Mrs. Olsen's Blog

Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room!

Reading

We read a story this week- Giraffes Can't Dance. This is a funny story that has a great lesson in it. Gerald the Giraffe can't dance and the other animals in the jungle laugh at him because of this. Gerald decides he is going to learn to dance and does- he impresses all the other animals and they want to be like him then. :) We made a cute giraffe craft with a poem. We learned some new words with the story as well: prance, bold, splendid, sneered, and crept.

Jolly Phonics

This week we learned about the word family -un. We added our last 4 popcorn words for the year- "black", "orange", "white", and "brown". We did some fun color poems and songs for all the color words we learned the past 2 weeks. We have learned 95 words this year! I will be assessing the students in the next couple weeks and will send that home for you so you know which words to practice over the summer. Always good to practice all of them by writing the word in a sentence. :)

Math

We started topic 15 last week on position and location of shapes. We finished it up this week and will start our last topic for the year next week on analyzing and comparing shapes. Our centers this week consisted of some folder games on shapes, measurement, and data, sorting 3-D shapes, and stamping teen numbers.

Writing/ Handwriting

We did not get to handwriting this week. We made our last star student book for the year for Olivia because she was our star student this week.

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.

Remember, we have the kindergarten musical on Thursday, May 28 at 7:00 pm. It should be really cute- the students have been working really hard in music every week! :)