Peek In Our Week ||| Thee Buckeye Room ||| Week Of February 21, 2022

Posted on February 23, 2022 at 11:00 pm.

Thee 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 you know (Can You Eat Roses)?
Apples, peaches, and raspberries are all members of the rose family. Trees that bear fruit in the rose family are: apples, pears, plums, cherries, apricots and peaches. Also, blackberries, raspberries and strawberries are all members of the Rosacea Family. I really have no idea what the below chart even means.

A Message From Mr. John ( Part 5 Of This Journey. I am a Stay At Home Dad):

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

Know Your Languages (Cebuano):

Enrichments (Art):
Shirts of Art Excitement and Pablo Picasso.

Peek In The Classroom:

They are working on a pattern work found in Language area. Patterns help children understand change and that things happen over time. Patterns help children make predictions because they begin to understand what comes next. They also help children learn how to make logical connections and use reasoning skills.

Just a girl and her workplan. A workplan guides the child through the classroom and this is how children know what work they have and when it needs to be completed.

This student is working on the vowel tree found in the Language area. The Vowel Tree is a tactile, engaging way to teach and practice decoding words. This manipulative can be used with beginning readers to more advanced readers.

This girl is working on placing the correct amount of pieces to t.he corresponding number. A lesson in quantity and symbol.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Hibernation/Migration/Adaption

Letter Of The Week- W w

Rhyming Word Of The Week- beg

Next Language is Malay

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: Fractions

Handwriting:
We practiced writing sentences in cursive.

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Geometry

Synonym Of The Week: BAD, incorrect, awful, unsatisfactory, faulty, defective

Sight Words Of The Week: then out

Upcoming Events:
A few days off and other stuff.

DAYS OFF:
-No School: SPRING BREAK- March 28 through April 1 — Returning Monday April 4
-No School: Easter Monday, April 18

OTHER STUFF:
Akron Art Museum Field Trip: Thursday, March 10 (from 9 am to 12 pm) IT IS FREE! (Details To Follow)
Breakfast Club: Friday, April 8 from 7:00 am to 7:45 am

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

I don’t know what they were looking at but it is a really cool picture. A special prize to the one who has the best caption.

Someone is running a line time. I may be out of a job soon.

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (Tacos):

Peek At Our Week – Cherry Blossom – 2/14/22

Posted on February 22, 2022 at 12:24 am.

Written by Tonya Shaw

A Peek At Our Week in the Cherry Blossom Classroom!

Happy Valentine’s Day! Our week started with a Valentine’s Day celebration. We wore our pajamas, voted for what movie we would like to watch, enjoyed and sang Encanto, and enjoyed some special treats! A huge THANK YOU to our parents that donated supplies for our fun celebration! We can’t wait to do this again!

Our new Focus Topic is Our Earth and we learned so many new things this week! We introduced the globe this week, and talked about the equator, Northern Hemisphere, and Southern Hemisphere. We also learned that our planet is made up of land, air, and water and that is what living things need! Preschool lesson introduced us to some different habitats and we started a new book to bring home! We can’t wait to share all we’ve learned about habitats with you!

Enrichment Spotlight – Science with Mr. John!

This week we made hypotheses about buoyancy with Mr. John and experimented with sinking and floating pop cans!

Peek Into Next Week!

Focus Topic: Our Earth and Habitats

Letter of the Week: Ff

Number of the Week: 14

Important Dates:

February 18: NO SCHOOL – Teacher Inservice Day

February 21: NO SCHOOL – President’s Day

March 11: Breakfast Club!

March 28-April 1: NO SCHOOL – Spring Break!

