Monday, January 5, 2009

The Magic Trains:
Today the Magic Trains…
1.) Identified different feelings with Ms. Melissa during our Social Skills lesson. We read the book “Wemberly Worried” and talked about what it means to worry about something.
2.) Worked on reading words from a short story called “Go Animals Go”. Danielle and Trevor read sight words together.
3.) Learned about the concept of top, middle and bottom through hands-on activities. They used their bodies to get in order and identify which person was in the middle. They also used different colored cubes to identify which cube was in the middle.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
What a marvelous Monday!
Today the Diener Dinosaurs…
1.) Had a great time catching up and sharing our break experiences with our friends during morning meeting!
2.) Read a book about feelings and then talked about our feelings with each other during Social Skills.
3.) Went ‘fishing’ with Miss Jen ~ we fished out pictures of people doing different things and then described them to each other using the appropriate pronouns!4.) Read a book together called ‘The Magic Schoolbus – Lost in the Solar System’! Then we drew pictures of what happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

The Mighty Dieners:
During our morning meeting we talked about our fun and relaxing breaks and agreed we are very excited to be back at school!
1.) Also during our morning meeting, we discussed resolutions and each came up with a school resolution that we want to work on! (Parents will be sent the resolutions with their student’s updates later in the month.)
2.) In Math, we started our January Calendar Math, and changed our classroom calendar to show that we not only started a new month, but it is now a new year—2009!!
3.) In Fitness, we played a Bulldozer game where we knocked over cones and a game called “Beamo” where we tossed bean bags.
4.) We worked on handwriting today, practicing our numbers and letter formations!

The Golden Owls:
1.) In. L.A. we began a few new short stories continuing to utilize our comprehension strategies; picturing, thinking aloud, predicting, and connecting.
2.) In Math the kids were given one minute to see how many problems they could complete on a math worksheet. We then corrected each other’s paper and graphed our results. We will be doing this on a daily basis, comparing our results throughout the week.
3.) In Writing we are beginning to revise. We will also be working on our brainstorming and drafting. HAPPY NEW YEAR

From the Office:
Happy New Year!!