Mrs. Olsen's Blog

Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room!

Happy Fall!!

Reading

We are busy in reading learning all sorts of new words that the children love to use in class! Ask your child what enjoy, gooey, container, and scrumptious mean. :) We also added computers to our daily 5 rotation. The children go into the computer lab in the morning 1-2 times a week to work on the program i-station. They listen to stories and are asked questions about the stories. So far the children enjoy going to the computer lab. We will continue with that same routine next week. It gives Mrs. Riadi and I a chance to do do some small group reading activities as well while the students are at computers, reading to self, working on word work, or listening to a story on CD. We also read and worked on a poem called Apples, Apples. If you did not send in a binder yet for your child for the poetry book, please do so so your child can put together his or her poetry binder. Thanks!

Jolly Phonics

We added the letters "r" and "m" 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- "see". Keep practicing your popcorn words at home. Point out the popcorn words in stories you read to your children as well. Then, when they are reading to self during daily 5 they will recognize those words and be proud that they can read them.

Handwriting

We practiced some more letters this week in our handwriting book. Capital N and M. Please practice these at home.

Math

We are continuing with practicing counting numbers, as we have been, however, we did all our activities this week having to do with apples! Mrs. Riadi and I set up some games that we rotated the children through. They had a good time. We also talked about tally marks and how to count using tally marks. The children think this is pretty cool!

Writing

We did not get to much writing this week, any that we did had to do with our popcorn words in some popcorn books we made. We did a neat apple art project as well during this time. We will do more writing next week.

**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. We will have our first star student next week- Addison! :)

I also wanted to let you know that the students will be bringing home any papers on Friday that they did not finish during the week. So, if they have a few unfinished papers in their keep at home part of their folder they are morning work or activities that they did not finish during the week. I told them to bring them home and they can finish them at home. They do not need to come back to school. Today, we did not get to get them in their folders, so they will be coming home on Monday instead.

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

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Olsen