This week we learned all about the 5 Senses! We know that our 5 Senses are seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling. We also know that we use these 5 Senses to learn about the world around us. We spent some time learning about how different types of animals use their senses as well. Did you know that a snake uses its tongue to smell or that a katydid has “ears” on its front legs?
It was also All About Me week! The children shared their All About Me papers with their friends, and we talked about our favorite colors, favorite foods, and our favorite animals. We also talked a lot about our families!
Using our 5 Senses to explore our spider plant that has flower blooms!
Happy Birthday to our newest 4 year old!!!
This child highly recommends this book from the library!
This child is working with the Blue and Red Number Rods. This is one of the first works within the Math area of the classroom. The child uses knowledge about length previously gained by the Red Rods and then takes their learning one step further by using one to one correspondence to count the sections of the Number Rods.
This child is practicing his handwriting skills with the chalk and chalkboard. Why do we teach cursive first? Cursive writing involves a flowing, uninterrupted movement which reinforces the left to right directionality of our written language.
And a note from Mr. John….
MR. JOHN IS AWESOME!
Coming Up Next Week!
We will be learning all about Apples! As well as an introduction to primary colors and geography. Remember – NO SCHOOL on Monday for Labor Day!
This week the Aspen class remains super busy practicing our daily routines while learning how to navigate the classroom environment. As we learn to navigate the classroom, we are also practicing many of the Montessori Social Relations activities. We have learned how to be respectful of our classmates and their opportunties to learn during the work period. Therefore, as a class we have been practicing not interrupting our friends while they are focusing on work and have learned how to interrupt or how to get a teachers/friends attention by placing our hand gently on their shoulder. At the same time, we learned how to shake hands when we are greeting someone. The Aspen class will now begin each morning with a hand shake upon entering the building to practice this and refine their social skills. As we have been discussing greetings and introductions, we also learned how to sing our line time Good Morning Song. Your child is currently learning this song in both English and Spanish. As a result, You may hear them singing it at home. The children call it the Buenos Dias Song when we sing it in Spanish. Besides, learning our Good Morning Song your child has also learned a few words in Spanish. The new words we learned are bookbag, shoes, bottle, and lunchbox!
Kindergarten students have been working really hard with Mr. John learning all about our continents, oceans, and the cardinal directions. They have also been reviewing some of the basics they learned last year to refine handwriting skills and ease into their kindergarten curriculum. In Reading Group the kindergarten students have been working with me to improve phonics, fluency, retention, and handwriting skills. This week we played a game called Roll it, Sound It Out! We took turns rolling a die and read words from columns in the corressponding number they rolled. I have sent home a paper for them to play this at home with your family! Have fun reading!!!
Next week we will be discussing the Seasons. We will explore the characterisitcs of each season as well as the reason for seasons. The class will also work on the days of the week by naming them and sequencing them. See you next week!
Line Time: Ground Rules:
What a wonderful start to our school year! This week we learned about the ground rules in our classroom. We learned the expected behaviors for work time and were introduced to new work trays in the Practical Life area so that we can strengthen our fine motor skills. We learned how to roll and unroll a mat. The four main rules are 1) No running in the classroom. 2) Listening Ears. 3) Keep our body to our self. 4) Treat people and the room with respect. We are learning how to shake hands, look each other in the eye while shaking hands, and reply with pleasantries when I say good morning (students respond “Good morning Mr. John). What a great start to a great school year!
Two students practicing shaking hands.
A Message From Mr. John:
Cultural Subjects: Your children can now count to ten in 5 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German)
August Birthdays: A Montessori Classroom consists of 3 to 6 year old students. Here are our newest 4 and 5 year old students.
Fun Fact: Flamingos bend their legs at their ankles and not their knees.
Peek In The Classroom:
Ms. Angela presenting a group lesson to new students.
This boy is working on the Teen Board which is found in the Math area. The Montessori Teen Board is a great way to introduce the concept of teens to a child. Not only children see how tens and ones are being build to make teens, but they are also physically building teens themselves. Notice how he set up the teen numbers in random order?
