A Wonderful Wednesday at Diener!!

The Magic Trains…
1.) Practiced writing letters using “wicki” sticks. We also read in our chapter books.2.) We read a book called “Paint It Purple” and made of list of all the things the little girl painted purple. This continues our study of “P” words. We also had a “grab bag” picking more “P” objects out of our special bag.3.) Ms. Seena did a special art project with the students and everyone made beautiful snowflakes.4.) Ms. Jen, our Speech Pathologist, worked with each student individually and got to know the students even better this week.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
What a wacky Wednesday! 1.) We played word family memory, read a book together called ‘The Opposite’, and worked on word puzzles!2.) We finished creating beautiful house pictures out of different shapes!3.) We had drama with Mr. Jim – we played ‘Magic Suitcase’ and ‘Party Corks’!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) Speech – we worked on matching weather pictures to the corresponding season. In addition, we drew pictures of weather under the correct month.2.) Social Skills – We went outside and collected leaves for each thing we are thankful for, then pasted them onto a paper plate
3.) During yoga, we practiced our yoga poses: tree, snake, downward dog, and others. We played a new game where we worked on breathing techniques like blowing bubbles, and holding our poses.

The Golden Owls:
1.) We officially are declaring war on our emotions. Weekly we will be battling our whining, complaining, negativity, how we speak, and our words. As of this afternoon our emotions are winning 7 to 3.2.) During writing we continued to master Drafting. The boys were drafting about important people and today it was Dentists. The girls continued drafting about The Monster Eating Candy.3.) This afternoon we had Wonderful Visits from Ms. Melissa with social skills, Mr. Aaron for Dance, and Ms. Melinda with Yoga.