Thursday, February 27th, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) We continued talking about the food pyramid and healthy foods.
2.) We practiced writing our numbers and we worked on addition.
3.) Ms. Deanna came into our classroom and we played instruments and sang songs. We loved it!

The Diener Dinosaurs:
1.) Finished reading 'Letters from a Desperate Dog' - we loved this book! After we finished, we checked our predictions and then drew and labeled pictures of the beginning, middle, and end of the story. We also read our leveled readers out loud to each other in small groups.
2.) Worked on turn-taking and following directions by playing Chutes and Ladders and Candyland together!
3.) Played 'The Instruments Dance' and 'Musical Puppets' with Miss Deanna in music - it was so much fun!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Fitness we started with partner warm-ups then we played Freeze-Dance and Freeze-movements (running, skipping, jumping jacks, etc).
2.) We split into 2 groups and one group worked on Handwriting with Ms. Kathy and the other group worked on adding details to Fitness pictures and expanding on our labeling. Then we switched groups.
3.) In Drama we talked about when we pretend to be animals or silly people only during Drama time! We have to act like people when we are in school! J We then played the “Magic Suitcase” game and had to pull out things that were made by humans!

The Golden Owls:
1.) Continued to work on our topic sentences, three specific details and our concluding sentences during our writing time. We are working to answer the w questions as well as incorporating our five senses into our writing.
2.) Had a great time with Mr. Jim in drama! We played different games incorporating our gross motor skills like the suitcase game.
3.) In speech with Ms. Jen we worked hard and had a blast! We played a game called Plunk's Pond to work on a variety of language skills including: word retrieval, auditory memory, providing higher level attributes for target items, and making predictions. The students were required to immediately recall auditory input and integrate the clues to determine the next step in our game. They practiced some of our auditory processing strategies such as verbal rehearsals and Give Me 5.