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Here is our P.E. / Movement activities for today.  We’ve been having many cloudy days and sometimes rain.  We may not be able to go outside to get some fresh air, so you can move around with these activities.  It’s important to exercise every day!!

 

 

3 Year Olds (in Ms. Barbara and Mrs. Almoula’s group)

How can you move your body today?  Can you shake like a salt shaker?  Can you move like a pancake?

 

Let’s move!!

 

 

 

4 Year Olds (in Miss Yuri and Ms. Hoshi’s group)

We are more than half way through our 30 days challenge!
I think we’re all doing a great job exercising!

 

From today, you can try some of these moves till the end of next week!

-Up & Down
-Plank 5 sec
-Wind Mill X5 sets
-Run on the Spot 10seconds
-Jumping Jacks X10 

You could exercise with me as you watch this video 🙂

 

Exercise with Ms. Yuri!! – Click here to do it together.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

5 Year Olds ~ Pre-First Graders (in Mr. Dale and Mr. Myk’s group)

Hello everyone!

 

Today is day five of Flashy feet Fridays! 

 

Before we get started, I wanted to know how last week’s jumping practice went. Was it too hard or quite easy? Did you feel your legs get stronger with each jump you practiced? I hope everyone enjoyed their jumping time.

 

For today’s Flashy Feet practice, we will be focusing on moving sideways. It might be hard to balance at first because we are used to only moving forwards or backwards. Moving sideways can start out slowly and get stronger and faster as we improve with our practice. You can try out each movement as many times as you want until you get the hang of moving sideways with good balance.

 

Here is our sideways list:

 

Fast feet 8 shape

Sideways high knees

In and out step

Sideways jump

Skater Jumps

Sideways hop

 

Have fun practicing your sideways movement! Remember to practice safely and always be careful!

 

 

We hope you enjoyed your P.E./Movement class for today.  Continue eating well, washing your hands properly and EXERCISE!

Hello everybody,

 

Do you have nights when you cannot sleep?  What do you do? Do you imagine things or do you count something?  Many people count sheep.  Come and listen to a story called Counting Sheep by Dr. Julie Glass, illustrated by Mike Wohnoutka.  Are you ready, don’t fall asleep!!

              Counting Sheep – Click here to view.

 

Most people count sheep when they cannot sleep (one sheep, two sheep, three sheep, and so on…)

* What did this man count and how many?

* What else do you want to count?

* Can you practice counting things by twos? (2, 4, 6, 8, 10)

* When you count normally by ones, how far can you count to?

Next time you can’t sleep, try counting sheep or something else and tell us in your comments whether it worked or not!

 

Here are some nice “Counting Sheep” videos you can watch.

Here’s a lot of ewes.  Ewes are girl sheep!

 

Here is a song about counting sheep… Can you help count?

 

In the recording, we talked about rhyming words…..After a good night’s sleep, you can exercise to this fun song called Exercise, Rhyme and Freeze!

 

And lastly, here is an activity that you can do and make:

 

If you don’t have cotton balls, you can crumple up some tissue paper to make fluffy balls.  Enjoy!!

 

Have a happy day today!

Hi everybody,

My story today is Memoirs of a Goldfish by Devin Scillian.  The goldfish in the bowl is next a sign that says

“HELP”. Why do you think so?  Let’s find out…

 

 

Click here for story.

 

Would you like to make a fish bowl?

Remember, you can add more fish or other things as you wish.

 

 

 

Make a paper plate spinning wheel.

 

 

Let’s sing a song about fish.

 

Today’s Guest Reader is Miss Yuri!!  She has another fun story for you.  We hope you like it!!

 

 

Can You Make a Scary Face? – Click here to view

 

 

Wow!!  That was a fun story!!  We you able to make a very scary face?  Can you make it again???

