Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room!
Reading
We read a story this week- A Turkey for Thanksgiving. It is about a turkey who gets invited to Thanksgiving dinner and not to be eaten like he thinks. He is surprised and happy to join the animals for a dinner together. We worked on sequencing the story too. We learned some new vocabulary words that went with the story- Thanksgiving, hooves, lumbered, and riverbank.
We are still 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 "ee" and "or" and how they make the long e and or sound in words. Ask your child about the sounds and actions that go with those letters. We added 2 popcorn words- too and ran. Please practice the popcorn words at home. :)
Math
We are working hard on the teen numbers 11-20. Please practice writing them at home, they are easy to mix up. Our centers had to do with counting and writing numbers from 11-20 and turkeys for Thanksgiving.
Writing/ Handwriting
We practiced the capital and lowercase g in handwriting this week and did a review page for the letters c, d, and e. We made some cool turkeys that are hanging up in the room today.
We started a writing unit this week, we have done a couple journal entries in our journals. We are practicing making a picture about something important to us, labeling it and then writing about that picture. The students really seem excited for this. :)
We also made a book for Esther since she was the star student this week.
**We had our representative, Mr. Cook, come in for Junior Achievement again today. The students learned all about money and the different coins. They had fun! **
Have a wonderful weekend and a wonderful Thanksgiving as well! I will not be doing a blog next week since it is such a short week. We will be doing Thanksgiving activities next week. :)
**Remember no school on Wednesday- Friday, November 26-28 of next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday.**
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
