop fine motor skills and prepare the child for writing in cursive.
This child is working with the 100 Board, it is currently his favorite work in the classroom! We use this work to reinforce counting in sequence and recognizing symbols from 1 to 100.
This Kindergartener is working in her Primary Phonics Workbook. We use these workbooks as a support for the reading skills we are learning. This child is learning about “magic e” at the end of the word and how that special letter makes the vowel say its name.
These three Kindergarteners are working with the Square Chains that are found in our Bead Cabinet. This work reinforces the ability to count in sequence. It also introduces the concept of counting in multiples and skip counting.

Peek Into Next Week:

Focus Lesson: Thanksgiving and Gratefulness

Kindergarten Lesson: Measuring with a Ruler

No School on November 23-25 for Thanksgiving.

Peek into the Cherry Blossom Classroom – week of 11/7/22

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Our Focus Lesson & Preschool Lesson:

This week the Blossoms studied Mammals. We learned the characteristics of a mammal – they are vertebrates, they are warm blooded, they are covered in hair or fur, they give birth to live young, and babies drink their mother’s milk. We talked about many different mammals, but focused on three. We learned the parts of a horse, the life cycle of a human, and had a very special rabbit visitor!

We discussed all of the characteristics that make this rabbit a mammal! We were lucky enough to watch him move around and eat. Our favorite parts were watching his nose and petting his soft fur!
This is Tito, the rabbit. He is the cutest visitor we have ever had!

Kindergarten Lesson:

Kindergarteners continued their study of telling time. They are now practicing telling time to the hour, the half hour, and the quarter hour. They finished learning how to write loop letters in cursive this week, and will be practicing more next week. In Reader’s Workshop, our young readers practiced rhyming and word families, and read books to Ms. Kelley! Writer’s Workshop saw the end of another writing unit, our young authors celebrated with an Author Share Day! They read their true stories to their friends, and we celebrated the details in their pictures and the words that they have written!

So proud of these young authors!

Book Share Fridays:

This school year we added Book Share Fridays to our weekly routine. At the end of each week one child is able to bring in their favorite book and their favorite stuffed animal. They tell us all about their special friend and then help Ms. Tonya read their favorite book to the class. We LOVE sharing these special stories with your child and can’t wait to keep Book Share Fridays going!

Elsa helped us read The Little Mermaid!
Guess How Much I Love You is one of my favorite books too!
This book had so many facts about African animals!
We had to turn the book sideways to read this cool book about soccer!
Ladybug Girl helped rescued dogs get adopted – what a wonderful story!

Peek Into Work Time:

This preschooler is using our Sound and Object Box to connect letter sounds to objects that begin with that sound. This work provides children a unique tactile element to their literacy work.
This preschooler is working with our Number Cards and Table Top Rods, with symbols not in order. This work connects the symbols and the concrete representation of quantity plus shows the child the quantities are the same but in random order.
This preschool wanted to build the number 1,444. He wrote out the number card himself and then composed the number with the Golden Bead Materials. The Golden Bead Materials are such a versatile component of the Montessori classroom as it teaches the names for quantities in each category (“unit”; “ten”; “hundred”; “thousand”), shows the relationship between one category and the next, offers the child the sensorial experience of the relative sizes of the categories (bulk), extends the sensorial experience of the different categories and the difference in bulk, for instance, between 6 units and 6 hundreds, and introduces the symbols for the quantities in the Decimal System

Peek Into Next Week!

Focus & Preschool Lesson: Community Helpers! (If you would like to stop in and tell us about your career, let Ms. Tonya or Ms. Sam know! We would love to have you!)

Kindergarten Lesson: Currency

Important Dates:

Wednesday, November 16 – Bring Your Parent to Work Day (all spots filled)

November 23-25 – No School for the Thanksgiving holiday

Peek In Our Week ||| Thee Buckeye Room ||| Week Of November 7, 2022

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Line Time:
Dinosaurs-  We traveled back in time and discovered some fascinating things about certain dinosaurs.  We learned that dinosaurs no longer exist and that they are extinct.  We know dinosaurs exist because scientist found their bones or fossils.  From these fossil we saw that some teeth were long and sharp to tear flesh from it’s prey which belonged to meat eaters or carnivores (T Rex).  Some teeth were flat for grinding plants, leaves, and branches and belonged to plant eaters or herbivores (Brachiosauras).

Who remembers Dinosaurs?  Not the Momma!

