Line Time: We had fun this week looking into the world of art. We went over the primary and secondary colors. We learned there are different ways to create art such as, drawing with pencils, coloring with crayons, and painting. We looked at artists such as Michael Angelo, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol.
Cultural Subjects:
Your children can now count to ten in 25 languages (English, Latin, Sign Language, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Greek, Arabic with the Lebanese Dialect, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagolog, Hebrew, Korean, Hungarian, Irish, Kiswahili, Welsh, Dutch/Flemmish, Polish, Serbo-Croation, Cebuano, and Malay).
Art Museum Field Trip:
St. Patty’s Day:
The annual visit from Shawn O’Keefe the cheeky leprechaun that messes up the room but leaves candy for the children (and teachers).
Peek In Our Classroom:
The ever so popular and visually appealing and engaging Pink Tower. The Pink Tower is a the corner stone material from the Sensorial Area of the Montessori classroom. The Pink Tower, iconic to the Montessori classroom, embodies the direct and indirect purpose of most Montessori materials. Stacking the cubes calls for visual discrimination, coordination, and precision. Indirectly, a child is preparing himself or herself for understanding cubed roots in later math. Here the students are working on an extension of finding the relationship between the pink tower and brown stairs.
This student is working on the Ten Board and is in the second phase of this work. Phase 1 is to place the appropriate number of ten bead bars next to the number. The correlation between quantity and symbol. Phase 2 is to compose numbers by adding units. Do you see the pattern she has discovered and do you see the look of concentration on her face.
This student is working with the Knobless Cylinders found in the sensorial area. The purposes of this work is grading by size, to train the eye to perceive fine differences in dimensions, to recognize difference and similarities (when using more than one set), and co-ordination of movement. Do you see how she is finding the relationship of the three colors?
The Metal Insets are a delightful way for the child to prepare for writing. Holding a colored pencil to carefully trace shapes helps a child develop the fine motor control needed to write small letters. Creating patterns and designs is a secondary goal, but also increases a child’s ability to manipulate a pencil.
Next Week: Line Time- Life Cycles
Letter Of The Week- Y y
Rhyming Word Of The Week- bac
Next Language will be- Hindi
Snack will be brought to you by Stella S.
Upcoming Events:
######## International Festival Country Sign Up is on the classroom door ########
——– Spring Pictures Wednesday 4/3/2019 ———-
******** Dads and Donuts Friday 4/5/2019 7:00am to 7:45am *******
((((((( Spring Break week of 3/21/2019 [Thursday] to 3/29/2019. ))))))
(((( Returning [Monday] 4/1/2019 ))))
(((((((((( Easter Monday NO SCHOOL Monday 4/22/2019 ))))))))))
Fun, Frolic, and Friends:
I have not had a haircut in awhile in hopes to catch up to these two boys.