Bring Your Parent To Work Days: Come observe your child working within the classroom to see what their day looks like! Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a8a92da6f94-bring7

Peek In Our Week [][][] Thee Buckeye Classroom [][][] Week Of February 14, 2022

Posted on February 16, 2022 at 7:38 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Buckeye Room Bulletin

Line Time:
We went back in time and learned about Ancient Egypt. We learned that the leaders or kings were called Pharaohs and when a king died they used a method to preserve them called mummification. The pharaohs that were mummified look nothing like you see at Halloween or on cartoons. The ancient Egyptians had a a written language called hieroglyphics which incorporated symbols such as cats, humans, and other daily objects. We also learned that the ancient Egyptians were responsible for building the Great Pyramids and The Sphinx which has the body of a lion and a head of a man.

Did You Know? (Squirrels, Those Pesky Critters)
The American Public Power Association (APPA) says that squirrels are the most frequent cause of power outages in the U.S. The APPA even developed a data tracker called “The Squirrel Index” that analyzes the patterns and timing of squirrels’ impact on electrical power systems. Turns out, the peak times of the year for squirrel attacks are from May to June and October to November. Typically, the squirrels cause problems by tunneling, chewing through electrical insulation, or becoming a current path between electrical conductors. “Frankly, the number one threat experienced to date by the U.S. electrical grid is squirrels,” said John C. Inglis, the former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency, in 2015.

A Message From Mr. John (Part 4 I find myself at Key Bank):

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

Know Your Languages (Serbo-Croation):

The Dental Hygienist:
We had a Dental Hygienist visit and she taught us how to brush our teeth, floss, and what are good things and bad things for our teeth (what we eat).

Peek In The Classroom:

This boy is working on the sandpaper numbers. 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 memorisation. The roughness of the symbols help the child remember the number via the tactile sense when they trace the number with their finger.

He is working onbthe knobless cylinders found in the sensorial area. The purpose of these cylinders is to develop child’s fine-motor movements, concentration, hand-eye coordination, and visual perception of dimension. Here he is findingbthe relationships (diameter) of the different colors.

Ms. Angela showing students how to create “10” with colored bead bars. The purpose is to familiarize the child with all the possible number combinations that make up ten, to acquire a subconscious knowledge that no two numbers together amount to more than 18. This gives practice in getting the first basis of memorizing the essential combinations with which, when known, one can make any addition. To emphasize the fact that in addition, you will be making tens and to reinforce the knowledge that addition and multiplication are of the same concept.

This girl is working on the Movable Alphabet which is found in the Language area. She is creating 3/short vowel/cvc words.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Ancient Greece

Letter Of The Week- U u

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bet

Next Language is Cebuano

Academic Enrichment Weekly Theme:
Division with borrowing (dynamic)

Handwriting:
We practiced writing in cursive writing sentences (sometimes silly sentences).

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Fractions

Synonym Of The Week: GOOD, pleasant, fine, honorable, wonderful, valuable

Sight Words Of The Week: write them

Upcoming Events:
A few days off and other stuff.

DAYS OFF:
-No School: Monday, February 20th (President’s Day)
-No School: SPRING BREAK- March 28 through April 1 — Returning Monday April 4
-No School: Easter Monday, April 18

OTHER STUFF:
Akron Art Museum Field Trip: Thursday, March 10 (from 9 am to 12 pm) IT IS FREE! (Details To Follow)
Breakfast Club: Friday, April 8 from 7:00 am to 7:45 am

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (My Cats and Dogs…):

Peek At Our Week – Cherry Blossom – Week of 2/7/22

Posted on February 11, 2022 at 4:55 pm.

Written by Tonya Shaw

A Peek At Our Week in the Cherry Blossom Classroom!

The Cherry Blossoms had a very busy week this week! We excitedly learned about DINOSAURS! We talked about different kinds of dinosaurs, learned big words such as: carnivore, herbivore, extinct, and palentologist, and matched dinosaurs to their skeletons. One of our friends brought a dinosaur book from home and read it to us!

This week we also talked about Valentine’s Day! We hope that you enjoyed all of our special heart crafts that were brought home!

A Special Visit from a Dental Hygienist!

