Peek In Our Week :::: Thee Buckeye Room :::: Week Of March 14, 2022

Posted on March 18, 2022 at 11:39 am.

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

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

A Message From Mr. John (Nothing is As hopeless as it seems even though I thought I was going to die in the library parking lot.):

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 (Science/Dancing Raisins):

When I do this experiment I think of these two songs/videos….

Shaun O’Keefe (our reappearing class leprechaun):

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

Views from the Shamrock Classroom:

This is a student’s rendition of St. Patrick’s Day in the classroom and it is pretty accurate.

Peek In The Classroom:

Tjhis boy is finding the relationships between two different materials (Knobless Cylinders and Knobbed Cylinders) found in the Sensorial area. This will help him recognize patterns and distinguish visual discrepancies.

She found the Teen board found in the Math area all by herself(not being told to work on it) She took it out/worked on it/ completed it/and the put it away.

He is learning how to create different shapes with triangles. he also learned the terms of Equilaterall Triangle (all sides equal) Isosceles Triangle (2 sides equal, and Scalene Triangle (no sides equal)

My newest reader generating a lot of attention.

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).

Kinder student showing their favorite vowel via sign language

Handwriting:
We practiced writing sentences in cursive.

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

Synonym Of The Week: No synonyms this week

Sight Words Of The Week: have this

Upcoming Events:
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:
Elementary LIVE Wax Museum: Thursday, March 24 6:00 to 7:00pm …
School Campus

Breakfast Club: Friday, April 8 from 7:00 am to 7:45 am …
Social Hall at school

International Festival (REHEARSAL): Wednesday, May 4 at 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm …
Cuyahoga Falls high School/Big Auditorium (details to follow)

International Festival (MAIN EVENT): Friday, May 6 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm …
Cuyahoga Falls high School/Big Auditorium (details to follow)

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Working on the Leprechaun Trap. They are bound and determined to catch Shaun O’Keefe!

Oh no! The dreaded Malted Milk Ball Eyes.

Peek In Our Week ^^^ Thee Buckeye Room ^^^ Week Of March 7, 2022

Posted on March 12, 2022 at 11:50 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

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! 🙁**

A student’s redition of flowers and his original drawing called “Man Playing Piano In The Woods”

Did You Know? (C is for Cookie):
In a song in 2004, and later in an interview in 2017, Cookie Monster revealed that his real name is Sidney Monster. He is best known for his voracious appetite and his famous eating catchphrases, such as “Me want cookie!” Although he eats almost anything, including normally inedible objects, as his name suggests, his preferred food is cookies. Chocolate Chip Cookies are his favorite kind. Despite his voracious appetite for cookies, Cookie Monster shows awareness of healthy eating habits for young children and also enjoys fruits and eggplant.

A Message From Mr. John (My InsantPot):

March Birthdays:
A Montessori classroom prides itself on a mixed aged classroom of ages between 2 1/2 and 6. Here is our newest 5 year old students.

Peek In The Classroom:

This material is the Movable Alphabet (cursive). 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 working on Color Box 2. The main purpose of the Colour Box is to develop a child’s visual sense of colour. Primary colours (Red, Yellow and Blue) are introduced in Colour Box 1, which is first presented to a child at 2.5 to 3 years of age. Colour Boxes 2 and 3 add more tablets to the mix, expanding a child’s colour knowledge.

He is working on the 45 Layout. This layout will help your child to visualize and develop an understanding of place value, order of numbers, and concentration. This work is very large and can take some time. Our children loved building this chart, and sometimes in stages. It can take time to build the concentration to complete the entire layout.

She is working g on the Trinomial Cube which is 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 accuracy.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Life Cycles

Letter Of The Week-Y y

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bac

Next Language is Farsi

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

Kinders with their favorite Geometric Solid.

Handwriting:
We practiced writing sentences in cursive.

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

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

Sight Words Of The Week: have this

Upcoming Events:
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:
Breakfast Club: Friday, April 8 from 7:00 am to 7:45 am

International Festival (REHEARSAL): Wednesday, May 4 at 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm …
Cuyahoga Falls high School/Big Auditorium (details to follow)

International Festival (MAIN EVENT): Friday, May 6 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm …
Cuyahoga Falls high School/Big Auditorium (details to follow)

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

It’s all about Mini Mouse. Even the hair is Mini.

Speaking of hair…. we are seeing who gets a hair cut first.

Peek At Our Week – Cherry Blossom – Week of 3/7/22

Posted on March 11, 2022 at 7:06 pm.

Written by Tonya Shaw

A Peek At Our Week in the Cherry Blossom Classroom!

A HUGE thank you to all of the families that attended our Breakfast Club this morning! It was so nice to spend some time with families and friends before our school day began. We enjoyed joining conversations and hope the All About Mom and Dad papers made you smile! And a huge thank you to everyone for making my birthday special as well! My heart is full today!

