The Magic Trains:
Today the Magic Trains:
1.) The Magic Trains typed and illustrated our book covers!
2.) We went for a moon walk and pretended to be astronauts like Neil Armstrong chanting “Eagle has Landed” after reading the book One Giant Leap by Robert Burleigh.
3.) We finished putting the “inner planets” on our solar system window mural.
4.) Today was our last class with Ms. Brook and we played a new, fun game with her called “Sequence”. This was a matching game and the object of the game was to get three tokens in a row. We gave Ms. Brook a present and wished her a very happy summer!
5.) During Fitness with Mr. Dan, we ran through an obstacle course made of hoola hoops and participated in relay races.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
1.) Read a poem called 'The Moon'! Then we went through the poem and took turns finding sight words, rhyming words, and science words in the text.
2.) After we read our poem, we each got our own copy to cut apart, reconstruct, and glue back together! We decorated our poems with moon pictures and glitter.
3.) Had a very buggy afternoon! We reviewed our 'I'm an Insect' weekly reader and made fabulous bug masks! We used our amazing creativity to make super scary and super silly bugs.
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) This morning, Ms. Kathy had us feel letters! She brought a fun activity where you had to put your hand in a bowl and grab a letter—but not pull it out! When we were holding the letter we had to feel it and describe what shape it was and tell Ms. Kathy what letter it was!
2.) In Math, we read a fun book called Leaping Lizards and learned some more about counting by 5’s and 10’s.
3.) This afternoon we had a fun Music class with Mr. Paul’s class in the Sensory Room! We played musical and movement games such as Hokey Pokey and Going on a Bearhunt!
The Golden Owls:
We had a terrific Thursday in the Golden Owls!
1.) During math we went outside and did math problems with chalk.
2.) In speech with Ms. Jen we played, “What Did You Say?” a game of nonverbal communication including facial expressions, volume, tone of voice and body language. We had a super time in speech.
3.) During fitness with Mr. Dan we worked on our gross motor skills including jumping through hula hoops, leaping, running, and hopping.
Have a fantastic long weekend!!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
The Magic Trains:
Today the Magic Trains:
1.) Had a terrific fieldtrip to the Dulles Air and Space Museum. We learned how planes fly and we made our own boomerangs. There were planes from many years ago at the museum and we even saw a spaceship!
2.) Worked on our Solar System pictures in the afternoon with Debbie and Seena.
3.) Listened to a story called “Jack and the Beanstalk”. Teddy wrote this story on his own last night. The class was very excited about it and Teddy was very proud.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Had a FANTASTIC time at the Air and Space Museum! We learned about how planes fly using 4 forces - drag, thrust, weight, and lift. We got to do all sorts of wonderful hands-on activities, and then we made our own boomerangs!
2.) Got to walk around the museum after our class! Not only did we see many different kinds of planes, but we also got to see a huge replica of the Enterprise space shuttle and examples of space suits worn by astronauts! We loved looking at all of the great displays and learning about planes and space ships.
3.) Read a great book when we got back from our field trip! Ben S. brought in a special flying book to share and it was a great way to review the information we learned on our field trip - it had all sorts of cool facts and pop-outs. Thanks, Ben S.!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) During Social Skills we played Charades and had to ask questions to find out what our friends were acting out! We also finished by playing Hangman with emotions words!
2.) In Yoga, we played a game to see who could hold the Downward Dog and the Bridge poses the longest!
3.) In Speech groups, Ms. Jen read The Flea’s Sneeze and we each made a 3 panel pamphlet where we wrote on each either the beginning, middle or end of the story!
The Golden Owls:
We had a great Wednesday in the Golden Owls!
1.) In dance with Mr. Aaron we reviewed and continued to fine tune our dance to "Jump On It." We worked on finessing our moves, our rhythm and timing.
2.) In writing, we split up into small groups and worked on brainstorming and then drafting a topic of our choice. Some wrote about cars, movies and their vacations while others wrote about their favorite food. We incorporated our five senses and specific details into our writing as much as possible.
3.) Ms. Kathy came in and played Charades with us during our team time. We worked on flexibility, reading body language and facial expressions. We had a fantastic time!
Today the Magic Trains:
1.) Had a terrific fieldtrip to the Dulles Air and Space Museum. We learned how planes fly and we made our own boomerangs. There were planes from many years ago at the museum and we even saw a spaceship!
2.) Worked on our Solar System pictures in the afternoon with Debbie and Seena.
3.) Listened to a story called “Jack and the Beanstalk”. Teddy wrote this story on his own last night. The class was very excited about it and Teddy was very proud.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Had a FANTASTIC time at the Air and Space Museum! We learned about how planes fly using 4 forces - drag, thrust, weight, and lift. We got to do all sorts of wonderful hands-on activities, and then we made our own boomerangs!
2.) Got to walk around the museum after our class! Not only did we see many different kinds of planes, but we also got to see a huge replica of the Enterprise space shuttle and examples of space suits worn by astronauts! We loved looking at all of the great displays and learning about planes and space ships.
3.) Read a great book when we got back from our field trip! Ben S. brought in a special flying book to share and it was a great way to review the information we learned on our field trip - it had all sorts of cool facts and pop-outs. Thanks, Ben S.!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) During Social Skills we played Charades and had to ask questions to find out what our friends were acting out! We also finished by playing Hangman with emotions words!
2.) In Yoga, we played a game to see who could hold the Downward Dog and the Bridge poses the longest!
3.) In Speech groups, Ms. Jen read The Flea’s Sneeze and we each made a 3 panel pamphlet where we wrote on each either the beginning, middle or end of the story!
The Golden Owls:
We had a great Wednesday in the Golden Owls!
1.) In dance with Mr. Aaron we reviewed and continued to fine tune our dance to "Jump On It." We worked on finessing our moves, our rhythm and timing.
2.) In writing, we split up into small groups and worked on brainstorming and then drafting a topic of our choice. Some wrote about cars, movies and their vacations while others wrote about their favorite food. We incorporated our five senses and specific details into our writing as much as possible.
3.) Ms. Kathy came in and played Charades with us during our team time. We worked on flexibility, reading body language and facial expressions. We had a fantastic time!
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Did fine motor circuits and worked on our handwriting with Miss Brook! We also colored, cut, and assembled an 'In Fish' ~ a fish that helped us review the '-in' word family!
2.) Reviewed measurement in math! We each got a pile of items and had to measure each item's length using unifix cubes. Then we recorded our lengths on our worksheets and analyzed our data to find the longest and shortest objects!
3.)Had a fabulous time in fitness and art! In fitness we worked together to build a house using blocks and then got to play with Bimos since we did a great job with our teamwork! In art we created beautiful drawing by connecting lines and forming shapes.