 

Here is an activity you can do:

 

Can You Make a Scary Face? – Activity  (click here)

Hi everyone,

We hope you enjoyed the P.E./Movement class today.  You are doing so good following directions and keeping to the task.  We are having a week of cloudy and rainy days this week.  It’s a perfect day to have some extra movement activities to do, isn’t it?  And…. you are in for some nice treats!!  Do check out the links for all age groups regardless of how old you are!!!

 

3 Year Olds (in Ms. Barbara and Mrs. Almoula’s group)

Ready to move???  Here we go!!

 

 

 

4 Year Olds (in Miss Yuri and Ms. Hoshi’s group)

Hello everyone!

Did you enjoy the Hand Clap Video we made for you!?
Mr.Dale, Mr.Myk and Ms.Yuri enjoyed dancing with you all! 

This dance might have been challenging for you but no worries at all. You don’t have to do the same exact move because the idea of this activity is to have fun and dance freely to the music! 

Here is the video we showed during our zoom session.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CoOcAdD7a5F1936fqqh02BHtNJua5X34/view?usp=sharing

 

You could memorize the dance and we will dance together again next Tuesday!

 

Enjoy hand clapping!!! 🙂

 

 

5 Year Olds ~ Pre-First Graders (in Mr. Dale and Mr. Myk’s group)

Hi everybody!

 

Mr Dale and I have been missing all of you and our Montessori Movement classes in the Lower Rec Hall. 

Because of that, I decided to make my own version of the Lower Rec Hall!

 

Click here to go to the Lower Rec Hall!

 

I have hidden 8 activities in different items scattered around the room. Can you find and do all of them? It would be super cool if you can do all of the activities in one day but you can also repeat or do other activities on different days! 

 

Remember to always play safely and carefully. Have fun!!

 

Mr Myk

 

We hope you enjoyed your P.E./Movement class for today.  Continue eating well, washing your hands properly and EXERCISE!

 

 

 

 

 

Hello everyone!

Today I’m going to read you a story about some helpful friends and their friendship.

Title of the story is ” Bear Feels Sick ” by Karma Wilson and illustrated by Jane Chapman.

Hope you enjoy it !

 

Revised Link — Bear Feels Sick -click here to view

 

Some questions for you to answer…

1.  How do you know that Bear felt sick ?

2. Name the first two animals who offered to help the Bear.

3. What did Badger, Gopher and Mole do to make the Bear feel better ?

4. What did the Bear say after he felt better?

5. What happened to all his friends then?

6. What did the Bear say to all his friends at the end?

7. What would you do if your friend feel sick ?

8. How would you make him/her feel better ?

 

Activities for you to try…

Friendship card

Click HERE

 

Easy Vocabulary game

Click HERE

 

Quiz game ” What Am I ? ”

Click HERE

 

Hello, Everyone!

 

Good morning!  Let’s get you moving!   Here is a fun book filled with actions, and rhyming words!

Click here to listen, watch, and move to “Clap Your Hands”, by Lorinda Bryan Cauley.

Were you able to find some space to stand and do some of the actions?  Was there anyone who could do ALL of the actions?!  While I was reading it aloud, I was picturing in my mind all of you standing in front of me, moving :).  You can organize a Simon Says game with your family!  You could use some of the movements from the story.

Here is Jack Hartman’s song that is like… Simon Says, let’s play!

How did you do?  Do you have brothers or sisters that can play with you?

I’m curious, did you notice that there were no grown-ups in this book?!  And you must have noticed that there were animals interacting with the children AND… the animals were wearing clothes!   I guess we know that this is NOT a true story so it is called fiction, which means; “not a true story”. 

This story had a pair of rhyming words on almost every page.  Do you remember any of the rhyming word pairs?  How many can you remember if you JUST look at the illustrations, and turn the sound (my voice) off…?   

As an example, the first and second page have the words “feet”, and “seat”.  The third and fourth page has “head”, and “red”.  Can you draw a few of the word pairs, or make up your own rhyming pairs?  Have someone take your photo with your drawing, Like the principal’s challenge!  Your family can upload your photo it in the comment section below.  This is a private blog, just for Montessori families.

