12/15 Weekly Enrichment Spotlight

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Weekly Enrichment Spotlight

This week in science class, Mr. John taught us about density. We put one egg in salt water and one egg in fresh water. The egg in the salt water floated, and the egg in the fresh water sank! Thanks for a fun science experiment!

Academic Enrichment “”” Cuyahoga Falls Campus “”” Week Of 12/16/2019

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Weekly Theme:
Currency,  We learned to identify the dollar bills and coins and how much each are worth. Your child can learn even more by attending this childcare program.

MONEY MONEY MONEY Moneeeeeey

 

 

Handwriting:
We practiced writing in cursive writing sentences.

 

Cultural Subjects:
We now can count to ten in 18 languages (English, Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish).

 

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Subtraction with manipulatives (Golden Beads)

Synonym Of The Week: HEALTHY: hearty, athletic, sound, strong, fit

Sight Words Of The Week: come number

Language Of The Week: Kiswahili

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enrichment Fun: Week of 12/09/19

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Learning how to create Gingerbread house with form! We isolated our lines to combine them to create shapes!

 

Ms. Dayna’s Gingerbread house! We also learned various techniques for creating designs on our houses.

                                    

Drawing our own designs!!

Clean up is also a part of art! Rinsing our dishes and brushes!

A Peek At Our Week/Ms. Courtney’s Classroom/ Week of December 9th

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Practice for the Christmas Show:

The students practiced extra hard this week for the Christmas show! We were all excited to perform for our parents and friends. I hope you enjoy the show!

A Peek Into Next Week:

Holiday/winter crafts

Kindergarten: Measuring in inches and centimeters:

This past week the kindergartners learned how to measure with a ruler in inches and centimeters. They even used measurments to create a monster!

A Peek Into Next Week:

Currency

Reminders-

Pajama Day!/DECEMBER 20th

Christmas Break | NO SCHOOL | December 23, 2019 – January 3, 2020

Enrichment Highlight

In music class, we learned about triangles and practiced our Christmas songs.

Work Time:

This student is working on the Number Rods. She is learning to match quantity to symbol and is refining her sense of order, coordination, concentration, and independence.

 

This student is practicing zipping. Zipping is an important care of self activity especially in the winter with getting ready to go outside in the cold.
This child is learning how to put the Trinomial Cube together while also getting an introduction into algebra and preparation for the formula a3+3a2b+3a2c+6abc+b3+3ab2+3b2c+3ac2+3bc2+c3.

Take A Peek Into Our Week/Ms.Kate/December 13,2019

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Today’s the big day!!! Your kiddos have been working so hard on the Christmas show!!! We are all so excited! ! This week our theme was Christmas around the world!! We learned all of the different traditions and how people celebrate in England, Russia, Germany, China, and in South America. It was so cool learning all about the different ways they celebrate Christmas in other countries!! Ms. Amanda had such great crafts that went along with the different countries. It was so much fun !!

This work helps the child memorize the essential combinations in addition. The various charts give the possibility of repetition, which helps to fix these in the memory of the child. 
When working on different word lists it helps the child associate words with the same anomalies with each other, thereby making reading phonograms easier.  
The sandpaper letters teach the child the sounds of the alphabet. When working on this the child is encouraged to trace the symbol over and over again until the shape of the letter becomes a part of the childs muscle memory. 

REMINDERS:

Tonight is the Christmas show!! Please get to the high school at 530 sharp!!!

Next week is christmas fun week!!

Monday- christmas socks day

Tuesday – dress as your favorite Christmas character

Wednesday – wear red and green

Thursday – christmas sweater or shirt day

Friday – pj and show and tell day!!

A Peek at Our Week | Elementary | Week of December 9

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This week our “Peek” was written by our students! These students read our previous blogs, took pictures around the room, and filled in a blog template. The students did some editing together, and with a teacher, so what you will read below is their final product. There are still some misspelled words in their final product, but in a Montessori classroom we focus on the process, instead of the end result. Dr. Montessori believed when we put all of the emphasis on the final product, we devalue everything leading up to that point. This can discourage repetition which will make mastery of a skill difficult. The purpose of the students writing the blog is to provide you with a glimpse into the room through their eyes, to provide them with practice of real world skills, and to give them a deeper understanding of the materials in the room. We hope you enjoy their work!

“A Peek at Our Week” by Darin (Third Year) and Reese (Second Year)

Lower Elementary by Reese

The first grade had research. Second grade were wrking on Racks and Tubes. They were wrking on drawing.

A second grader wrking on Racks and Tubes because he had follow up wrk.
He had research for follow up wrk.

Upper Elementary by Darin

The fourth graders learned about how many electrons a compound needs to be stable. Fifth graders did multiplying fractions. Sixth grade took the volume of a cone using some parts of the formula for the cylinder.

We took the cards from the Bohr Diagram and we made the Periodic Table with them.
She is completing her follow-up work.

REMINDERS:

  • Friday, December 20 – Pajama Day – students may wear their pajamas to school and bring a pillow and blanket. Students may also bring a board game. We will still have conferences this day. Students will still need tennis shoes and water for gym.
  • Monday, December 23 – Friday, January 3 – Winter Break – School Resumes January 6.

Peek In Our Week ^^^ Mr. John’s Classroom ^^^ Week Of December 9, 2019

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Line Time:
We spent the majority of line time practicing for the Christmas Show.  It was a rockin time!  But I could not find the eggnog, or cookies for Santa.  Oh wait…. Score !!!!!!!!

 

Speaking Of Eggnog (which I love by the way):
While culinary historians debate its exact lineage, most agree eggnog originated from the early medieval British drink called posset, which was made with hot milk that was curdled with wine or ale and flavored with spices. In the Middle Ages, posset was used as a cold and flu remedy.  Now I want to try posset even if it looks like it is a gelatnis solid.

