Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Used big Styrofoam “lollipops” and mitts to hit plastic disks and “birdies” in Fitness with Mr. Chris and Ms. Julie. Then we gathered all of the birdies and disks with our scooters. We had a lot of fun in Fitness today.
2.) Read “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” This is a book that we will focus on a great deal this week. Tomorrow we will make caterpillars out of play dough. Every day we will do at least one or two activities related to the book.
3.) Drew pictures using different colored chalk and black construction paper during Art with Ms. Feinberg.
Tomorrow Jen our Speech Therapist will be in our class from 8:45 – 11:30 AM.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Had fitness with Mr. Chris! We worked on our tennis skills using big foam rackets and foam hands to hit discs and birdies. Then we had to use teamwork strategies to help clean up!
2.) Read a book called 'Hooray for Reading Day!'. Then we drew a picture of and wrote sentences about our favorite part of the book.
3.) Had art with Mrs. Feinberg! We worked on a very cool project using scissors and glue.

The Mighty Dieners:
We enjoyed our 2 hour delay!!
1.) We started our March Weather Calendars and Calendar Math!
2.) Today in Sensory Rotations we moved in circuits working such things as: categorizing (days of the week/months of the year), making shapes on a peg board with rubber bands, made patterns with colored pegs and then had to weave a shoelace through the pegs.
3.) In Music we sang “The more we get together…” and made sound patterns with instruments!
4.) In Science we started learning about non-living vs. living things.

The Golden Owls:
1.) In science with Ms. Melissa we began to build and put together our habitats. As a class we also discussed different types of environments and living things.
2.) In Math we are continuing with money. We are beginning as bankers writing money amounts correctly. They will then add and subtract different amounts.
3.) In the afternoon the kids chose their movie of choice: Dinosaurs, Penguins or Sharks. We then began a KWL, what we Know, what we Want to know, and what we Learned.

From the Office:
PLEASE DON’T FORGET TO BRING IN YOUR HEALTHY RECIPES FOR OUR COOKBOOK! PLEASE HAVE THEM IN BY FRIDAY, MARCH 6TH! THANKS!