Durring the past two weeks in handwriting we have continued our study of lower case letters. We have been working on the letters u, w, q, l, b, k, m, h,n, and f. Our Kindergarten student’s handwriting has really progressed and I’m so proud of all of their hard work durring the past few weeks!
Peek Into Our Week | Mr. John’s Classroom | Week Of 1/22/2018
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can count to ten in 18 different languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with the Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, and Irish).
Happy Birthday:
A Montessori Classroom has a mixed age groups of children ages 2.5 to 6 years old. Here is our newest 4 year old student, our newest 6 year old student, and our newest 3 1/2 year old student.
Saying Good Bye:
It is always sad to say good year to a friend. It was this boy’s last day at Absorbent Minds Montessori School complete with a pizza party!
Line Time:
This week we looked at the skeletal system and if we didn’t have a skeleton we would be one messy blob on the ground (insert a flagellant sound). We learned the skull protects our brain, the rib cage protects our lungs, and the spine keeps us sitting and standing straight. We learned technical terms for our arms, leg and our digits which is a funny name called phalanges. We brought our life sized foam puzzle into our room. His name is Elvis because we learned about the pelvis and it was a cool rhyming name.
Peek In My Room:
This student is working on the United States Puzzle Map. This material’s purpose is to identify the location and shape of the individual shapes of the states. The control chart will help in the naming of the states. This student has traced the states and is labeling the name on the traced states.
This Kindergarten Students is drawing and labeling our skeleton work “Elvis the Pelvis”. Doing this in her Kindergarten Binder reinforces this lesson of identifying parts of the Skeletal System.
In the Montessori Classroom some of my older students go through a right of passage by losing teeth and they are very proud of this life event. How much does a tooth go for now a days?
This child has completed doing the Nine Tray. The reason for this picture is how he is putting away the material. The child in a Montessori Classroom is taught to choose a work, work with the material correctly, complete the lesson, and put away the material where he found it.
Upcoming Events:
Line Time For Week Of 1/29/2018: Internal Organs
Letter Of The Week: R r
Rhyming Word Of The Week: but
Language: Kiswahili will be added
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A Peek at Our Week | Elementary | Week of January 22
Finally, our first full week of 2018! The first year students have enjoyed reviewing measuring, practicing their facts with the Multiplication Snake Game, learning the use of a direct object, and mapping a farm! Second year students have worked to read decimal numbers into the millionths, have read the origins of the names of the months, and have been introduced to pictographs. Third year students were so excited to learn how to do long division with the Racks and Tubes AND on paper! Fourth year students discovered how cells react to solutions, found the differences in cerebral cortex size among primates, and wrote paragraphs using hyphens. Together, we are all researching Europe, including a 14-Point Study of countries chosen by each group. Look for this research to be displayed mid-February!
A Peek into Next Week
Next week, Lower Elementary students will practice using currency to build quantities, will continue measurement lessons, will add and subtract time in word problems, and will create family timelines! Fourth year students will create a geometric decanomial, classify early humans, discuss forces of nature in the universe, and continue working on research skills.
REMINDERS:
- In your email, you have received a “Going Out Experience” permission slip. This is an optional field trip for Elementary students. If your child would like to attend, please turn this in by Monday, February 5th.
- Mother-Son/Father-Daughter Dance invitations and tickets were sent home this Monday in your child’s Spelling folder. If you are planning to attend, please remember to turn the ticket into the office dropbox!
- TKD Session begins Monday, January 29!
Take A Peek Into Our Week/ Ms. Kate/January 25,2018
This week our class learned about the Artic and the animals you would find living there. We had fun learning about how tall and wide a polar bear is, what types of food they eat, how many cubs they can have, and the reasons why they are endangered. We also had fun learning about the penguin through a What they have, what they are, and what they do graph. Throughout the rest of the week we learned and watched amazing videos on the artic!! It was such a fun week!!!
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Take A Peek Into Next Week:
Next week we will be learning about living and nonliving. The children will be learning these differences through a variety of books and activities!!
