Friday, February 20th, 2009

The Magic Trains:
Today the Magic Trains:
1.) Worked on handwriting with Ms. Brook from OT. We practiced writing the letter “W” in our “Handwriting Without Tears” book, and also worked on writing numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4.
2.) Sang a “Berenstein Bears” book called “Going to Camp” with Ms. Deanna. Everyone listened to the entire book and enjoyed hearing it sung this way. Afterwards, we all sang “Going on a Bear Hunt.”
3.) After recess we had quiet time for five minutes and then played academic games such as “Go Fish” and “Caribou”.
4.) Learned about nutrition by reading a book about the food pyramid.
Have a great weekend! Next week, the letter of the week will be “L”.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
1.) Read a book called 'My Lucky Day' and did a mini book report - we drew a picture of our favorite part of the book and wrote a sentence describing our picture!
2.) Went on a quick field trip to drop off the donations that The Diener School has collected! Thanks to everyone for their generous contributions.
3.) Made a food groups book and wrote down one thing we like to eat from each of the food groups!
Have a wonderful weekend!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Art we learned all about Picasso and each painted a Picasso style painting using blue, black and white paint.
2.) In Math we graphed our weather for the week. Then we worked on what comes before or after a number, what comes between numbers, i.e., “what comes between 5 and 9?”
3.) After lunch and recess we were wonderful community members when we gathered all our school donations and personally delivered them with Ms. Courtney’s class to the National Center for Children and Families.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

The Golden Owls:
1.) For O.T. we did several brain gym activities to break up L.A., Writing, and Math. We also did some visual and fine motor circuits.
2.) In math we are continuing to work with Money. Martin from the 1-2 class will be joining us now on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. The kids are becoming more familiar with the types of coins and also improving with addition.
3.) As a class through teamwork and listening we earned a trip to Baskin Robbins. Thanks to our mom’s we each got a free kids cone. Have a great weekend!