Monday, May 4, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) The magic trains worked as a team to put a giant dinosaur floor puzzle together.
2.) Ms. Seena brought a box of rocks, crystals and even fossilized dinosaur poo from millions of years ago.
3.) We went to the Island of Sodor and painted the engines.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Read a book called 'Floating in Space'! It was all about astronauts traveling to space. What a great way to kick off our 'Earth, Air, and Water' theme for this month!
2.) Played a great emotions game with Miss Jen in Social Skills! We each took turns wearing an emotion card on our head, and our friends had to give us clues to help us guess what emotion we were wearing.
3.) Had science with Miss Melissa! We talked about the planets and started coloring pictures for our solar system project! Then we got to see Micah's fantastic 'Star of the Week' poster and learn all about his favorite things!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Math, we learned about the month of May and labeled our May calendars!
2.) We learned all about the sport, Football in Fitness today! We practiced throwing a ball into a large hoop! During Dance with Mr. Aaron, we practiced a dance step routine (it is a repeated dance pattern) we learned last week!
3.) This afternoon, we learned all about aviation to prepare for our field trip tomorrow! We brainstormed everything we could think of that flies! Then we sorted our brainstorming list into groups we thought fit together, finally we named the categories we put them in (living things that fly, machines that fly, etc).

The Golden Owls:
Today in the Golden Owls we had a great Crazy Hair Day!!!
1.) During fitness with Ms. Julie we practiced catching and throwing a football! We worked in pairs and then tried throwing through different size hoops! We ended out fitness time with a game trying to score against Ms. Julie. The trick was we had to pass to everyone before we scored.
2.) During OT with Ms. Kathy, we began working on our special Mother's Day activity. We put our fine motor skills to use during our painting activity.
3.) In math we reviewed time, adding and subtracting using both regrouping and borrowing, and fractions before we continued to work on multiplication.