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) During Fine Motor in the morning, we rotated through circuits working on, hand-eye coordination, tripod grasp, hand stability, and muscle tone in their hands. This afternoon in Large motor, we ran through an obstacle course working on balance, crossing the midline and utilizing several muscles in the body!
2.) We played a Storytelling game where we were each given three random cards (for example: monkey, car, chocolate cake) and we had to tell a story! Then Ms. Kate asked us some “W” questions (who, what, where, etc) about the story that was just told!
3.) In Science we learned about the different planets and what they look like! We brainstormed the planets we already knew and then looked them up to see what they looked like! We then colored in a worksheet that had the planets on them, so they looked like the pictures we looked up!
The Golden Owls:
Today in the Golden Owls:
1.) We continued our lesson and discussion on planets during our science class. We colored the planet Mercury and learned different facts about it.
2.) During reading, we talked about past and present tense verbs as well as the different reading strategies we use. We talked about chocolate in one groups and Obama in the other, and worked on reading fluently and with expression.
3.) We did centers in the afternoon working on and building our skills in teamwork, Read Write and Type, math and spelling.
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Did fine motor circuits and worked on our handwriting with Miss Brook! We also colored, cut, and assembled an 'In Fish' ~ a fish that helped us review the '-in' word family!
2.) Reviewed measurement in math! We each got a pile of items and had to measure each item's length using unifix cubes. Then we recorded our lengths on our worksheets and analyzed our data to find the longest and shortest objects!
3.)Had a fabulous time in fitness and art! In fitness we worked together to build a house using blocks and then got to play with Bimos since we did a great job with our teamwork! In art we created beautiful drawing by connecting lines and forming shapes.
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) During Fine Motor in the morning, we rotated through circuits working on, hand-eye coordination, tripod grasp, hand stability, and muscle tone in their hands. This afternoon in Large motor, we ran through an obstacle course working on balance, crossing the midline and utilizing several muscles in the body!
2.) We played a Storytelling game where we were each given three random cards (for example: monkey, car, chocolate cake) and we had to tell a story! Then Ms. Kate asked us some “W” questions (who, what, where, etc) about the story that was just told!
3.) In Science we learned about the different planets and what they look like! We brainstormed the planets we already knew and then looked them up to see what they looked like! We then colored in a worksheet that had the planets on them, so they looked like the pictures we looked up!
The Golden Owls:
Today in the Golden Owls:
1.) We continued our lesson and discussion on planets during our science class. We colored the planet Mercury and learned different facts about it.
2.) During reading, we talked about past and present tense verbs as well as the different reading strategies we use. We talked about chocolate in one groups and Obama in the other, and worked on reading fluently and with expression.
3.) We did centers in the afternoon working on and building our skills in teamwork, Read Write and Type, math and spelling.
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
The Magic Trains:
1.) Reviewed words that start with “v” such as “valentine” and “violin” during Morning Meeting.
2.) Had a wonderful time at “Personal Ponies”. We saw the goats, ponies and chickens and we even painted a beautiful pony named Neatherly. She is white but we painted her pink and purple. Then we let two wonderful ponies out so they could run in the sun!
3.) Sang our favorite songs with Deanna and the Diener Dinosaurs. We shared our instruments such as the triangle, rhythm sticks and maracas.
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Math, we read a poem about the penny and the nickel. Using the detail words in the poem, we drew what we pictured the coin to look like. We checked our coin pictures to compare with a real coin.
2.) In Art, Ms. Feinberg read us a story! Then we got to pick our favorite part of the story and draw a picture of it!
3.) During, Auditory Stories, we listened to a short story read by Ms. Kate. She asked us a couple questions about the story, so we really had to listen and pay attention! Then we got a picture that went with the story and listen carefully again as Ms. Kate gave us directions on how to color it!
The Golden Owls:
We had a great Friday in the Golden Owls!
1.) In reading we continued to use our graphic organizers to help us write a summary about the story we read. We also answered questions along the way about our reading. We then wrapped up our reading period while brainstorming about different nouns that describe the main character in the book.
2.) We listened to our peers while they presented their book talks on The True Story of Balto, Sable, and When I am Quiet on O'Ahu! We saw a beautiful poster and a mobile! Wow!
3.) In art with Ms. Feinberg we drew a picture of our favorite part of a book! It was such fun and we were able to pretend we were an illustrator!
1.) Reviewed words that start with “v” such as “valentine” and “violin” during Morning Meeting.
2.) Had a wonderful time at “Personal Ponies”. We saw the goats, ponies and chickens and we even painted a beautiful pony named Neatherly. She is white but we painted her pink and purple. Then we let two wonderful ponies out so they could run in the sun!
3.) Sang our favorite songs with Deanna and the Diener Dinosaurs. We shared our instruments such as the triangle, rhythm sticks and maracas.
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Math, we read a poem about the penny and the nickel. Using the detail words in the poem, we drew what we pictured the coin to look like. We checked our coin pictures to compare with a real coin.
2.) In Art, Ms. Feinberg read us a story! Then we got to pick our favorite part of the story and draw a picture of it!
3.) During, Auditory Stories, we listened to a short story read by Ms. Kate. She asked us a couple questions about the story, so we really had to listen and pay attention! Then we got a picture that went with the story and listen carefully again as Ms. Kate gave us directions on how to color it!
The Golden Owls:
We had a great Friday in the Golden Owls!
1.) In reading we continued to use our graphic organizers to help us write a summary about the story we read. We also answered questions along the way about our reading. We then wrapped up our reading period while brainstorming about different nouns that describe the main character in the book.
2.) We listened to our peers while they presented their book talks on The True Story of Balto, Sable, and When I am Quiet on O'Ahu! We saw a beautiful poster and a mobile! Wow!
3.) In art with Ms. Feinberg we drew a picture of our favorite part of a book! It was such fun and we were able to pretend we were an illustrator!
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
The Magic Trains:
1.) Worked on punctuation and spelling during Language Arts (Teddy and Jack did this). Trevor worked with Ms. Brook on handwriting while Danielle worked with Lynn on identifying colors and the sounds of the alphabet.
2.) Reviewed the book “Pilot Pups” and discussed that pilots are the people who fly the plane.
3.) Participated in an amazing obstacle course during Fitness with Mr. Dan. The kids had to hop through hoops, crawl through a cave, jump on a trampoline, do ten jumping jacks, go on a pretend surfboard and knock over bowling pins. Then they practiced doing something called “step and throw” which is stepping with your left leg (if you are right handed) and then throwing with your right hand.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Played a fun game in language arts with water squirters and sight words! We each had to listen to clues and find the appropriate sight word on the wall outside- then we had to soak it with water once we found it!
