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