Peek In Our Week ”’ Thee Buckeye Room ”’ Week Of May 8, 2023

Posted on May 14, 2023 at 12:02 pm.

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

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.

Did You Know? (More They Might Be Giants):
They Might Be Giants has a really cool children’s CD about science and a parent gave it to me decades ago. Also, a few of their songs were featured in Tiny Toons. I saw these guys circa 1990 during the Flood Tour. They were a fun alternative band! Remember Malcolm In the Middle? The theme song “You’re Not The Boss of Me” ? YEP… You got it. LOL

A Message From Mr. John (It aint mine):

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)

Yoga Class:

Enrichments (Music):

***The impeccable Ms. Lisa the music teacher.***

Peek In The Classroom:

***Following this student’s*** ***progress in Math he is now composing numbers from 11 to 99. Do you see the pattern he discovered?***

***She is taking a break and enjoys hearing the other student read.***

The Montessori 9 Tray is an early place value work. Your child explores and builds a physical place value chart on the floor with Golden Beads and large number cards, units through thousands. This layout will help your child to visualize and develop an understanding of place value, order of numbers, and concentration.

The Sandpaper Letters **allow the child to understand writing before they can hold a pencil**. The Child uses three of the five senses; tactile, auditory, and sight to learn the sound and formation of each letter.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- The Earth
Letter Of The Week- O o
Rhyming Word Of The Week- bod

Academic Enrichment:
Next Week’s Lesson:
Weekly Theme: Interjections
Synonym Of The Week: SNEAKY: underhanded, dishonest, tricky, secretive, sly
Sight Words Of The Week: way my

**We learned prepositions are “where words” not werewolves. They are saying “where are the rest of the kinders?”**

Upcoming Events:

Last Day Of School/Field Day:
END OF YEAR BASH!
Thursday, May 25th (last day of school)

Kindergarten Graduation
Wednesday, May 24th 4:00pm
!!!!!!!!!! NO AFTERCARE AVAILABLE !!!!!!!!!!

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

Your Children Say The Darndest Things (I want to be a Recycle Man):

A Peek At Our Week – Aspen- 05/01/23 – 05/05/23 – All About Animals; Animal Babies and Animal Groups.

Posted on May 8, 2023 at 9:38 am.

Written by Kelley Laney

This week in the Aspen Room it was all about animals!! During group lesson, we engaged in research activities with various non-fiction books, learning all about baby animal names and animal groups. Did you know that some animals like to live alone (solitary) and others live in groups. Aspen further learned that animals that live in groups live together in groups for protection. By living together, they can protect each other from harsh weather conditions (penguins), defend themselves against predators (herd animals), take advantage of large numbers to stay safe, migrate together looking for food, and/or utilize living in groups to help raise their babies. We also learned that animals can live in a variety of climates and environments. As a follow-up work, we utilzed our land, water, nd air activity to explore the concept of animal habitats and the function of animal characteristics. Your Aspen child is now an animal expert! Ask them about what they learned this week!

In Kindergarten Workshop, the Kindergarteners continued their exploration with the Function Of Words Activities. Three of our Aspen, however, Kindergarteners spent a week exploring the Elementary class. During their visit, they learned Elementary routine, explored math and language concepts with Elementary activities, and made new friends! In Readers Workshop, both the Cardinals and Chickadees continued their Unit on Poetry by finishing their Onamatapeoia Poems and explored Hyperbole Poems! We learned that a Hyperbole is an exaggeration, like, ” I’m so tired I could sleep for days”! After reading some Hyperbole Poem examples, we brainstormed and created our own independent Hyperbole poem! In Writers Workshop the Cardinals and Chickadees….

Sensorial Extensions with yhe Pink Tower and Brown Stair!

Stamp Game fun with the Decimal System! Adding units, tens, hundreds, and thousands!

Vocabulary building with the Lotto activity!

More mathematical fun with the Addition Stripboard!

Our caterpillars getting ready to move into their next stage of development!

Peek In Our Week ÷÷÷ Thee Buckeye Room ÷÷÷ Week Of May 1, 2023

Posted on May 7, 2023 at 6:29 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Buckeye Room Bulletin

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 (3 strange days)
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

What’s The Diff?
Potatoes au gratin and scalloped potatoes are both potato side dishes involving minimal prep time to make a rich, creamy, starchy treat. These two dishes have many things in common, but there are also subtle differences between the two. I spared you a 6 paragraph explanation and bullet pointed the similarities and differences.

