Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room!

Happy Fall!!

Reading

We added a new part to our daily 5 this week- word work.  The students were able to use play-doh, white boards, magnetic letters, and etch-a-sketch boards to practice letters, popcorn words, and their names.  Today we did 4 sections to our daily 5.  I worked with a group as well while groups of students were listening to a story, doing word work, or reading to self.  The students did a great job with this! Mrs. Riadi also started in our classroom 4 days a week to help with reading this week.  The students liked having another teacher in the room with us.
Next week we will be incorporating poetry into a weekly theme.  Please send with your child a 1 inch white binder with a front plastic cover for our poetry unit to school next week. Thanks!

Jolly Phonics

We added the letters e and h this week to our sounds we learned.  Ask your child what the actions are that go with the sounds.  We added a new popcorn word as well- "in".  You probably noticed how the students brought home their popcorn book.  They are to keep it in their green folder in the return to school side so they can practice at home and at school.  

Handwriting

We practiced some more letters and numbers this week in our handwriting book.  Capital P, B, and R and numbers 4, and 5.  Please practice these at home.

Math

We are continuing with practicing counting numbers, we did a lot with dice this week.  The students enjoy working in small groups or partners to do these counting activities.  The students are also working on writing the numbers properly from 1-10.  Mrs. Riadi will also be working with us during this time as well for 4 days out of the week.

Writing

One of the journals we did this week was on what our favorite thing to do in fall is.  The students came up with some great ideas from helping mom and dad rake leaves to apple picking! 

**Remember snack should be  healthy , such as fruit, vegetables, cheese, or crackers.  If you are sending a juice, make sure it is 100% juice.** Thanks!

We have gym every day, so please make sure your child has on gym shoes or brings gym shoes to school to wear for gym class.

We have art once a week on Tuesday with Ms. Smeltzer.

We have library twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays.  The children can check out 1 book at a time each day as long as they have returned their book.  

We also have music twice a week on Thursday and Friday.  Ms. Wyse is a lot of fun.

Some students brought home star student posters to work on.  I gave the students who will be star student their posters to work on for the month of October.  Please return the posters as you finish them.  I will send home a bag with other stuff in it the Friday before your child is star student.  

  My phone line has been set up in my room and the number is 783-5218. Email I will get to the quickest. jolsen@ccsd66.org

Enjoy this weather this weekend! 

Mrs. Olsen

Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room!

Reading

We have been doing a great job with learning the daily 5 routine in our class.  The students have mastered read to self and listening to a story.  Next week we will start working on another part of the daily 5 which is working with words.  We will put that into our centers we have started.We also read the story Cat's Colors.  We did some activities with colors as well.  We learned 4 new words too- soar, tangled, snooze, and drowsy. The students love to incorporate the new words into their vocabulary throughout the day!! :)

Jolly Phonics

We added the letters n and ck this week to our sounds we learned.  Ask your child what the actions are that go with the sounds.  We added a new popcorn word as well- "it".  Next week the students will start to bring home their popcorn word book to practice the words at home.  When you are reading to your child see if they can find any popcorn words in the stories. A, I, or It

Handwriting

We practiced forming some letters and numbers this week in our handwriting book.  capital F and E and numbers 1, 2, and 3.  Please practice these at home.

Math

We have been playing some fun games in partners and small groups where we are praticing counting numbers.  We did 1 day of math learning centers.  Today we did a color matching and counting game with manipulatives.  The students seem to enjoy doing these activities. :)

Writing

We did some journals this week on what they did over the weekend, what their favorite color is and why, and what is their favorite thing at recess to do.  Some students really enjoy drawing pictures to go with these. 

**Remember snack should be a healthy  snack such as fruit, vegetables, cheese, or crackers.  If you are sending a juice, make sure it is 100% juice.** Thanks!

We have gym every day, so please make sure your child has on gym shoes or brings gym shoes to school to wear for gym class.

We have art once a week on Tuesday with Ms. Smeltzer.

We have library twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays.  The children can check out 1 book at a time each day as long as they have returned their book.  

We also have music twice a week on Thursday and Friday.  Ms. Wyse is a lot of fun.

Thanks to all the parents and students who donated money for classroom books.  I picked out some great books and we will be reading them each day!  It is so fun to pick out new books and even more fun to read them to the class! So thank you!!

  My phone line has been set up in my room and the number is 783-5218.  I encourage you to email me first because the phone will ring during the day while the students are here and obviously I can't answer it if the students are in the room.  Email I will get to the quickest. jolsen@ccsd66.org

Have a wonderful weekend!  

Mrs. Olsen

Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room!

Reading

I am so impressed with my class on how well they are learning to do the daily 5 components.  We have been busy practicing reading to self and listening to stories on CDs.  We also read the story If You Give  Mouse A Cookie and did some fun activities with it.  The students learned some great new words as well.  Ask them what nuisance, exhausted, energetic, and generous means.  

Jolly Phonics

We added the letters i and p this week to our sounds we learned.  Ask your child what the actions are that go with the sounds.  We have 2 popcorn words as well- "a" and "I."

Handwriting

We made and played with "Mat Man" this week.  He helps us write letters and numbers correctly.  

Math

We had a couple days of MAPS testing that were during our math time.  But the 3 days we did get to do math we did an activity with black dots and counting and creating a picture.  We also got to make numbers using play-doh.(I think that was their favorite!)  We also played some games with numbers and cookies! 

Writing

We did a couple journals this week about what we like or dislike about kindergarten and if we let the mouse have a ball instead of a cookie, what would he do....

We have gym every day, so please make sure your child has on gym shoes or brings gym shoes to school to wear for gym class.

We have art once a week on Tuesday with Ms. Smeltzer.

We have library twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays.  The children can check out 1 book at a time each day as long as they have returned their book.  

We also have music twice a week on Thursday and Friday.  Ms. Wyse is a lot of fun.

We finished the first full week of school and the students are doing terrific!  You should be very proud of your child for hanging on all day long!:)  My phone line has not been set up in my room yet, when it is set up I will let you know.  You can always leave a message for me with the office, but email I will get to the quickest. jolsen@ccsd66.org

Have a wonderful weekend!  Happy Fall all of a sudden!!

Mrs. Olsen