Montessori

Good morning, everyone!  I’m happy that you’ve come to listen to a story today.

Today I read Over on the Farm, by Christoper Gunson.  This is a counting book that also includes ryhmes and rhyming words.  When there are ryhmes in a story, the story sometimes has a rythm.  Try to listen to the rythm of this story.  You might be able to try tapping your foot to the rythm.

A surprise guest came to visit me while I was reading on my roof, can you guess who it might be?

 

Click here to read Over on the Farm.  And to see the surprise guest!

 

Remember the “numbers and counters” work we have in our classroom.  Who can make a set like that to use in your house?  First, maybe you would cut some square papers that you could write the numbers 1-10 on.  Then you need to find some items that you can match with the appropriate number, like we do on the mat at school.

If you’ve forgotten how to do the numbers and counters, I’ll give you a little reminder.  After you lay the number cards in a line (1-10), below each number, you need to put that many pieces, of one item,.  For example; under the number 5 card, you could lay 5 coins, 2 at a time, so one would be left by itself on the bottom row.  I wonder what item you might be able to use under the number 10?  Take a photo to share with us.

That’s all till next time!

See you again,

Ms. Hoshi

Hello everyone.  Todays story is a bit of a long one… And a bit unbelievable! Harriet was living… “way up in the school roof”!  See-I told you, unbelievable!  Her teacher never noticed that Horrible Harriets’ new friend, “Mr. Chicken” (whom she had made in a pot!), was scaring everyone….

Click here to listen to HORRAY FOR HORRIBLE HARRIET

Would you like to be Harriets’ friend?  Why, or why not?  How does she get along with her classmates?

Here’s a challenge for you if you are five or six years old.  Can you try to watch the video WITHOUT sound, and retell the story to someone in your family?  You can tell them what was happening by looking at the illustrations and remembering the story that you listened to.

Everyone can try to draw your own picture of a chicken to hang on your refrigerator or in your room!  What color was Mr. Chicken? Was he the same size as a real chicken?

After you’ve tried once to draw by yourself, now for a second attempt, can you try to draw along with “Art for Kids Hub” and three year old Austin (his drawing is on the left)?  You can see that he’s done a pretty good drawing by listening to the instructions.  Try it, I’m sure that you can draw it also.  Does it look different than your first drawing?  Which of your drawings do you like the best?

Some people think that homemade chicken soup is nutritious, and helps you feel better if you have a cold or the flu.  I found this recipe that you could help your family cook together.  If you don’t like chicken, you can leave the chicken out and make it a hearty vegetable soup.

Toddler Approved Alphabet Chicken Soup

 

 

 

Hello boys and girls,

Did you know that Saint Maur International School is the oldest International school not only in Japan, but also in all of Asia? Founded in 1872 by the Sisters of the Holy Infant Jesus, our school is 148 years old.

Since you attend the Montessori School at Saint Maur, here is a book about Montessori Schools around the world, where the children are peacemakers.

Please click the title here.    Our Peaceful Classroom 

Written by Aline D. Wolf and illustrated by children from Montessori Schools around the world.

 

Questions to answer:

Did you notice familiar materials in the book that you see in your own classroom?  What did you see?

Tell your family what you like about your Montessori classroom.

What is your favorite work to take out from the shelves?

When you finish your work, do you put the materials back in their place for the next person to use?

How do you keep your classroom nice and beautiful?

Do your classmates help each other?

 

Song: Teaching Peace

Let’s learn this song together!

(Chorus) Teaching peace all the world around,

You and me, every city every town

One by one in our work and in our play…

We are teaching PEACE by what we do and what we say!

 

1. It’s up to us to show we care,

Reaching out to everybody everywhere!

Heart to heart and friend to friend…

Circling all around the world and back again!

 

(Chorus)

 

2. So take my hand and come along…

It’s time to sing the world a brand new song!

So sing it loud and sing it clear…

All together now so everyone can hear!

 

(Chorus)

 

Sound off! 1,2,3,4…

 

(repeat) 2. So take my hand and come along…

 

(Chorus)

 

 

Suggested activities:  Choose one.

