Mrs. Olsen's Blog

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! :)