Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room! 

  Reading 

We read a story this week called A Porcupine named Fluffy.  It was a fun story about a porcupine who gets named Fluffy and he doesn't understand why he is named Fluffy when he is anything but fluffy!   It was cute and the students enjoyed it.  We learned some new vocab words - pleased, soggy, kind, and unkind.  Ask them if they remember what they mean. :) During daily 5 this week we worked on ABC order, sorting sentences and writing them, and sorting verbs and nouns.  They did really well with all of these!

Jolly Phonics 

We focused on short "u" this week.  We finished our popcorn words last week and I finished testing all the students on how many popcorn words they knew.  Please practice at home the words in your popcorn book this summer.  Some students still have trouble with the longer, harder words.

Math 

This week we did centers again that all had to do with golf.  There was a missing number activity, addition activity, subtraction activity, and adding 3 numbers.  The students had fun with these.  Mrs. Riadi came in and  pulled the kids in small groups to work on math facts and fluency especially with subtraction.  She will continue with this next week too and it will be her last week helping us out in math.  

Writing/ Handwriting 

We did a writing activity in our journal about their favorite thing to do outside for outside day, while writing outside!  We worked on letter i and e in the handwriting book.  We did a self portrait of ourselves today for fun- these were great to look at! :)

  

       **The students have enjoyed the ABC's of school this week.  Next week, Tuesday is sunglasses day- so if they have sunglasses to wear to school they are allowed to. :)Wednesday is team spirit day- so any sports teams you want to have them wear is great!  Friday is video day so they picked to watch the Lion King next Friday.  

**Thursday, June 5 is our zoo field trip.  An information sheet is going home today for you to look over.  Please just make sure to send your child with a sack lunch- a bag that can be thrown out after they are done eating and that they are dressed appropriately.  Hopefully we will have great weather like we have had this past week- but who knows??  Keeping fingers crossed!**

  

**Jim Gill did a concert for the kindergarteners today and was he fun!!  They loved it!  He is playing this summer at Indian Prairie Library- so if you want to go on his website to check out his schedule I am sure you would love it!  Jim Gill concert schedule

 **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 weekend!  Enjoy the summer-like weather again!

 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