She is working on the Number Rods. The Number Rods also help children learn the names of numbers and their sequence and learn to correctly associate between the spoken number and its quantity. Children grow to understand that each rod represents a unique quantity and that each number is represented by a single object as a whole, separate from others.
The Knobbed Cylinders are the first lesson in the Sensorial area. The Knobbed Cylinders are a Montessori Sensorial material, designed to assist children in making distinctions in their immediate environment. This material primarily engages the senses of touch and sight. The material is comprised of 10 different cylinders with ‘knobs’ used to hold each object using the pincer grip. This is the start of the vast journey in my classroom.
Peek Into Next Week: Line Time- Healthy Habits
Letter Of The Week- C c
Rhyming Word Of The Week- bap
Next Language is French
Upcoming Events: Labor Day- ****No School Monday September 6, 2021. ***** There is always one family that shows up. Who will it be this year? LOL
Sign up for Remind and Transparent Classroom.
Academic Enrichment aka Kindergarten:
Meet the Kindergarten Class of 2022!
Weekly Theme: Continents and Cardinal Directions
Handwriting: We practiced writing in cursive Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii
Next Week: Weekly Theme: Hemispheres, Equator, Prime Meridian
Synonym Of The Week: FAST: hurried, speedy, brisk, quick, swift
Sight Words Of The Week: up so
Frolic, Friends, and Fun:
These are the slippers without an owner. “The Case of the Homeless Slippers” continue.
Students under the table? Sometime you just don’t ask.
The difference of age and size in the Montessori Classroom (boy edition)
The difference of age and size in a Montessori Classroom (girl edition)
What a wonderful start to our school year! This week we learned about the ground rules in our classroom. We learned the expected behaviors for work time and were introduced to new work trays in the Practical Life area so that we can strengthen our fine motor skills. We explored Knobbed Cylinders and their dimensions, and also learned our daily routine. We love eating lunch in the multipurpose room and enjoy the playground even more!
Preschool Lesson included reading books and learning about emotions and feelings. We highly recommend the books My Many Colored Days, The Color Monster, and I’m Happy-Sad Today if you’d like to check them out from the library. See if your children can sing you “If You’re Happy and You Know It” with all of the different feelings words! We’ll be returning to these feeling words all school year long as we learn to express ourselves using our words.
These two children enjoyed having snack together on the first day of school!
A sneak peek at what work time looks like! These children are working on their fine motor skills, naming objects, and I spy some Pink Tower and Brown Stair extensions!
On the very first day of school, we were able to take a close look at a monarch butterfly, the chrysalis it emerged from, and released it outside! We were so excited to watch the butterfly fly away! We’ll explore more of the butterfly life cycle this spring!
Miss Tonya and Miss Samantha are so excited to welcome all of our new friends to the Cherry Blossom classroom!
Peek into Next Week!
We’re going to be learning all about the 5 Senses! During Preschool Lesson we will be learning All About Me! Please make sure to return your child’s All About Me papers next week, we will be sharing them with the class and hanging them up in our classroom.
Hello and welcome to the Aspen Room! Even though this was not a full week of school it has been one busy and amazing week in the Aspen Room. It has been so great seeing familiar faces and the smiles of returning students and families from last year. It has been an absolute pleasure meeting all of the students and families new to the Aspen Room! Each week Sandy and I will be sharing information, pictures, events, and news of what has happened or what will happen in the Aspen Room. Here is our very first 2021-2022 Aspen Room Blog!!!
This week we have been focusing on the daily/weekly routines of the classroom as well as the general How To’s of a Montessori classroom. The children have been learning how to sit properly on the line for group lessons while being respectful of others when they are talking and sharing their thoughts, opinions, ideas and stories. Therefore, we all practiced raising our hands and speaking one at a time. We sure have some respectful and kind students in the Aspen Room! All the children modeled super respectful behavior and even raised their hands to ask questions. We also learned how to unroll and roll our rugs when working with materials/activities on the floor and practiced how to walk around the rugs safely during the work period.