Our little Paleontologists. Wasn’t Ross on Friends one of these?

Did You Know?
The “German” part of German chocolate cake comes from an American man—not a European country. Specifically, it’s named after Sam German, who in 1852 created the formula for a mild dark baking chocolate bar for Baker’s Chocolate Company, which was subsequently named Baker’s German’s Sweet Chocolate. Fast-forward to June 13, 1957. The Dallas Morning Star published the recipe for the cake, invented and submitted by a reader identified as Mrs. George Clay, according to What’s Cooking America.

Message From Mr. John (I Love What I Do):

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, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean)

Know Your Languages (Korean):

Specials Spot (Art):

Pin pricking is good for fine motor skills.

November Birthdays:
A Montessori classroom has mixed ages from 3 to 6. Here are our newest 4 and 6 year old students.

He is holding up 6 in sign language.

Peek In The Classroom:

She is working on exchanging 10 units for 1 ten, 10 tens for 1 hundred, and 10 hundreds for 1 thousand. Did you guess the magic number is 10?
Sorting is an activity students begin to enjoy as they enter the sensitive period for order. In a world so big, order gives them a sense of control and comfort. One way children create order is through categorizing, or sorting.
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.
My readers doing an impromptu reading session.

Peek Into Next Week:
Letter Of The Week- M m

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bop

Next Language is Hungarian

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme:
Telling Time To the Quarter Past

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Currency, Bills and Coins

Synonym Of The Week: No Synonym of the week this week

Sight Words Of The Week: been down

Kinder Strong

Upcoming Events:
THANKSGIVING BREAK: Wednesday, November 23 to Sunday (Returning Monday, November 29)

Bring Your Parent To Work: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a8a92da6f94-bring3

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

A rite of passage… Losing teeth.
Finally another racoon.
He was guarding his birthday donuts from Mr. John.
Her shirt…. Geez does she have it right.

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (My Dogs):

Peek In Our Week === Thee Buckeye Room === Week Of October 31, 2022

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Line Time:
Arachnids, Insects, Invertebrates- This week we broke away from vertebrates and looked at some invertebrates. Namely, insects, arachnids, and some other invertebrates. We learned that insects have a head, thorax, abdomen, six legs, and two antennae. Some examples of insects are the ladybug, bee, butterfly, and ants. Arachnids are a bit different and have a fused head and thorax (called a cephalothorax) and an abdomen. Some arachnids include spiders, ticks, and scorpions.  

The ant from The Ant and the Aardvark.

The Curious
The happy
The unsure
This shirt was apropos for this week’s theme.

Did You Know? (What is that dot?)
So why is there a dot above the lowercase i and j? This diacritical mark is also called a tittle and it exists to help the reader easily distinguish them from other letterforms.

I present to you the tittle.


Message From Mr. John (Shorts in Winter):

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 15 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic in the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew)

Know Your Languages (Hebrew):

Specials Spotlight (Music):

Children love music and movement in Music class.

Peek In The Classroom:

There has been an influx of interest in creating different designs with the Red Rods and Number Rods. This is called an extension.
Proud students displaying their extension/creation with said Red Rods, Number Rods, and other materials. In a Montessori environment, an “extension” is when a child takes a known material or activity and explores it in a new way. Sometimes this includes combining materials to make new connections and discoveries.
This boy is working on his skills with the consonant blends of ch, sh, and th.
She is mastering composing numbers using the Ten board. This reinforces the correlation between quantity and symbol from 11 to 99.
He is working on the Stamp Game. The Stamp Game is a Montessori maths material used by an individual child to practice the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It is a wonderfully simple but effective learning from home option that, once presented to your child correctly, they can work on independently.
She is working on the Trinomial Cube found in the Sensorial area. 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.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time: Dinosaurs

Letter Of The Week- L l

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bot

Next Language is Korean

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: Telling Time To the Half Hour

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Telling Time to the Quarter Past

Synonym Of The Week: OLD- ancient, elderly, used, seasoned, mature

Sight Words Of The Week: said by

Who knows what they were doing ?

Upcoming Events:
Bring Your Parent To Work: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a8a92da6f94-bring3

P/T CONFERENCES- Friday, November, 11, 2022 (follow the link to sign up https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/4090B48A8A92DA6F94-20224)                                                         **** NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS ****

THANKSGIVING BREAK- Wednesday, November 24 to Sunday November 28 (returning Monday, November 29)

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

He asked me to take his picture. How could I resist?
He was trying not to laugh with some kind of odd photobomb.
It is all about fashion.
Ya shoulda seen the other guy!