A Peek at Our Week | Ms. Courtney’s Classroom | Week of January 22nd
Ocean Animals
The students learned that oceans are the largest habitat for an animal to live in. They discovered that ocean animals can be found on the coast to all depths from the surface to the deepest darkest trenches of the ocean. We also talked about how only five percent of the world’s animals live in the ocean. We looked at the similarities and differences between dolphins, sharks, whales, seahorses, fish, squids etc.
Work Time
Movable Alphabet: This child is saying the word of the object and matching the symbol with the correct initial sound to the object. She is also practicing writing each cursive letter that she has matched to an object.
Guest Reader
A Peak into next week: Zoo Animals
Reminders:
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Peek Into Our Week | Academic Enrichment (Cuyahoga Falls) | Weeks 1/15/2018 thru 1/29/2018
Week Of 1/15/2018: Addition with the 9 Tray and Stamp Game (with manipulatives)
Week Of 1/22/2018: Learning how to exchange/carry over (with manipulatives)
Week Of 1/29/2018: Learning how to multiply with the 9 Tray and Stamp Game (with manipulatives)
Purpose For The 9 Tray:
The Nine Tray is an important lesson in the sequence of the golden bead work. This presentation allows the child to concretely see the growth of numbers and the progression through the hierarchy from one level to the next. Children are ready for this work when they can identify numbers 1-9 and after they have been introduced to the golden beads and the language of place value: units, tens, hundreds and thousands.
Purpose For The Stamp Game:
The stamp game is a tool for learning and reinforcing knowledge of the four maths operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Cultural Subjects:
We can now count to ten in 21 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, and Dutch/Flemmish).
Peek Into the Next Few Weeks:
Week of 2/5/2018:
Even More Math– Learning how to subtract with the 9 tray and Stamp Game (with manipulatives)
Language– We will be adding Polish
Synonym of the week– bad
Sight words of the week– first, than
Week of 2/12/2018:
Even More Math– Learning how to divide with the 9 tray and Stamp Game (with manipulatives)
Language– We will be adding Serbo Croation
Synonym of the week– good
Sight words of the week– other, some
Take A Peek Into Our Week/January 19,2018/Ms.Kate
This week was all about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I really love this theme because it teaches the children how everyone in the world is the same on the inside even though our skin color may be different and some of may need to use a psoriasis cream in order to treat certain conditions. We had so much fun learning about his life, the marches he ran, The I Have A Dream speech, Rosa parks, and about peace and love. It was a fantastic week!!
Take A Peek Into Next Week:
Next week is all about the Artic and Artic animals. The children will explore the different types of animals that are able to live in this area, the purpose of blubber with a simple experiment, where the Artic is on our map and much, much more!
Academic Enrichment | week of January 15th | Tallmadge
Telling Time: The past week the students have been learning how to tell time to the hour, half past and quarter past.
A Peak into Next Week: continue time (quarter till)
A Peek Into Reading Group
Over the past few weeks due to all of the days off, the kindergartners listened to a story called The Fire Cat. This story is about a cat who constantly gets in to trouble, and then ends up doing great things after working with a group of firemen. We had an interpretive discussion about the story. We talked about why Mrs. Goodkind told Pickles he isn’t good or bad but “mixed-up”, and why was Pickles happy at the end of the story. They had to write down responses to questions and draw a picture of a scene from the story. The kindergartners even got to act out a scene where Pickles chased the smaller cats. They love getting to move and pretend to be the characters from stories.
A Peek Into the Next Two Weeks
-The students will listen to a poem.
-The students will learn about rhythm in poems.
-The students will practice choral reading.
A Peek at Our Week | Ms. Courtney’s Classroom | Week of January 15th
Martin Luther King Jr.
The students learned how Martin Luther King Jr. wanted to make the world a better place. We talked about how people were being treated unfairly based on their color and he stood up for them. We discussed how he wanted to change the law in a peaceful way, because he had a dream to have people of all colors get along and work together. We also talked about why it is important to try and make the world a better place for everyone and ways that we can accomplish that. But it is also important that while the kids work together they should be keep safe and are far away from any injury, so we decided to get some tips and ideas from St. Louis Personal Injury Lawyer they offer free consultation today.
Work Time:
Reminders:
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