Friday, May 8, 2009

The Magic Trains:
Today the Magic Trains:
1.) Had an amazing time at the College Park Aviation Museum. We learned about the history of the first planes, dressed up like pilots and mailed our very own postcards.
2.) Made Mother’s Day presents. Happy Mother’s Day! You are all wonderful!
3.) Read a book called “Jack the Builder” at the end of the day.HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Had an amazing field trip to the College Park Aviation Museum! We saw different kinds of planes, learned about the different parts of the planes, dressed up as aviators, sat in and steered a model plane, and got to do hands-on activities! We all had a wonderful time.
2.) Each got a souvenir from the field trip - our very own planes to build! We worked on building them in the afternoon, and as we built them we talked about the different airplane parts that we learned about during our tour.
3.) Got a real treat at the end of the day - we all got to try astronaut ice cream! It was NOTHING like regular ice cream - it was dry and crunchy!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) We played an amazing game of categories and similarities/differences games! We were paired up and had to work together to give an answer! Some examples of questions that were asked are: What doesn’t belong? (table, chair, bed, pencil) How are they alike? (farm-zoo) How are they different? (bird-airplane)
2.) In Art, we learned about watercolor painting! We sketched a picture using a pencil, then painted our sketches with the watercolor paint.
3.) Mr. Aaron played a math/OT game with us! We each were given a cone to hold. He would give each of us a math problem. When we gave him the correct answer (we could use manipulatives to help) he threw a bean bag that we had to catch in our cone!

The Golden Owls:
Today we had a fantastic Friday!
1.) We had a great art class with Ms. Feinberg! We had the best time working with watercolors and painting on canvas.
2.) We reviewed nouns and worked on our Explode the Code books in language arts before answering comprehension questions from our leveled readers and writing paragraphs from our webs and graphic organizers.
3.) During our teamwork activities we played both Sorry and Blokus. We had such fun working together.
Happy weekend!