Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room! 

  Reading 

We read a story this week- The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin.     It is about a pumpkin who is square instead of round like the other pumpkins.  He ends up saving the other pumpkins during a storm and all the other pumpkins want to be like him. :) We learned some new vocabulary words that went with the story- rare, variety,  teased, and fright.  

We are on book 6 Afternoon on the Amazon in the Magic Tree House books. They are really enjoying them!

Jolly Phonics 

We learned about the letters "ai" and "ay" and how they make the long a sound in words.  Ask your child about the sounds and actions that go with those letters.  We added 2 popcorn words- is and can.  Please practice the popcorn words at home. :) 

Math 

We will be finishing up topic 4 on comparing the numbers 0-10 next week.  We continued working with ten frames and being able to identify numbers in the ten frame.  We did a couple math centers this week, it was hard to get too many in because of the short week.  But the ones we did were more practicing of decomposing numbers and counting numbers up into the teens.

Writing/ Handwriting 

We practiced the capital and lowercase e in handwriting this week.  We did a fun pumpkin craft and writing activity with the story Spookley.  I will be sending a video to you that we made with the pumpkins next week once we have it put together.  It should be really cute! :)

  

**We said goodbye to Alexis today as she will be moving this weekend to Lockport.  We will miss her and wish her the best in her new kindergarten class!  She will do great and make lots of new friends!**

I hope you all had a fantastic Halloween and enjoyed the long weekend!  It was a short week with only 3 days- went by fast!

Have a great weekend- stay warm!

 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