Friday, April 24, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Planted marigolds with Ms. Brook by following step by step directions.
2.) Read poems about the Earth with Ms. Debbie and we talked about the fieldtrip that we went on yesterday.
3.) Sang our favorite songs with Ms. Deanna during Music class.Have a wonderful weekend! The letters for next week are “sh” and the theme is “The Earth and Our Environment” with a focus on oceans.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Read a poem about recycling! Then we went through the poem and identified different elements, including capitalized words, rhyming words, and sight words.
2.) Talked about two different types of letters - consonants and vowels. Then we filled in the missing vowels from our word family words and played vowel games on Starfall.com, our favorite language arts website!
3.) Worked on our addition facts using really cool Dr. Seuss flashcards, magnetic numbers, and unifix cubes in math ~ we did such a great job that we each earned a fun Dr. Seuss sticker at the end!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Art we made different objects using clay and then painted our sculptures!
2.) In Math, we worked in groups working on: identifying Touch Math points on a number, fractions and using manipulatives to add.
3.) Today is Arbor Day, and we made construction paper trees! We learned about why Arbor Day is important and described the different types of trees we saw outside.4.) We finished our day by writing Earth Day/Arbor Day themed Barebone Sentences on sentence strips!

The Golden Owls:
We had a fantastic pizza Friday!
1.) During art with Mrs. Feinberg we used our hands to mold clay and then we painted it! We are super excited about our art show next week and have worked so hard on all of our projects.
2.) During language arts, we continued to use our graphic organizers to help us remember the important points we read in our nonfiction books. We then used the organizers to summarize what the story was about and put it into paragraph form.
3.) We read The Weekly Reader with partners and talked about different current events that happened this week! Happy weekend!