Peek In Our Week # The Buckeye Room # Week Of 1/12/26 thru 1/16/2026

Thee Buckeye Bulletin

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MLK/Diversity:
To honor the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we learned a bit about his life and his accomplishments. The students became actresses and actors as they recreated Rosa Parks making her stand on a bus in Montgomery Alabama. The students enjoyed playing the part of the bus driver, Rosa Parks, “the mean guy”, a police officer, Martin Luther King Jr., and passengers on the bus. We discussed our differences such as skin color, eye color, hair color, and gender. Then we discussed how we are similar. We talked about discrimination and segregation. We talked about if someone with red hair wouldn’t be allowed to do art “just because” they have red hair or if anyone who had blue eyes would have to go to a different classroom with less materials, broken crayons, or no books “just because” they have blue eyes. I had only boys fetch the chairs for the skit and brought that to the attention of the class. We had some very sad girls…. I did let the girls take the chairs back after the skit.

Below is a picture after the skit where everyone can sit where they want. The thumbs up means the students approve.

Other Stuff:
Letter Of The Week: O o
Rhyming Word Of The Week: bin

A Word From Mr. John (The cool side of the pillow):

Cultural Subjects:

Did You Know (How many licks to reach the center of a Tootsie Pop)?
Experiments in universities have actually been carried out to figure out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, both with machine and human lickers (because this is important scientific knowledge!). The results ranged from 252 to 411. I always thought it was three. Follow the link.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFvyOitYNz4

Foreign Languages: Your children can now count to ten in 14 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic with Lebanese dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Tagalog, Hebrew).

Know Your Languages (Hebrew):

Special Spot: (Art):

Peek In Our Week:

She is working on the Color Bead Bars found in the math area. Montessori color bead bars make abstract math concrete, teaching number sense, quantity, and operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication) through touch, sight, and movement, using consistent color-coding (e.g., 2 is green, 5 is light blue) to build strong neural connections for understanding values, skip counting, and advanced concepts like squares and cubes across elementary years.

He is working on the Rhyming Cards. The purpose of rhyming is to provide practice in discriminating speech sounds in words which leads to beginning reading. These activities will develop phonemic awareness as well as listening skills and intonation patterns of the spoken language.

She is working on a matching work. Montessori matching activities aim to develop cognitive skills such as visual discrimination, concentration, and abstract thinking by connecting concrete objects to their representations (pictures, colors, shapes), fostering language, order, problem-solving, and preparing children for reading and writing by building connections between the real world and symbols. They bridge the gap from understanding identical objects to recognizing variations, supporting independence and a love for learning through hands-on exploration.

She is working on the Trinomial Cube. The purpose of this material is to help develop the child’s visual discrimination, particularly colour, pattern, and shape. As the child manipulates the cubes and prisms to form patterns and reconstruct the cube, they engage with the trinomial expression (a + b + c)^3. This also indirectly prepares them for higher mathematics in later schooling.

Peek Into Next Week:
Weekly Theme: 5 senses
Letter Of The Week: P p
Rhyming Word Of The Week: bun

Academic Enrichment aka Kindergarten:

This Week In Kindergarten:
Addition with Golden Beads-Static and Dynamic
Synonym Of The Week: NICE: kind, pleasant, delightful, good, helpful
Sight Words Of The Week: now made

Next Week in Kindergarten:
Addition with Golden Beads-Static and Dynamic
Synonym Of The Week: SKINNY: thin, lean, emaciated, scrawny slender
Sight Words Of The Week: first than

They are excitedly solving addition equations.

Special Kindergarten Group:

Future Happenings:
Grandparents Day: January 27 (Tuesday) from 9:00 am to 10:45 am
NO SCHOOL: February 13 (Friday) In Service Day
NO SCHOOL: February 16 (Monday) President’s Day
Elementary Wax Museum: February 20b (Friday) from 3:15 pm to 4:45 pm

Friends, Frolic, And Fun:

It reminded me of Pooh and Christopher Robin.

You never know who is lurking behind the bookshelf.

You should have seen the other guy part 2.

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things (Playing):

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