The Aspen Room children are very curious and very eager to learn. As a result, the work period was busy with presentations showing all of our new students many of the exciting activities the classroom has to offer. Your children were working very hard and I am sure they were super tired when you picked them up from school. They have worked so hard in a short amount of time and are becoming familiar with both the routine and general rules of the classroom. Returning students have been amazing showing our new friends around the room! They have helped present materials, teach rules, and provided moral support when a new student needed a friend or had a question. All of the Aspen Room children are amazingly excited to learn. It is going to be a great year!
Next week, the Aspen Room will be continuing to learn Procedural Lessons and will recieve lots of new presentations during our work period. I am sure your children have shared so much with you about their work and activities throughout their day. Unsure about an activity? Want to know more? Check out Transparent Classroom it has an amazing section that you can select and read all about a work. It will explain the procedure and what the intention or skill it teaches. Of course, you can also ask us!! We love sharing the Montessori method with students and parents. Have a great weekend!!
Showing a new friend how to use our playdoh activitiy and the utensils.Learning how to use the Sand Tray to trace and write sounds with the Sandpaper Letters!Working on Phonograms with the Phonogram Tree!
Comparrison of height with the Pink Tower and The Broad Stair!
Introducing our classroom Peace Table. This table is for moments of reflection, calming the mind, or some time alone. Activities at this table will change from time to time and will promote relaxation, calming the mind, and centering oneself before returning to the classroom activities. Friends choosing to work at the Peace Table may not be interrupted or distracted thus giving them the alone time they choose or needed.
Line Time: This week we looked at “inner space” which is simply anything under the water. We first started out by learning that there is fresh water and salt water. We then learned about high and low tides and how the moon affects tides. of course, we talked about what lurks beneath the surface of the ocean. Below is the fascinating cuttlefish.
Did you know (This is fascinating)? Dolphins often sleep with one eye open in order to avoid being eaten by sharks. How do they manage to do this? They put one half of their brain to sleep, while the other half is still conscious and functioning. Basically, the dolphin will shut down half of its brain and the corresponding eye will also close. Why does this remind me of a Metallica song?
A Message From Mr. John (A Collector of Things, Again):
My Hair: I will get a haircut this weekend!!! I have not had my hair this long since I got the debut album by Van Halen.
Van Halen circa 1978.
Cultural Subjects: Your children can now count to ten in 27 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Irish, Kiswahili, Irish, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Farsi, Turkish)
Impromptu Nature Lesson (The students witnessed our tarantula molting):
Two spiders? Nope! One is the spider and the other one is the shed exoskeleton. The video is below.
Peek In The Classroom:
She is working on the Knobless Cylinders found in the Sensorial area. The Knobbed Cylinders are a Montessori Sensorial material, designed to assist children in making distinctions in their immediate environment. This material primarily engages the senses of touch and sight. The material is comprised of 10 different cylinders with ‘knobs’ used to hold each object using the pincer grip.
These Fractional Insets are found in the Math area. The Fraction Insets build on the familiar structure of the Metal Insets, but rather than teaching shape and design, they introduce the child to concepts of fractions and equivalents.
He 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 memorization.
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. He has discovered the correlation between two different works.
Peek Into Next Week: Line Time- Safety
Letter Of The Week- Nope
Rhyming Word Of The Week- No way, man
Next Language is We be done with that
Academic Enrichment: Weekly Theme: Capitalization and end of sentence punctuation
Kindergarten strong!
Handwriting: We practiced writing sentences in cursive.
Next Week: Weekly Theme: Review
Synonym Of The Week: In your dreams
Sight Words Of The Week: Not even close
Upcoming Events: Memorial Day: Monday, May 31, 2021 ***** NO SCHOOL *****
Last Day Of School/Field Day: Thursday June 3, 2021
Friends, Frolic, and Fun:
Her skirt. My color/splatter record. I see the resemblance.
HA! Another raccoon shirt.
Hair Twins?
If you can make this out this is my son who has not had a haircut in like 10 months. Like father like son. Also, he hates getting his pic taken!
Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (My brother eats a lot):
Line Time: Solar System- Put on your space suit and get ready to explore our solar system. We started with discussing the planets nearer the sun then worked our way to the furthest reaches of our solar system. Mercury is our first planet and is the closest to the sun. Venus is the second planet. Even though it is further away from the sun than Mercury it is the hottest planet in our solar system. The third planet is near and dear to our hearts. It is the planet earth. It is the only planet in our solar system that has life. The next planet is Mars and is known as the red planet. The next planet is the biggest planet in our solar system and has a big red storm that has been raging for centuries. That planet is Jupiter. Saturn is the next planet and has really cool ring around it that are pieces of rock and ice. Uranus is next and it spins up and down instead of side to side like all the other planets. Neptune is the last planet in our solar system. I did not forget about Pluto. Oh! Poor Pluto. Pluto was once a planet but now has been demoted to a dwarf planet. As a side note learned that most planets were named after Roman Gods and Goddesses. We watched a few video clips about the Solar System and danced to the Sun Song by They Might Be Giants! How cool are these guys??
Did You Know? (Conspiracy Theorists chew on this): Three presidents, all Founding Fathers, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe died on July 4. Presidents Adams and Jefferson also died the same year, 1826; President Monroe died in 1831. Coincidence? You decide.
A Message From Mr. John (Collector of Things) :
Cultural Subjects: Your children can now count to ten in 27 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Irish, Kiswahili, Irish, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Farsi, Turkish)
Peek In The Classroom:
Gross Motor Ability Is a Critical Life Skill. Gross motor skills are important for major body movement such as walking, maintaining balance, coordination, and reaching. These abilities share connections with other physical functions. Such skills are important for play, sports, and fitness. ……. I always yell (in jest) YOU ARE GOING TOO HIGH! YOU ARE MAKING ME NERVOUS!!! but yet I have this feeling of teaching them to “jump” off the swing. Lol
An impromptu animal lesson with the snake. Each student touched the snake, observed the tongue flicker, and felt the shed skin.
This is something a student came up with. It is a Day Chain that tracks are final days of school. Each ring has a child’s name and each morning a ring is removed by the child whose name is at the bottom. Notice there is a removed ring that was glue towards the top of the cabinet.
He is working on the Triangular Box. The constructive triangles are used to demonstrate that all plane geometric figures can be constructed from triangles. There are five boxes: 2 rectangular, 1 triangular, and 1 large and 1 small hexagonal. Each box contains triangles of different sizes, shapes, and colors. Notice how he made a big Equalateral Triangle!
Peek Into Next Week: Line Time- Oceans
Letter Of The Week-U u
Rhyming Word Of The Week- bec
Academic Enrichment: Line Time: Interjections, YAY! When showing a lot of emotion and excitement we use an explanation mark ! When the emotions are not as strong we use a period .
The loose tooth club.
Handwriting: We practiced writing sentences in cursive.
Next Week’s Lesson: Weekly Theme: Capitalization and punctuation at the end of a sentence
Synonym Of The Week: Done with that popsicle stand
Sight Words Of The Week: Been there done that
Upcoming Events: Memorial Day: Monday, May 31, 2021 ***** NO SCHOOL *****
Last Day Of School/Field Day: Thursday June 3, 2021
Friends, Frolic, and Fun:
FINALLY! a racoon on a shirt! Sometimes a blind squirrel finds a nut.
Ya shoulda seen the other guy
A cuddle huddle with Ms. Katie.
Relaxing. Feet on the furniture. Under two weeks of school left. Ehhhh!
Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (A girl and her pig):
Line Time: Animals Groups- This week we talked about what groups of animals are called. Here is a list of what we learned…
Pack of dogs
Muster of peacocks
Pride of lions
Gaggle of geese
Murder of crows
School of fish
Pod of dolphins
Heard of cows, horses, and elephants
CONGRESS of Baboons
Mischief of rats (I am tearing)
Not a Flock Of Seagulls (I ran) but a colony of seagulls
And we have a sorority of female Bettas in the room!
I could not get a good shot of my sorority and mine isn’t this impressive.
Did You Know? (Have you ever seen pics of this?): The heads on Easter Island have bodies.
The iconic stone heads protruding from the ground on Easter Island are familiar to most, but many don’t realize what lies beneath the surface. In the ’10s, archaeologists studying the hundreds of stone statues on the Pacific Island excavated two of the figures, revealing full torsos, which measure as high as 33 feet.