2.) Worked on math review in our Calvert workbooks - we reviewed counting backwards and calendar math!
3.) Continued to work on our space community - we reviewed our plans and built our first two planet neighborhoods, Mercuryville and Venustown!
The Mighty Dieners:1.) In Math we had a great time learning more about money! Some of us identified the differences in the coins (colors, size, pictures on the front and back), we had to put together a collage showing facts about a given coin. Others worked on skipping and skip counting by 5.
2.) During OT group we went through an obstacle course where we had to run through hoops, crawl through a tunnel, forward roll on the mat, jumping on the trampoline while crossing the midline when giving high-fives!
3.) In Music, Ms. Deanna taught us the Star Spangled Banner!!
The Golden Owls:
Today we had a Terrific Thursday!
1.) We had a great math class where we reviewed subtracting with borrowing and our multiplication skills. We used white boards and dry erase markers to solve different problems.
2.) During speech with Ms. Jen we read a book relating to Apollo 11, continuing our study of space. We then made predictions about what will happen in the future and closed with an experiment making moon rocks out of salt, water and flour.
3.) We had a great fitness class with Mr. Dan while focusing on loco-motor which included running, skipping, jumping forwards and backwards, the crabwalk and hopping. We finished with a relay race!
1.) Worked on punctuation and spelling during Language Arts (Teddy and Jack did this). Trevor worked with Ms. Brook on handwriting while Danielle worked with Lynn on identifying colors and the sounds of the alphabet.
2.) Reviewed the book “Pilot Pups” and discussed that pilots are the people who fly the plane.
3.) Participated in an amazing obstacle course during Fitness with Mr. Dan. The kids had to hop through hoops, crawl through a cave, jump on a trampoline, do ten jumping jacks, go on a pretend surfboard and knock over bowling pins. Then they practiced doing something called “step and throw” which is stepping with your left leg (if you are right handed) and then throwing with your right hand.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Played a fun game in language arts with water squirters and sight words! We each had to listen to clues and find the appropriate sight word on the wall outside- then we had to soak it with water once we found it!
2.) Worked on math review in our Calvert workbooks - we reviewed counting backwards and calendar math!
3.) Continued to work on our space community - we reviewed our plans and built our first two planet neighborhoods, Mercuryville and Venustown!
The Mighty Dieners:1.) In Math we had a great time learning more about money! Some of us identified the differences in the coins (colors, size, pictures on the front and back), we had to put together a collage showing facts about a given coin. Others worked on skipping and skip counting by 5.
2.) During OT group we went through an obstacle course where we had to run through hoops, crawl through a tunnel, forward roll on the mat, jumping on the trampoline while crossing the midline when giving high-fives!
3.) In Music, Ms. Deanna taught us the Star Spangled Banner!!
The Golden Owls:
Today we had a Terrific Thursday!
1.) We had a great math class where we reviewed subtracting with borrowing and our multiplication skills. We used white boards and dry erase markers to solve different problems.
2.) During speech with Ms. Jen we read a book relating to Apollo 11, continuing our study of space. We then made predictions about what will happen in the future and closed with an experiment making moon rocks out of salt, water and flour.
3.) We had a great fitness class with Mr. Dan while focusing on loco-motor which included running, skipping, jumping forwards and backwards, the crabwalk and hopping. We finished with a relay race!
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.
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.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Monday, May 18th, 2009
The Magic Trains:
1.) Read stories and had some very fun sensory breaks with Danielle’s mom. We also played a game in which a picture card was pulled and each student had to copy movements such as brushing hair, brushing teeth and even making a funny face.
2.) Had some more fun doing sensory songs and a dot to dot lesson. One song that we listened to was called “The Beanbag Rock”.
3.) Worked on graphing different amounts of coins during Math. One student received 4 pennies, one student received 6 nickels, one student received 8 dimes and another student received 10 quarters.
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) We had a great morning in Fitness! We worked on building muscles and stretching muscles by doing sit-ups, push-ups and toe touches. We did a lot of running and played a game like basketball where we had to catch a ball and throw the ball, putting our opposite foot forward.
2.) In Math we reviewed different things we have learned, but bringing them together (i.e. skip counting and money). One groups worked on counting by 5’s using nickels, while another worked on adding change.
3.) We prepared for our exciting field trip tomorrow by talking about the different types of planes that are used everyday! We talked about what they look like and who/how they are used (i.e. commercial planes, military planes, and other working planes—for farming, delivering things, emergency planes, etc)
4.) THANKS TO MY FABULOUS CLASS FOR MY SURPRISE PARTY AND BEAUTIFUL PICTURE!! I HAD SO MUCH FUN PLAYING PIN THE TAIL ON THE DONKEY J
The Golden Owls:
We had a wonderful Monday today!
1.) During reading, we were introduced to a new non-fiction book. We read either the "Magic of Migration" or "Barak Obama" and reviewed all of the different reading strategies we have learned throughout the year. We were also introduced to a new one called cause and effect. We began to fill out a KWLS chart both together and individually on our book.
2.) During fitness with Ms. Julie we reviewed skills such as throwing and catching a ball and a Frisbee after we had completed our warm up and stretching.
3.) We worked on Read, Write and Type on the computer, our new spelling words, and our math skills during our centers time in the afternoon as well as our fine motor circuit in the morning!
1.) Read stories and had some very fun sensory breaks with Danielle’s mom. We also played a game in which a picture card was pulled and each student had to copy movements such as brushing hair, brushing teeth and even making a funny face.
2.) Had some more fun doing sensory songs and a dot to dot lesson. One song that we listened to was called “The Beanbag Rock”.
3.) Worked on graphing different amounts of coins during Math. One student received 4 pennies, one student received 6 nickels, one student received 8 dimes and another student received 10 quarters.
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) We had a great morning in Fitness! We worked on building muscles and stretching muscles by doing sit-ups, push-ups and toe touches. We did a lot of running and played a game like basketball where we had to catch a ball and throw the ball, putting our opposite foot forward.
2.) In Math we reviewed different things we have learned, but bringing them together (i.e. skip counting and money). One groups worked on counting by 5’s using nickels, while another worked on adding change.
3.) We prepared for our exciting field trip tomorrow by talking about the different types of planes that are used everyday! We talked about what they look like and who/how they are used (i.e. commercial planes, military planes, and other working planes—for farming, delivering things, emergency planes, etc)
4.) THANKS TO MY FABULOUS CLASS FOR MY SURPRISE PARTY AND BEAUTIFUL PICTURE!! I HAD SO MUCH FUN PLAYING PIN THE TAIL ON THE DONKEY J
The Golden Owls:
We had a wonderful Monday today!
