Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Read “Flying” by Donald Crews. Danielle brought this book from home. Then each student wrote a sentence about the story. The sentences had to do with where the plane flew (over the airport, over the river and over the clouds).
2.) Flew a kite outside and shared one kite very nicely with each other. This was a fun activity to do together on such a wonderful day!
3.) Painted beautiful splatter paint pictures outside with Ms. Feinberg. Then students had a chance to paint something of their own.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
1.) Worked on a fantastic end-of-year picture frame project with Miss Brook! We worked on painting and decorating special picture frames, and when they're dry, we will put our pictures in and bring them home
2.) Played some great games with Mr. Chris in fitness! We practiced catching discs, jumping over moving obstacles, and throwing at targets!
3.) Continued to work on our space community! We broke into small groups and worked on our planet neighborhoods - we did a great job brainstorming and using creative thinking!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) Today we had an amazing field trip at the Dulles Air and Space Museum learning all about how planes fly and the different types of planes that fly through our sky everyday! During a wonderful presentation we learned about the 4 forces that make planes fly: weight, lift, thrust, and drag. We ended the presentation by making boomerangs that demonstrate how things fly through the air.
2.) A wonderful docent (we learned that a docent is a tour guide at a museum) gave us a tour of some of the many planes that filled the hangar. We learned about the fastest plane called the Blackbird that is so fast it can go to California in 1 hour! It’s job was to take pictures from the air of other countries. We also saw the first freighter plane made by Boeing that delivered things across the country. It was the success of that plane that spread to Boeing creating commercial planes for the public.
3.) When we returned to school, we reviewed the 4 forces and wrote each one on the wing of our boomerangs!
4.) In Music, we sang “The more we sing together….the happier we’ll be”, while using instruments at the same time!

The Golden Owls:
Today we had a terrific Tuesday!
1.) On our field trip to the Dulles Air and Space Museum we had a wonderful time. We learned about weight, lift, drag and thrust and how they all work together to help planes fly! We saw one of the first airplanes ever made and made our own boomerangs!
2.) When we came back to school, we watched a movie and took notes on "The Wright Brothers Flying Machines." We also compared the planes we saw on our field trip to the ones in the movie.
3.) During music with Mr. Dave, we learned the song "I've Got Rythm" in more detail. We not only sang but used instruments to further explore the beat.