Similarities:
Both are baked.
The potatoes are sliced similarly.
Both are baked.

Differences:
Au gratin potatoes use breadcrumbs.
Scalloped potatoes don’t use cheese.
Au gratin potatoes are sliced thinner.

Goodbye Allie:

***This is Allie’s last week. She was a great addition to the classroom.***

May Birthdays: A Montessori classroom prides itself on a multiaged classroom. Here are our newest 5 and 29 year olds.

A Message From Mr. John (The buffet line):

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:

The aim of the 9 Layout lesson is to help children understand number placement (1s, 10s, 100s, 1000s) as well as reiterate the association between quantity and numeral. It’s one of the lengthier mathematics activities and is good for encouraging concentration

***Excitement ensues when a new work is presented.***

***The beauty of having the Elementary Program under the same roof as the Primary Program is that we get visitors and get to see what the older students are working on.***

This activity encourages the child to associate numbers from 11 – 99 using Seguin Board B and the beads. This activity helps the child link quantity, name, and symbol (concrete and abstract), as well as it prepares him for operations that will be done later on.

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Solar System

Letter Of The Week- I i

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bud

Academic Enrichment:
Line Time: Conjunctions (act like a bridge between two sentences)

Next Week’s Lesson:
Weekly Theme: Prepositions (Where words not Werewolves)

Synonym Of The Week: DULL: dark, dreary, somber, boring, tedious

Sight Words Of The Week: there their

***Kinders reenacting a zombie apocalypse.***

Upcoming Events:
Field Day/Last Day Of School: Friday, May 25

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

***This looks like a satellite… Sputnik 2***

***They call this making a bridge. I call it a hernia.***

Your Children Say The Darndest Things (My bro):

A Peek into the Cherry Blossom Classroom – week of 5/1/23

Posted on May 5, 2023 at 2:26 pm.

Written by Tonya Shaw

Focus Lesson: Birds

This week the Blossoms studied Birds! We learned about Bird Classification, or what makes a bird a bird! We know that birds are vertebrates, are warm blooded, are covered in feathers, lay hard shelled eggs, take care of their babies, and have two wings and two feet! We enjoyed looking through many different bird books and learning the names of the different species of birds that we can see outside of our classroom window or at home.

This child is tracing and labeling the bird puzzle. He has found a picture of a robin in the Birds of Ohio book and colored his picture appropriately!

Our class made many different species of birds this week during their trace and label activities using this amazing Birds of Ohio book! We had to hang them up because they were so beautiful!

Bird Week is the best week to wear your flamingo shirt! Twinsies!

Preschool Lesson: Eggs

Preschoolers learned some very big words with Ms. Sam this week. They learned the word Oviparous – which is an animal that lays eggs! We learned that fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and insects are all oviparous. But mammals, including humans, are Viviparous – they birth live babies! Our favorite work activity this week was sorting the animals in our science area by weather they lay eggs or don’t lay eggs.

We learned that birds, amphibians, reptiles, fish, and insects all lay eggs in order to reproduce. This means that they are oviparous!

Kindergarten Lesson:

Kindergarteners learned about conjunctions with Mr. John this week in Kindergarten Lesson. Conjunction Junction, what’s your function? I hope you sang that! Writer’s Workshop and Reader’s Workshop continued writing their poetry.

We Are Proud of Our Hard Work!

This preschooler has mastered her yellow sound pouch!

This preschooler is learning how to write letter c, what letter c sounds like, and some words that begin with letter c!

This Kindergartener read 45 phonogram sentences and matched the appropriate picture to the sentence!

This preschooler completed the 100 Board!

A Peek Into Next Week!

Focus Lesson: Flowers

Preschool Lesson: Seeds

Kindergarten Lessons: Prepositions, Writing Poetry

Important Dates:

Our Final Bring Your Parents to Work Day is May 10!

Kindergarten Graduation – May 24

Last Day of School – May 25

A Peek At Our Week – Aspen – 04/24/23 – 04/ 28/23 -The Life Cycle Of A Butterfly

Posted on May 2, 2023 at 3:41 pm.

