Thursday, February 5th, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Read a book called “Beady Bear” during story time. The kids really seemed to like this book and they listened very nicely.
2.) Practiced rolling on the mats and played tag during Fitness with Dan.
3.)Played “Magic Suitcase”, went on a “trip” and acted out being different kinds of animals during Drama with Jim.
4.) Prepared for our field trip to the Hebrew Home during Music with Deanna. We practiced the songs that we will sing tomorrow.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
What a thrilling Thursday! Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Read one of our new book fair books, 'The Perfect Nest', together! Then we drew pictures and wrote sentences describing the beginning, middle, and end of the story. We also played a very fun game of charades and worked on our handwriting with Miss Brook!
2.) practiced our songs for the Hebrew Home visit tomorrow - we are ready for our performance! We are singing train songs (in honor of the Magic Trains) and one of our favorite new songs - Fifty Nifty United States!
3.) read a poem called 'Examination' and took turns identifying different sight words in the poem. 4.) had fitness with Mr. Dan - we played a great game of kickball together! We also played some of our old favorites, like 'What time is it, Mr. Fox?'**Parents, please have your child bring one of his favorite books to share with our class next week - thank you!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Fitness we had a great time practicing somersaults!
2.) During OT groups we danced the “Hokey-Pokey” and “Can’t Sit Still” where we had to identify the different parts of the body and know our left side from our right side.
3.) In Handwriting some of us worked on out letter formations, while others used letters already learned to write words.
4.) In Math, we worked in our Calvert Math books. Some continued to work on patterns, another group worked on the concept of one more.
**PLEASE REMEMBER TO USE PENCIL AT HOME WHEN DOING HOMEWORK. ALSO, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR STUDENT WRITES THEIR NAME ON THE HOMEWORK.--THANKS**

The Golden Owls:
1.) In math we are continuing with subtraction regrouping. We are incorporating the game around the world, war with cards, and utilizing flashcards.
2.) Today we had a farewell festival for Ms. Marilyn. Unfortunately today was her last day with the class. Dynamite Deanna will be taking over music on Mondays.
3.) In writing we are continuing to work on topic sentences and filling our paragraphs with a lot of details. We are also working on mastering our concluding sentences which finalize our paragraphs.

Reminders:* Tomorrow is the last day of the Book Fair. It is open all day until 4PM.*Dara Feldman/ Virtues training for parents - Friday, February 6th at 9:15AM