Thursday, March 19th 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Played academic games such as “Zingo” and “What’s Gnu” during Language Arts. We also worked on writing the letter “Z” with Brook.
2.) Worked on addition and subtraction during Math.
3.) Completed a really cool obstacle course in Fitness today with Mr. Dan.
4.) Sang all of our songs about trains with Ms. Debbie during Music. We sang “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”, “Down by the Station”, “The Thomas Theme Song”.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
1.) Took turns reading aloud from a book called 'Digging to China'. Then we all did a book report sheet - we drew a picture of and wrote a sentence about what happened in the book!
2.) Went on a math scavenger hunt just like Tally O'Malley! We found all sorts on interesting things in The Diener School and practiced making our tallies on whiteboards.
3.) Built our very own caves and then created different animals and cave creatures with clay!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Fitness we went through an obstacle course that was both fun and challenging!
2.) We had a GREEN morning celebrating St. Patrick’s Day! (We were on a field trip on Tuesday.) We started our party by making green pudding! Then we played Shamrock Stomp (the same idea as Musical Chairs, but we walk around on shamrocks). We also played Irish Hot Potato--Lauren won the potato! We then participated in a motor-planning relay (much like leapfrog) and the Shamrock Shimmy, where we had to race and pick a card from the pot of gold that had a direction on it (hop like a bunny, crab crawl, jumping jacks, etc).
3.) In Music we did a really fun Fantasia lesson with Ms. Deanna and had a blast playing “Magic Suitcase” with Mr. Jim!

The Golden Owls:
Today in the Golden Owls we had a terrific Thursday!
1.) We continued to work on our writing skills during language arts, incorporating the five sentence paragraph while summarizing the important facts we read from our leveled readers.
2.) In speech with Ms. Jen we are finishing our team building habitat collages and sharing our discoveries with the rest of our class.
3.) During math, we continued our money unit while adding and subtracting like coins, making change and working on regrouping.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!