Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Primary (Ms. Emily):
1.) Today we played “Hide & Seek” with Mr. Aaron. We were learning the rules, cooperation, and had a terrific time in the process.
2.) We went on a Bear Hunt with Ms. Deanna during music.
3.) Ask your curious caterpillar to show you how to “Stop, Drop & Roll.”
4.) During science we read, The Snowy Day, and made a snowman

Inters (Ms. Lynn):
1.) In science today we finished our weather mobiles. Don’t forget to hang them up!
2.) We read Frog & Toad. Ask your child, “Why was Toad upset about the garden?”
3.) We also started learning how to write in journals.
4.) In Social Studies, we are continuing our discussion about community helpers and getting ready for our walk to the firehouse Friday!

Inters (Ms. Jenni):
1.) We began building our Diener School Community today. Each child chose a type of building that is important in our community and then began painting their boxes. Tomorrow we will be adding windows, doors and other distinguishing objects to our buildings. Some ideas the students came up with were a movie theater, doctors office and a swimming pool!
2.) During math we continued practicing our ABAB, AABAAB, ABBABBA, and ABC patterns. Everyone did a great job completing these patterns without visual prompts!
3.) All the students are doing a great job in their Language Arts groups. Today as a large group we worked on sorting words by word families -at, -an, -ed, and –et.

Uppers (Ms. Kate):
1.) Language Art groups began today. Each Monday you will receive e-mails from your child’s Language Arts teacher, which will include specifics concerning group goals for the week. This is separate from the daily update (paper form in daily folder will not include LA Group information) as it will only come via e-mail. LA group homework will come home Mondays, and is generated by the LA Group teacher.
2.) In Math we continued the direction lesson and geometric shapes, (following yesterdays visual-rich driving experience to the Potomac Post Office), by learning specific written directions for driving from the Diener School to the Potomac Post Office. We incorporated our knowledge of shapes, rectangles and triangles as we created a large map. Once our map is finished we will put accuracy to the test by having Ms. Jillian drive us to the Post Office, using only our map to help her get there!
3.) Our fine motor skills were further honed today. We used modeling clay to mold a representation of the front of a properly addressed envelope. Different colors denoted the outside shape, the stamp, and the address lines.

Uppers (Ms. Barbara):
1.) Today we started our language arts groups.
2.) In social group we talked about expected and unexpected behaviors.3.) In math we answered word problems that involve place value.

IMPORTANT DATES:
· Pizza Lunch this Friday – Please send your child in with their snack and drink for the day.
· The following are due Friday, September 24th:
o T-Shirt Order Form (all sizes are adult sizes and NOT kids sizes)
o TaeKwonDo Registration
o After School Social Club Registration
· The School Counseling Group is Presenting a Parent’s Lecture, September 30th, 2009 @ 9:30AM to discuss guidelines and ideas when considering schools after Diener and the general admissions process to other schools in the area