We had a fun-filled drama day with Mr. Aaron, in the Social Club this week. The kids talked about the story of The Three Little Pigs. They each were assigned a role and acted out different parts of the story. We ended the day by playing a fun group game in the fitness room.
Participants of the Buddy Program enjoyed doing Buddy Tracings with their friends from Green Acres. Inside of the tracing, each child wrote something that they liked about their buddy and the Buddy Program. We played a group game and enjoyed oatmeal cookies. What a treat!
We had a fiesta in Beyond Cooking on Thursday! The kids had a blast preparing Cheese and Spinach Quesadillas, Pita Chip Nachos, and fresh salsa. We incorporated math into our cooking lesson by cutting our quesadillas into halves and fourths. Everyone agreed that the recipes were easy to make a very delicious!
The 2nd Annual Diener School Science Fair was a huge success! The children had a great time learning about and executing all of their projects. Parents (new and old), friends, and other visitors were amazed by all of the hardwork put in by our kids! Everyone did an amazing job!
Today the Primary class and the two Inters classes sang at the Hebrew Home! Everyone did an awesome job. The Primary class sang songs like "Old McDonald," "Open Shut Them," and "Five Green and Speckled Frogs." The Inters classes sang songs like "I've Been Working on the Railroad," "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," and "If You're Happy and You Know It." The kids all did an awesome job and the people at the Hebrew Home were very happy to hear their beautiful voices! In Miss Kate's Uppers class this week, we had fun continuing our study of rhythm by playing lots of rhythm games like Musical Instrument Chairs, Lightning Sticks, and I Like to Move It. We can't wait to continue having more fun in music after spring break! :)
Primary and inters students were excited to celebrate Spring this week! They created beautiful craft projects requiring them to trace their hands, cut, and glue or tape. Check out their BRIGHT projects outside of Ms. Jenni's classroom!
In Fitness we worked on balancing and continuing strengthening the lower body as well as the upper. Today we had the hebrew home And sang and danced away. All the kids that went danced to the cupid shuffle.
This week our students participated in a fun spring craft project. We created colorful flowers out of handprints. It required us to trace our hands, cut them out, and glue them to a paper plate. We are working hard on improving our visual motor and fine motor skills.
This week during Speech & Language, Ms Kate’s Uppers practiced making predictions and offering solutions to a variety of scenarios. We read Pig Pig and the Magic Photo Album, took turns trying to figure out what would happen based on our previous knowledge, the cover, and the title, and enjoyed when the true story was revealed! We even drew pictures and told stories to one another about what pictures we wish were in our photo albums that could transport us. Ms. Barbara’s Uppers put their irregular past tense verb and other grammatical form knowledge into use by creating Club Penguin Mad Libs. Our favorite part was when we read our silly stories to the rest of the class! The Inters enjoyed playing an exciting game of Headbanz, which allowed us to practice using our categorization and attribute generating skills.
Have a wonderful Spring Break! Enjoy playing the social skills and language games that were provided to Jillian (Pass the Eyes, One Word Story, & Category Horse)!
In art, the Iners learned how to create many shapes from starting out with one small shape. The children drew their shape on the paper, then followed the shape to make a line around it. They continued to draw many lines around their shapes and some even created more shapes! The children later colored in their shapes with crayons.
HAVE A GREAT SPRING BREAK!!
Friday, March 26, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Friday Follow Up-March 19, 2010
This week in Social Skills group, the Upper girls spent some time with Ms Jen working on our conversing skills. We created a list of conversation DOs and DON'Ts and practiced acting them out. Then we divided into groups and played a game called Mumble Jumble in which each team was given a list of 10 question/comment sentence strips and had to put them in sequential, logical order. The teams enjoyed acting as judges for one another's conversations. Ms. Shannon and Ms. Deanna's Inters enjoyed learning about semantic attributes using St. Patrick's Day riddles and a categorization game.
In music this week, a lot of us were getting ready for our trip to the Hebrew Home next week! In the Primary class, we practiced songs like "Open Shut Them," "Make New Friends," and "Old McDonald." In the Inters classes, we practiced songs like "I've Been Working on the Railroad," "Yankee Doodle," and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." We are excited to sing at the Hebrew Home next Friday! In Miss Kate's class, we had so much fun making our rhythm band out of our "instruments" that we brought from home! There was so much creativity, and we had instruments like chopsticks and a plate, a rice-filled plastic egg, a spoon in a cup, and an empty milk carton! We made some awesome music. In Miss Barbara's class, we watched clips of the group STOMP and talked about how we can make rhythm with household objects, like brooms, basketballs, and pots and pans. We will be making our rhythm band next week.
