Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room! 

  Reading 

We read another non fiction book this week called Building Beavers.  It was all about the how beavers build their dams and lodges and about beavers.  The students learned some cool facts about them!   We learned some new vocab words - wide, clear, construct, and structure.  Ask them if they remember what they mean. :) During daily 5 this week we worked on some fun games practicing popcorn words again.  I am now testing the students on how many popcorn words they know from the 95 they have been taught this year.

Jolly Phonics 

We focused on the word family "um" this week.  We added four new popcorn words this week- "black", "orange", "white" and "brown". That is the end of the popcorn words for the year- 95 of them!  I told the students they can keep their popcorn books at home now to practice at home- please practice! :)

Math 

This week we did centers again.  They were practicing adding and subtracting in different ways and some measuring activities.  Mrs. Riadi came in and has been pulling the kids one by one to work on math facts and fluency especially with subtraction.  She will continue with this next week too.  

Writing/ Handwriting 

We did some writing assessments this week, wrote and drew about something we imagined for imagination day, and for letter day we wrote a nice letter to someone we care about.  These were cute to read. :)  We did a flower craft today that will be hanging up in the room until school is out.

  

       **The students have enjoyed the ABC's of school this week.  They got to watch The Nut Job for kids choice movie day.  They had fun with that one!  Next week, Tuesday is Neon and Neatness day- so if you have anything neon for them to wear that would be great. :)  Everything else is in school.

**Remember there is no school on Monday due to the Memorial Day observance.**

  

**Thanks to the Hines family for donating glue sticks this 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!

 My phone number is 783-5218. Email I will get to the quickest if you need to reach me. jolsen@ccsd66.org

I hope everyone has a wonderful, long weekend!  Enjoy the summer-like weather!

 Mrs. Olsen 

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

 funbrain.com 

 starfall.com 

 aaamath.com 

 kidsites.org 

 kidzone.ws

gonoodle.com