Thursday, April 2nd 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Learned about taking care of the Earth through recycling during Language Arts. Played a game called “Wild Woods” and we protected the animals from the thunderstorm.
2.) Played an addition game during Math. Each student threw the dice and had to add the amount together. We earned prizes for taking turns and showing good sportsmanship.
3.) Played with Melissa during Social Skills in the afternoon.

The Diener Dinosaurs
Today the Diener Dinosaurs…
1.) Read a book called 'Oliver' and did a book report about our favorite part of the book! Then we worked on our Explode the Code workbooks.
2.) Worked on addition problems using magnetic numbers! Then we worked in our Calvert Math workbooks.
3.) Played music games with Miss Deanna, including “The Beanbag Dance” and “Bop Until You Drop!”

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) Ms. Kathy worked on handwriting with us and then built an obstacle for us to go through. We had to bear crawl, jump into and out of a large inner tube, crawl through a tunnel, jump on the mini-tramp and high five Mr. Aaron and then scoot around the bowling pins!!
2.) In Math we worked on either Touch Math points 6-9 or using blocks to add!
3.) In Music, we used a parachute to help hold the stuffed animals, while we sang about traveling down a river!!

The Golden Owls:
Today in the Golden Owls we had a terrific Thursday!
1.) In Math we continued to work on fractions. We also worked on our fine motor skills while coloring and cutting different fractions which make a whole. We also compared which fraction was the greatest and which was the smallest.
2.) During Speech with Ms. Jen we played a game called Apples to Apples Junior to work on our higher-order thinking skills including: predicting, reasoning, and forming associations. We also addressed social awareness through perspective taking and using supportive language.
3.) During Drama with Mr. Jim, we played a fabulous new game called Taxi after playing one of our favorites, The Magic Suitcase. We had a ball!

From the Office:
** Please send in your canned and nonperishable foods for The Diener School Food Drive
** Our dismissal time next Wednesday, April 8th will be at 12PM. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.