Ms. Taylor from Dr. Pollock’s office came to visit us on Wednesday. She talked to us about how to take care of our teeth by brushing for 2 minutes twice a day, flossing, and using mouthwash! And then we were able to surprise her with how much we knew about Grow Foods and Sometimes Foods.

Enrichment Spotlight – Library with Ms. Cat!

Ms. Cat taught us about hibernation and migration this week during Library. While we loved the books and songs she shared, what we loved most was meeting her cockatiel Ginger! Since our class loves birds SO MUCH this was a very exciting visit with Ms. Cat!

Peek Into Next Week!

Focus Topic: Our Earth and Habitats

Letter of the Week: Dd

Number of the Week: 14

Important Dates: February 14: Valentine’s Day – Pajama Day & Show and Tell

February 18: NO SCHOOL – Teacher Inservice Day

February 21: NO SCHOOL – President’s Day

Bring Your Parent To Work Days: Come observe your child working within the classroom to see what their day looks like! Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a8a92da6f94-bring7

Peek In Our Week * Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin * Week Of February 7, 2022

Posted on February 11, 2022 at 12:42 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

Line Time:
Presidents Of The United States Of America (Wasn’t that a 90’s band? Gunna eat a lot of peaches!) We first learned about George Washington and how he was our first president and was the General of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln came from a poor family, freed the slaves and was president during the Civil War. We were introduced to Franklin D. Roosevelt and how he was president during World War II and how John F. Kennedy fought for equal rights. We then learned that Joe Biden was current president. The children were taught that the president’s wives are called the first lady and that the president lives in the white house in Washington DC, and flies on a jet called Air Force 1. We discussed what responsibilities the President has. The children came up with keeping us safe, keeping the world safe, and running the country.

Did you know? (Fish Lips)
Most lipsticks contain fish scales.
This is also known as pearl essence. It is what gives the lipstick the shimmering appearance it has. Pearl Essence is the the silvery stuff found in fish scales that’s used in some lipsticks, nail polishes, ceramic glazes, etc., to make them shimmery. Pearl essence is obtained primarily from herring and is one of many by-products of large-scale commercial fish processing. Synthetic versions have been developed, but to what extent they’ve supplanted the natural variety I will turn a blind eye.

A Message From Mr. John (Part 3 of the continuing saga):

Half Birthdays:

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, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish)

Know Your Languages (Polish):

Enrichments (Library with Ms. Cat):

Ms. Cat reading a story about a bear hibernating called “Bear Snores On”

The class ended by everyone dancing to the song named “Dance To The Bed”

A Bird Visits The School (A Bird On Heads):

Peek In The Classroom:

This boy is working on geography. He is drawing the continents and using the continent globe as a resource.

This boy is working on an animal puzzle which is found in the Cultural Subject area. Obviously, one aim is visual discrimination but picking up the pieces by the knobs strengthen his finemotor skills. He will advance and trace, color, and label the parts of the animal.

These girls are practicing setting the table. Maybe your child can do this at home.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Ancient Egypt

Letter Of The Week- U u

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bet

Next Language is Serbo-Croation

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: Division without borrowing (static)

Handwriting:
We practiced writing sentences in cursive.

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Division with borrowing (dynamic)

Synonym Of The Week: Appropriate: Suitable, fitting, apropos, correct, proper

Sight Words Of The Week: would about

Upcoming Events:
A few days off and other stuff.

DAYS OFF:
-No School: Friday, February 18th (Teacher In Service day)
-No School: Monday, February 20th (President’s Day)

OTHER STUFF:
-Readiness Conferences (Incoming Kindergarten Students/Incoming First Graders):
February 14 through February 25 (Details To Follow)

Akron Art Museum Field Trip: Thursday, March 10 (from 9am to 12pm) IT IS FREE! (Details To Follow)

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Pretending to sleep three girls try to wake him. Notice the photobomb from my big Ole shoe?

