Thursday, June 4th, 2009

The Magic Trains:
1.) Magic Trains used puppetry to act out the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
2.) During Fitness we went on an awesome obstacle course shooting hoops, bowling, crawling through a tunnel and jumping on the trampoline.
3.) We went with Bob the Builder to a construction site. We dug dirt then hauled it away. We dumped sand in a big pile and poured concrete on top. We used a powerful tool called a “kanga hammer” that bounces up and down.

The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Read a book called 'How I Became A Pirate'! We loved the story, and after reading it we made our own graphic organizers showing the 'What', 'Where', 'When', 'Who', and 'Why' of our story!
2.) Worked on math review in our Calvert workbooks. We also worked as a team to identify and sort a HUGE pile of coins!
3.) Made our final planet neighborhoods in science - we made Neptune Circus and Jupiter Museum! Our space community is almost complete - we just need a moon and some rocket ships to travel from neighborhood to neighborhood!

The Mighty Dieners:
1.) This morning we worked very hard on making our own pretzels! We had several steps we had to follow throughout the day. The 1st step was to mix some water and yeast. While, that mixture sat in a bowl for a couple of minutes Ms. Kathy had us do some OT movement activities. Next, we measured and mixed in the flour and brown sugar. For 30 minutes, while the dough sat, we worked on our Handwriting. Step 3 was mixing in the remaining flour and kneading it until the dough was tough. The dough had to rise for an hour, so we ate lunch and went to recess!
2.) This afternoon, we took the dough and rolled it and shaped our pretzels! It was a lot of fun! In our folders are directions on how to finish baking our pretzels at home. (These are dairy-free pretzels.)
3.) In Drama, we had such a fun time with Mr. Jim! We played the Magic Suitcase game and had to pull out things you could find at your house!

The Golden Owls:
1.) In our last fitness with Mr. Dan we went through an obstacle course which included all of the different skills we have been working on all year.
2.) In speech we first read a book about the ocean and then got to make our own oceans out of blue Jello, marshmallows, Twizzlers and gummies. The Twizzlers represented the “limu” which means seaweed in Hawaiian. The jelly fish and octopus. The marshmallows were the plankton and the gummies were for the fish.
3.) In writing we began working on our favorite things we did this year beginning with a web!