Monday, February 23rd, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Learned about words that start with “L” and practiced writing the letter “L”. Danielle played a memory game and Trevor played “Go Fish”. All students worked in their “Explode the Code” books.
2.) Danielle and Trevor worked on their turn taking and eye contact skills by playing “Candy Land” with Ms. Kathy. Jack and Teddy worked on turn taking and eye contact skills by playing “Chutes and Ladders” with Debbie.
3.) Finished an art project about nutrition. Last week we painted different types of fruits and vegetables and are making a food pyramid mobile with those fruits and vegetables.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
1.) Had a morning chat with Miss Jen! We talked about the fantastic birthday parties from this past weekend and each shared our favorite memories from the parties!
2.) Learned about our 'Star of the Week' in social skills with Miss Melissa. Next week we will learn about the Star of the Week in our classroom - our new friend Dale!
3.) Read a story together called 'Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!' Even though the cover did not seem to give us much information, our predictions were all spot on - we are getting VERY good at making story predictions!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Fitness we had SO much fun! We practiced a lot of hand-foot coordination. We started by kicking a ball at bowling pins and trying to knock them over. Then we got in a circle and had to pass a soccer ball to a friend. First we had to say a friend’s name so they knew to be ready for the ball. The friend had to stop the ball with one foot and then pass it to another friend! We finished by playing a passing soccer game. We played in groups of 3 and we had to pass the ball to each team member before shooting the ball in the goal.
2.) We played the game, “I’m going on a picnic…” and had to name something that starts with a letter (in alphabetical order). When we finished the whole alphabet, we drew pictures of what we said we would bring on our picnic.
3.) We read a book called Eating Well. We learned about choosing healthy foods to eat, and then we brainstormed all the healthy foods we could think of!!

The Golden Owls:
1.) We have begun a daily edit sheet from education world. These are paragraphs which contain several errors, allowing the kids to work on grammar, punctuation, and spelling. Thanks to Ms Kate from the mighty 1-2 this will be incorporated weekly.
2.) Today we also had a visitor. The Husband of the Great Mrs Maisie! Austin Branson came in to read a few books to us. THANK YOU. Mondays will officially be a day where ALL parents are welcome to come in and read to the class. Let us know what dates work for you.
3.) Today we also went over a few subject areas. We continued working with money in math, we also had several O.T. activities, we comprehension in Language Arts, and topic sentences in writing. As a class the Genius kids are improving in teambuilding, communication, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, how they treat and speak to one another.