Thursday, May 21st, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Worked on punctuation and spelling during Language Arts (Teddy and Jack did this). Trevor worked with Ms. Brook on handwriting while Danielle worked with Lynn on identifying colors and the sounds of the alphabet.
2.) Reviewed the book “Pilot Pups” and discussed that pilots are the people who fly the plane.
3.) Participated in an amazing obstacle course during Fitness with Mr. Dan. The kids had to hop through hoops, crawl through a cave, jump on a trampoline, do ten jumping jacks, go on a pretend surfboard and knock over bowling pins. Then they practiced doing something called “step and throw” which is stepping with your left leg (if you are right handed) and then throwing with your right hand.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Played a fun game in language arts with water squirters and sight words! We each had to listen to clues and find the appropriate sight word on the wall outside- then we had to soak it with water once we found it!
2.) Worked on math review in our Calvert workbooks - we reviewed counting backwards and calendar math!
3.) Continued to work on our space community - we reviewed our plans and built our first two planet neighborhoods, Mercuryville and Venustown!
The Mighty Dieners:1.) In Math we had a great time learning more about money! Some of us identified the differences in the coins (colors, size, pictures on the front and back), we had to put together a collage showing facts about a given coin. Others worked on skipping and skip counting by 5.
2.) During OT group we went through an obstacle course where we had to run through hoops, crawl through a tunnel, forward roll on the mat, jumping on the trampoline while crossing the midline when giving high-fives!
3.) In Music, Ms. Deanna taught us the Star Spangled Banner!!

The Golden Owls:
Today we had a Terrific Thursday!
1.) We had a great math class where we reviewed subtracting with borrowing and our multiplication skills. We used white boards and dry erase markers to solve different problems.
2.) During speech with Ms. Jen we read a book relating to Apollo 11, continuing our study of space. We then made predictions about what will happen in the future and closed with an experiment making moon rocks out of salt, water and flour.
3.) We had a great fitness class with Mr. Dan while focusing on loco-motor which included running, skipping, jumping forwards and backwards, the crabwalk and hopping. We finished with a relay race!