Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

HAPPY EARTH DAY!!

The Magic Trains:
1.) Read the book “Earthdance” and acted it out. We were tall as the mountains, large as Space and we were rushing water from waterfalls.
2.) Learned about rocks and minerals and painted beautiful rocks with Ms. Seena.
3.) We learned the tree pose in Yoga. We rested on our mats with our eye pillows and got a hand massage from Ms. Melinda.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Read a book called 'From Seed to Plant'! Then we created our own 'Seed to Plant' books by coloring and sequencing pictures and matching sentences to those pictures.
2.) Broke into math groups - one group worked on addition using bears and magnet numbers and the other group cut different shapes out of playdoh and practiced showing halves and quarters!
3.) Had yoga with Miss Melinda and drama with Mr. Jim! In yoga we practiced our poses, sun salutations, and our deep breathing. In drama, we played 'Magic Suitcase', 'What's Different', and other fun games!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) During Handwriting, we wrote Earth Day words and then colored the pictures that went with the word.
2.) In Social Skills, we read the book Mean Soup and then made our own mean soup! We each wrote different things we thought were mean and added them to the soup. We finished by sharing things we thought were mean and each getting the chance to use the big spoon and “stir the mean things away”!
3.) In Science today we talked about Earth Day and why it is important to celebrate this day. We discussed what things we can do to help the Earth: recycle, reuse things, don’t litter, etc.

The Golden Owls:
We had a EXCELLENT EARTH DAY!
1.) During writing we learned about acrostic poems and wrote one using the word EARTH. We first brainstormed different ways we help our earth before we wrote our sentences down.
2.) During our teamwork activity, we built different things using the classroom blocks. One group built a barn with horses while the other group built a habitat for zebras and dolphins!
3.) We continued to work on comparing fractions and reviewing addition and subtraction with regrouping and borrowing.