 

  

 

 

 

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

 

Peek In The Classroom:

She has almost completed the fish puzzle which she will learn the different parts of the fish. Also, the little white knobs on the pieces, tracing the puzzle parts, and coloring the traced pieces will help her fine motor skills.

 

We are following this student through her trek in a Sensitive Period. This is when she has an insatiable attraction to a particular area/subject or particular work in the classroom. She desires to work with Geometric Shapes. Here she has mastered the small hexagon box.

 

Stretttttcccchhh. This girl is working on the Pink Tower and Brown Stair. She is actually doing an extension of the work. She wanted to know if the Brown Stair is placed on end if it will be the same height as the Pink Tower. Obviously, the Brown Stair is taller than the Pink Tower. Her question is answered.

 

The cube is made up of a number of colored blocks, which fit together in a specific way. Assembling it uses a child’s fine-motor skills and requires the ability to discriminate between the blocks based on multiple characteristics. Unlike Montessori’s iconic pink tower, for example, the trinomial cube does not isolate only one quality. Some blocks have one color, others have two. Some blocks are cubes, while others are rectangular prisms. While the pink tower blocks vary only in size, the trinomial cube’s blocks vary in color, size, and shape! This makes the trinomial cube a more complex sensorial material, and it requires organized thinking to master.

 

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Family.

Letter Of The Week- No Letter due to I am being nice.

Rhyming Word Of The Week- No word due to I am being nice.

Next Language is none selected due to I am giving everyone a break.

 

Upcoming Events:
Winter Break: Off from Saturday, December 21, 2019 returning Monday, January 6, 2019

Pizza Party, Show and Tell, PJ Day: Friday, December 20, 2019 (We supply the Lunch. You supply the child)

Christmas Show:
Practice: Wednesday, December 11 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Cuyahoga Falls High School Auditorium, 2300 4th St.
Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221 United States

Show: Friday, December 13 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Cuyahoga Falls High School Auditorium, 2300 4th St.
Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221 United States

ALL STUDENTS ARRIVE AT 5:30pm  (Doors will open at 5:30pm)
Take them to the restroom before dropping off.  Even if they say they don’t have to.

***************** Day Of Show *****************
*************** NO AFTERCARE ***************

Attire:  Students are asked to wear brown and white since we are representing reindeer.  The brown can range from a light tan to a deep brown and any combination of what is worn on top or bottom. We will supply the reindeer antlers.  If you have any questions please ask.

 

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

It is all about fashion, hair fashion.

 

LOL, just making a scary face.

 

Just two girls stretching their…….. hair?

 

Ya shoulda seen the other guy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academic Enrichment ^^^ Cuyahoga Falls Campus ^^^ Week Of 12/9/2019

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Weekly Theme:
Using a ruler-  We learned how to use a ruler and we measured using the English measurement of inches and Metric measurement of centimeters and touched upon the millimeter. We measured our shoes, TV remotes, and pencils. 

 

 

Handwriting:
We practiced writing in cursive writing sentences.

 

Cultural Subjects:
We now can count to ten in 18 languages (English, Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish).

 

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Currency, Coins and bills

Synonym Of The Week: None due to I am being a nice guy.

Sight Words Of The Week: None due to I am being a nice guy.

Language Of The Week: None due to I am being a nice guy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enrichment fun week of 12/02/19

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Getting ready for Science fun with Mr. John!  Listening and thinking about what our hypothesis will be.  Creating our Ketchup Submarine!

 

Our infamous Ketchup Submarine,  more experimentation with buoyancy!  The air pocket (bubble) in the Ketchup packet allows the packet to float!

 

Squeeze the bottle and applying pressure on the packet causes the bubble to get smaller.  As the bubble gets smallet the Ketchup packet gets more dense than the water around it.  This then causes the Ketchup packet to sink!  Release the pressure and  the packet will float! Science!!!!!

A Peek at Our Week | Ms. Courtney’s Classroom | Week of December 2nd

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Classroom: Christmas Show Practice

For the next couple of weeks the students will be working hard to practice for their Christmas Show. They are all excited to dress up as Whos from Whoville for a Grinch themed performance. If you have any questions or did not receive Ms. Faith’s email or remind message with different ideas for costumes please let her know. The students will also be reading a variety of holiday books and doing lots of holiday crafts.   

A peek into next week: Holiday Crafts

Kindergarten: Addition and Multiplication

The past week the kindergarten students used the stamp game, dot board, multiplication bead board and the small bead frame to practice addition and multiplication (repeat addition).

A peek into next week: Measuring with a Ruler in cm and in – whole measurements

Reminders:

Rehearsal | All School Christmas Show | Cuyahoga Falls High School Auditorium | December 11 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

All School Christmas Show | Cuyahoga Falls High School Auditorium | December 13 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm | NO AFTERCARE

Pajama Day | December 20

Christmas Break | NO SCHOOL | December 23, 2019 – January 3, 2020

Enrichment Highlight:

For science this week we learned that oxidation is when one molecule gives another electrons. We oxidized luminal using hydrogen peroxide. When the hydrogen peroxide oxidized the luminal it began to glow.Work Time:

Movable Alphabet: This child is practicing blending and forming words using the different letter sounds she has mastered “jet” “zip” “flag” and “ax”
Addition: These children are using the golden beads to discover that when you put two small numbers together (addends) you get a larger number (sum) and that this process is called addition.
Bead Board: This child is using the bead board to do static addition. It is a more abstract way to work with the decimal system. He is also familiarizing himself with the different categories: units, tens, hundreds and thousands by looking at it in a different way.
Multiplication Bead Board: This child is practicing multiplication in a way that will lead her to the memorization of the essential multiplication tables.