1.) During reading, we were introduced to a new non-fiction book. We read either the "Magic of Migration" or "Barak Obama" and reviewed all of the different reading strategies we have learned throughout the year. We were also introduced to a new one called cause and effect. We began to fill out a KWLS chart both together and individually on our book.
2.) During fitness with Ms. Julie we reviewed skills such as throwing and catching a ball and a Frisbee after we had completed our warm up and stretching.
3.) We worked on Read, Write and Type on the computer, our new spelling words, and our math skills during our centers time in the afternoon as well as our fine motor circuit in the morning!
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
The Magic Trains:
1.) We wrote about the book we read Happy Birthday, Moon by Frank Asch. Bear likes moon so much he wants to buy him a birthday present. He paddles across the river, hikes through the forest, and climbs the mountain to get close enough to the talk to the moon. 2.) Wrote sentences about the story Happy Birthday Moon and then drew pictures to go with the sentences. Jack wrote “The bear went to the woods” and pasted a moon and a bear on the paper. Danielle said “The bear went to the mountain to see the moon”.
3.) Played soccer and then played “keep away” outside during Fitness with Mr. Dan. Everyone ran so much in the grass and then came back to the room to have “Quiet Time”.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs…
1.) Finished putting together our 'Sing a Song of Solar System' poem and continued working on our leveled readers in language arts!
2.) Worked on putting together addition and subtraction puzzles in math! We also counted up our Diener Dollars and earned a special trip to the Diener Store for doing such an amazing job on our work.
3.) Put together our Sun Town Center together! We put up our shops and buildings and added roads, trees, and lakes! Now we are ready for our next step - creating planet neighborhoods.
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In fitness we went outside and learned how to play kickball and working on playing as a team.
2.) In OT with Ms. Kathy, we learned new gross motor movements using partners to stretch.
3.) During math, we did juggling math where Mr. Aaron juggled dice. When he came to a stop, he would give a die to two different children and they had to work together to add the dots to find the sum. It was fun!
The Golden Owls:
Today in the Golden Owls
1.) We played the Superhero game in speech with Ms. Jen! The point of the game is to defeat as many super villains as we can by offering solutions to social problems and discussing ways we can be helpful members of the community.
2.) During team building time we built different structures out of blocks. We built the famous Hershey Park as a group and worked on compromising and working together.
3.) We had a fun and energetic fitness class with Mr. Dan. We ran, galloped, hopped, and then played kickball against Mr. Dan. We had a great time.
1.) We wrote about the book we read Happy Birthday, Moon by Frank Asch. Bear likes moon so much he wants to buy him a birthday present. He paddles across the river, hikes through the forest, and climbs the mountain to get close enough to the talk to the moon. 2.) Wrote sentences about the story Happy Birthday Moon and then drew pictures to go with the sentences. Jack wrote “The bear went to the woods” and pasted a moon and a bear on the paper. Danielle said “The bear went to the mountain to see the moon”.
3.) Played soccer and then played “keep away” outside during Fitness with Mr. Dan. Everyone ran so much in the grass and then came back to the room to have “Quiet Time”.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs…
1.) Finished putting together our 'Sing a Song of Solar System' poem and continued working on our leveled readers in language arts!
2.) Worked on putting together addition and subtraction puzzles in math! We also counted up our Diener Dollars and earned a special trip to the Diener Store for doing such an amazing job on our work.
3.) Put together our Sun Town Center together! We put up our shops and buildings and added roads, trees, and lakes! Now we are ready for our next step - creating planet neighborhoods.
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In fitness we went outside and learned how to play kickball and working on playing as a team.
2.) In OT with Ms. Kathy, we learned new gross motor movements using partners to stretch.
3.) During math, we did juggling math where Mr. Aaron juggled dice. When he came to a stop, he would give a die to two different children and they had to work together to add the dots to find the sum. It was fun!
The Golden Owls:
Today in the Golden Owls
1.) We played the Superhero game in speech with Ms. Jen! The point of the game is to defeat as many super villains as we can by offering solutions to social problems and discussing ways we can be helpful members of the community.
2.) During team building time we built different structures out of blocks. We built the famous Hershey Park as a group and worked on compromising and working together.
3.) We had a fun and energetic fitness class with Mr. Dan. We ran, galloped, hopped, and then played kickball against Mr. Dan. We had a great time.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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!
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!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The Magic Trains:
1.) Read a story called “The Sun is My Favorite Star” and wrote a sentence about the Sun. One student wrote “The Sun is hot” and one student wrote “I am the biggest star”. Each student drew a picture to go with their statement.
2.) Kicked a soccer ball and did a short relay race outside during Fitness with Mr. Chris.
3.) Tore newspaper and used primary colors to paint the newspaper in layers. This was a new kind of art project with Ms. Feinberg.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Worked on handwriting with Miss Brook and read a poem together called 'Sing a Song of Solar System' in language arts! We did a great job on our letter formation and identified sight words, rhyming words, and the names of planets in our poem.
2.) Had a great time in fitness! We practiced kicking and stopping the ball in soccer, hitting and fielding the ball in baseball, and we also worked on hopping and skipping!
3.) Began to plan our space community! We brainstormed and charted our ideas for the community, assigned jobs to our classmates, and learned about the specific characteristics of each planet so we can build our planet neighborhoods!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) During Fine Motor in the morning, we rotated through circuits working on, hand-eye coordination, tripod grasp, hand stability, and muscle tone in their hands. This afternoon during Large Motor, we played several gross motor activities using a parachute that work on balance, coordination as well as maintaining focus.
2.) In Math, we reviewed calendar information, focusing on months (before and after) and seasons.
3.) Science was out of this Earth! We talked about the different planets in space and started our own planet information books!
4.) **Moms—Look for your Mother’s Day presents!! Sorry they are late—we had to wait for things to dry and pictures to develop :)
The Golden Owls:
We had a fantastic Tuesday in the Golden Owls!
1.) During writing we finished researching our planets on the nine planets website with our partners, alternating writing and researching. We have learned a lot about the computer and researching!
2.) In Math we continued to practice our nine's times table and then played a new game with dice! We rolled two large dice and then had to write down the multiplication problem on a white board before solving it.
3.) In music we mastered the use of a variety of instruments such as the triangle and maracas while singing beautifully!
1.) Read a story called “The Sun is My Favorite Star” and wrote a sentence about the Sun. One student wrote “The Sun is hot” and one student wrote “I am the biggest star”. Each student drew a picture to go with their statement.
2.) Kicked a soccer ball and did a short relay race outside during Fitness with Mr. Chris.
