Peek In Our Week ### Thee Buckeye Room ### Week Of April 21st through April 25th

The Buckeye Bulletin

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Life Cycles:

This week we learned about life cycles. I explained that we as humans have a pretty boring life cycle. We are born, we live our lives, then we pass. Now the frog/toad have an interesting life cycle. They lay eggs then the eggs hatch into tadpoles. As they get older the tadpoles turn into froglets. The froglets eventually turn into0 frogs or toads. Then the pattern repeats itself. The butterfly has a unique life cycle. The butterfly lays eggs which hatch into caterpillars. The caterpillars gorge themselves for the long nap they will take in side the chrysalis(butterfly) or cocoon(moth). An amazing transformation takes place and a butterfly or moth emerges. As Mr. Spock would say……Fascinating.

*As I child I collected butterflies, moths, and other creepy crawler and the no one in the neighborhood ever caught the elusive Luna Moth.*

Line Time (the other stuff):
Letter Of The Week: A a
Rhyming Word Of The Week: bib

Did You Know?:

Owls eyes are not spherical like humans but are shaped like tubes or cylinders. This tube-like shape allows them to have excellent long-distance vision and also contributes to their ability to see well in low light conditions. Owls’ eyes are fixed in their sockets, meaning they cannot rotate their eyes to look around. To compensate, owls have evolved to rotate their heads up to 270 degrees to see in different directions.

A Word From Mr. John(Ham):

Cultural Subjects:

Foreign Languages:
Your children can now count to ten in 16 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Japanese, Arabic in the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Hungarian, ).

Know Your Languages:

Specials Spot(Science):

*The Magically Floating ping pong ball.*

Peek In Our Week:

*This is a quintessential look at a Montessori Classroom. Calm, happy, and everyone working.*

*This may look like a homicide scene but it is a student placing bones in the correct place on a willing student.*

The Triangular Box is a fascinating wooden box in the shape of a triangle in the Sensorial area of a Montessori classroom. This box contains one large equilateral grey triangle, two right-angled green triangles, three yellow obtuse triangles, and four red equilateral triangles.

He is working on the 9 Tray found in the Math area. 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.

Peek Into Next Week:

Weekly Theme: Ancient Egypt
Letter Of The Week: E e
Rhyming Word Of The Week: bic

Academic Enrichment aka Kindergarten:

This Week in Kindergarten:
Adverbs: Describes verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs
Synonym Of The Week: BIG: vast, gigantic, huge, large, enormous
Sight Words Of The Week: word when

Next Week in Kindergarten:
Conjunctions: Acts as a bridge that connects two sentences
Synonym Of The Week: SMALL: tiny, little, petite, miniature, minute
Sight Words Of The Week: which what

*The kindergarten students are tracking the lifecycle of Superworm.*

Future Happenings:

Kindergarten Graduation – May 21, 4:15pm. Church Sanctuary

Last Day Of School/Splash Day – May 22, 2025

Friends, Frolic, And Fun:

*I never realized how long her hair is.*

Your Kids Say The Darndest Things: (Brother Jack)

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