November 17th, 2008

Today the Magic Trains…

1. worked very hard completing math pages in Calvert Math. They reviewed the concepts of thick- thin, near-far, and big-bigger.
2. The class also began the concept of left-right.
were introduced to some wonderful games by Ms. Kathy,
our O.T.
3. The boys played Zingo with Ms. Kathy (following directions) and put puzzles together with Ms. Melissa and completed a Thanksgiving-related art project.
4. continued their study of letters, in Language Arts, learning about “r” and words such as “railroad” and “radio”


What a marvelous Monday! Today the Diener Dinosaurs…

1. Read a book called ‘The Scrambled States of America’ and then worked on a scrambled states puzzle together!
2. Had Social Skills with Miss Melissa! We read a book about manners, talked about how manners are important both at home and at school, and drew pictures of our family members!
3. Started to build our real-life desert. We talked about what lives in the desert and then made animals out of clay!


The Mighty Dieners!!

1. In math, we continued to work on our November calendar math questions (What month comes after this month?, How many days are in this month?, etc).
2. In Fitness, we learned how to play soccer and then we played color tag!
3. This afternoon we worked with Mr. Paul’s class to make a large American Flag! We rolled pieces of white construction paper and glued them on a large red poster board. Our American Flag will be 3-D!!!

Today in the Golden Owls:
1. We began new books in language arts working on definitions and new vocabulary, reviewed what a verb, noun, and adjective are and played antonym bingo after learning what an antonym is!
2. We practiced our songs for our concert at the Hebrew Home coming up this Thursday! We shaked, rattled and rolled!
3. Worked on our OT skills with Ms. Kathy! We are so so happy she is back with us.