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