Would you like to draw a picture of your peaceful Montessori classroom and explain about it to your family?

Do you know where your classmates are from? If you know their flags, can you draw flags of your friends’ countries?

Make a poster of how we can be a peacemaker.

Example:

Be kind
Be helpful
Take care of nature and animals

 

More songs if you like.    A Song of PEACE for Kids

Today is our Guest Reader Day!  We have Mr. Myk with us.  He is going to read us a story about a little girl named Natsumi!  Please enjoy!!

 

 

Natsumi – click here to watch

 

We hope you enjoyed the story!!

Good Morning Everyone,

   To celebrate Earth day I would like you to teach us how to plant a seed.

If you are feeling really creative, you could plant a real seed and take photos of all the steps you had to follow. Remember that you do not need to have real soil, but you can use a tissue with some water on it. Once it begins to grow, you might want to move your seed to a garden (or some soil).

Please use the slides to show you an example so that you know what I am looking for.

I look forward to seeing all of your creations and Happy Earth Day

Here is the Montessori Folder for sharing learning

Today is our double P.E./Movement Day since we had our online P.E./Movement Class.  It looked like everybody was having a good time working with Mr. Dale, Mr. Myk, Miss Yuri and the other teachers.  Keep up the good work!!

 

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

The three-year olds work hard on following directions and refining their coordination.  Here is a simple song/dance you can do!

Everybody knows and loves the dance Hokey Pokey, but did you know that there is an Emotions Hokey Pokey?  Since you had a good workout this morning, let’s relax a bit with this song/dance:

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

Today we will be doing some exercise for 5 minutes! 🙂

Please try 40 seconds of Marching On The Spot, Star Jumps, Low Sprint Shuffle, Squats and Climb The Rope while taking 20 seconds of rest time in between these exercises. Some of these moves are familiar to you, but some are new! 

Make sure you have your water bottle near you so you can drink water when you need it.You will feel your heart beating very fast during this activity. Remember to breathe while you are exercising! 

If 40 seconds feels too long, please adjust it to 20 seconds and 10 seconds of rest. 

 

Please check this video to see how the exercise works!

 

Enjoy exercising!

 

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

Hi everyone! Today, I have 2 more sock ball activities for students (and parents) to play with!

 

The first one is a practice on catching from different angles. Learning how to catch things coming from different directions helps develop good reaction time and coordination too. Here is a   video   I made showing catching from different angles.

 

Video of Catching from Different Angles

 

Don’t forget the catching tips we learned from before:

-catching hands ready

-eyes open, always looking at the ball

-don’t look away or close your eyes

 

For our second activity, we have a game of  Knock the Shoe!

We are going to make targets from shoes and try to hit them with our sock balls. Here Is a video I made showing how to play the game. You can try throwing from different distances or use different sized targets or even do a locomotor movement before throwing! That’s going to be a fun challenge!

 

Video of Second Activity-Knock the Shoe!

 

Remember our steps for throwing:

-look at the target

-step with the opposite foot

-throw

 

When playing, we should always be aware of where we are and where we are going to throw our sock balls so that we do not cause accidents or hurt or damage anything. Have fun and stay safe!

 

 

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

 

 

Hello Parents & children,

How are you today!

I’m happy to be sharing a story with you all today

called, “Larabee” written and illustrated by Kevin Luthardt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click for the story HERE

*Please note: After clicking on the link, if you see a screen that says download you can, but if you wait a little bit as it processes the file, you will be able to go directly. 

Questions to ask after the story:

 

1.What kind of dog do you think Larabee is?

2.Is he a working dog or a stay at home dog?

3.Why was he feeling a bit sad after delivering the mail with

Mr  Bowman?

4.Who mailed him a letter?

5.How was he feeling after he received the letter?

6.Have you ever received a fun letter? How did you feel?

 

Activities to try:

*I love puppets and I know children do too, so I thought this would be a great activity to make at home with some paper & coloured pens! Click HERE

 

Hello everyone,  I hope you had a nice weekend–lots of rain on Saturday but beautiful on Sunday!  It’s Ms. Sallie’s turn for a story today.  I hope you’ll enjoy Pat Hutchin’s The Doorbell Rang.