May Birthdays: A Montessori Classroom is comprised of students ages from 3 years to 6 years. Here is our newest 4 year old and newest 6 year old students.
A Message From Mr. John ():
Do I have Ed Bagley Jr. hair?
Cultural Subjects: Your children can now count to ten in 27 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Irish, Kiswahili, Irish, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Farsi, Turkish)
Peek In The Classroom:
A student’s work with the cursive Moveable Alphabet found in the Language area.
A student diligently spooning dirt into a tiny flower pot. This is an example of a Practical Life Work.
A student is selecting the background music for work time. This is a sign of independence and leadership.
She is working on the Hundred Board which is found in the Math area. Around three or four years of age, depending on how quickly the child has grasped the concept of counting. to 100, and also helping them to understand number order. Through their work, the children are able to correct any mistakes independently.
Peek Into Next Week: Line Time- The Solar System
Letter Of The Week-O o
Rhyming Word Of The Week- bod
Academic Enrichment: Line Time: We added the preposition to our plethora parts of speech. The preposition is a “where” word (over, under, sideways, down {maybe not sideways, but Over Under Sideways Down is a cool Yardbirds song}) and is not a Werewolf!
Kinder’s fave yoga pose.
Handwriting: We practiced writing sentences in cursive.
Next Week’s Lesson: Weekly Theme: Interjection, YIKES!
Synonym Of The Week: Sneaky: underhanded, dishonest, tricky, secretive, sly
Sight Words Of The Week: way my
Upcoming Events: !!!!! Mr. John’s Birthday !!!!!
Memorial Day: No School, Monday, May 31, 2021
Last Day Of School/Field Day: Thursday June 3, 2021
Friends, Frolic, and Fun:
One right of passage for this age group is loosing teeth. Toofless.
Cheesy cheesecake smiles.
Balancing a hair tie on your nose is a valuable skill.
Bobsy Twins: coats and shirts
Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (His glasses and how he looks different with his glasses off):
Line Time: Baby Animals- This week we looked at names of baby animals. I started out by saying that most people call human children “kids” and in reality a kid is a baby goat. with that said here are some other baby animal names.
Did You Know? (Poor Ronald): For decades, Ronald McDonald has been the face of McDonald’s, but in recent years… not so much, and it turns out that people have been calling for his head for a long time.
There was a major push back in 2011 to retire him. Why? Because, petitions said, he was being used to market unhealthy fast food items to kids, and that wasn’t good. McDonald’s was shifting their marketing more toward adults, and had already gotten rid of most of their other McDonaldland characters. Still, Ronald was being increasingly more often lumped in with mascots like Joe Camel, who represented a company now condemned for trying to make cigarettes appeal to the youth. Below was my McDonald’s experience with the placemat as a child.
A Message From Mr. John (The Breakfast Club) :
Cultural Subjects: Your children can now count to ten in 27 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Irish, Kiswahili, Irish, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Farsi, Turkish)
Peek In The Classroom:
He is working on the Trinomial Cube found in the Sensorial area. As with all Montessori sensorial materials, the cube has both a direct and an indirect purpose. The direct purpose of the binomial and trinomial cubes is for the child to practice the steps to properly disassemble and build the cube, while refining dexterity and visual acuity.
She is working with the Geometric Solids. The Geometric Solids are one of many Montessori materials that challenge and shape a child’s stereognostic sense, which is their ability to perceive and understand both the form and nature of objects through touch. By working with these materials, children become aware of how shapes form the basis for everyday objects.
Each of these two girls are working on their own math material
He is working on the Teen Board. Montessori Tens Board with Beads, also called Seguin Board B or Seguin Board 2 teaches a child (3-5 yo approx.) to associate the quantities and symbols from 10 to 90. Using the Tens Boards, the child explores the number names of the tens and the sequence of numbers 11–99. Notice he chose to compose 46…. hmmmm wonder who in his family is that age?
Peek Into Next Week: Line Time- Animal groups
Letter Of The Week-I i
Rhyming Word Of The Week- bud
Academic Enrichment: Line Time: We added the conjunction to our stable of parts of speech. The conjunction acts as a bridge between two sentences and make a sentence flow better.
Handwriting: We practiced writing sentences in cursive.
