Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Happy Birthday Jillian!!

The Magic Trains:
1.) Played phonics and memory games during Language Arts.
2.) Continued to classify shapes by color and size during Math.
3.) Our Magic Trains joined the school in singing “Happy Birthday” to our wonderful director, Ms. Jillian.
4.) Played “red light, green light” during fitness class, and “parachute”. Both activities tested their listening skills, coordination, and gross motor movement.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
What a thrilling Thursday! Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Played a game of 'What's GNU' and made our OWN leveled readers! We did a great job creating and reading our books.
2.) Colored in a story called 'Eat a Rainbow' - it was all about different colors and which fruits and vegetables fit in with each color. We learned that eating different colors of food gives you different vitamins and minerals! We also played a food groups matching game on the computer.
3.) Made a wiggly Valentine's Day person in fine motor! We did a great job cutting, coloring, and assembling them - then we got to play with them!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) We had so much fun in Fitness! Today we played soccer!
2.) We had such a fun OT Valentine’s party! We made bouncy heart people where we had to cut, fold paper and draw the faces! We played 2 fun games of Sharing Musical Chairs. When we walked around the chairs we had to follow Ms. Kathy’s instructions and walk on our toes or heels, walk with our hands on our heads, etc. When we took a chair away and a friend didn’t have one, we offered to share our seat! By the end, we were all happily sharing one chair together! We finished our OT fun by decorating Valentine bags to collect our Valentine’s tomorrow!
3.) We ended our hands-on OT day with Music and Drama. In Music, Ms. Deena started as our new music teacher and we were so happy to have her. J

The Golden Owls:
1.) In math we are continuing our learning of money. We have been using $20, $10, $5 and $1bills within our classroom store. We are also beginning with the use of quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies.
2.) Throughout the day we take several breaks to work on gross and fine motor skills. We play a variety of games to work on teambuilding and communication too. Today Ms. Dynamite Deanna provided an awesome music class.
3.) In Language Arts we are continuing with contractions, verbs, nouns, adjectives along with our comprehension strategies.