Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

The Magic Trains:
Today the Magic Trains:
1.) Played a bingo game involving words starting with “wh” with Ms. Jen. Students had to listen to clues so that they would know which word and picture to find.
2.) Learned about cubes, cylinders and cones in Math. Danielle and Trevor worked on writing the numbers 1-6. They played a game with the dice to help them count and identify the numbers.
3.) Acted like goldfish in Yoga and learned a couple new yoga poses. We ended with our breathing ball and “Namaste”.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
What a terrific Tuesday! Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Did an obstacle course, worked on our handwriting, and did fine motor circuits with Miss Brook!
2.) Created numbers out of wiki sticks and played number memory in math.
3.) Made our food journals in science - we are going to write down what we eat every night and talk about our meals each day as part of our Health and Nutrition theme!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Math, we started graphing our toothpaste results! We also played a game where a ball was thrown to you and you were given a number. Then the teacher asked “what number comes before/after (the given number?”
2.) In Social Skills we worked on teamwork and following directions.
3.) In Yoga we played the Freeze game and practiced the “boat” and “flower” pose!

The Golden Owls:
1.) Ms. Melissa came in for social skills and is having the Genius students work on listening, following directions, and respect.
2.) In writing we are continuing with Topic sentences. We began to use sound and questions beginnings. This is giving the kids a different way to hook their readers.
3.) In dance with Mr. Aaron the girls and boys separated and worked on dance battles. They choreographed a variety of moves as the boys tried to get the girls to dance with them. The girls of course played hard to get and had a great time!