This week in Ms. Emily's class we continued our friendship theme. The students invited each other into a "friendship web" and said once nice thing about a friend in the class. We also made froot loop friendship bracelets where the students practiced making requests. Each student was "in charge"of a different color froot loop. The students did a wonderful job asking each other for various colors.
This week in Ms. Jenni's class we continued the class's plant theme by making the yummy dessert Dirt and Worms. The students learned sequenceing words while following directions. They also used a variety of verbs to describe the different actions that went into the activity. At the conclusion, we sat in a circle and used a special "talking stick", which the students used to ask each other what their favorite part of the activity was. Everyone did an awesome job listening attentively to their friends!
In fitness, we worked on and discussed the importance of 3 major leg muscles calf, quadriceps ,and hamstrings. All this week we did exercises involving the lower body, lunges squats steps and using the scooter. No dance this week because of the field trip.
This week during OT, Ms. Jenni's class wrote letters to thier pen pals. Students practiced writing statements and questions to their buddies, and were very excited to tell them about a recent visit to the theatre to see Flat Stanly! Primary students were ready to lean after building and maneuvering their very own obstacle courses. Forget the pencils! We used shaving creme during our handwriting lesson to learn and practice our letter of the week, "G."
In music this week, a lot of us were getting ready for our trip to the Hebrew Home next week! In the Primary class, we practiced songs like "Open Shut Them," "Make New Friends," and "Old McDonald." In the Inters classes, we practiced songs like "I've Been Working on the Railroad," "Yankee Doodle," and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." We are excited to sing at the Hebrew Home next Friday! In Miss Kate's class, we had so much fun making our rhythm band out of our "instruments" that we brought from home! There was so much creativity, and we had instruments like chopsticks and a plate, a rice-filled plastic egg, a spoon in a cup, and an empty milk carton! We made some awesome music. In Miss Barbara's class, we watched clips of the group STOMP and talked about how we can make rhythm with household objects, like brooms, basketballs, and pots and pans. We will be making our rhythm band next week.
This week in Ms. Emily's class we continued our friendship theme. The students invited each other into a "friendship web" and said once nice thing about a friend in the class. We also made froot loop friendship bracelets where the students practiced making requests. Each student was "in charge"of a different color froot loop. The students did a wonderful job asking each other for various colors.
This week in Ms. Jenni's class we continued the class's plant theme by making the yummy dessert Dirt and Worms. The students learned sequenceing words while following directions. They also used a variety of verbs to describe the different actions that went into the activity. At the conclusion, we sat in a circle and used a special "talking stick", which the students used to ask each other what their favorite part of the activity was. Everyone did an awesome job listening attentively to their friends!
In fitness, we worked on and discussed the importance of 3 major leg muscles calf, quadriceps ,and hamstrings. All this week we did exercises involving the lower body, lunges squats steps and using the scooter. No dance this week because of the field trip.
This week during OT, Ms. Jenni's class wrote letters to thier pen pals. Students practiced writing statements and questions to their buddies, and were very excited to tell them about a recent visit to the theatre to see Flat Stanly! Primary students were ready to lean after building and maneuvering their very own obstacle courses. Forget the pencils! We used shaving creme during our handwriting lesson to learn and practice our letter of the week, "G."
Friday, March 12, 2010
Friday Follow Up-March 12, 2010
This week in science we started working on our science fair projects. The primary class began an experiment about osmosis, while the inters classes conducted experiments about chemical reactions and wind velocity. Our uppers classes had a blast with their top secret projects. Everyone is very excited to continue their research and share all of their findings!
We took advantage of the beautiful spring like weather and went on a nature walk in the Social Club. The kids made observations about the changes in our environment due to the change in seasons. We played Freeze Tag and Hop, Skip, Jump as a group and gave the kids a little time to have free play.
On Wednesday, at the Buddy Program, we 'kicked' it outside and played a big group game of Kickball! The Diener and Green Acres students had so much fun! We played several 'getting to know you' games to help the kids remember the names of their buddies! A name card was also sent home to help our kids remember their Green Acres buddy's name. Everyone is excited about our St. Patty's Day celebration next week!
