Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Read a book called ‘Snow on Snow on Snow’. Danielle shared this book with us before we read it by singing a song about winter and cloudy weather.
2.) Practiced writing “th” words and matched pictures to the words. Danielle and Trevor continued to read their “Rime to Read” book with Debbie.
3.) Ran and danced to fun music in Fitness with Mr. Dan. We also played basketball which the kids loved!
4.) Learned the words to our favorite theme song from “Thomas the Train” in Music class with Ms. Deanna.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
What a terrific Thursday! Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Read a book together called 'Moondogs' and each made predictions about what would happen in the book by looking at the cover. All of our predictions turned out to be correct!
2.) Drew a sequencing picture of our Moondogs book and labeled our first, middle, and last illustrations with full sentences. We practiced using spaces between our words, capital letters at the beginning of our sentences, and punctuation at the end.
3.) Talked about our field trip to the Science Museum tomorrow! We are really excited to see all of the wonderful things there - we even drew pictures there predicting what our favorite parts would be! We are all looking forward to seeing the human body exhibits and some of us are hoping for dinosaur exhibits, as well.

JUST A REMINDER - Please send in lunch and TWO small snacks tomorrow as we will be gone all day. Thank you!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Fitness, we practiced bowling and we learned the game Red-Rover! We had a lot of fun. After Fitness, we each drew a picture of what we did in Fitness and labeled our pictures.
2.) In Math, we added our weather pictures to our weather calendars and concluded we have had a lot of sunny days in January!
3.) With Ms. Kathy, we worked on handwriting using our Handwriting Without Tears books. We also worked on visual discrimination. We had to look at rows of pictures and figure out which image was different. Some images focused on a missing piece of the picture (an apple with no stem), some pictures worked on directionality (left or right, up or down).

The Golden Owls:
1.) In Language Arts we are building reading comprehension using several strategies and the 5 W's. We are also rereading and asking ourselves questions as we read. In groups we are increasing our fluency and expression as readers.
2.) In speech we discussed the exciting week in politics! We worked hard to "stretch our thinking" and brainstorm about what we would do if we were elected president of the USA or president of the Diener School. We organized our thoughts and made educated predictions about what will happen!
3.) We are currently in our laboratories preparing for our science fair. We are experimenting with electricity and magnetism.