This week we talked about weather! We learned that weather is what we see outside, and that it can change throughout the day! We also learned that temperature is the way it feels outside. We briefly dicussed different types of weather and will continue to do so all month long as we fill in our March weather graph. What type of weather do you think we’ll have the most of this month?

We also talked about the water cycle this week, learning big words such as: collection, evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. We started a science experiment in our room that can show us all of the steps of the water cycle, and we’ll keep talking about this cycle next week as we take a deeper look at clouds.

What have the 5 year olds been up to in our mixed age classroom?

This child is working with the Trinomial Cube. She has practiced building the cube in the box and on the lid, and is now working with the pieces of the cube on the table.

This child is composing large numbers with the Golden Bead material in our classroom. We break numbers down into units, tens, hundreds, and thousands and then the child can use the bead material to build that number in a concrete way.

This child is using the moveable alphabet to write words without pictures. We were focusing on making “at” and “in” word families with known words and nonsense words.

This child has been working with individual sandpaper letters and is now working with the sandpaper letter blends to practice connecting letters together while writing in cursive.

This child is working with our 3 part cards. 3 part cards include a control card with picture and word, a picture card, and a word card. The child will lay out the control cards, then match the pictures cards to the control cards, and finally match the word cards. We use 3 part cards in the Language, Geography, and Science areas of the classroom to build upon our focus lessons.

International Festival News!!!

The Cherry Blossom Class will be studying the continent of AFRICA for the International Festival. We’ll be diving right in after Spring Break so make sure your child signs up for the country that they would like to represent by Friday, March 18th!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090b48a8a92da6f94-country2

Peek Into Next Week!

Focus Topic: Spring, Clouds, and Rainbows!

Letter of the Week: Bb

Number of the Week: 17

Important Dates:

March 24: Elementary LIVE Wax Museum – 6:00-7:00pm

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

April 18: NO SCHOOL – Easter Monday

May 4: International Festival Rehearsal

May 6: International Festival

A Peek At Our Week- Aspen- Dr. Seuss Week

Posted on March 7, 2022 at 1:01 am.

Written by Kelley Laney

Hello Aspen families! My apologies for the time lapse and gap between blog postings! But what better way to resume a blog post than a fun filled week of Dr. Seuss inspired fun. It was a blast seeing all of the crazy socks, fun hats, mismatched outfits, mustaches, and occupational attire! At the same time, it was inspiring and interesting getting to hear what our students wanted to be when they grew up! We had lots of amazing aspirations and ideas to share with our classmates on Friday during line time. The Aspen room sure has some awesome kids with amazing goals for their future. Besides, the fun mentioned above our week included a variety of fun activities promoting the importance of literacy and word play. As a class we revisited the terms author and illustrator and discussed what those terms mean. During the work period the Aspen students were able to engage in word play with a Dr. Seuss rhyming activity where we matched pictures and words that had the same sounds, explored the vowel tree (for those students who are combining sounds), and were introduced to the pink rhyming material (for those students that have demonstrated decoding skills). The Aspen students also engaged in a group activity where we experimented writing our own rhyming story as a class. During line time, we created a list of rhyming words and created our own short story. There was a lot of silliness and laughter with this activity! Check out our story posted in the hall outside our class. The Aspen students also tried their hand at rescuing letters, counting or adding goldfish, engaged in color matching activities, and created daily Dr. Seuss themed crafts. It was a Seussical experience in the Aspen Room this week! Ask your child all about the fun we had.

In kindergarten the children started their introduction to the world of Geometry. The kindergarteners were presented lessons with the Geometric Cabinet where they learned the geometric terms for various shapes. They also discussed the concepts of angles, learned how to identify them (characteristics of angles), and learned their names. The kindergarteners then applied their geometric knowledge during the work period! They truly enjoyed finding right angles around the classroom.

During Reading Group, we took our Dr. Seuss theme and continued our fun with phonics and words by playing with different phonetic sounds. Therefore, creating many silly words. At the same time, we reviewed language rules while creating word lists. After creating our lists, we then tried our hand at recalling the words from the list we created working on retaining information and comprehending what we read! We also practiced fluency skills reading simple sentences (some with sight words).

Advanced Practical Life work- scrubbing pennies!

Matching the Presidents of the United States in chronological order.

Learning about the linear sequence of numbers beyond one hundred.

Exploring the linear sequence of numbers to one hundred!

I mustache you a question!! Dr. Seuss fun with Lorax mustaches and our cutting. activity!

Dr. Seuss inspired counting activity with goldfish crackers.

Working on phonics with the Phonics Workbook.

Peek In Our Week — Thee Buckeye Room — Week Of February 28, 2022

Posted on March 4, 2022 at 3:36 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

Line Time:
Happy March Everyone!

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

Migration- A seasonal movement of animals from one region to another. Such as birds flying south for the winter. Like people who move to Florida for the winter, hehe.