3.) Tore newspaper and used primary colors to paint the newspaper in layers. This was a new kind of art project with Ms. Feinberg.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Worked on handwriting with Miss Brook and read a poem together called 'Sing a Song of Solar System' in language arts! We did a great job on our letter formation and identified sight words, rhyming words, and the names of planets in our poem.
2.) Had a great time in fitness! We practiced kicking and stopping the ball in soccer, hitting and fielding the ball in baseball, and we also worked on hopping and skipping!
3.) Began to plan our space community! We brainstormed and charted our ideas for the community, assigned jobs to our classmates, and learned about the specific characteristics of each planet so we can build our planet neighborhoods!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) During Fine Motor in the morning, we rotated through circuits working on, hand-eye coordination, tripod grasp, hand stability, and muscle tone in their hands. This afternoon during Large Motor, we played several gross motor activities using a parachute that work on balance, coordination as well as maintaining focus.
2.) In Math, we reviewed calendar information, focusing on months (before and after) and seasons.
3.) Science was out of this Earth! We talked about the different planets in space and started our own planet information books!
4.) **Moms—Look for your Mother’s Day presents!! Sorry they are late—we had to wait for things to dry and pictures to develop :)
The Golden Owls:
We had a fantastic Tuesday in the Golden Owls!
1.) During writing we finished researching our planets on the nine planets website with our partners, alternating writing and researching. We have learned a lot about the computer and researching!
2.) In Math we continued to practice our nine's times table and then played a new game with dice! We rolled two large dice and then had to write down the multiplication problem on a white board before solving it.
3.) In music we mastered the use of a variety of instruments such as the triangle and maracas while singing beautifully!
Monday, May 11th, 2009
The Magic Trains:
1.) Read a book called “Sun Up, Sun Down” and worked on their picture of The Solar System. Now we have learned about the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Earth and we know a chant that goes with it!
2.) Worked on reading, writing and spelling during Language Arts. Jack and Teddy played a word game called “What’s Gnu?”
3.) Enjoyed the nice weather by going outside for an extra playtime during our Motor Break. We played “Bumper Dinos” which is a game that Jack invented.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Created flip books for the '-ip' word family! We colored the pictures and letters, cut out the pieces, and assembled them with a little help from our teachers. Then we worked on our Explode the Code workbooks!
2. ) Made our very own May calendars in math. After we filled in the dates, we talked about different elements of the calendar, the days of the week and the weeks in the month, and took turns identifying special days in May!
3.) Had science with Miss Melissa! Today we worked on making our own planet books! We also learned about Ben K.'s favorite book as part of his Star of the Week project!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Math, we worked on our Calendar Math questions! We had to answer questions such as: “What month was last month?”, “What month is next month?”, “How many days are in a week?”, “What holidays happen during this month?”
2.) During our monthly theme class, we talked about the different types of planes there are and what they are used for (commercial planes, military planes, spray planes, delivery planes, etc).
3.) We practiced identifying the different parts of a face and how we should draw a face. We will next be working on the body and how we should draw a person when free drawing or drawing as a part of a lesson!
The Golden Owls:
We had a great day in the Golden Owls!
1.) We have been reviewing addition with regrouping, subtracting with borrowing, time, fractions, and money during our math time! It is such fun to see all that we have learned and continue to learn! Some of us also continued what we learned last week which is adding two digit numbers without regrouping!
2.) During reading we reviewed our reading strategies and began a new leveled reader. We filled out the K and W of our KWL charts and then read our reader aloud in our small groups.
3.) During OT with Ms. Kathy we worked on individual motor and fine motor skills while working towards mastering our OT goals.
1.) Read a book called “Sun Up, Sun Down” and worked on their picture of The Solar System. Now we have learned about the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Earth and we know a chant that goes with it!
2.) Worked on reading, writing and spelling during Language Arts. Jack and Teddy played a word game called “What’s Gnu?”
3.) Enjoyed the nice weather by going outside for an extra playtime during our Motor Break. We played “Bumper Dinos” which is a game that Jack invented.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Created flip books for the '-ip' word family! We colored the pictures and letters, cut out the pieces, and assembled them with a little help from our teachers. Then we worked on our Explode the Code workbooks!
2. ) Made our very own May calendars in math. After we filled in the dates, we talked about different elements of the calendar, the days of the week and the weeks in the month, and took turns identifying special days in May!
3.) Had science with Miss Melissa! Today we worked on making our own planet books! We also learned about Ben K.'s favorite book as part of his Star of the Week project!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Math, we worked on our Calendar Math questions! We had to answer questions such as: “What month was last month?”, “What month is next month?”, “How many days are in a week?”, “What holidays happen during this month?”
2.) During our monthly theme class, we talked about the different types of planes there are and what they are used for (commercial planes, military planes, spray planes, delivery planes, etc).
3.) We practiced identifying the different parts of a face and how we should draw a face. We will next be working on the body and how we should draw a person when free drawing or drawing as a part of a lesson!
The Golden Owls:
We had a great day in the Golden Owls!
1.) We have been reviewing addition with regrouping, subtracting with borrowing, time, fractions, and money during our math time! It is such fun to see all that we have learned and continue to learn! Some of us also continued what we learned last week which is adding two digit numbers without regrouping!
2.) During reading we reviewed our reading strategies and began a new leveled reader. We filled out the K and W of our KWL charts and then read our reader aloud in our small groups.
3.) During OT with Ms. Kathy we worked on individual motor and fine motor skills while working towards mastering our OT goals.
Friday, May 8, 2009
The Magic Trains:
Today the Magic Trains:
1.) Had an amazing time at the College Park Aviation Museum. We learned about the history of the first planes, dressed up like pilots and mailed our very own postcards.
2.) Made Mother’s Day presents. Happy Mother’s Day! You are all wonderful!
3.) Read a book called “Jack the Builder” at the end of the day.HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Had an amazing field trip to the College Park Aviation Museum! We saw different kinds of planes, learned about the different parts of the planes, dressed up as aviators, sat in and steered a model plane, and got to do hands-on activities! We all had a wonderful time.
2.) Each got a souvenir from the field trip - our very own planes to build! We worked on building them in the afternoon, and as we built them we talked about the different airplane parts that we learned about during our tour.
3.) Got a real treat at the end of the day - we all got to try astronaut ice cream! It was NOTHING like regular ice cream - it was dry and crunchy!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) We played an amazing game of categories and similarities/differences games! We were paired up and had to work together to give an answer! Some examples of questions that were asked are: What doesn’t belong? (table, chair, bed, pencil) How are they alike? (farm-zoo) How are they different? (bird-airplane)
2.) In Art, we learned about watercolor painting! We sketched a picture using a pencil, then painted our sketches with the watercolor paint.
