Monday, March 16th, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) During Language Arts we learned about farm animals and learned the names for baby farm animals. The animals we talked about specifically were the baby lamb, duckling, piglet and calf.
2.) Mr. Tim came to do some floor time activities with the class. We played with the trains together and had fun.
3.) Played Alphabet Lotto with Ms. Kathy during Social Skills. We worked on asking our friends if they had various letters. We also worked on turn taking skills.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Did a great habitats matching activity with Miss Jen and worked in our Explode the Code books during Language Arts!
2.) Played the game 'Pass the Mask' in social skills - the teacher held her hands up like a mask, and when she took them away, her face showed an emotion! We had to guess what it was and then passed the imaginary mask to each other and took turns making that face.
3.) Finished creating our shoebox habitats in science with Miss Melissa! We did a great job painting them, creating habitats out of clay, and placing our animals in their new homes.

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) Ms. Melissa came and did an activity with us to prepare us for tomorrow’s field trip. We cut out labels for the types of animals we might see tomorrow. Then we could either draw a picture or write/cut & paste a description next to each animal label.
2.) Later, learned more about tomorrow’s field trip by talking about the different animals and the habitats they live in.
3.) Mr. Aaron showed us some dance moves where we had to follow the beat!
4.) We celebrated Ms. Ginny’s birthday with a surprise party!! J

The Golden Owls:
Today in the Golden Owls we:
1.) Watched a social studies movie about bears and their habitats. We filled out a KWL chart in the beginning of class to see how much we knew about bears and what we hope to learn from the movie.
2.) Continued to work on making change for a dollar and more during our math class. We are revisiting regrouping while doing this.
3.) Had a great fitness class with Coach Dan! We played "What Time Is It Mr. Fox," practiced our bowling, and worked as a team to knocked down pins.
It was a great day!