Adaptation- A change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment. We did an experiment where we dipped our hands in cold water then dipped them again in cold water with butter protecting our hands

A experiment about Adaptation. We recreated blubber of animals. Hands were put in ice water (naked) and a hand was put in after in a bag of butter (blubber). The children discovered quickly the difference between cold and warm.

Did you know (It’s Impossible to Hum While You Hold Your Nose?)
You can not hum while holding your nose for the same reason you can’t exhale while holding your nose and closing your mouth—to make the humming noise you have to pass air through your larynx. You can’t do that when no air can be exhaled. I bet you tried it, didn’t you?

A Message From Mr. John (Part 6 and final installment):

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

Know Your Languages (Malay):

Enrichments (Music):
Being ducks and swans in music class. I love the movement!

Peek In The Classroom:

This boy is sweeping a mess made by another student. He was not asked to do this chore and this is a prime example of caring for the environment.

She has completed stringing beads in a pattern. The benefits of threading beads for children are to improve fine motor skills: Threading beads can help to strengthen the small muscles in children’s hands as they grasp different sized beads. The benefit of developing fine motor skills through threading beads is that it uses similar hand movements to gripping a pencil. Also, it helps to establish order to one’s sense of being. It leads to higher cognitive skills as one advances in complex pattern details.

Ms. Angela helping a student with the shoe tying work. It seems he is enjoying the lesson.

He is working on the Binomial Cube found in the sensorial area. The purpose of the material is less focused on the complex mathematics behind the material, and rather is to provide a challenge for a child’s ability to find patterns and relationships between the blocks.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Art

Letter Of The Week- X x

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bel

Next Language is Hindi

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: Geometry

Kinders making the best right angles that they can.

Handwriting:
We practiced writing sentences in cursive.

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: More Geometry – 3D shapes

Synonym Of The Week: DRY, dehydrated, arid, parched

Sight Words Of The Week: they that

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! (permission forms have been sent)
Breakfast Club: Friday, April 8 from 7:00 am to 7:45 am

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

A smile or a sneer? You decide but look at the growling photo bomb!

Beignet heaven. A generous parent brought this in for Fat Tuesday. I had to fight off children to protect this sweet ‘Narlins treat. The family who brought this will get preferential treatment.

Showing off their muscles. The boy in the background maybe showing muscles or acting like a monkey.

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (Tacos):

Peek At Our Week – Cherry Blossom – Week of 2/28/22

Posted on March 4, 2022 at 3:23 pm.

Written by Tonya Shaw

A Peek At Our Week in the Cherry Blossom Classroom!

“Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to great places! You’re off and away!

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights!

Wherever you fly, you’ll be the best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.

Oh, the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won.

You’ll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You’ll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go.

So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed!)

KID, YOU’LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!

You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting.

So… get on your way!

– “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!’ by Dr. Seuss

Dear Parents,

Thank you for assisting us with a fun, silly, wonderful, fantastic week with your child! This book brings tears to our eyes as we think of all the amazing places this group of children is going to go! We love your kiddos!

– Ms. Tonya & Ms. Sam

Peek Into Next Week!

Focus Topic: Weather and Clouds

Letter of the Week: Ww

Number of the Week: 16

Important Dates:

March 11: Breakfast Club!

March 24: Elementary LIVE Wax Museum – 6:00-7:00pm

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

April 18: NO SCHOOL – Easter Monday

May 4: International Festival Rehearsal

May 6: International Festival

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 At Our Week – Cherry Blossom – Week of 2/21/22

Posted on February 27, 2022 at 11:02 pm.

Written by Tonya Shaw

A Peek At Our Week in the Cherry Blossom Classroom!

We continued learning about Our Earth this week. We focused on land and water forms, such as lake, island, cape, bay, gulf, and peninsula. We also talked about what would we would see if we could cut the Earth in half. We found out that there are different layers inside the Earth. The inner core, the outer core, the mantle, and the crust!

We also continued our study of habitats this week, focusing on the ocean, the savannah, and the desert. We participated in a science experiment with Ms. Sam, introducing us to the different zones of the ocean. We were most interested in the Twilight Zone and a special animal – the Vampire Squid! We watched a special Octonauts episode to learn even more about the Vampire Squid.

Enrichment Spotlight – ASL with Ms. Emily!

Ms. Emily was so excited to hear that we were learning about habitats! She told us a story about forest animals, all with ASL! Then we discussed the story we saw her tell and practiced signing with her! It was a wonderful ASL lesson this week!

Peek Into Next Week!

Focus Topic: Dr. Seuss!

MONDAY: Wear Crazy Socks!

TUESDAY: Wear a Hat!

WEDNESDAY: Dress Wacky!

THURSDAY: Wear Green!

FRIDAY: Dress like what you want to be when you grow up!

Letter of the Week: Ll

Number of the Week: 15

Important Dates:

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 Room ||| Week Of February 21, 2022

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

Written by John Kotradi

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…):