Thursday, May 7th, 2009

The Magic Trains:
Today the Magic Trains:
1.) Wrote in their journals. Teddy wrote about trains. Trevor wrote about cars and trains. Jack wrote about a sea serpent.
2.) Acted out different types of animals such as crabs and horses, used their soccer kicks to knock over the bowling pins and played freeze dance in Fitness with Mr. Dan.
3.) Learned more about different money amounts during Math. The students had to buy things such as crayons, markers and sticky notes for 10 cents, 20 cents and 25 cents.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Read a poem called 'Eight Planets'! Then we each cut apart our own poem, put the lines back together in the right order, and decorated the back of our poems with pictures of the solar system!
2.) Played a fun word game! Miss Courtney and Miss Deanna wore consonant letter vests and each of us got a vowel vest. We had to help them create words by adding vowels to their letters! Then we called on our friends to make new words using different vowels.
3.) Talked all about aviation and our field trip tomorrow! We learned about the parts of a plane, watched a video of the very first flight, and discussed what we are going to see in the museum tomorrow. Then we got to make and fly paper airplanes using the red paper that Micah brought in as part of his sharing for Star of the Week!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) We had a wonderful morning! Ms. Kathy was here and we worked very hard on our handwriting. During OT Groups, we connected the numbers 1-25 on a Dot-to-Dot to make a beautiful picture for our mom! We also worked on our surprise gifts for our wonderful moms or grandma for Mother’s Day! SHHHH…we can’t tell though—you will have to wait and see J Making the gift involved a lot of fine motor activities!
2.) In Math, we read Monster Musical Chairs which is a math text about subtracting 1. Before we read, we talked about how we have played musical chairs in class and what the rules of the game are. As we began to read we learned that the monsters had 6 chairs to start the game, so we lined up six cubes to following along with them! As we read, we had to pay attention and take one of our cubes away! After the book, we split into pairs and each had 10 cubes. We counted each cube to 10, then took 1 away. Then we counted how many are left. We repeated the phrase, “I had_______. I took 1 away and now I have_________.” We did that all the way to 1!
3.) We also had a full day of specials: Fitness we played tag, and in Music we sang a song about the Sun and in Drama we pulled out things that have to do with the rain from the Magic Suitcase and then we acted them out!

The Golden Owls:
Today we had a cozy Pajama Day!
1.) During fitness with Coach Dan, we worked on our bear walk, galloping, skipping, hopping, and jumping before revisiting soccer skills.
2.) In music with Ms. Deanna, we visited our monthly theme and sang songs about the different planets.
3.) During writing we continued the paragraphs we wrote earlier this week and revised them before writing our final draft!