Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Read a story called “Larry Loses a Tooth”. This tied in nicely with our trip to dentist and we spoke about what would happen if the students lost a tooth.
2.) Worked on gross motor skills by jumping over plastic blocks in Fitness with Mr. Chris. We also learned about magnets. A negative and a positive stick together!
3.) Continued to learn about measurement using standard and non standard units of measurement in Math. You can try this at home by measuring objects using paper clips or plastic manipulatives.
4.) Learned about different types of lines and made pictures using straight lines, horizontal lines and diagonal lines in Art with Ms. Feinberg.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
1.) Practiced our handwriting with Miss Brook and created a storyboard for the three little pigs in Language Arts.
2.) Read 'Animals on Board', a great Mathstart book about addition! Then we worked on writing our numbers and adding with counting bears.
3.) Had art with Mrs. Feinberg! We created 'abstract art' by drawing and coloring beautiful pictures using only straight lines - then we read a book called 'White Rabbit's Color Book' together!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) We went to the National History museum in D.C.! We saw fossils, big whale jaws and beautiful diamonds and jewels! We even saw the Hope Diamond! Then we stood next to the log bone of an elephant and had to see if we were bigger or smaller than the elephant leg! Most of us were much smaller than the leg!!
2.) We had a pizza lunch when we got back to Diener School!! J
3.) We had music class with Mr. David today! We had to listen and follow the instruction and then we danced and played drums!

The Golden Owls:
We had a great day in the Golden Owls.
1.) We began our day with a field trip to the Salt Ocean Hall where we saw a huge squid which was being preserved. We also saw an enormous whale and fossils! At the end of our trip, we visited the gems and precious stones exhibit and explored what beautiful things come from our earth!
2.) We had our first music lesson with Dave and sang some wonderful songs! We began with "The More We Get Together" to introduce ourselves to him.
3.) We learned about the author Patricia Polacco and how she could not read until she was fourteen! We learned a little about dyslexia and how everyone learns differently. We ended our lesson by reading Mrs. Polacco's book, "My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother." During this time we continued our reading strategies of predicting and connecting.