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (My dogs) :

A Peek At Our Week- Aspen- 10/24/22-10/28/22 – Bats, Cats, and More!!

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This week in Aspen it was more Halloween themed fun! We utilized the upcoming holiday as an opportunity to learn all about Bats and Cats! We spent the week discovering so many interesting and fun facts while practicing our research skills! Ask your child what the word research means. During group lessons we learned that bats are not that spooky and are actually quite fascinating and unique creatures. Did you know….that bats are not birds even though they fly? Did you know that they are mammals?? Aspen learned this amazing fact and more! We took a deeper look at what characteristics qualify a living organism to be classified as a mammal. We then discovered that cats are also mammals and also discovered that the word cat rhymes with bat!! Thus, we dove into many activities involving rhyming fun!!

In Kindergarten Workshop, the kindergarteners began their introductory lessons on telling time on an analog clock! They spent the week skip counting by fives and practicing the necessary skills for telling time! They sure have been helping to keep us on schedule! In Readers Workshop, the Cardinals continued to focus on the sequence of events within a story and comprehension skills. We read Give Me Back My Bones and discussed what events took place within the story, focusing on when (the order) and how the events happened. We also spotted sight words and rhyming words within the story. The Cardinals also received another beginning reader book to practice these skills independently. The Chickadees continued phonics practice, decoding words with some phonics games with rhyming fun! We incorporated the games from previous weeks into one Mega Phonics Game! The Chickadees also read Give Me Back My Bones, and we also discussed the order and sequence of events within a story. We then practiced creating our own mini story with our own sequence of events. The Chickadees also learned a few new sight words! In Writers Workshop, the kindergarteners continued to explore what it takes to be a writer while practicing their best handwriting skills!

We also had our Halloween classroom party and Trunk Or Treat! All of the cars were decorated so creatively! Thank you for making our Halloween so special and fun! Another special thank you to our parent volunteers helping out! You are all amazing!

Work with the Knobless Cylinders- development of fine motor skills, hand eye coordination, and the visual discrimination of dimension.

Skip counting by six! Mathematical fun exploring the linear sequence of numbers!

Painting Spider Webs as one of our Halloween party activities!

Cookie decorating fun!!

Halloween sensory bin fun!! We played I Spy finding spooky objects!!

Peek In Our Week ^^^ Thee Buckeye Room ^^^ Week Of October 24, 2022

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Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

Line Time:
Birds– This week we learned about what makes a bird a bird. We learned a bird is a vertebrate and is warm blooded. A bird is born from a hard shelled egg and has feathers. Not all birds can fly and the ones that can not fly are called flightless birds which include penguins, ostriches, and the dodo bird. The jury is still out if chickens can fly.

Cute and cuddly, boys, cute and cuddly

Did You Know? What’s the diff?
Curtains and Drapes-
Curtains are fabric panels used to cover windows, and are generally cut to fit a window or drop a few inches below it. Drapes are also fabric panels but are generally made from thicker fabrics and cut to floor length or to slightly puddle on the floor.

Message From Mr. John (Thank You!):

Cultural Subjects:
Languages:
Your children can now count to ten in 14 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic in the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog,)

Know Your Languages (Tagalog):

Diwali:

We learnedca little bit about 5he Hindu holiday of Diwali. Diwali is India’s biggest and most important holiday of the year. Also known as the festival of lights, the holiday celebrates light prevailing over darkness, or good prevailing over evil. The festival is starts on Oct. 24 and celebrated over five days, and it is associated with the Hindu goddess of wealth.

Specials Spot (Science):

The students are anticipating for the books to squash the cylinder in Science “Cylinder Strength”

Trunk or Treat:

Going Ons In The Nature Center (baby roaches):

This is what happens when a girl roach and a boy roach like each other.

Peek In The Classroom:

She is working on the Sandpaper letters found in the language area. Here she is matching pictures (beginning sounds) to the appropriate letter).
This boy is working on a rhyming work involving consonant blends.
This boy is working on a Math material named Cards and Counters. 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.
She is proudly showing me her tracing activity which is practice for writing in cursive.