3.) Mr. Aaron played a math/OT game with us! We each were given a cone to hold. He would give each of us a math problem. When we gave him the correct answer (we could use manipulatives to help) he threw a bean bag that we had to catch in our cone!
The Golden Owls:
Today we had a fantastic Friday!
1.) We had a great art class with Ms. Feinberg! We had the best time working with watercolors and painting on canvas.
2.) We reviewed nouns and worked on our Explode the Code books in language arts before answering comprehension questions from our leveled readers and writing paragraphs from our webs and graphic organizers.
3.) During our teamwork activities we played both Sorry and Blokus. We had such fun working together.
Happy weekend!
Today the Magic Trains:
1.) Had an amazing time at the College Park Aviation Museum. We learned about the history of the first planes, dressed up like pilots and mailed our very own postcards.
2.) Made Mother’s Day presents. Happy Mother’s Day! You are all wonderful!
3.) Read a book called “Jack the Builder” at the end of the day.HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Had an amazing field trip to the College Park Aviation Museum! We saw different kinds of planes, learned about the different parts of the planes, dressed up as aviators, sat in and steered a model plane, and got to do hands-on activities! We all had a wonderful time.
2.) Each got a souvenir from the field trip - our very own planes to build! We worked on building them in the afternoon, and as we built them we talked about the different airplane parts that we learned about during our tour.
3.) Got a real treat at the end of the day - we all got to try astronaut ice cream! It was NOTHING like regular ice cream - it was dry and crunchy!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) We played an amazing game of categories and similarities/differences games! We were paired up and had to work together to give an answer! Some examples of questions that were asked are: What doesn’t belong? (table, chair, bed, pencil) How are they alike? (farm-zoo) How are they different? (bird-airplane)
2.) In Art, we learned about watercolor painting! We sketched a picture using a pencil, then painted our sketches with the watercolor paint.
3.) Mr. Aaron played a math/OT game with us! We each were given a cone to hold. He would give each of us a math problem. When we gave him the correct answer (we could use manipulatives to help) he threw a bean bag that we had to catch in our cone!
The Golden Owls:
Today we had a fantastic Friday!
1.) We had a great art class with Ms. Feinberg! We had the best time working with watercolors and painting on canvas.
2.) We reviewed nouns and worked on our Explode the Code books in language arts before answering comprehension questions from our leveled readers and writing paragraphs from our webs and graphic organizers.
3.) During our teamwork activities we played both Sorry and Blokus. We had such fun working together.
Happy weekend!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
The Magic Trains:
Today the Magic Trains:
1.) Wrote in their journals. Teddy wrote about trains. Trevor wrote about cars and trains. Jack wrote about a sea serpent.
2.) Acted out different types of animals such as crabs and horses, used their soccer kicks to knock over the bowling pins and played freeze dance in Fitness with Mr. Dan.
3.) Learned more about different money amounts during Math. The students had to buy things such as crayons, markers and sticky notes for 10 cents, 20 cents and 25 cents.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Read a poem called 'Eight Planets'! Then we each cut apart our own poem, put the lines back together in the right order, and decorated the back of our poems with pictures of the solar system!
2.) Played a fun word game! Miss Courtney and Miss Deanna wore consonant letter vests and each of us got a vowel vest. We had to help them create words by adding vowels to their letters! Then we called on our friends to make new words using different vowels.
3.) Talked all about aviation and our field trip tomorrow! We learned about the parts of a plane, watched a video of the very first flight, and discussed what we are going to see in the museum tomorrow. Then we got to make and fly paper airplanes using the red paper that Micah brought in as part of his sharing for Star of the Week!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) We had a wonderful morning! Ms. Kathy was here and we worked very hard on our handwriting. During OT Groups, we connected the numbers 1-25 on a Dot-to-Dot to make a beautiful picture for our mom! We also worked on our surprise gifts for our wonderful moms or grandma for Mother’s Day! SHHHH…we can’t tell though—you will have to wait and see J Making the gift involved a lot of fine motor activities!
2.) In Math, we read Monster Musical Chairs which is a math text about subtracting 1. Before we read, we talked about how we have played musical chairs in class and what the rules of the game are. As we began to read we learned that the monsters had 6 chairs to start the game, so we lined up six cubes to following along with them! As we read, we had to pay attention and take one of our cubes away! After the book, we split into pairs and each had 10 cubes. We counted each cube to 10, then took 1 away. Then we counted how many are left. We repeated the phrase, “I had_______. I took 1 away and now I have_________.” We did that all the way to 1!
3.) We also had a full day of specials: Fitness we played tag, and in Music we sang a song about the Sun and in Drama we pulled out things that have to do with the rain from the Magic Suitcase and then we acted them out!
The Golden Owls:
Today we had a cozy Pajama Day!
1.) During fitness with Coach Dan, we worked on our bear walk, galloping, skipping, hopping, and jumping before revisiting soccer skills.
2.) In music with Ms. Deanna, we visited our monthly theme and sang songs about the different planets.
3.) During writing we continued the paragraphs we wrote earlier this week and revised them before writing our final draft!
Today the Magic Trains:
1.) Wrote in their journals. Teddy wrote about trains. Trevor wrote about cars and trains. Jack wrote about a sea serpent.
2.) Acted out different types of animals such as crabs and horses, used their soccer kicks to knock over the bowling pins and played freeze dance in Fitness with Mr. Dan.
3.) Learned more about different money amounts during Math. The students had to buy things such as crayons, markers and sticky notes for 10 cents, 20 cents and 25 cents.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Read a poem called 'Eight Planets'! Then we each cut apart our own poem, put the lines back together in the right order, and decorated the back of our poems with pictures of the solar system!
2.) Played a fun word game! Miss Courtney and Miss Deanna wore consonant letter vests and each of us got a vowel vest. We had to help them create words by adding vowels to their letters! Then we called on our friends to make new words using different vowels.
3.) Talked all about aviation and our field trip tomorrow! We learned about the parts of a plane, watched a video of the very first flight, and discussed what we are going to see in the museum tomorrow. Then we got to make and fly paper airplanes using the red paper that Micah brought in as part of his sharing for Star of the Week!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) We had a wonderful morning! Ms. Kathy was here and we worked very hard on our handwriting. During OT Groups, we connected the numbers 1-25 on a Dot-to-Dot to make a beautiful picture for our mom! We also worked on our surprise gifts for our wonderful moms or grandma for Mother’s Day! SHHHH…we can’t tell though—you will have to wait and see J Making the gift involved a lot of fine motor activities!
2.) In Math, we read Monster Musical Chairs which is a math text about subtracting 1. Before we read, we talked about how we have played musical chairs in class and what the rules of the game are. As we began to read we learned that the monsters had 6 chairs to start the game, so we lined up six cubes to following along with them! As we read, we had to pay attention and take one of our cubes away! After the book, we split into pairs and each had 10 cubes. We counted each cube to 10, then took 1 away. Then we counted how many are left. We repeated the phrase, “I had_______. I took 1 away and now I have_________.” We did that all the way to 1!
