A Fabulous Friday!

November 7, 2008

Ms. Debbie’s Class : Today we:

1. Ms. Brooke, our occupational therapist, led us in a terrific exercise. We went fishing, and incorporated mathematics into our fishing expedition. Both large and small motor activity as well as some fine motor skills were utilized as well.
2. During math, the boys used our large foam dice blocks and our wooden beads to develop basic addition and subtraction sentences .
3. Ms. Seena organized a wonderful art project which continues the monthly theme of weather . We folded our paper into four equal parts and used a multi-medium/texture process to describe sunny, cloudy, and rainy weather, complete with lightning.
4. Language arts included a reading of a book about bugs, and a complimentary project which included the use of insect stencils, and we sang a song which taught us about the parts of the insect body.
5. Kindergarten ended their day with a lively music class led by Ms. Deanna.

What a fabulous Friday! Today the Diener Dinosaurs...

1. continued to work on story sequencing. We used a flipbook to create stories with a beginning, middle, and end and then we colored and created our own stories!

2. talked about ways to make patterns using words! Then we made patterns with our word family words and added clapping and tapping as we 'read' our patterns.

3. read the poem 'Jack be Nimble' and took turns drawing Jack and the candlestick in different ways (i.e. Jack under, over, or next to the candlestick, short/tall/wide/thin candlesticks, etc.)

4. had pizza and watched a movie during lunch! We had so much fun sharing time with all of our Diener School friends.

The Mighty Dieners!

1. In Math, we rotated through different hands-on math stations that helped us build math skills in number sequencing, writing our numbers neatly, and adding on.

2. In Art, we drew pictures and cut out the pictures as a whole and then cut another picture in pieces and glued them on construction paper.

3. We had our Diener School Pizza Lunch and watched the movie Cars!

The Golden Owls:

1. We continued with positivity today. We had each student sit in the middle of our circle while the other students said something positive and nice about them.

2. During writing we are continuing with Drafting. We are using our previous webs to build a story. Each student is learning to use specific details and examples which support their ideas.

3. In art Mrs. Feinburg was absent due to her daughter's wedding. As a class we traveled far and wide outside, drawing and coloring.