Wednesday, January 7th 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) We read Chicken Soup with Rice, and sang a song with Ms. Jen from Speech.
2.) Ms. Deb had a fun science experiment using raisins and seltzer water. The raisins sank to the bottom of the cup of seltzer water, and then we watched to see what would happen next. The raisins then rose to the top of the cup and began to dance!
3.) We also acted out, The Three Little Pigs during drama today!

The Diener Dinosaurs:
What a wonderful Wednesday! Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Played a very cool game called 'Whozit' with Ms. Kim! We took turns guessing each other's favorite things while practicing reading, taking turns, and number order!
2.) Did our math circuits - we each took a hands-on math activity, did 5 minutes of that activity, and then passed it on to our neighbor. We took turns sorting numbers, making patterns, writing our numbers, and creating number candy jars!
3.) Had our first experience as official scientists today! We took our magnifying glasses and investigated our classroom using our 5 senses. Then we drew a picture and wrote about our experiences in our lab books.

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) We had a great time in Social Skills with Ms. Melissa! We learned all about feelings (sad, happy, mad, bored, etc.) by each student singing “Happy Birthday” to the class using a tone that would represent a different feeling. When they were done singing, the class would guess which feeling they were expressing when singing. Examples: When a student was singing, showing a happy feeling, they were smiling and using a cheery voice. Or, when a student was singing and acting mad, the singer was singing fast, with a mean face and showed they didn’t care about being nice by walking around the room.
2.) In Speech with Ms. Jen, we played a game called ‘Pronoun Parties’, where we had to identify the pronouns (boy, girl, her, his, etc).
3.) We played a game of ABC Animals. One student starts with the letter ‘A’ and names an animal that starts with ‘A’. When they were done, they picked a friend and told them the next letter in the alphabet and asked them to name an animal.

The Golden Owls:
1.) In Science with Ms. Melissa, we learned about the five senses. We touched things like orange peels, and lotion, we smelled things like clam juice and chocolate syrup, and smelled different spices with our noses. We talked about taste buds and how they live on our tongues and help us to taste our food, and lastly, we discussed sight and sound.
2.) In Social Skills with Ms. Melissa we talked about emotions. We played a game called ‘Guess the Emotion’, where as the student was reciting the song "Happy Birthday to You", in an emotion, like shy. The others had to guess what feeling the child was acting out. We are going to work on using our words to express how we feel when things happen to us.
3.) After Reading the book Mount Rushmore as a class we began our own carving exercise. We used soap, knives, spoons, and other classroom utensils to create a person of our choosing.