Thursday, May 14th, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) We wrote about the book we read Happy Birthday, Moon by Frank Asch. Bear likes moon so much he wants to buy him a birthday present. He paddles across the river, hikes through the forest, and climbs the mountain to get close enough to the talk to the moon. 2.) Wrote sentences about the story Happy Birthday Moon and then drew pictures to go with the sentences. Jack wrote “The bear went to the woods” and pasted a moon and a bear on the paper. Danielle said “The bear went to the mountain to see the moon”.
3.) Played soccer and then played “keep away” outside during Fitness with Mr. Dan. Everyone ran so much in the grass and then came back to the room to have “Quiet Time”.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs…
1.) Finished putting together our 'Sing a Song of Solar System' poem and continued working on our leveled readers in language arts!
2.) Worked on putting together addition and subtraction puzzles in math! We also counted up our Diener Dollars and earned a special trip to the Diener Store for doing such an amazing job on our work.
3.) Put together our Sun Town Center together! We put up our shops and buildings and added roads, trees, and lakes! Now we are ready for our next step - creating planet neighborhoods.

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In fitness we went outside and learned how to play kickball and working on playing as a team.
2.) In OT with Ms. Kathy, we learned new gross motor movements using partners to stretch.
3.) During math, we did juggling math where Mr. Aaron juggled dice. When he came to a stop, he would give a die to two different children and they had to work together to add the dots to find the sum. It was fun!

The Golden Owls:
Today in the Golden Owls
1.) We played the Superhero game in speech with Ms. Jen! The point of the game is to defeat as many super villains as we can by offering solutions to social problems and discussing ways we can be helpful members of the community.
2.) During team building time we built different structures out of blocks. We built the famous Hershey Park as a group and worked on compromising and working together.
3.) We had a fun and energetic fitness class with Mr. Dan. We ran, galloped, hopped, and then played kickball against Mr. Dan. We had a great time.