3.) We also had a full day of specials: Fitness we played tag, and in Music we sang a song about the Sun and in Drama we pulled out things that have to do with the rain from the Magic Suitcase and then we acted them out!
The Golden Owls:
Today we had a cozy Pajama Day!
1.) During fitness with Coach Dan, we worked on our bear walk, galloping, skipping, hopping, and jumping before revisiting soccer skills.
2.) In music with Ms. Deanna, we visited our monthly theme and sang songs about the different planets.
3.) During writing we continued the paragraphs we wrote earlier this week and revised them before writing our final draft!
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Wenesday, May 6, 2009
The Magic Trains:
1.) Read the book “CockADoodleMoo” and came up with their own make believe animals such as a “bearamel” (bear and a camel) and a “monkbra” (monkey and a zebra).
2.) Reviewed patterns and word problems during Math with Seena and Debbie.
3.) Used our imaginations while we took out the magic suitcase and played “ships and sailors” with Mr. Jim.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Read a new leveled reader called 'Yummy, Yummy'! Then we talked about our favorite foods and worked on venn diagrams about our story. We also worked on creating sentences using the letter M!
2.) Continued to learn about the planets as part of our 'Earth, Air, and Water' theme! We talked about the characteristics of each planet and about what astronauts do in space.
3.) Had yoga and drama! We practiced partner poses in yoga and played some of our favorite imagination games in drama!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) Today with Ms. Jen we expanded our repertoire of emotion terms. We read a book called "Hooway for Wodney Wat" and worked to interpret the characters’ feelings, make predictions, and provide rationales for actions and emotions. The feelings we came up with include: sad, jealous, lonely, proud, scared, mad, confident, shy, nervous, relieved, happy, and excited. Parents: ask your children what they feel confident about! Their answers to this question during speech were inspiring! J
2.) In science with Ms. Melissa we learned about the planets. We sang a song and pretended to be the planets and asteroid belt. We moved our bodies in the same ways that the planets move.
3.) After Yoga, we started reading a book about the Wright Brothers! It is a chapter book and we will read a different chapter everyday!
The Golden Owls:
Today we had a great Wednesday!
1.) We all looked awesome in all of our costumes!
2.) We took a field trip out to the parking lot to see all the different kinds of trucks and also the people who operated them! We were able to climb inside a Peapod truck and an ambulance. We talked to a policeman who rode a motorcycle and were able to sound the siren! It was a great way to see many different trucks and different jobs that people do.
3.) During writing we continued to work on paragraphs. We began using a topic sentence, then three specific details and a concluding sentence. We wrote about topics such as the summer, the field trip we took yesterday to the aviation park, Disney, our visit to see the trucks, and others.
4.) Yesterday we began to learn how to play the piano with Mr. Dave! We learned where the "c" note was. It was such fun!
1.) Read the book “CockADoodleMoo” and came up with their own make believe animals such as a “bearamel” (bear and a camel) and a “monkbra” (monkey and a zebra).
2.) Reviewed patterns and word problems during Math with Seena and Debbie.
3.) Used our imaginations while we took out the magic suitcase and played “ships and sailors” with Mr. Jim.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Read a new leveled reader called 'Yummy, Yummy'! Then we talked about our favorite foods and worked on venn diagrams about our story. We also worked on creating sentences using the letter M!
2.) Continued to learn about the planets as part of our 'Earth, Air, and Water' theme! We talked about the characteristics of each planet and about what astronauts do in space.
3.) Had yoga and drama! We practiced partner poses in yoga and played some of our favorite imagination games in drama!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) Today with Ms. Jen we expanded our repertoire of emotion terms. We read a book called "Hooway for Wodney Wat" and worked to interpret the characters’ feelings, make predictions, and provide rationales for actions and emotions. The feelings we came up with include: sad, jealous, lonely, proud, scared, mad, confident, shy, nervous, relieved, happy, and excited. Parents: ask your children what they feel confident about! Their answers to this question during speech were inspiring! J
2.) In science with Ms. Melissa we learned about the planets. We sang a song and pretended to be the planets and asteroid belt. We moved our bodies in the same ways that the planets move.
3.) After Yoga, we started reading a book about the Wright Brothers! It is a chapter book and we will read a different chapter everyday!
The Golden Owls:
Today we had a great Wednesday!
1.) We all looked awesome in all of our costumes!
2.) We took a field trip out to the parking lot to see all the different kinds of trucks and also the people who operated them! We were able to climb inside a Peapod truck and an ambulance. We talked to a policeman who rode a motorcycle and were able to sound the siren! It was a great way to see many different trucks and different jobs that people do.
3.) During writing we continued to work on paragraphs. We began using a topic sentence, then three specific details and a concluding sentence. We wrote about topics such as the summer, the field trip we took yesterday to the aviation park, Disney, our visit to see the trucks, and others.
4.) Yesterday we began to learn how to play the piano with Mr. Dave! We learned where the "c" note was. It was such fun!
Monday, May 4, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
The Magic Trains:
1.) The magic trains worked as a team to put a giant dinosaur floor puzzle together.
2.) Ms. Seena brought a box of rocks, crystals and even fossilized dinosaur poo from millions of years ago.
3.) We went to the Island of Sodor and painted the engines.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Read a book called 'Floating in Space'! It was all about astronauts traveling to space. What a great way to kick off our 'Earth, Air, and Water' theme for this month!
2.) Played a great emotions game with Miss Jen in Social Skills! We each took turns wearing an emotion card on our head, and our friends had to give us clues to help us guess what emotion we were wearing.
3.) Had science with Miss Melissa! We talked about the planets and started coloring pictures for our solar system project! Then we got to see Micah's fantastic 'Star of the Week' poster and learn all about his favorite things!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Math, we learned about the month of May and labeled our May calendars!
2.) We learned all about the sport, Football in Fitness today! We practiced throwing a ball into a large hoop! During Dance with Mr. Aaron, we practiced a dance step routine (it is a repeated dance pattern) we learned last week!
3.) This afternoon, we learned all about aviation to prepare for our field trip tomorrow! We brainstormed everything we could think of that flies! Then we sorted our brainstorming list into groups we thought fit together, finally we named the categories we put them in (living things that fly, machines that fly, etc).
The Golden Owls:
Today in the Golden Owls we had a great Crazy Hair Day!!!
1.) During fitness with Ms. Julie we practiced catching and throwing a football! We worked in pairs and then tried throwing through different size hoops! We ended out fitness time with a game trying to score against Ms. Julie. The trick was we had to pass to everyone before we scored.
