1. The Intell Times
Faith is our tax collector; she collects a mini tax or fine whenever the children fail to follow classroom
protocol. Of course, the collection goes towards a classroom snack in the future!
Faith is our tax collector; she collects a mini tax or fine whenever the children fail to follow classroom
protocol. Of course, the collection goes towards a classroom
Greetings Readers!
It’s been a chilly winter so far,
hasn’t it? We send you warm holiday greetings
from Intell! Aren’t you excited to hear what’s
been going on? These past few days have been
full of music and song. Melody’s Songs have
been very popular among us. Perhaps it is the
holiday cheer and spirit permeating in our
midst!
Our classroom Dr. Mark has composed a song
and choreographed a matching dance as a
tribute to learning the Animal Kingdom!
Here are some of his more humorous lines:
Koala, Koala,
Kangaroo, Kangaroo x 2
Now, Muskrat x 3
Now we do the prairie dog, no x 3
Despite our seeming loitering, we have been as
efficient as the elves of the North Pole preparing
gifts for Christmas Day!
Here we spot 3 students in their natural habitat
and natural states! You may even spot the tutor!
Melanie is coyly hiding behind the pillar Ms. Sami.
Sam is in his acrobatic mode trying to scale a fold-
up chair! Mark is comfortably taking a break on
Intell’s well-loved yoga ball, while Faith is finishing
up her snack in the sidelines.
No one can forget when the abrupt, but friendly,
competition for the yogaball broke loose! Look at
the competitors expressing the struggle of
asserting oneself as a winner!

2. As you all well know, our Fridays are our
classroom’s testing days! Of course, testing is
paired with the reward of an activities session.
For example, ;ast Friday, we had a Can-Can
Dance Competition!
See the crafty footwork of the Can-Can
competitors at work?
Here is our champion being challenged by Sam
our Sound Control Monitor. Mark went on to
be challenged times more, but continued
winning every match! Of course, we charted
our undefeated champion’s progress closely
after the battles.
In total, Mark won an impressive 7 rounds of the
Can-Can Dance-Off !!!!!! After beating his final
competitor, he play-collapsed on the floor! Shoes
and all!
Champion Mark enjoyed his victory on the
yogaball stating, “this is my victory face.”
He sure looks proud regardless of the collapse,
doesn’t he?

3. Here is a list of some of the most common or
popular phrases spoken in our classroom! Our
bimonthly classroom vote revealed that our most
popular phase is students’ mimicry of the tutor’s
double entendre, positive reinforcement and
punishment promoting studious behaviors: “I love
you~ when you do your homework!”
After the vote, our curious minds pondered the
reasons behind the frequency of “I love you~
when you do your homework!” From this one
observation of our classroom language statistics
alone, many insightful conversations on student
educational rights and tutor-student propaganda
broke loose ! Questions regarding blind
obedience versus student rebellion, information
regurgitation versus true learning, effective
learning styles, multiple intelligences, and
authoritarian classroom management versus
authoritative Montessori education were
discussed.
ALSO:
Here are some acknowledgements of our
spotlights in academics! Melanie Song
impressively displayed her persistence and was
rewarded with merits in the 1000 Club!
In terms of our classroom productivity progress,
all our students are making impressive,
unprecedented gradual progress! The stickers
speak for themselves! Remember: our students
receive one merit sticker for each outstanding
action of peer modeling leadership, random
displays of kindness, effective learning habit
mastery, and sportsmanship!

4. Since last week, all classroom department leaders
have decided that previous hostile verbal exchanges
regarding sound pollution issues in the classroom
actually resulted from a difference in learning styles
and conflicting comfort levels with environmental
noises. Student leaders agreed that conflicting
comfort levels made it very difficult to cater to all
preferences. Some preferences were problematically
distractive and invasive for others. Student leaders
discussed how they would accommodate to
opposing preferences on absolute silence, pencil
tapping, leg shaking, chewing gum, pencil scratches,
dictation memory tactics, and listening to music.
Our classroom then resolved by vote on a creative
sound pollution solution:
The introduction of earplugs heralds peace among
students with differing learning styles and
preferences! This way, we can all invite silence in the
classroom of our minds! Please remember to keep
track of your own earplugs! Always remember that
as creative and expansive as the human mind is, we
can always innovate non-hostile, adaptable solutions
even when sharing a study space!
Discussions ended on a more serious emphasis
and clarification of the caring nature of the
tutor’s multifaceted pedagogical philosophy
emphasizing the promotion of educational
curiosity paired with thorough, disciplined,
imaginative educational investigation. Driving
this pedagogy was the tutor’s conviction that
any construct mastery is enabled by
individualized scaffolding only possible with a
foundation of passion, time-management,
constancy, accountability, follow-through,
learner alacrity, perseverance, pattern analysis,
and commitment on the student’s end.
Ultimately, the tutor conveyed that her
persistent verbal positive reinforcement was a
display of her hope and commitment that
firstly, that no learner ever give up on their
dreams; secondly, that she would never let
them give up on themselves because she
would not.
Here is rare footage of Dr. Mark studying away!
He is currently increasing his vocabulary bank,
with the beloved classroom Merriam-Webster
Dictionary!