      Click here to see the story.

 

* Do you like cookies?  What is your favorite kind?

* Have you ever made cookies with your mommy or someone?

* Do you think it was nice of Victoria and Sam to share with so many children?

* Do you remember how many cookies Ma made?

* Do you remember how many children came at the end?

* If the story had another page at the end, who do you think rang the doorbell?  Ding Dong!!

 

Sharing Activity

You can play a sharing game by yourself, with your dolls, with your family or any group of something…

You will need:

• Someone or something to share with (from 2 to any number your wish)
• Many objects to share, such as blocks, beans, acorns/nuts, jellybeans, etc.

What to do:

1. Count the number of objects you have to start with.
2. Share equally 1 for each member you are with.  (One for you, one for you, etc.)
3. Count how many each person/doll got when you have finished sharing.

Here is a sample:

   Sorting/Sharing jelly beans into egg cartons (shared between 4 sections.

 

If you want to try some baking……

3-Ingredient Sugar Cookies

 

Until next time….bye bye!

Good morning, boys and girls. I’m glad to see that you’ve come to hear the story.  This story was a favorite in our family… This story was written 90 years ago, and the drawings in this edition of the book were the original, 1930 illustrations.

When you come upon something that you need to do, but it seems to be a bit too difficult for you complete, you can remember this story and say to yourself, “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can”; and maybe, just maybe, you’ll be able to succeed after trying harder and believing in yourself!

Click here to listen to THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD

Things to think about and discuss…

Ask your parents if they knew this story. If they did know it, maybe they can tell you some memories they had of themselves reading it when they were younger. Or, they can tell you about one of their favorite childhood stories.

How many trains were there? What words did the author use to ‘name’ the trains?

Take a minute to look at the page that says “And there were cars full of toy engines, airplanes, tops, jack-knives, picture puzzles, books, and every kind of thing boys or girls could want.” Do those toys look like your toys now, or are your toys different from these, I wonder? Did your parents have any of the toys on this page?

Maybe you can say the “I think I can-I think I can-I think I can” part of the story together with whomever is reading it with you…

For the craft today…

Can you draw (or make using a milk carton), one of the train engines from this story? You can choose from the little train (who couldn’t get over the hill), the Shiny New Engine (who came first), the Big Strong Freight Engine(who came second), or, the Little Blue Engine (who was the last train to come). Take a look at them again in the story video.

I hope that you enjoyed the story today! See you next time :).

I think I can–I think I can–I think I can–I think I can-I think YOU can!

Ms. Hoshi

 

Hello, again, boys and girls!  Today I will be reading a very popular book among young children, the title is, GOODNIGHT MOON.  This story was written by Margaret Wise Brown and the pictures were drawn by Clement Hurd.  Margaret Wise Brown loved animals, and usually had an animal in each of her stories.  After she was finished with a story, she asked the person who would be drawing the illustrations for the story to draw them as if a child had drawn them.  She thought that the children would enjoy the stories more if the drawings (we call them ‘illustrations’ in books) were like drawings that they can draw…  If you enjoy drawing, maybe you could try to draw your own illustrations to one of your favorite books?  You could post a photograph of your drawing of your illustration in the comment section below.

The reason that I enjoy Margaret Wise Brown’s stories is because she writes in a rhythmical pattern.  When you listen to me read, see if you can find a beat in the sound of the words, a bit like the rhythm to a song.  Can you can tap your foot on the floor; or your hand on your on your thigh (which is the top part of your leg), to the rhythm of the story?

Click here to listen to GOODNIGHT MOON

Things to think about…

How is the telephone in the story different than phones that your parents have now?

What are the two kinds of animal paintings in the rabbits bedroom?

What differences do you notice between pages 9 & 10 (where the words are “Goodnight moon”), and pages 29 & 30 (where the words are “Goodnight noises everywhere”)?

Here is a fun looking moon craft from the website “Choices for Children”.  Hopefully you’ll have the materials that you need in your house already… A large black paper, a cardboard box, lots of white paint, and flour.

Click here for the Moon craft project.

See you again, soon!

Ms. Hoshi