Peek Into Next Week: Dinosaurs

Letter Of The Week- K k

Rhyming Word Of The Week- ox

Next Language is Hebrew

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme:
Telling Time To the half hour

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

Synonym Of The Week: NEW, novel, fresh, original, current, unused

Sight Words Of The Week: how each

Kinders showing me their favorite time (to the hour).

Upcoming Events:
Bring Your Parent To Work: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a8a92da6f94-bring3

P/T CONFERENCES- Friday, November, 11, 2022 (follow the link to sign up https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/4090B48A8A92DA6F94-20224)                                                         **** NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS ****

THANKSGIVING BREAK- Wednesday, November 24 to Sunday November 28 (returning Monday, November 29)

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Twins! Did they plan this?
Gearing up for Halloween.
BFFs. Strong friendships are formed in the classroom.
Just a cool kid posing for the camera

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (My dog Cujo):

A Peek At Our Week- 10/17/22-10/21/22- Skeletons Are Skele-Fun!!

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This week in Aspen, we learned all about our Skeletal System! The Aspen children studied the locations and the names of the bones in the human body. While learning the scientific names of our bones, we discovered many interesting fun facts! For instance, do you know where the largest bone in the human body is located? What about the location of the smallest bone in the human body? Ask your child, they are now Skeletal System experts! In class Aspen also engaged in a variety of skeletal Practical Life activities, scientific exploration, and reading classification work. Aspen spent the week labeling the parts of a human skeleton, comparing and contrasting different types of animal skeletons (plastic), and researching skeletal facts. We also had a visit from Mr. Bob Bones, our Skeletal System mascot! He spent the week working, researching, and teaching Aspen all about the skeletal system! It was Skele-Fun!!

This week in Kindergarten lesson, the kindergarteners learned all about insects, arachnids, and the parts of a leaf and a tree. They spent the week learning the names of the different parts while comparing and contrasting their charicteristics. In Readers Workshop, the Cardinals read the book Llama, Llama, Red Pajama and found rhyming words or sight words! They also practiced writing phonetic words from memory. Focusing on phonics and the skills they have acquired in Writers Workshop! We also studied the concept of sequencing and what comes next within the story The Little Red Hen. We also discussed words with “e” at the end or the “magic e”! The Chickadees focused on phonics and practiced their skills while utilizing their knowledge individually. We played the “Pick It, Say It” game! Chickadees picked a number out of a pumpkin and then read phonetic words from a column of their chosen number. Chickadees demonstrated amazing decoding skills and exhibited confidence while sounding out their words. One row even contained challenging “sh” phonograms! The Chickadees also read the book Llama Llama Red Pajama. In Writers Workshop the kindergarteners worked on their true stories. They learned that true stories tell who the story is about, where the story happened and what happened within the story.

Next week our topics will also be Halloween themed! We will be learning all about Bats and Cats while discussing Mammals!! Next week we will also have our Halloween celebration and Trunk or Treat on Friday! There will be more information sent out regarding our in class celebration next week! Have a great weekend!

Hammering golf tees into a pumpkin!

Using a sieve to scoop ping pong eyeballs out of a spooky pumpkin.

Using the tweezers to transfer bones!! “Bonus Challenge Time” -self discovered variation balancing bones using a bone to transfer other bones from one bowl to the other!

Mr. Bob Bones stopped by to teach us about our Skeletal System! He stayed and tried some of our Halloween themed activities!

Reading a good book with good friends!

More tweezer transferring fun!

Observing skeletons to compare and contrast differences and similarities!

Labeling the bones of our Skeletal System.

Getting ready for Cosmic Kids skeleton yoga with Mr. Bones!

Peek into the Cherry Blossom Classroom – week of 10/17/22

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Our Focus Lesson:

We learned about Trees this week in the Cherry Blossom Class! We learned about the parts of a tree and what each of those parts does for the tree. We know that the roots suck up water and nutrients like a straw, the trunk holds the tree up, the branches hold the leaves, and the leaves make food for the tree! We also know that trees start out as small seeds but can grow for years and years and get very big!

When learning the Parts of a Tree, we begin with the Tree Puzzle in our Science area. We practice the 3 Period Lesson while naming the individual puzzle pieces. The child can then use their pincer grasp to complete the puzzle, giving them a hands on experience.
The next step is to complete a Parts of a Tree booklet. The children color each individual part of the tree and then label them. This work offers the opportunity for tracing the word or copy writing, furthering the growth of their fine motor skills while learning to identify the parts of the plant!
As we continue to grow in our study of the Parts of a Tree, the children will then trace and label the plant on their own. This work continues to encourage the growth of their fine motor skills by tracing and writing, while continuing to enforce the parts of a tree.

