Monday, May 11th, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Read a book called “Sun Up, Sun Down” and worked on their picture of The Solar System. Now we have learned about the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Earth and we know a chant that goes with it!
2.) Worked on reading, writing and spelling during Language Arts. Jack and Teddy played a word game called “What’s Gnu?”
3.) Enjoyed the nice weather by going outside for an extra playtime during our Motor Break. We played “Bumper Dinos” which is a game that Jack invented.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Created flip books for the '-ip' word family! We colored the pictures and letters, cut out the pieces, and assembled them with a little help from our teachers. Then we worked on our Explode the Code workbooks!
2. ) Made our very own May calendars in math. After we filled in the dates, we talked about different elements of the calendar, the days of the week and the weeks in the month, and took turns identifying special days in May!
3.) Had science with Miss Melissa! Today we worked on making our own planet books! We also learned about Ben K.'s favorite book as part of his Star of the Week project!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Math, we worked on our Calendar Math questions! We had to answer questions such as: “What month was last month?”, “What month is next month?”, “How many days are in a week?”, “What holidays happen during this month?”
2.) During our monthly theme class, we talked about the different types of planes there are and what they are used for (commercial planes, military planes, spray planes, delivery planes, etc).
3.) We practiced identifying the different parts of a face and how we should draw a face. We will next be working on the body and how we should draw a person when free drawing or drawing as a part of a lesson!

The Golden Owls:
We had a great day in the Golden Owls!
1.) We have been reviewing addition with regrouping, subtracting with borrowing, time, fractions, and money during our math time! It is such fun to see all that we have learned and continue to learn! Some of us also continued what we learned last week which is adding two digit numbers without regrouping!
2.) During reading we reviewed our reading strategies and began a new leveled reader. We filled out the K and W of our KWL charts and then read our reader aloud in our small groups.
3.) During OT with Ms. Kathy we worked on individual motor and fine motor skills while working towards mastering our OT goals.