Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room!

  Reading 

We read a story this week Hey, Little Ant.  This is a fun book about an ant and a kid and it does not have an ending- the students got to pick the ending of the story today during our craft.  They had to decide if the boy should squish the ant or not and give a reason why or why not. It was fun! :)

Jolly Phonics 

 We have finished all the jolly phonics sounds so we are now focusing on word families- this week we learned about the -op family.  We also learned the popcorn words came, make, ate, and ride.  Please practice the words at home. 

Math 

  We are working on addition and subtraction now.  We did math centers where the students had to stamp adding numbers up to 10, roll 2 or 3 dice and add the numbers together to have a chick get to the chocolate bar first, math games on the i-pad, walking around the room and filling in the missing number of 3 numbers, making bubble bonds up to 5, making an addition number sentence book with fruit, and constructing numbers from 1-100 with tens and ones.

Writing/ Handwriting 

We have finished the handwriting book and are focusing on writing now. We finished our second story and will be sharing them with the class now.  I hope many of you were able to read it at open house last night.  They are cute and they have come a long way with their writing.  We have been doing some journals this week too- what they did over the weekend, what is their favorite thing to do in the summer, etc..

**Please remember to send in a HEALTHY snack for your child- cookies and treats are not healthy snacks.  It needs to be fruits or vegetables preferably, otherwise crackers or something like that.  They are welcome to bring in a water bottle to drink during the day.  Please bring it filled, we do not fill water bottles during the day.  If they drink it all, then they can get water from the drinking fountain.  Thanks!**

**Remember- our field trip to the Children's Museum is next Friday, April 29.  The children will be eating lunch when we get back from the field trip which will be after lunch here at school, so please send them with a sack lunch that day.  No hot lunch will be served for kindergarten.  We will be eating a snack before we leave in the morning, so make sure to pack a snack as well- otherwise they will be hungry on the field trip.**

 Looks like another beautiful weekend!  Hope you can enjoy it! :)

Happy Spring!

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