My staple dad joke….. “you look different. You are not wearing your glasses? Nope. You shaved your mustache? Heavy sigh from child. Oh… you got a haircut. Eye roll from child.”

Your Kids say The Darndest Things (I Like Oranges):

Peek At Our Week – Cherry Blossom – Week of 1/31/22

Posted on February 4, 2022 at 6:17 pm.

Written by Tonya Shaw

A Peek at Our Week in the Cherry Blossom Classroom!

It may have been an unexpected short week (Hello Snow!) but we still managed to pack a lot of learning into three days!

We wrapped up our study of Healthy Bodies by talking about BONES! We talked about skeletons – ours and other animals. We learned the names of some of our biggest bones and discussed the important work that bones do, like keeping our bodies upright and protecting our organs.

February Holidays!

We learned about two February Holidays this week – Chinese New Year and Groundhog’s Day. We made tigers to celebrate the Year of the Tiger and learned all about shadows with Ms. Sam. We were VERY interested in shadows, which we think may need to make a come back in the lesson plans very soon! Next up is Valentine’s Day!

Recess Fun!

Recess was super fun this week! We practiced our kicking skills in the gym on Monday, played in the snow on Tuesday, and had fun throwing and catching on Wednesday!

A Huge Cherry Blossom Welcome to our New Student!

Stay warm! Stay safe! And enjoy all of that snow! See you next week!

Peek Into Next Week!

Focus Topic: DINOSAURS and Valentine’s Day!

Letter of the Week: Uu

Number of the Week: 13

Important Dates: February 14: Valentine’s Day – Pajama Day & Show and Tell

February 18: NO SCHOOL – Teacher Inservice Day

February 21: NO SCHOOL – President’s Day

Bring Your Parent To Work Days: Come observe your child working within the classroom to see what their day looks like! Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a8a92da6f94-bring7

Peek In Our Week — Thee Buckeye Room — Week Of January 31, 2022

Posted on February 2, 2022 at 9:29 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Buckeye Room Bulletin

Line Time:
The class went green for the week learning about recycling, conserving energy, and pollution. I explained that pollution was anything that made our environment dirty. We learned there is littering. Littering can be people throwing trash on the side of the road or dropping a candy wrapper in the woods. We now know that we need to put trash in an appropriate container. We learned that air pollution is created by factories’ smokestacks and cars exhaust, but cars are just one of the factors that produce air pollution, there are also other reasons. Water Pollution is caused by factories dumping chemicals in the water or people throwing trash in the water instead of putting it in a trash can. The 3 R’s were introduced and now we all know to reduce, reuse and recycle! We thought of ways to conserve energy. We came up with turning off lights in rooms we are not in or turning off the TV if we are not watching it. We thought of turning off the water while we are brushing our teeth or turning down the heat and wearing a sweater instead. During the kindergarten lesson a student realized the room was just as light with the lights off as it was if the lights were on. Now we do our kindergarten lesson without lights.

Did you know? (I Really Don’t Know Clouds, At All)…One of my guilty pleasures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L1UngfqojI
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.

Clouds are not as light and fluffy as they appear. In fact, researchers have found that a single clouds weigh more than 1.1 million pounds. How do they know? Well, that number is calculated by taking the water density of a cloud and multiplying it by its volume. Fortunately, the cloud can still “float” at that weight because the air below it is even heavier.

A Message From Mr. John (my vocation/part 2 of a continuing series):

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 21 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)

Know Your Languages (Dutch/Flemmish):

Half Birthdays:
Summer birthdays need love too.

Enrichments (Music):

Some students escaped from the stable and we have Gallupping Girls from Peter And Wolf. Again, sorry about the blurry picture as it is an action shot.

Chinese New Year: ( (新年好) /Mandarin) | ( 恭喜发财/Cantonese)

Bring Your Parent To School:

A dad “observing”… really having fun teaching the boys about numbers.

Peek In The Classroom:

These children are taking the Albanesi test which is a test that bridges Montessori and traditional testing.

