Thursday, April 23rd

The Magic Trains:
1.) Had a great fieldtrip! We went to the Recycling Center and saw how trash gets sorted and reused. We learned a lot and had a good time with Ms. Courtney's class.
2.) Read a book about the Earth and wrote words such as "trees", "endangered" and "rainbow".
3.) Had Social Skills with Ms. Debbie. We read a social story about sharing.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Went on an amazing field trip to the Montgomery County Recycling Center! We learned about all of the different things we can recycle, talked about why recycling is important, and then got to see the actual facility in action! There were conveyor belts sorting glass, plastics, papers, and trash and gigantic trucks moving huge piles of recycling around!
2.) When we got back from the recycling center, we talked about what we learned on our trip and about what our favorite parts were. Then we colored in the great coloring book that we got as a souvenir from the recycling center!
3.) Played games outside! We worked on our teamwork and listening skills while enjoying the nice weather.The

Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Fitness we worked on eye-foot coordination by kicking a stationary soccer ball and tried to knock down bowling pins. We also practiced passing the ball back and forth with partners.
2.) During OT group, Ms. Kathy brought in plant soil, plant pots and Marigold plants. Using a spoon we had to scoop out soil and drop it in our pots. Then we had to put the Marigold plants into the pots and press the soil down into the pots. We finished this fun Earth Day themed activity by watering our plants so they would be ready to take home!
3.) In Math, we read Earth Day-Hooray! It was a book about cleaning up parks, which we will be doing next week (since yesterday was rained out L). The book as well introduced place value. We learned that numbers have a home—we started with the ones home and the tens home!The

Golden Owls:
1.) During speech with Ms. Jen we played a new game called. “What Did You Say?” We worked on reading body language and how different people feel about different things. 2.) During writing, we continued our discussion on recycling and revisited our field trip. We used a graphic organizer to write down all that we know. 3.) During fitness with Ms. Julie we did our warm up of jumping jacks, running and stretching before working on out soccer skills.