We got dirty in Beyond Cooking by making Mud Cups! We used our measuring, crushing, blending, scooping, mixing, and tasting skills to prepare and enjoy this unique treat! The kids had a great time making this yummy snack!
This week during our weekly handwriting group, Ms. Jenni's class did a wonderful job practicing their letter writing skills in preparation for writing to their pen pals. We reviewed the parts of a letter, and practiced by writing letters to our classmates.
Primary students had an exciting week in OT. We tested our core muscle strength by completing visual motor and fine motor activities in a variety of positions in the hammock swing. We also continued to work hard in our handwriting books, focusing on our letter of the week, "Q".
This week in Ms. Emily's speech group we learned about friendship and read Making Friends by Fred Rogers. Throughout this wonderful picture book, the students made personal connections that were related to friendship. Some of the personal connections were; naming friends from class and home, relating games that the students like to play with others, and problem solving what one can do if two friends want to play with the same toy. Following the book, the students implemented what was portrayed in the story by playing together as a class while building a tower of blocks. The students did a great job taking turns, maintaining eye contact while communicating, and interacting as a group.
This week in Ms. Jenni's speech group we learned about the social skill of providing encouragement to friends. The students did a great job of coming up with encouraging statements to specific situations (for example, what would you say to a friend who thinks he will never be able to ride a bike) . Finally, we did an activity where the students matched positive options when making decisions.
This week our students focused on paragraph writing. We discussed what makes a good paragraph. We also continued to work on building our upper body strength and endurance.
In art, the primary class had fun painting with popsicle sticks! We added flour to our paints to make them thicker. The students then were able to use their popsicle sticks to paint on their paper and create a design! The inters began learning about abstract design. For this particular project, we used white construction paper, a black marker, and a variety of colored markers and crayons. The uppers first used a pencil to draw a nature scene. Then they used markers and crayons to complete their artwork, creating different landscapes!
We took advantage of the beautiful spring like weather and went on a nature walk in the Social Club. The kids made observations about the changes in our environment due to the change in seasons. We played Freeze Tag and Hop, Skip, Jump as a group and gave the kids a little time to have free play.
On Wednesday, at the Buddy Program, we 'kicked' it outside and played a big group game of Kickball! The Diener and Green Acres students had so much fun! We played several 'getting to know you' games to help the kids remember the names of their buddies! A name card was also sent home to help our kids remember their Green Acres buddy's name. Everyone is excited about our St. Patty's Day celebration next week!
We got dirty in Beyond Cooking by making Mud Cups! We used our measuring, crushing, blending, scooping, mixing, and tasting skills to prepare and enjoy this unique treat! The kids had a great time making this yummy snack!
This week during our weekly handwriting group, Ms. Jenni's class did a wonderful job practicing their letter writing skills in preparation for writing to their pen pals. We reviewed the parts of a letter, and practiced by writing letters to our classmates.
Primary students had an exciting week in OT. We tested our core muscle strength by completing visual motor and fine motor activities in a variety of positions in the hammock swing. We also continued to work hard in our handwriting books, focusing on our letter of the week, "Q".
This week in Ms. Emily's speech group we learned about friendship and read Making Friends by Fred Rogers. Throughout this wonderful picture book, the students made personal connections that were related to friendship. Some of the personal connections were; naming friends from class and home, relating games that the students like to play with others, and problem solving what one can do if two friends want to play with the same toy. Following the book, the students implemented what was portrayed in the story by playing together as a class while building a tower of blocks. The students did a great job taking turns, maintaining eye contact while communicating, and interacting as a group.
This week in Ms. Jenni's speech group we learned about the social skill of providing encouragement to friends. The students did a great job of coming up with encouraging statements to specific situations (for example, what would you say to a friend who thinks he will never be able to ride a bike) . Finally, we did an activity where the students matched positive options when making decisions.
This week our students focused on paragraph writing. We discussed what makes a good paragraph. We also continued to work on building our upper body strength and endurance.
In art, the primary class had fun painting with popsicle sticks! We added flour to our paints to make them thicker. The students then were able to use their popsicle sticks to paint on their paper and create a design! The inters began learning about abstract design. For this particular project, we used white construction paper, a black marker, and a variety of colored markers and crayons. The uppers first used a pencil to draw a nature scene. Then they used markers and crayons to complete their artwork, creating different landscapes!
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