Written by Kelley Laney

This week in the Aspen classroom it was all about the Life Cycle Of A Butterfly, pollination, and flowers! The Dayley family very generously gifted the Aspen classroom caterpillars! The Aspen children have been given the amazing opportunity to learn, observe, and experience the life cycle of butterflies up close. Currently, our butterflies are in the “larva stage,” better known as caterpillars! They are doing what caterpillars do best, which is EAT!!! Aspen learned that there are four stages in the life cycle of a butterfly. A butterfly starts out as an egg on a leaf; the egg will hatch and out comes the caterpillar. The caterpillar will eat the egg it hatched from and will then begin to eat leaves. Once the caterpillar has achieved enough nutrition and has reached maturity, it will move on to its next phase of development: the pupa stage. This is the stage where our caterpillars create a chrysalis and will eventually emerge from the chysalis as a butterfly! The Aspen children will be able to observe each of these stages of the butterfly life cycle. Currently, our butterflies are in the larva stage and are busy eating a special type of nutritional food provided in their container habitats. When they are ready to move into their next phase, they will hang upside down on the lid of the container in the shape of a J. This is an indicator that they will soon build their chysalis. We are keeping a close eye on our caterpillars and are waiting with excitement for this to happen! Once they are in their chrysalis, they will undergo a change! The Aspen students learned that this change is called a metamorphosis. Once the larva emerge from the pupa stage from within their chrysalis, they will now be in the adult stage of their life cycle as butterflies! The Aspen students plan on observing and tracking each stage with pictures and written observations! We will share our butterfly journey with you as well on our blog! A very special thank you to the Dayley family for gifting the Aspen class with such an amazing opportunity!

In Kindergarten Workshop, the Kindergarteners continued their Function Of Words lessons by learning all about adverbs! They learned that adverbs describe the verb and spent their week identifying adverbs and symbolizing sentences. In Readers Workshop and Writers Workshop, the Kindergarteners continued their thematic unit on poetry by reading poems and writing their own! We completed our acrostic poems and wrote our very own onamatapeoia poems! We ended up with some very creative, descriptive, and silly poems!

PARENTS: PLEASE HELP REMIND YOUR CHILD TO TAKE THEIR COATS/JACKETS/HOODIES HOME DAILY! WE HAVE QUITE THE COLLECTION ON THE RACK WHERE WE CHANGE OUR SHOES! IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY MISSING ANY, THEY COULD STILL BE HANGING ON OUR COAT RACK.

Working together to identify Phonograms!

The Function Of Words Activity; Symbolizing sentences identifying nouns, verbs, articles, and adjectives!

Happily showing off an accomplishment! Stacking the cubes of the Pink Tower.

Elementary students presenting their Measuring Time With Water experiment!

Some of our current classroom pets! We will keep posting pictures!!

A Peek into the Cherry Blossom Classroom – week of April 24, 2023

Posted on May 1, 2023 at 9:49 am.

Written by Tonya Shaw

Ms. Tonya’s Lesson:

Our Cherry Blossoms began some zoology units with Ms. Tonya this week. We currently have both tadpoles and caterpillars in our classroom! We started the week reviewing the life cycle of a frog from eggs to tadpoles, to tadpoles with legs, to froglets, and then to adult frog. We are using a magnifying glass to observe the tadpoles in the observation container in our classroom and are enjoying feeding them fresh lettuce each day after we have lunch! We also began our life cycle of a butterfly observation booklets. We currently have 5 painted lady caterpillars eating and growing within our classroom. We look forward to watching them complete their whole life cycle before the end of the school year! Lastly, Ms. Tonya introduced the Blossoms to some interesting landforms, animals, and cultures that can be found in the continents of Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica!

Ms. Sam’s Lesson:

Ms. Sam also focused her lessons on the seven continents this week. She reviewed the globe with the Blossoms and introduced them to some vocabulary words such as Equator and Prime Meridian. She also introduced the class to interesting landforms, animals, and cultures found in North America, South America, and Europe! Ms. Sam has been to Europe, so she brought in some objects from her travels for us to observe this week. We loved the nesting dolls, jumping toys, and the Christmas Pyramid!

