Lessons: Pronouns- We learned that a pronouns take the place of a noun and sometimes makes our lives easier. The pronouns we we went over were he, she, it, they, we, you.
Cultural Subjects: We can now count to ten in 28 different languages (English, Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish).
Next Week:
Line Time: Adjectives (describes a noun)
Sight Words of the Week: None planned due to International Festival practice
Synonym of the Week: None planned due to International Festival practice
Line Time: This week we started our International Festival blitz by looking at landmarks close to home and learning a little bit about our home state. Ohio has a lot of official “things”. For instance: The official…
Tree- Buckeye
Nickname- Buckeye State
Flower- Scarlet Carnation
Insect- Lady Bug
Drink- Tomato Juice
Rock and Roll Song- Hang On Sloopy
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 25 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, and Malay).
April Birthdays: The Montessori classroom is made up of 2 1/2 to 6 year olds. Here are the newest 4 and 5 year old students.
Peek In Our Classroom:
These two boys are working with one of the science bins. This bin is the bone bin that includes a cow femure and a small nocturnal skull (not sure of the animal).
This student is putting away her work/material. Notice her concentration and how particular she is placing the materials exactly how she found them.
This student is working on the 9 tray that is a math work. She is identifying the symbols/numbers,
These two girls are working on the United States Puzzle Map. The purpose is to identify the shape and location of the states. Also, the small white knobs help with fine motor skills.
Next Week: Line Time- International Festival Preparation
Letter Of The Week- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Rhyming Word Of The Week- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Next Language will be- None scheduled due to International Festival Practice
Snack will be brought to you by Lily B.
Upcoming Events:
International Festival Practice Wednesday, May 1st
International Festival Friday, May 3rd
(((((((((( Easter Monday NO SCHOOL Monday 4/22/2019 ))))))))))
Fun, Frolic, and Friends:
I love these shirts . She decided to do half yellow and half silver.
Same color outfits and forced to take a picture.
The two boys with glasses. I tell them to smile and see what I get?
I absolutely love when students celebrate science day!
I absolutely love when students celebrate donut day!
She begged me to take her picture. How could I refuse?
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
We are down to only eight more weeks of school! I cannot believe it! Our first years are beginning to build their own Simple Machines with a partner. Our second years are completing their study of polygons with five or more sides and are beginning to look at triangles. Our third years getting ready to move on to the Pythagorean Theorem. Our fourth year students are wrapping up their study of early humans. Our fifth years are continuing to study Ancient Civilizations. Take a peek at the wonderful work we have been doing these last two weeks.
The fourth year students are finishing up their study of early humans. After taking notes, drawing sketches, and creating their own timeline of groups of early humans, they were presented the early human family tree. We separated all of the early humans into the groups of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo. They loved comparing the skull shapes!Our first year students were recently introduced to Simple Machines. They learned about an inclined plane, a screw, a pulley, a wheel and axle, a wedge, and a lever. They chose partners to research and build their machine together!Our second year students are studying the polygon family. They have discussed names of polygons and regular and irregular polygons. These students are discovering why the triangle is called “The Constructor!”These students built half of a cube with our cubing material and took two days to write and solve the equation. They were introduced to a lesson about finding the square root of a number, but CHOSE to do this as follow-up work instead! Check under the next photo to see what they came up with!
2[12(9^2) + 13(8^2) + 12(7^2) + 13(6^2) + 8(5^2) + 9(4^2) + 8(3^2) + 24(2^2) + 82(1^2) + 12(1^2 x 10) + 20(1^2 x 9) + 20(1^2 x 8) + 12(1^2 x 7) + 20(1^2 x 6) +20(1^2 x 5) + 20(1^2 x 4) + 20(1^2 x 3) + 20(1^2 x 2)]Wax Museum
Our students worked so hard over the course of two months to prepare for the Wax Museum. Please refer to the previous blog (below this post) to read all of the details! Here are some photos of their great work! Thank you to all parents and family members that came to show your support and that donated to our Bake Sale for the Upper Elementary Trip this August!
Lessons: This week we learned about articles. An article modifies a noun and the three articles are “a, an, the”. “A” hangs out with words that begin with consonants. “An” is a bit more picky. She hangs out with words that begin with vowels. “The” does not care who he hangs out with. He hangs with letters that begin with vowels and consonants.
Cultural Subjects: We can now count to ten in 28 different languages (English, Sign Language, Latin, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish).
Next Week:
Line Time: Pronouns (he, she, it, we, they, you)
Sight Words of the Week: None planned due to International Festival practice
Synonym of the Week: None planned due to International Festival practice
Since last week was an abbreviated week and I caught a nasty stomach bug and was on the edge of death this blog will be a little sparse. Next week I will resume with a normal blog.
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 toad/frog. 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 butterfly spins its 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?”
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 26 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi).
