Axo Blog

Happy Year of the Horse! Will this be your best year ever? Check out your horoscope according to the Chinese Zodiac. https://chinesenewyear.net/horoscopes/ Did you send any Christmas or Holiday cards yet? Well, in Japan, where I lived for awhile, people send New Year's cards called Nengajo. "Nen" means year. Read more below: https://savvytokyo.com/need-know-japans-nengajo-new-years-cards/ What are YOU looking forward to in the year ahead?

Fun Run / Snacks/ Volunteers Dear Axolotl Families, Welcome to the second week of school. Today we will be talking about gifts. What is...

Axolotl News #1 For New Students Welcome to Obama Montessori, Our E1 classroom is called the Axolotls. It is a place where first, second...

Events that happen during the last 7 days of school at J.J. Hill are: Summer birthday celebration Field Day Bridge Ceremony SPPS is a...

In 2020, my students and I started a tradition of counting down the LAST 26 DAYS until summer break. Every year the letters stand for...

J.J. Hill Montessori and the Axolotl class have been taking an annual walking field trip to 2 Scoops. https://2scoopseatery.com/ We...

April is National Poetry Month. Some of the poetry forms we frequently use in E1 are Acrostics Haiku Alliteration Writing Poetry for Kids...

What is Free Comic Book Day ? Simply put, Free Comic Book Day was created to remind people who aren’t  regular visitors to their...

One of my favorite series is Far Out Fairy Tales What if Cinderella were ALSO a ninja ???

When I lived in Japan long ago, one of my first assignments was to introduce myself to my new students. The problem ? I didn't speak any...

This year Blah and Blah wrote some great research papers. Also, Blah Blah has written a terrific story about Blah. Below you can read...

So nmany amazing thibgs happened in the world of Sports this year! Correspondants: Mr. Peter , Trey, ..... Paige Bueckers and UConn...

All elementary teachers in the State of Minnesota are recertifying in the Science of reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysHf-udE07Q...

What is it? It is a test designed to evaluate SCHOOLS and SCHOOL districts by evaluating students in grades 3 - 12. Click below for the...

We have a guest speaker, Yuko San, coming on Friday, March 21st, 2025 What questions do you have? https://web-japan.org/kidsweb/explore/...

INFORMATIONAL BOOKS! Who Was? Where is? What is? These books are the Best for providing simple, factual information in a FUN way for...

Orthographic Mapping https://youtu.be/XfRHcUeGohc?si=juhn-WNPpZlrAcrJ

This was a 7 part video series that our school produced throughout I LOVE TO READ MONTH a.k.a. February. Mad props to Ms. Knox for acting...

Research: Epic: Our class code is HKZ 1379 Brittanica: This is free when accessed through Clever PebbleGo: This is free when accessed...

A fun way to introduced beginning writers in elementary school to CREATIVE compositon is through fractured fairy tales. In my experience,...