Two proud boys displaying their work with the Brown Stair and Pink Tower. This is an extension of the original aim of these two materials. The bottom line is that Montessori extension lessons help the child to have further experience with the concepts of the materials. Often times the extension activity draws the child towards a more abstracted view of the original concrete concept that was introduced.

She is working on the sound cylinders. The sound cylinders are a very fun sensorial activity. The purpose is to refine the sense of hearing and to teach vocabulary such as “loud,” “soft,” “loudest,” “louder,” etc. Traditionally the activity consists of twelve wooden cylinders, six with red tops and six with blue tops. Also, another aim is to match the sound of the cylinders.

He is working on a language work called the Pink Rhyming cards.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Presidents Of The USA

Letter Of The Week- T t

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bed

Next Language is Polish

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: Subtraction with borrowing (dynamic)

Handwriting:
We practiced writing sentences in cursive.

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Division without borrowing (static).

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

Sight Words Of The Week: more these

Upcoming Events:
A few days off and other stuff.

DAYS OFF:
-No School: Friday, February 18th (Teacher In Service day)
-No School: Monday, February 20th (President’s Day)

OTHER STUFF:
-Sign up for Bring Your Parent To School, follow the link https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090B48A8A92DA6F94-bring8

-Readiness Conferences (Incoming Kindergarten Students/Incoming First Graders):
February 14 through February 25 (Details To Follow)

Akron Art Museum Field Trip: Thursday, March 10 (from 9am to 12pm) IT IS FREE! (Details To Follow)

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Again, it is better not to ask but look at the photobomb.

This was taken on Thursday [science day]. I love that these girls get excited about science.

Your Kids say The Darndest Things (Spicy Stuff):

Peek At Our Week – Cherry Blossom – Week of 1/24/22

Posted on January 28, 2022 at 2:11 pm.

Written by Tonya Shaw

A Peek at Our Week in the Cherry Blossom Classroom!

We continued our study of Healthy Bodies this week by learning about Internal Organs. We really had a lot of fun learning about what happens inside of our bodies and the special jobs our organs do. Ask your child about the brain, heart, lungs, stomach, kidneys, and intestines. I am sure they would love to share what they learned with you!

We also continued our study of Food Groups during Preschool Lesson with Ms. Sam. We put together a fun Food Groups book so we can talk all about food groups with our families at home!

Happy Half Birthday to our summer birthday!

Enrichment Spotlight – Art with Ms. Varela!

Ms. Varela introduced us to a type of art called “figure 8’s”. We used sharpies to create our shapes, markers to color our shapes in, and then oil pastels over the markers. We really enjoyed this project!

The Birds Found Our Feeders!

Peek Into Next Week!

Focus Topic: Bodies: Skeleton and Muscles; Chinese New Year; Groundhog’s Day

Letter of the Week: Kk

Number of the Week: 12

Important Dates: February 14: Valentine’s Day – Pajama Day & Show and Tell

February 18: NO SCHOOL – Teacher Inservice Day

February 21: NO SCHOOL – President’s Day

Bring Your Parent To Work Days: Come observe your child working within the classroom to see what their day looks like! Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a8a92da6f94-bring7

Peek In Our Week {}{}{} Thee Buckeye Room {}{}{} Week Of January 24, 2022

Posted on January 28, 2022 at 1:35 am.

Written by John Kotradi

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

Line Time:
This week we learned a bit about the internal organs. We started with the brain which is like the computer of the body. It tells our body how fast to breathe and how fast our heart should beat. We discovered the lungs help us breathe and puts oxygen in our blood. Our stomach digests food, the small intestine take nutrients out of our food and large intestine gets the remaining water from indigestible food and creates waste (poop)(that word produced laughter) or as I referred to a bowel movement. The kidneys process excess water and creates pee (more laughter) or urine. The liver removes toxins from the body. We found out that the largest organ of the human body is the epidermis. The liver is my fave internal organ. What is yours?