Peek In Our Classroom: Nothing to see here folks. Come back next week.
Next Week: Line Time- Landmarks of Ohio and The USA
Letter Of The Week- None planned due to International Festival practice
Rhyming Word Of The Week- None planned due to International Festival practice
Next Language will be- None planned due to International Festival practice
Snack will be brought to you by Logan Gall
Upcoming Events:
######## International Festival Country Sign Up is on the classroom door ########
——– Spring Pictures Wednesday 4/3/2019 ———-
******** Dads and Donuts Friday 4/5/2019 7:00am to 7:45am *******
((((((( Spring Break week of 3/21/2019 [Thursday] to 3/29/2019. ))))))
(((( Returning [Monday] 4/1/2019 ))))
(((((((((( Easter Monday NO SCHOOL Monday 4/22/2019 ))))))))))
Fun, Frolic, and Friends: Under construction. We will be back soon.
The kindergarteners listened to the Tin Forest over the past two weeks. The story was about an older man who lived outside a dump. He was very lonely and dreamed that he lived in another place. One day he got the idea to create his own forest. He built a forest made of tin. Suddenly, animals started to appear and real flowers and plants started blooming, and the man never felt lonely again.
The kindergarteners participated in activities to enhance their comprehension skills. They wrote about what they were wondering while they hard the story for the first time, drew a couple scenes from the story, and wrote about if they were the bird in the story, would they return with their friend. For homework, the group took home a piece of foil and got to create something just like the man from the story. The foil creations are are hanging up in the hallway! Make sure to check them out!
A Peek Into the Next Two Weeks
– Reading Group will reconvene after spring break.
Insects- The students learned that most insects do more good than bad. That bees, wasps, flies, beetles, mosquitoes and butterflies are great pollinators. Some insects eat other insects, keeping each insect group from getting too big. We also talked about how insects like ladybugs are a farmers best-friend, because they eat tiny crop eating insects called aphids. They also learned that all insects have three main body parts: the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. The head has large compound eyes, the antenna (feelers), and the mouth parts. That the thorax is the middle region of the body and has the legs and wings. Then, their is the abdomen.
Plants and Flowers: The students learned how plants grow in many places: parks, forests, yards, fields, deserts, lakes etc. They discovered how all plants need sunlight, water, air and food to grow. The students also learned the different parts of plants and their purposes. For example, the stem helps move food and nutrients through the plant or flower in order for it to grow.
Work Time:
Puzzle Words: This child is completing the words by moving and rotating different letters to fit in the correct order.Object to Picture: This child is developing pre-reading skills by matching the objects to the corresponding pictures.Nine Layout: These children are becoming familiar with the names and relative sizes of the categories: units, tens, hundreds and thousands. They are also discovering that if they have 6 units and adds 1 more unit they will have 7 units.Composing Quantities: This child is practicing the sequence of numbers in the decimal system units, tens, hundreds, and thousands and recognizing what different quantities look like.Triangle Box: This child is developing an understanding that an equilateral triangle can be subdivided into other types of triangles.
Guest Reader:
Reminders:
March 18 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm | Wax Museum | Tallmadge Campus
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, and Andy Warhol.
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 25 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, and Malay).
Art Museum Field Trip:
St. Patty’s Day:
The annual visit from Shawn O’Keefe the cheeky leprechaun that messes up the room but leaves candy for the children (and teachers).
Peek In Our Classroom:
The ever so popular and visually appealing and engaging Pink Tower. The Pink Tower is a the corner stone material from the Sensorial Area of the Montessori classroom. The Pink Tower, iconic to the Montessori classroom, embodies the direct and indirect purpose of most Montessori materials. Stacking the cubes calls for visual discrimination, coordination, and precision. Indirectly, a child is preparing himself or herself for understanding cubed roots in later math. Here the students are working on an extension of finding the relationship between the pink tower and brown stairs.
This student is working on the Ten Board and is in the second phase of this work. Phase 1 is to place the appropriate number of ten bead bars next to the number. The correlation between quantity and symbol. Phase 2 is to compose numbers by adding units. Do you see the pattern she has discovered and do you see the look of concentration on her face.
This student is working with the Knobless Cylinders found in the sensorial area. The purposes of this work is grading by size, to train the eye to perceive fine differences in dimensions, to recognize difference and similarities (when using more than one set), and co-ordination of movement. Do you see how she is finding the relationship of the three colors?
The Metal Insets are a delightful way for the child to prepare for writing. Holding a colored pencil to carefully trace shapes helps a child develop the fine motor control needed to write small letters. Creating patterns and designs is a secondary goal, but also increases a child’s ability to manipulate a pencil.
Next Week: Line Time- Life Cycles
Letter Of The Week- Y y
Rhyming Word Of The Week- bac
Next Language will be- Hindi
Snack will be brought to you by Stella S.