Next Week’s Lesson: Weekly Theme: Preposition. It is a where word n a werewolf!
Synonym Of The Week: DULL, dark, dreary, somber, boring, tedious
Sight Words Of The Week: there their
Upcoming Events: !!!!! Mr. John’s Birthday !!!!!
Last Day Of School/Field Day: Thursday June 3, 2021
Friends, Frolic, and Fun:
Best buds reunited.
Let me explain this pic. They were huddled, whispering, and glancing at me. When I questioned them they stopped talking, sat straight, and pretended not to talk. I wonder what they were plotting.
Oh no, the dreaded cucumber eyes!
No explanation needed for this pic except that every child ages 3 to 6 is obsessed with poop.
Line Time: Food Chains- We learned about food chains. We knew that all living things ate/take in nutrients for energy and rely on plants and animals for their “food source”. It was discovered that a food chain can be as small as two parts and we found a five part food chain. We found out that when an animal eats another animal there are terms for that relationship. The animal hunting and eating is called the predator and the animal being eaten is the prey.
Two students drew their own food chain. As you can see one food chain has four parts and the other food chain has six parts. The four part food chain consists of grass eaten by the rabbit which is eaten by the snake which is eaten by an eagle. The six part food chain starts with grass then eaten by a cricket, then eaten by the spider which is eaten by a frog. Then the frog is eaten by the snake which is eaten by a hawk and owl.
Did you know? (At least give me the hashtag) The # symbol isn’t officially called pound. Its technical name is “octothorpe” The “octo-” means “eight” to refer to its points, though reports disagree on where “thorpe” came from. Some claim it was named after Olympian Jim Thorpe, while others argue it was just a nonsense suffix.
April Birthdays: The Primary Montessori classroom consists of students ages from 2.5 to 6 years old. Here are my newest six year olds.
A Message From Mr. John: (Banter)
Cultural Subjects: Your children can now count to ten in 27 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Hebrew, Korean, Irish, Kiswahili, Irish, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Farsi, Turkish)
Peek In The Classroom:
This student is working on the Nine Tray. The Nine Tray is designed for use on the floor. It is perfect for laying out the Large Number Cards and associating the golden bead values. The columns of each ‘place value’ are colored to match the Montessori Hierarchy Of Number.
She is working on the Teen Board. Montessori Teen Board is a great way to introduce the concept of teens to a child. Not only children see how tens and ones are being build to make teens, but they are also physically building teens themselves!
She is working on the Cards and Counters found in the Math area. The Cards and Counters bring the abstract to the concrete, allowing a child to feel the units as they count. Cards and Counters is a material that consists of 10 number cards, 1-10, and 55 round, red counters, each approximately the size of a nickel.
He is working on a Math material called the Second Introduction To Decimals. The aim of studying the decimal system is for the child to understand, organize and classify the numerical quantities into different hierarchies of units, tens, hundreds and thousands. One of the best thing about these golden beads material is that it provides a sensorial approach in learning mathematics. It appears he has a captive audience
Peek Into Next Week: Line Time- Animal Babies
Letter Of The Week- E e
Rhyming Word Of The Week- bic
Academic Enrichment:
Kinders pretending to eat cupcakes and linking the frosting.
Handwriting: We practiced writing sentences in cursive.
Next Week: Weekly Theme: Conjunctions (they like as a bridge)
Synonym Of The Week: BRIGHT: Shiny, Glowing, Dazzling, Lighted, Vivid
Sight Words Of The Week: look many
Upcoming Events: Breakfast Club For Buckeye Room: Friday May 7, 7-7:45am
!!! My birthday is closing in !!!
Friends, Frolic, and Fun:
Are headbands back in style? Remember Mike Reno (Loverboy) and John MacEnroe (tennis)?
Ya shoulda seen the other guy.
The dreaded Fruit Roll up Eyes.
Warm weather brings shorts which shows all those bruises and scrapes which is a good sign the child is active and that is a good thing. What a run on sentence.
Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (Again, all dogs go to heaven):
Using our 5 Senses to explore our spider plant that has flower blooms!
Happy Birthday to our newest 4 year old!!!
This child highly recommends this book from the library!