Kindergarten Lesson:

Kindergarteners continued their study of grammar symbols both in the classroom and with Mr. John this week. They were introduced to adverbs this week. With Ms. Kelley, in Reader’s Workshop, Kindergarteners wrote an Acrostic poem this week with a focus on adjectives. With Ms. Tonya, in Writer’s Workshop, our young writers wrote a List poem about a noun, focusing on using pronouns throughout the middle of their poem.

“This gym is huuuuuggggeeee!”:

We were able to use the gym this week during recess. We played dodgeball and Duck, Duck, Goose with our Aspen friends!

A Peek Into Worktime:

Buddy Works are our favorite works!

These two students are working with Brown Stairs and Pink Tower to build extensions. They use a picture card to figure out the pattern and then recreate the patter with the blocks.

These two children are working together with one of our sound pouches. They work together to practice their letter sounds and then match the object with the correct beginning sound.

A Peek Into Next Week!

Focus Lesson: Birds

Preschool Lesson: Eggs

Kindergarten Lesson: Grammar Symbols and Poetry

Peek In Our Week _-_ Thee Buckeye Room -_- Week Of April 24, 2023

Posted on April 30, 2023 at 7:07 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

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.

Bear, lion, tiger- Cub
Cat- Kitten
Dog, seal, walrus- Pup
Cow, elephant, whale- Calf
Goat- Kid
Pig- Piglet
Kangaroo, koala- Joey

Did you know?
A Jiffy is an actual measurement of time. Computer scientists say it’s about 1/100th of a second; electrical engineers clock it at around 1/60th of a second, but physicists view it as the time light takes to travel the radius of an electron. Next, I will research if the terms “tad” and “smidgeon” are actual words for measurements of length. I use those two words often when I get a haircut.

Words from Mr. John (I like what I am seeing):

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, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, Malay, Hindi, Farsi, Turkish).

Enrichments (Art):

**Art teacher** ***extraordiniare! Mrs. Varella***

Peek In The Classroom:

***She is building 10s with color beads bars.***

***Doing Subtraction with borrowing. Notice how she is pointing to the ten 10s she borrowed from the 100 column?***

***Look who is reading chapter books.***

Peek Into Next Week:
Line Time- Animal Groups

Letter Of The Week- B b

Rhyming Word Of The Week- bud

Academic Enrichment:
Weekly Theme: Adverbs, they describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.

Next Week:
Weekly Theme: Conjunctions (they like as a bridge)(and but or)

Synonym Of The Week: BRIGHT: shiny, glowing, dazzling, lighted, vivid

Sight Words Of The Week: which what

Friends, Frolic, and Fun:

***You should have seen the other guy.***

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things: (Belt Colors)

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A Peek into the Cherry Blossom Classroom – week of April 17, 2023

Posted on April 25, 2023 at 8:07 pm.

Written by Tonya Shaw

Welcome Back Blossoms!

We are so excited to be back together at school! Also, I apologize for the delay in getting the blog out to you – I was experiencing some technical difficulties. Everything should be good to go now!

Ms. Tonya’s Lesson: Spring

Ms. Tonya led a discussion about the season of Spring this week. We reviewed the 4 seasons and then discussed the characteristics of spring. Spring brings lots of rain, but it also brings flowers! Lots of animal babies are born in the spring. Spring is a good time to begin your vegetable garden, and farmers are planting seeds as well. We took a close up look to some of the best spring flowers – tulips and daffodils! We also explored some cherry blossoms!

This preschooler is sorting pictures by season.

We used 4 of our 5 senses to learn more about daffodils and tulips!

The best time of the year – when the Cherry Blossom class gets to learn about the cherry blossom tree!

Ms. Sam’s Lesson: Earth Day

Ms. Sam introduced our Blossoms to Earth Day this week. We learned about different ways we can take care of our planet. We talked about ways to Reduce our impact. We explored items that can be Recycled and sorted them by the materials they are made out of. We practiced Reusing by making bird feeders out of toilet paper tubes. We hung the bird feeders outside so that we can meet the birds that live outside of our classroom window!

We sorted recyclables by metal, glass, plastic, and cardboard/paper.

We reused toilet paper tubes to make bird feeders.

