Thursday, February 19th, 2009

The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Read a book with Ms. Ginny called 'The Mysterious Tadpole'. We wrote down predictions regarding what was going to happen in the book based on the cover and then drew pictures of what happened first, next, and last in the story!
2.) Reviewed our food diaries in science - we are getting really good at identifying the food groups and matching different foods to their groups!
3.) Played lots of fun games in fitness with Mr. Dan and continued to practice our numbers in our Calvert Math books!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Fitness we played tag and had to throw bean bags into different hula hoops placed on the ground!
2.) We practiced our Handwriting with Ms. Kathy, and had to match an uppercase letter to its lowercase match!
3.) In Music, Ms. Deana taught us “Surfin’ in the USA” and we sang “Going on a Bear Hunt”.
4.) In Drama Mr. Jim let us play “Magic Suitcase”! It was so much fun!!

The Golden Owls:
1.) In speech with Ms. Jen we read a story called Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. Throughout the story we made predictions, sequenced steps, and worked on our flexibility for understanding incoming language such as figurative language (idioms, metaphors, humor), homonyms, and subtleties.
2.) In Drama with Mr. Jim we worked on a lot of fun games and activities which reinforced communication, flexibility, and also teamwork. This gave the GENIUS children an opportunity to get out of their seats and move around the room.
3.) In writing we broke up into groups and continued with our paragraphs. We are utilizing topic sentences, three specific details, and also concluding sentences. As a class our writing is improving and becoming more detailed :)