Tuesday, April 14th 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Had a fantastic fieldtrip at “Personal Ponies” and met several adorable Shetland ponies, chicken, goals, a cat and a dog.
2.) Painted beautiful sculptures during Art with Ms. Feinberg.
3.) Participated in a Social Skills lesson about feelings.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
1.) Had a fantastic field trip to the Personal Ponies farm! We visited, groomed, and fed our favorite Shetland Ponies (Netherley, Nettie, and Nicolas), goats, chickens, roosters, dogs, cats and rabbits! We are each going to write a letter to our favorite animal and send it to the farm as part of our Personal Ponies project!
2.) Had music class with Miss Deanna! We sang some of our old favorites, including 'Doe, a Deer' and 'I've Been Working on the Railroad'. Then we played music games and did the Beanbag Dance!
3.) Had art class with Mrs. Feinberg! We learned about three dimensional art and painted beautiful foam sculptures.

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) We went over our homework and talked about the nouns and verbs we circled!
2.) During Fine Motor: we stenciled words, used rubber bands to make different shapes on the peg board and used magnetic balls and sticks to build something. Then we finished by listening to “Can’t Sit Still” and had to follow the directions: wiggle your fingers, tap your shoulders, knees and toes, tapping our nose switching hands and many more!
3.) In Music, we sang, “The More We Sing Together” and used instruments to follow the rhythm.

The Golden Owls:
What a fun day we had!
1.) During our language arts time we continued to work on our various reading strategies while reading nonfiction leveled readers. We talked about why a table of contents may be included in a story as well as pictures or photographs. We also played one of our favorite games called "Freedom" to work on our flexibility and following directions.
2.) During math we revisited money; adding and subtracting different amounts, seeing how many different ways to make a certain amount of money, and working independently on math sheets.
3.) We also had a fantastic fitness class with Mr. Chris! We played soccer and not only worked on our dribbling skills but teamwork as well!

From the Office:
** Please remember to return all the proofs that were sent home from Picture Art by tomorrow, regardless of portrait purchase or not.

** Our dismissal time tomorrow will be at 12PM. There is no need to send in a lunch for your child tomorrow due to the early dismissal. We will provide a snack for all the kids in the morning.

THANKS!!!!