Our bird feeders hanging in the tree waiting for birds… and also our new horse friend in the background. What a view!

Our Kindergarten Lesson: Grammar Symbols & Poetry

Kindergarteners dove into Grammar Symbols this week, both in Kindergarten Lesson and the classroom. They practiced finding nouns, verbs, articles, pronouns, and adverbs within sentences. Reader’s and Writer’s Workshop continued their study of Poetry. Kindergarteners wrote acrostic poems and color poems this week!

The Kindergarteners are working on their rough draft of their color poem. We worked on getting our ideas onto paper first, and then building our poem from there.

Enrichment Spotlight: Music, Art, & Science!

Music with Ms. Lisa, Art with Ms. Varela, and Science with Mr. John all resumed this week in their new spaces!

Music class with Ms. Lisa includes Gerry the Giraffe! We practice singing hello to Gerry with our piano and forte voices!

We made collage bird houses in Art with Ms. Varela!

Mr. John’s science experiment was a chemical reaction with baking soda and vinegar!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

A HUGE Happy Birthday to all of our April birthdays!!!!

We LOVE Our New Space!

Your children have had an amazing first week back to school! We love our new classroom and the extra space that it gives us. We absolutely love the view of the wildlife we see outside – horses, birds, and squirrels right outside of our classroom window this week! The field that we visit during our recess time is so big and giggles were had by all as they ran back and forth!

Our first line time in our beautiful new classroom space!

We can just run and run and run and run and run!

A Peek At Our Week – Aspen- 04/17/23 – 04/21/23 – WELCOME BACK!!!

Posted on April 24, 2023 at 9:17 am.

Written by Kelley Laney

Welcome back Aspen families! We are so happy to be back in the classroom following our daily routine while learning! We are so appreciative of all our parents for being so understanding and patient throughout this unique journey! Aspen is happily settling into their new classroom and appear to be adjusting to their new school environment! It was so nice to finally return to the classroom, play with friends we missed, and continue our learning! We really missed working with the activities and playing with our friends.

This week, group lessons have centered around acclimating to our new environment, reviewing classroom expectations, and picking up where we left off before our unexpected and extended break from classroom fun! This week we also began our more in-depth research on Asia and Australia, learning the names and locations of countries, exploring culture and ways of life on these continents, and discussing Asian and Australian Biomes while learning about animals living in these biomes. It was a very busy but happy week in Aspen!

In Kindergarten Workshop, the kindergarteners learned all about the Parts Of Speech and engaged in a few review lessons. In Readers Workshop, the Cardinals and Chickadees reviewed their thematic unit on poetry and wrote an All About Me Poem. Both groups then created their very own self portrait. While writing our poems we explored phonics, phonograms, and rhyming. We also discovered repetition of sounds when writing our sentences. In Writers Workshop the Cardinals and Chickadees explored the world of color and created and wrote our own a Color Poems

Exploring quantity with the Spindle Boxes!

Pouring Water! Learning how to control movements, focus, and complete tasks independently. Check out that smile!!!

Fun with Phonics!! Creating words with the Moveable Alphabet!

Practicing tricky letters in cursive with the dry erase board.

Lots of group activities during the work period this week. We really missed our friends!

See you next week!

Peek In Our Week ^^^ Thee Buckeye Room ^^^ Week Of April 17, 2023

Posted on April 23, 2023 at 6:10 pm.

Written by John Kotradi

IT IS GOOD TO BE BACK !!!

Thee Buckeye Room Bulletin

Line Time:
We talked about how our plans may be interrupted, changed, or cancelled. Basically, sometimes things do not go the way we planned them and when that happens we have to adjust and make the best of the situation. We went over new things at the new school and learned where the classrooms and more importantly the restrooms are located. Ahhhh, those life lessons at such a young age.

Did You Know?:
Are you a fan of The Office? Do you bop your head when the theme songs comes on? Well, originally the theme song was to be “Better Things” by The Kinks. This is one of my all time fave songs because it is so full of hope and good wishes. FYI… I saw The Kinks on this tour circa 1984. Bonus- name two artists that either did a cover or sang this song with The Kinks.

A Message From Mr. John (AMMS Strong):

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, Farsi, Turkish).

Bring Your Parent To School: