Monday, June 1st, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Played a really fun Dr. Seuss game called “I Can Do That”. We picked cards and acted out the directions.
2.) Took a walk to a nearby park and played ball.
3.) Some students finished writing their books and we drew pictures to go along with what we wrote.
4.) Reviewed many concepts in Math. For example, we reviewed “top”, “middle” and “bottom”.
5.) Made colorful thank you cards for Mr. Chris, Ms. Julie and Mrs. Feinberg. We will miss them over the summer vacation.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
1.) Began our end-of-year review in Morning Meeting! We are reviewing all of the concepts we have learned about in Morning Meeting, including beginning and ending word sounds, rhyming words, word families, calendar concepts, tallies, one more, one less, addition, and subtraction!
2.) Did a fantastic activity with Miss Jen to celebrate her last day with us! She read us a book filled with facts about the ocean. Then we each made our own seascapes using blue jello, marshmallows, twizzlers, gummy candies, and other treats. We created fish, seaweed, coral reefs, and octopuses to make awesome oceans!
3.) Had science with Miss Melissa ~ we read a book about planets together, then finished our planet book and wrapped up our unit on Air, Space, and Water!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Fitness, we played soccer and learned to kick the ball with the inside of the foot, NOT your toes!! We also had to line up and throw bean bags at bowling pins to try to knock them over.
2.) We learned about all the many water words today! Then we cut and pasted/matched the water words to a picture of the water.
3.) In Dance, we practiced our Dance routine Mr. Aaron taught us!

The Golden Owls:
We had a magical Monday in the Golden Owls.
1.) During OT with Ms. Kathy we worked on our individual goals as well as our fine motor skills. We did different stations including rubberbands, eyecatchers, screws, and putty. We also played Memo Zoo and Boggle.
2.) During language arts we began reading a new nonfiction book after we worked independently on our "Explode the Code" books. We began to fill our KWL chart filling in information we knew and wanted to know about either President Obama or jellyfish.
3.) We had a great fitness class with Ms. Julie. We each got a sticker to put on our shoe to help remind us where we are supposed to kick the ball. We practiced our dribbling skills through cones before passing with a partner. We then played a soccer game against Ms. Julie and won! We worked a lot on our teamwork skills!