Thursday, May 28th, 2009

The Magic Trains:
Today the Magic Trains:
1.) The Magic Trains typed and illustrated our book covers!
2.) We went for a moon walk and pretended to be astronauts like Neil Armstrong chanting “Eagle has Landed” after reading the book One Giant Leap by Robert Burleigh.
3.) We finished putting the “inner planets” on our solar system window mural.
4.) Today was our last class with Ms. Brook and we played a new, fun game with her called “Sequence”. This was a matching game and the object of the game was to get three tokens in a row. We gave Ms. Brook a present and wished her a very happy summer!
5.) During Fitness with Mr. Dan, we ran through an obstacle course made of hoola hoops and participated in relay races.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
1.) Read a poem called 'The Moon'! Then we went through the poem and took turns finding sight words, rhyming words, and science words in the text.
2.) After we read our poem, we each got our own copy to cut apart, reconstruct, and glue back together! We decorated our poems with moon pictures and glitter.
3.) Had a very buggy afternoon! We reviewed our 'I'm an Insect' weekly reader and made fabulous bug masks! We used our amazing creativity to make super scary and super silly bugs.

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) This morning, Ms. Kathy had us feel letters! She brought a fun activity where you had to put your hand in a bowl and grab a letter—but not pull it out! When we were holding the letter we had to feel it and describe what shape it was and tell Ms. Kathy what letter it was!
2.) In Math, we read a fun book called Leaping Lizards and learned some more about counting by 5’s and 10’s.
3.) This afternoon we had a fun Music class with Mr. Paul’s class in the Sensory Room! We played musical and movement games such as Hokey Pokey and Going on a Bearhunt!

The Golden Owls:
We had a terrific Thursday in the Golden Owls!
1.) During math we went outside and did math problems with chalk.
2.) In speech with Ms. Jen we played, “What Did You Say?” a game of nonverbal communication including facial expressions, volume, tone of voice and body language. We had a super time in speech.
3.) During fitness with Mr. Dan we worked on our gross motor skills including jumping through hula hoops, leaping, running, and hopping.

Have a fantastic long weekend!!