Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room! 

  Reading 

We read a story this week- From Seed to Pumpkin.  It is all about how a pumpkin seed becomes a pumpkin and the stages of the life cycle it goes through.  We learned some new vocabulary words that went with the story- moist, jagged,  sprawl, ripe and wither.  

We are on book 7 Sunset of the Sabertooth in the Magic Tree House books. They are really enjoying them!

Jolly Phonics 

We learned about the letters "oa" and "ie" and how they make the long o and i sound in words.  Ask your child about the sounds and actions that go with those letters.  We added 2 popcorn words- but and to.  Please practice the popcorn words at home. :) 

Math 

We finished up topic 4 on comparing the numbers 0-10.  We started topic 5 on the numbers 11-20.  Our centers this week did some practicing with counting and writing numbers from 11-20.

Writing/ Handwriting 

We practiced the capital and lowercase f in handwriting this week.  We did a thankful tree today for our craft. We also made a pumpkin life cycle paper plate that will come home with the children today.  The video we made this week from our craft last Friday is really cute and I will send it to you as soon as we finalize it.  I showed it to the students today, but some students speaking is really soft, so we might try to redo theirs so we can hear them better.  I will email it as soon as it is ready though. :)

We also made a book for Murtaza since he was the star student this week.

  

**We had a representative come in for Junior Achievement today.  He works for McDonalds and is volunteering his time to work with the students for the next few weeks teaching them about business and economics at a kindergarten level. :) **

I feel as if it is winter already with this weather!  I keep hearing Christmas songs on the radio too- it is not even Thanksgiving yet, but it seems like it is closer to Christmas than Thanksgiving!  

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