Upcoming Events:
######## International Festival Country Sign Up is on the classroom door ########
——– Spring Pictures Wednesday 4/3/2019 ———-
******** Dads and Donuts Friday 4/5/2019 7:00am to 7:45am *******
((((((( Spring Break week of 3/21/2019 [Thursday] to 3/29/2019. ))))))
(((( Returning [Monday] 4/1/2019 ))))
(((((((((( Easter Monday NO SCHOOL Monday 4/22/2019 ))))))))))
Fun, Frolic, and Friends:
I have not had a haircut in awhile in hopes to catch up to these two boys.
Welcome to Science in the month of February! Mr. John worked with us on some very exciting new science experiments.
At the beginning of each science experiment, Mr. John has us come up with our own hypothesis. A hypothesis is an educated guess. Mr. John always tells us that it never matters if our hypothesis is right or wrong, because scientists sometimes are wrong too. We can be just like scientists and learn what works and what doesn’t work.
Don’t forget to check your student’s science paper in their folder every Thursday to see what their hypothesis was for that week’s experiment!
Density
“the mass in a specified volume”
Question of the week: What will happen when we mix oil, water, and alka seltzer?
Materials needed:
Water
Oil
Alka seltzer
Funnel
Bottle
Food coloring
Our data: When Mr. John mixed the oil, water, alka seltzer, and food coloring together, the food coloring floated as if it were a lava lamp.
But why did the food coloring float?………SCIENCE!
The oil stays above the water because the oil is lighter than the water or, more specifically, less dense than water. The oil and water do not mix because of something called “intermolecular polarity.” Molecular polarity basically means that water molecules are attracted to other water molecules. They get along fine, and can loosely bond together (drops). This is similar to magnets that are attracted to each other. Oil molecules are attracted to other oil molecules, they get along fine as well. But the structures of the two molecules do not allow them to bond together. When Mr. John added the tablet of alka seltzer, it sank to the bottom and started dissolving and creating a gas. As the gas bubbles rose, they took some of the colored water with them. When the blob of water reached the top, the gas escaped and down went the water. Cool, huh? By the way, you can store your “Blobs In A Bottle” with the cap on, and then anytime you want to bring it back to life, just add another tablet.
Chemical Reaction
This week Ms. Ashlie filled in for Mr. John, and showed us a fun volcano science experiment!
Question of the week: What will happen when we add baking soda to white vinegar?
Materials needed:
White vinegar
Baking soda
Measuring utensils
Container
Red sparkles/glitter
Our data: When Ms. Ashlie added the baking soda to the vinegar, it began to bubble over the side of the container just like a volcano!
But why did the vinegar begin to bubble?…….SCIENCE!
Just like in a volcano, the lava starts to build and build until it begins to overflow! We call this a chemical reaction.
Thank you, Ms. Ashlie, for such a fun science experiment this week!
Dancing Raisins
“Carbonation”
Question of the week: What are the bubbles in the soda? What will happen when we put raisins in a fresh glass of ginger ale?
Materials needed:
Ginger ale
Raisins
A glass
Our data: When Mr. John dropped several raisins into a glass of ginger ale, the raisins sunk to the bottom. The after a few moments the raisins were covered with bubbles and raised to the top, then fell to the bottom. This repeated for a several minutes.
But why did the raisins bubble up to the top and then fall back down to the bottom?….SCIENCE!
The raisins are heavier than the ginger ale. Then the carbonated bubbles attach themselves to the raisins. When enough bubbles attach themselves to the raisins the raisins become “lighter” than the ginger ale. The carbonated bubbles lift the raisins to the top. When the bubbles reach the surface the bubbles break dropping the raisins to the bottom again.
“Gluep”
Polymers
Question of the week: What will happen if we mix Borax, Elmer’s glue, and water?
Materials needed:
Borax
Elmer’s glue
Water
A bag
Container
Food coloring
Our data: When Mr. John mixed the ingredients together, it became silly putty.
But why did the ingredients turn into silly putty?……..SCIENCE!
Borax is the compound that is responsible for hooking the glue’s molecules together to form the putty-like material. There are several different methods for making this putty-like material. Some recipes call for liquid starch instead of Borax soap. Either way, when you make this homemade silly putty you are learning about some of the properties of polymers.
We had so much fun in science this month! Thank you, Mr. John!
Students have been using their understandings of the elements of shape to start making shapes!
We have explored this through drawing, cutting, and painting.
You may notice in the hallways some paintings the students have made. They worked on these for two weeks! They were asked to choose between cool colors and warm colors the first week and then were able to choose the opposite the following. Some students were able to use the colors vibrantly and apply them side by side while others became absorbed in the process of spreading the paint all over their paper. Both experiences are wonderful for students to be allowed to enjoy. I hope you enjoy the out come as much as I did.
