Monday, April 20 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Read the book “10 Things I Can Do to Help My World”. One thing we can do is that we should turn off the water while we brush our teeth. Then we did an art project that had to do with water and the fact that we all need clean drinking water.
2.) Reviewed addition and subtraction during Math.
3.) Played “Zingo” as a group with Kathy during Social Skills.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
What a marvelous Monday! Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Talked about all the fun things we did over spring break! We had so much fun sharing with our friends and it was so good to see everyone again!
2.) Had social skills with Miss Jen! We played a game called "Who am I?" Each of us wore a mask with an animal face, and our friends had to give us clues about what animal we were. It was so fun!
3.) Read a book about Arthur's family vacation! Before reading, we took turns making predictions about the book based on the cover.
4.) Practiced our addition skills using white boards and Unifix cubes.

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Math, we reviewed what we were learning before left for break: fractions, Touch Math or adding using a manipulative.
2.) In Fitness, Ms. Julie set up a rope ladder on the floor. She tossed us colored bean bag and we had to walk through the rope ladder by either hopping, skipping or switching every other foot. When we got to the end, we had to toss the bean bag into a hula hoop that matched the color of our bean bag. We finished by playing a game of balloon volleyball!
3.) We learned about litter and why it is important to reuse or recycle things. We started making our litter bugs out of “trash”. Tomorrow we are visiting a Recycling Center.

The Golden Owls:
We had a great day back in the Golden Owls!
1.) During language arts we continued to work on our reading strategies while reading nonfiction books. We reread paragraphs in order to answer different questions from our reading and we also reviewed why the author includes both a glossary and table of contents in a book.
2.) During math we reviewed fractions, time, adding with regrouping, and subtracting with borrowing.
3.) We had a great time in O.T. doing an Earth Day activity with Ms. Kathy. We planted marigolds in terra cotta pots.