2.) During OT with Ms. Kathy, we began working on our special Mother's Day activity. We put our fine motor skills to use during our painting activity.
3.) In math we reviewed time, adding and subtracting using both regrouping and borrowing, and fractions before we continued to work on multiplication.
1.) The magic trains worked as a team to put a giant dinosaur floor puzzle together.
2.) Ms. Seena brought a box of rocks, crystals and even fossilized dinosaur poo from millions of years ago.
3.) We went to the Island of Sodor and painted the engines.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Read a book called 'Floating in Space'! It was all about astronauts traveling to space. What a great way to kick off our 'Earth, Air, and Water' theme for this month!
2.) Played a great emotions game with Miss Jen in Social Skills! We each took turns wearing an emotion card on our head, and our friends had to give us clues to help us guess what emotion we were wearing.
3.) Had science with Miss Melissa! We talked about the planets and started coloring pictures for our solar system project! Then we got to see Micah's fantastic 'Star of the Week' poster and learn all about his favorite things!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) In Math, we learned about the month of May and labeled our May calendars!
2.) We learned all about the sport, Football in Fitness today! We practiced throwing a ball into a large hoop! During Dance with Mr. Aaron, we practiced a dance step routine (it is a repeated dance pattern) we learned last week!
3.) This afternoon, we learned all about aviation to prepare for our field trip tomorrow! We brainstormed everything we could think of that flies! Then we sorted our brainstorming list into groups we thought fit together, finally we named the categories we put them in (living things that fly, machines that fly, etc).
The Golden Owls:
Today in the Golden Owls we had a great Crazy Hair Day!!!
1.) During fitness with Ms. Julie we practiced catching and throwing a football! We worked in pairs and then tried throwing through different size hoops! We ended out fitness time with a game trying to score against Ms. Julie. The trick was we had to pass to everyone before we scored.
2.) During OT with Ms. Kathy, we began working on our special Mother's Day activity. We put our fine motor skills to use during our painting activity.
3.) In math we reviewed time, adding and subtracting using both regrouping and borrowing, and fractions before we continued to work on multiplication.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
The Magic Trains:
1.) The Magic Trains read “Little Shark” by Anne Rockwell. When Little Shark was born with his 49 brothers and sisters, he was only ten inches long. His sharkskin is bumpy like sand paper. He grew into a 13 foot long big blue shark!
2.) Ms. Brook worked with each of us on handwriting.
3.) Monday we will begin to study the planets. Out letter of the week will be “U”.
4.) In music we sang our favorite train songs and learned some new songs about our Earth.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Talked about '-ill' word family words! We read the poem 'Jack and Jill' and then colored and sequenced our own Jack and Jill books!
2.) Played a math memory game - we had to match addition problems to their correct answers!
3.) Had drama and music! In drama we played 'Magic Suitcase' and 'Bippity Boppity Boo!'; in music we sang and played music games like 'Bop Till You Drop' and 'Bear Hunt'!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) During Brain Gym, we rotated through circuits where we had to run through cones and hop from circle to circle, put designs together using Block Buddies (different color and shape blocks), and Double Doodles (involves using both hands simultaneously in a slightly different manner, mirror rather than same movements. The theory is this stimulates both hemispheres of the brain at the same time, right hand stimulates and is controlled by left hemisphere and left hand is controlled by and stimulates the right hemisphere, thus practicing and improving the connections between them. This is what helps to improve ability to cross the midline and whole brain integration, which helps to improve creativity. This also helps students choose their own best lead hemisphere if they have not already.)
2.) In Art, we told a story by using pictures! We each had to draw horizontal and vertical lines to make 4 squares. We numbered our squares 1-4 (1 beginning of story, 2-3 middle of story, 4 ending of story). Our stories could be made up or real!
3.) In Math, we learned funny names for even and odd numbers! Even Steven and Odd Todd! Then we learned a cheer to help us remember the Even Steven numbers (“ 2-4-6-8…who do we appreciate…Diener!”)
4.) During Star of the Week, we learned all about CORA!!
The Golden Owls:
1.) Mrs. Robin also came in during the afternoon and did a lesson on Poetry touching on quatrains and similes.
2.) We continued with multiplication, fractions, and regrouping in math. In L.A. we are working on non-fiction books while also utilizing graphic organizers to pull out vital information from the text.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!
1.) The Magic Trains read “Little Shark” by Anne Rockwell. When Little Shark was born with his 49 brothers and sisters, he was only ten inches long. His sharkskin is bumpy like sand paper. He grew into a 13 foot long big blue shark!
2.) Ms. Brook worked with each of us on handwriting.
3.) Monday we will begin to study the planets. Out letter of the week will be “U”.
4.) In music we sang our favorite train songs and learned some new songs about our Earth.
The Diener Dinosaurs:
Today the Diener Dinosaurs...
1.) Talked about '-ill' word family words! We read the poem 'Jack and Jill' and then colored and sequenced our own Jack and Jill books!
2.) Played a math memory game - we had to match addition problems to their correct answers!
3.) Had drama and music! In drama we played 'Magic Suitcase' and 'Bippity Boppity Boo!'; in music we sang and played music games like 'Bop Till You Drop' and 'Bear Hunt'!
The Mighty Dieners:
1.) During Brain Gym, we rotated through circuits where we had to run through cones and hop from circle to circle, put designs together using Block Buddies (different color and shape blocks), and Double Doodles (involves using both hands simultaneously in a slightly different manner, mirror rather than same movements. The theory is this stimulates both hemispheres of the brain at the same time, right hand stimulates and is controlled by left hemisphere and left hand is controlled by and stimulates the right hemisphere, thus practicing and improving the connections between them. This is what helps to improve ability to cross the midline and whole brain integration, which helps to improve creativity. This also helps students choose their own best lead hemisphere if they have not already.)
2.) In Art, we told a story by using pictures! We each had to draw horizontal and vertical lines to make 4 squares. We numbered our squares 1-4 (1 beginning of story, 2-3 middle of story, 4 ending of story). Our stories could be made up or real!
3.) In Math, we learned funny names for even and odd numbers! Even Steven and Odd Todd! Then we learned a cheer to help us remember the Even Steven numbers (“ 2-4-6-8…who do we appreciate…Diener!”)
4.) During Star of the Week, we learned all about CORA!!
The Golden Owls:
1.) Mrs. Robin also came in during the afternoon and did a lesson on Poetry touching on quatrains and similes.
2.) We continued with multiplication, fractions, and regrouping in math. In L.A. we are working on non-fiction books while also utilizing graphic organizers to pull out vital information from the text.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!
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