Preschool Lesson:

Our younger Blossoms not only learned about trees this week, but they also studied leaves with Ms. Sam! They learned the different parts of a leaf – blade, veins, petiole, and stipules. Children observed leaves up close to observe the parts. We also made leaf rubbings and watercolor resist leaves.

Kindergarten Lesson:

Our older Blossoms continued their plant studies in Kindergarten Lesson with Mr. John! They studied trees, leaves, and flowers! In Handwriting, children practiced connecting letters together on the baseline to write words in cursive, this was very exciting stuff! In Writer’s Workshop, our young writers continued their work of writing true stories.

Enrichment Spotlight – Science with Mr. John!

Our science experiment this week was about density. Mr. John placed blue food coloring in a bottle of water, and then added baby oil. We shook and shook and shook the bottle to mix the water and oil, but they just won’t mix! Water is heavier than oil!

Peek Into Indoor Recess!

Playing Red Light, Green Light with Aspen!
We love to play Duck, Duck, Goose!

Peek Into Next Week!

Focus Lesson: Fall!

Preschool Lesson: Halloween!

Kindergarten Lesson: Telling Time

Bring Your Parent to Work Day! – https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a8a92da6f94-cblossom

Important Dates:

Friday, October 28: Trunk or Treat!

Friday, November 11: Parent/Teacher Conferences – No School for Students https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a8a92da6f94-20225

Peek In Our Week … Thee Buckeye Room … Week Of October 17, 2022

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Line Time:
Fish- We learned fish are vertebrates or they have a backbone or a spine.  They are cold blooded (their body temperature changes to the temperature around them) and have slimy and scaly skin.  The unique thing about fish is that some fish are born alive and some fish are born with jelly eggs.  Some examples of fish are Trout, Bass, Sharks, and Swordfish.  And one more important point is that fish live in water.

Jabber Jaw

Did You Know?
It is physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
This is because the average upper arm is too long for our tongues to be able to reach our elbows. Go on, try it. 

Message From Mr. John (Do you believe in the jinx?):

Cultural Subjects:
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).

Know Your Languages (Swedish):

Specials Spot (Science/Density): Be sure to look in Transparent Classroom for more pictures of science.

Shake shake shake, shake your bottle (tune to KC and The Sunshine Band song). Oil and water do not mix and oil is less dense than water.
I challenged my students if they shake the bottle and it remained mixed for ten minutes I would give them a dollar. Wow! That caused a stir and some would say… chaos!!!

Peek In The Classroom:

He is working on the Number Rods. The Number Rods introduce the child to quantity 1–10 and their corresponding number names. Through exploration with the material, the child also develops concepts in sequence of number, combinations of 10 and basic arithmetic. The material consists of 10 wooden rods, divided into units by alternating colors of red and blue, progressing in 10 equal steps.
He is working on the South American puzzle map that is found in the Cultural Subject area. Maps are used in every type of classroom to help students memorize continents and countries, but memorization is only one benefit. Montessori students use these maps to gain a deeper, more rich understanding of how countries fit together and their relative sizes.
This boy traced the continent of South America, colored and labeled the countries.
These girls traced, colored, and labeled different animals. This activity enhances concentration and fine motor skills.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Birds

Letter Of The Week- J j

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bip

Next Language is Tagalog

Academic Enrichment aka Kindergarten:
This week we talked about the parts of plants, arachnids, and  insects.

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Telling Time To The Hour

Synonym Of The Week: COLD: freezing, chilly, frigid, frozen, cool  

Sight Words Of The Week: use your

Just some cool Kindergarten Students

Upcoming Events:
Halloween Party/Trunk or Treat: Friday, October 28, 2022 (details in email)

Bring Your Parent To Work: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a8a92da6f94-bring3

P/T CONFERENCES- Friday, November, 11, 2022 (follow the link to sign up https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/4090B48A8A92DA6F94-20224)                                                         **** NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS ****

THANKSGIVING BREAK- Wednesday, November 24 to Sunday November 28 (returning Monday, November 29)

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

The dreaded Orange Eyes
This guy is being stealth.
Goofy faces in thee Buckeye Room
If I did this I’d be in traction in the ER.

Your Child Says The Darndest Things (My sick dog):