Now, think back inside your head to see if you can remember any more.  Maybe look at the story again WITHOUT the sound on…   If you know how to write, you can WRITE a list of the rhyming words, and have someone take your photo with your list! 

I hope that you have fun with rhyming words.

See you again!

Ms. Hoshi

 

 

Here is our P.E. / Movement activities for today.  Remember, you can try any of the activities even if you are not that age!!  I even try them on my own!!  It’s important to exercise every day!!

 

 

3 Year Olds (in Ms. Barbara and Mrs. Almoula’s group)

 

We’re going to play “Simon Says” today.

Remember, only do what Simon Says!!  (If “Simon says, Raise your hand.” – Do it!!, If it’s only “Raise your hand.”- Don’t do it!!  It’s a little tricky, but you can do it!

Let’s try our best on a beautiful sunny day!!

 

 

4 Year Olds (in Miss Yuri and Ms. Hoshi’s group)

Happy Friday!
How are you all doing with your One month exercise challenge? 

How many days were you able to put a cross on the calendar? 

No worries if you haven’t been able to do it everyday.

But it is nice to see that you are exercising regularly because exercise helps you become stronger and healthier!

From today, you can try some of these exercises till the end of next week!

-Marching 10 sec

-Sit down and stand up X5
-Knee hug on the spot X 5 sets

-Jumping Jacks X5

-Feet Tap X5 sets

Here is a short tutorial of these exercises!  Watch me and do the same!!

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o_D5ksr-fZRe_S2R48cu-40UjSRpGG4g/view?usp=sharing

 

 

Make sure to stay hydrated while doing your daily exercises! 🙂

 

 

5 Year Olds ~ Pre-First Graders (in Mr. Dale and Mr. Myk’s group)

Hello everybody!

 

Today is our fourth day of Flashy Feet Friday! Today’s activities are going to be focused on jumping. We have been learning about different kinds of jumps and today we are going to put them together for our practice. Here is our list.  Click to see what to do*

 

Bunny jump

Close open jump

Moon jumps

Hops

Sideways jumps

Star jumps

Skater jumps

Tuck jumps

 

There are two new jumps on our list and I hope that you get to practice them too. They might be a little hard at first but I know that with practice, these jumps will all be easy peasy! 

Always remember to be careful when doing your practices so that you don’t fall or bump or hurt yourselves and others!

 

 

 

We hope you enjoyed your P.E./Movement class for today.  Continue eating well, washing your hands properly and EXERCISE!

 

 

Hello boys and girls,

What’s your favorite food?  Is it hamburger, soup, pizza or spaghetti?  Well, Minnie “loves” spaghetti more than anything!  She can eat it all day long.  Let’s see how much she loves spaghetti.

 

“More Spaghetti, I Say! ”  written by Rita Golden Gelman, Illustrated by Mort Gerberg.    Please click here..

 

Questions and suggested activities.

*What’s your favorite food that you love to eat, that you can’t get enough of?  Tell your mom and dad why you love it so much.

*Do you know what your family’s favorites are?  Why do you think they love that food so much?

*Eating too much of anything is not good, and not healthy.  Let’s try to eat a little of everything at every meal,  not only the things that we like.   Do you like salad?  Vegetable soup? Fish? Meat? Have you tried to eat food that you had not eaten before?  You never know until you try it!

 

If you have some spaghetti and pastas—and a little bit of clay—here’s a fun activity.

Can you be creative and build something?

 

 

For a challenging science experiment using spaghetti and marshmallows, you may want to try this activity with the whole family.

 

Would you like to draw spaghetti with meatballs? You can draw any way you like.  Here’s just one example.

 

Are you getting hungry?

Here’s a recipe for a spaghetti dinner.  Please click on the blue words (not the picture).  

One pot of spaghetti with meat sauce. How does that sound? Yummy!