A Message From Mr. John (my vocation/part 1 of a continuing series):

Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 20 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)

Know your Languages (Welsh):

Enrichments (Art):

Picture 1, how it began. Picture 2 the final result.

Australian Day (1/26):
We celebrated with “Fairy Bread” and Lamington Cake!

Fun Fact:
There is no such thing as Pear Cider. Actually, “cider” is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented apples, and only apples. Alcoholic beverages can be made from pears, but that drink is known as “Perry” (very punny). The drink was popular in England for centuries but fell out of favor during the second half of the twentieth century. That turned around in the 1990s when the drink was rebranded as pear cider.

Peek In The Classroom:

This Kindergarten student has written numbers from 1 to 1,000 in his Kindergarten binder. Let’s see how far he gets.

He is working on the 100 board. Notice how he has gone beyond putting the numbers in order and placing random numbers in the appropriate place? The Hundred Board is useful for number recognition, number sequencing, counting, patterning, possibly skip counting (depending on your method) most of all it’s perfect for just reinforcing the understanding of numbers from one to one-hundred.

A student learning where the internal organs belong.

A student transforms into Elvis the Pelvis as a crowd gathers to watch.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Pollution and Recycling

Letter Of The Week- S s

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bup

Next Language is Dutch/Flemmish

Academic Enrichment:
Subtraction without borrowing (Static). We also learned the terms of subtraction.
9 (minuend) – 4 (subtrahend) = 5 (difference)

Handwriting:
We practiced writing in sentences in cursive

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Subtraction with borrowing (Dynamic).

Synonym Of The Week: SKINNY: thin, lean, emaciated, scrawny, slender

Sight Words Of The Week: other same

Finally! The first time since Cristmas break all Kinder students are present.

Upcoming Events:
A few days off and other stuff.

DAYS OFF:
-No School: Friday, February 18th (Teacher In Service day)
-No School: Monday, February 20th (President’s Day)

OTHER STUFF:
-Sign up for Bring Your Parent To School, follow the link https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090B48A8A92DA6F94-bring8

-Readiness Conferences (Incoming Kindergarten Students/Incoming First Graders):
February 14 through February 25 (Details To Follow)

Akron Art Museum Field Trip: Thursday, March 10 (from 9am to 12pm) IT IS FREE! (Details To Follow)

Frolic, Friends, and Fun:

Feeding the snake attracts a large and curious crowd.

This boy boasts that he has the longest hair of all the boys.

Your Kids say The Darndest Things (Sonic):

A Peek At Our Week- Aspen- 01/17/22— Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks

Posted on January 24, 2022 at 2:57 pm.

Written by Kelley Laney

Hello Aspen families!! I hope everyone had a relaxing long weekend that was snowfun!! Our topic this week in Aspen was all about Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. During line time we discussed how these two individuals helped change our world for the better. As a class the Aspen children shared their thoughts regarding inequality and how we can make the world a better place too! Some of the ideas (thoughts) they came up with were being kind to everyone, helping people, listening to others, sharing (toys and ideas), and doing nice things for other people. These Aspen children sure are amazing and will grow up to be amazing adults with thoughts and ideas like these! We also read a few of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s quotes and talked about the speeches he gave and his peaceful protests. One quote that we discussed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was , ” Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” As a class we talked about what this quote means and the power of spreading kindness. This quote is what sparked our discussion about making the world a better place and led to the children sharing their ideas. Finally, we engaged in some role playing and did the Rosa Parks play. With this activity we had children take on different roles to act out the event that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Ask your child about the Rosa Parks play!!

In Kindergarten lesson the children reviewed their cursive letters and writing sentences and also worked on math equations. During reading group the children reviewed the short e sound and were introduced to the long e sound. We then practiced reading long e words and worked on our comprehension skills.

Next week our topic will be adaptation, migration, and hibernation.

BOOK SHARE: Thursday, January 27, 2022