Peek In Our Week ### Thee Buckeye Room ### Week Of January 20, 2025 through January 24, 2025

Thee Buckeye Bulletin

Line Time:

This week we learned a bit about the internal organs. We started with the brain which is like the computer of the body. It tells our body how fast to breathe and how fast our heart should beat. We discovered the lungs help us breathe and puts oxygen in our blood. Our stomach digests food, the small intestine take nutrients out of our food and large intestine gets the remaining water from indigestible food and creates waste (poop)(that word produced laughter) or as I referred to a bowel movement. The kidneys process excess water and creates pee (more laughter) or urine. The liver removes toxins from the body. We found out that the largest organ of the human body is the epidermis. The liver is my fave internal organ. What is yours?

*This brave and dazed boy is modeling the Internal Organ work.*

Line Time (the other stuff):
Letter Of The Week: R r
Rhyming Word Of The Week: but

Did You Know(Numbers, Letters…):

Imagine someone writing out the numbers one through 1,000—the word forms, not the numbers. One, two, three, four…and so on. Eventually, this person might start to notice the conspicuous absence of one letter (the second most common in the English Language) no less. It wouldn’t be until this person reached 1,000 that they would finally write the letter A. You may say one hundred AND one but that would actually be 101.1 (one of my pet peeves)!

1,000 Thousand A

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A Word From Mr. John (College Cuisine):

Cultural Subjects:

Foreign Languages: Romanian
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).

Know Your Languages: (Romanian)

January Half Birthdays: A Montessori classroom prides itself on having a multiage class. Here is our newest 3 and a half year old student.

They say it comes in threes:

–*If you are a baseball fan, then you know who Bob Uecker/Mr. Baseball was. I enjoyed his work*.

–Big Chuck/ Charles Schodowski was a Cleveland personality. If you were at a sleepover (in my day) you were found in front of the TV watching The Hoolihan and Big Chuck Show. RIP Big Stache (the certain ethnic pierogi eater)!

-David Lynch a giant among men in the film industry. I was not familiar with him until 1986 when I took a date to see Blue Velvet at Oberlin College. After that I was hooked on his use of the surreal clashing with the mundane. RIP and I hope you are enjoying that black cup of coffee and a slice of cherry pie.

Specials Space (Music):

In Music Class the students are learning about Peter and the Wolf and how the different instruments represent the different characters. The above picture the students are walking like grandpa (2 hurting backs and one walking with a cane). During this one of your children said “We are walking like Mr. John.” I love your children!

Peek In Our Week:

Two friends working together. The Stamp Game is an educational tool designed to teach mathematical concepts to young learners using the Montessori method. This hands-on activity helps children develop a concrete understanding of basic mathematical operations, including addition, subtraction, and eventually multiplication and division. Also, it’s an introduction into the abstract.

The main purpose of the Montessori Number Rods (the material she is working on) is to help children associate the names of the numbers with their respective quantities as well as help children understand the sequencing of measurements and quantities. She was pretty excited to completed the work and she let out a giggle. This attracted the attention of another student.

They are working on the Triangle Construction Box. What does the child learn by working with the Triangular Box? This activity encourages the child to become more patient, it promotes his level of concentration and this activity also prepares the child for geometry that will be done later on in mathematics.

Again, as I call them, Mutt and Jeff, are working together again. They are working on the Six Bead Chain. The long bead chains represent quantities from 1-100 and are arranged in repeating bead sequences to facilitate skip counting, number patterns, and multiplication. Additionally, when each section of a long bead chain is folded end to end, it creates a square, representing the square of a particular number

Peek Into Next Week:

Weekly Theme: 5 Senses
Letter Of The Week: S s
Rhyming Word Of The Week: bup
Next Language is Korean

Academic Enrichment aka Kindergarten:

This Week in Kindergarten:
Reviewing Telling Time
Synonym Of The Week: NICE- kind, pleasant, delightful, good, helpful
Sight Words Of The Week: first then

Next Week in Kindergarten:
Review Telling Time
Synonym Of The Week: SKINNY- thin, lean, emaciated, scrawny, slendy
Sight Words Of The Week: other some