Thursday, March 5th, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Practiced walking through a plastic ladder on the floor (forwards and backwards) with Mr. Dan during Fitness.
2.) Sang songs such as “I’ve Been Working On the Railroad” with Ms. Debbie during Music today.
NOTE: Please bring in a recipe for tomorrow! It can be simple but we really need them for our Diener School cookbook. Thanks!

The Diener Dinosaurs:
1.) Worked on calendars in math. We reviewed our calendars for March, and then we had to fix some funny calendars that were missing all of the even numbered days!
2.) Continued to talk about homes as part of our new theme - Living Things, Homes, and Habitats! Yesterday we each picked our favorite types of homes (castles and log cabins were quite popular), and today we made clay models of our favorite homes!
3.) Read the book 'You Look Ridiculous', made story predictions, and discussed the characters and setting of the story in language arts. We also worked in our Explode the Code workbooks!

The Mighty Dieners:
1) In Fitness we played tag and we used a rope ladder to walk forwards and backwards through it!
2) With Ms. Kathy, we worked on our Handwriting, and moved around in OT groups to "Bean Bag Rock", which works on listening and following directions; "Pass the Bean Bag", which works on passing left to right and following directions; as well as finishing with the "Hokey-Pokey"!! We all did an awesome job! :)
3) We will be moving Calendar Math to Thursday, therefore Ms. Kathy can help with our handwriting when answering the questions, as well numbering the calendar.

The Golden Owls:
1.) In class writing we are continuing with Topic sentences. They are going to use 3 examples from their library books to use in their writing. This allows them to incorporate this month’s theme which is Living Things.
2.) In the afternoon the Dynamite Deanna came in to perform a 3- 4 symphony. She worked with the class on several different songs and also gave them lots of instruments to enjoy.
3.) In speech with Ms Jen we used our active listening and categorization skills to do an activity based on this month's theme: Habitats and Environments. We split into small groups and compared and contrasted different types of animals and their homes. We also talked about how animals have adapted over years and how we often need to adapt socially depending on the different environments we are in.