Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room! 

 Reading 

We reread the story Cat's Colors and worked on the skill visualizing.  This is a neat skill to practice with the students and they had fun doing it. We did not have enough time to get to vocabulary this week with it being short.  We read a poem this week called I'm A Friendly Snowman.  We did not do daily 5 rotations this week, instead we practiced our new rotation- working on writing.  The students will add this rotation to their daily 5 next week.  I think they will enjoy it.  A lot more writing and practicing sounding out words.

Jolly Phonics 

We added the letter "ch" and "sh" this week to our sounds. Ask your child what the action is that goes with the 2 sounds. We added three new popcorn words as well- "the", "you", and "down". 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 did not get to any handwriting this week.  But we did do some practicing of writing in our new daily 5  rotation.

Math 

We did not get to do centers this week because of the short week.  We will do them next week.  I did introduce place value to them, finding the tens and ones in double digit numbers.  We will continue practicing this next week too.

Writing 

We wrote and drew something we like about Mick since he was our star student for the week. We also made a snowman craft using paint and q-tips.

We welcomed a new student in our class this week- Joshua.  The students have done a good job welcoming him into our classroom and showing him our routine. :)  We now have 12 girls and 8 boys!

** Next week on Wednesday, January 15, we have an early dismissal.  The students will be dismissed at 12:00 and lunch will not be served here. **

 **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! 

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

I hope everyone had a wonderful winter break!  What a crazy weather system we had over break- we definitely got a lot of snow for the kids to play in, however, it got too cold to enjoy it!  I hope they weren't too crazy for you the extra 2 days you had them home. :)  Have a great weekend!

 Mrs. Olsen 

 Some great websites for the students to do at home are: 

 funbrain.com 

 starfall.com 

 aaamath.com 

 kidsites.org 

 kidzone.ws