Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Read a book called “Take a Trip to Planet Blip” and talked about whether or not planet “Blip” was real or pretend. We also practiced our chant about the Solar System. Ask your child to see how many planets they can name.
2.) Worked on OT related goals individually with Ms. Brook.
3.) Enjoyed a climbing up the mountain song and positions during Yoga with Ms Melinda.
4.) Worked on word problems during Math. Jack and Teddy had to feed bones to a dog and they used the little bones to help them count. Trevor worked on measurement with Debbie and Danielle worked on counting and addition with Lynn.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Read new leveled reader books called 'How Many Legs' and 'My Neighborhood' and reviewed our 'Sing a Song of Solar System' poem from yesterday!
2.) Worked on math review with Miss Kim! We did a great job showing her all of the wonderful things we have learned so far this year.
3.) Started creating our space community! We used our brainstorming ideas from yesterday to create the Sun neighborhood, which will be the town center of our community. Thanks to the parents for sending in the great boxes and containers!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Math, we worked some more with money! We talked about why money is important and brainstormed all the things we need money to buy. Using real coins we sorted them, by color and noticed that all pennies are the same color (brown), but a bunch of other coins are different sizes, but the same color (silver). We then sorted the silver coins into piles by size and talked about the name of each coin and the value of each coin.
2.) During social skills, we plan a situation games dealing with emotions and what your body would look like. We each pick a card from a basket and had to read the situation/scenario it had written on it. Then we had to talk about what we would do in that situation. (Ex. “Your class is going on a field trip. What does your body look like?” If they said they were happy with that situation, then they would explain what your body looks like if you are happy—standing tall, shoulders back, smiling face, etc)
3.) In Yoga, we practiced controlling our breathing and new poses that we had to have a partner for—it was hard, but we did it!

The Golden Owls:
We had a great Wednesday in the Golden Owls.
1.) During writing, we finished revising and rewriting our paragraphs about our planets with our partner. We then made a poster to go along with it. During this time we worked on cooperation and making compromises.
2.) During reading we revisited the 5 w's and summarized the story we are reading. We also made connections and used the strategy of rereading to figure out different corrections that were asked of us.
3.) We had an awesome dance class with Mr. Aaron. We practiced the dance we have been working on and added onto it.
Enjoy this beautiful weather!