Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room! 

  Reading 

We read a story this week- Hey, Little Ant. It is a cute story about an ant and a kid.  The kid wants to squish the ant and the ant is telling him he shouldn't.  The story doesn't really have an ending.  We needed to decide what the kid should do.  We had fun with this today making a craft of the kid squishing or not squishing the ant and a writing piece to go with it.  We learned some new words with the story: squish, decide, crook, and crumbs.

Jolly Phonics 

  This week we learned about the word family -op.  We added 4 popcorn words- "came", "make", "want", and "with".  Please practice the popcorn words at home. :)  We also learned some blends this week- sn, sp, st and sw.  We learned lots of new words while blending! :)

Math 

  We finished topic 13 this week on sorting, classifying and analyzing data.  We have started topic 14 on shapes!  This is a fun topic!  Our centers this week were some practicing with measuring, adding and subtracting, skip counting by 5's, and writing the numbers before and after teen numbers.

Writing/ Handwriting 

We did not get to handwriting this week- we did a couple Earth projects instead. :)  We are still working on our story- hopefully we will finish those up next week and you can see them! :)  We did a fun craft today that had to do with squishing the ant- the writing activity we glued to the back- did we squish the ant or not?? :)

 

Please remember to send in a HEALTHY snack for your child- cookies and treats are not healthy snacks.  It needs to be a 100%juice, fruits or vegetables preferably, otherwise crackers or something like that.

We will have until the end of the school year Mrs. Grishow in our classroom as a helper.  She has been helping out with a lot of things and the students are enjoying the extra help in the room. :)  She goes by a few names- Mrs. G or Mrs. Lori too- in case you hear your child mention that name.

Thank you to the families of Shivang Patel and Paul Raftis for donating glue sticks this week- we are using them!! :)

Next week on Friday, May 1 is gym night at Elizabeth Ide from 6:30-8:00.

Thanks to all the families who came for Open House last night!  It was great to see you and I hope you enjoyed seeing all your child's hard work! :)

Have a great weekend!

 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

Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room! 

  Reading 

We read a story this week- From Seed to Plant. It is a non-fiction book that we had a lot of fun reading!  We did some practice with looking for information in the book to answer questions.  We did a fun craft today labeling all the parts of a plant.

Jolly Phonics 

  This week we learned about the word family -ot.  We added 4 popcorn words- "eat", "please", "want", and "with".  Please practice the popcorn words at home. :)  We also learned some blends this week- sc, sk, sl and sm.  We learned lots of new words while blending! :)

Math 

  We continued with topic 13 this week on sorting, classifying and analyzing data.  This can be done at home a lot.  Give your child a bunch of items and have them classify and sort them into colors, shapes, sizes, etc...Our centers this week were all about measuring different items and objects with different attributes.  They had fun with these and did really well!  We also made a flower counting by 10's.

Writing/ Handwriting 

We practiced writing and discussing where the period and comma go in handwriting this week.  I am stressing that the students start to write with all lowercase letters unless it is the beginning of a name or sentence. We started this week writing a story about themselves- they are excited to have their own book- we will try to get them done by open house! 

 

Please remember to send in a HEALTHY snack for your child- cookies and treats are not healthy snacks.  It needs to be a 100%juice, fruits or vegetables preferably, otherwise crackers or something like that.

We will have until the end of the school year Mrs. Grishow in our classroom as a helper.  She has been helping out with a lot of things and the students are enjoying the extra help in the room. :)  She goes by a few names- Mrs. G or Mrs. Lori too- in case you hear your child mention that name.

Thank you to the families of Luke Conley, Aubrey Kotel, Fredrick Bowers, Elias Zubrickas, and Aubrey Polasek for donating glue sticks this week- we are using them!! :)

Next week on Thursday, April 23 we have our spring open house and book fair here at school- please come and see all of your child's hard work here at school! :)  It is from 6:30-8:00.

Have a great weekend!

 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

Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room! 

  Reading 

We read a story this week- Mrs. Fox's Class Goes Green. It is about a classroom that decides to do some good things for the Earth for Earth Day- we talked a lot this week about what we can do for the Earth as well. We completed a neat project and a little book about Earth Day.

Jolly Phonics 

  This week we learned about the word family -ip.  We added 4 popcorn words- "say", "away", "they", and "play".  Please practice the popcorn words at home. :)   We will be learning 4 a week now until the end of the year- so please practice them!  We also learned some blends this week- gr, pr, and tr.  We learned lots of new words while blending! :)

Math 

  We started topic 13 this week on sorting, classifying and analyzing data.  This can be done at home a lot.  Give your child a bunch of items and have them classify and sort them into colors, shapes, sizes, etc...We did not do centers this week since it was a short week.  We did a fun egg and addition activity.

Writing/ Handwriting 

We practiced the lowercase letters in handwriting this week.  I am stressing that the students start to write with all lowercase letters unless it is the beginning of a name or sentence.  

 

Please remember to send in a HEALTHY snack for your child- cookies and treats are not healthy snacks.  It needs to be a 100%juice, fruits or vegetables preferably, otherwise crackers or something like that.

We will have until the end of the school year Mrs. Grishow in our classroom as a helper.  She has been helping out with a lot of things and the students are enjoying the extra help in the room. :)  She goes by a few names- Mrs. G or Mrs. Lori too- in case you hear your child mention that name.

We have also run out of glue sticks!  If you can send some in it would be really appreciated!!  You would never think with as many as we started with in the beginning of the year we are out- but we are! :)

Have a great weekend!

 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