Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room!

  Reading 

We read a story this week What Do You Do with A Tail Like This?  This is a cool story about unique animal parts or tails that do different things.  We also read a couple stories that were similar- What Would You Do if you had Animal Teeth or Animal Hair?  These were fun to learn about and discuss!

Jolly Phonics 

 We finished all the jolly phonics and all 95 popcorn words for the year!  We learned our last word family this week too- ug.  Please continue to practice using and spelling the popcorn words over the summer- have them write sentences using the popcorn words. :)

Math 

  We finished up math centers this week and did some more practice with completing number sentences to 10.  

Writing/ Handwriting 

We finished sharing our stories and they were very cute!  We made a cute zebra craft today that they are coming with in honor of the zoo field trip next week! :)

**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!**

**Please remember to send your child with a packed lunch that can all be thrown away on Tuesday, May 31.  Chaperones will be holding the lunches in a bag until they eat lunch.**

**The students did a great job at the musical last night and the poetry cafe this morning!  I hope you enjoyed it!  They worked really hard the past 2 weeks practicing for both! :)**

This is my last blog for the year!  I hope you all have a wonderful summer!  It has been a pleasure to teach your children this year- they have grown so much and are ready for first grade!!

 Have a great weekend!  Happy Memorial Day!

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 couple stories this week Rainbow Fish and Sharks.  Rainbow Fish is a great story about friendships and sharing.  The Shark book was a fun book to read some cool facts about sharks.  We compared and contrasted sharks and fish.  We made a fun rainbow fish craft today as well.  We also made a class book stating what we share well.

Jolly Phonics 

 We have finished all the jolly phonics sounds so we are now focusing on word families- this week we learned about the -og family.  We also learned the popcorn words pretty, funny, under, and find.  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 or subtracting numbers up to 10, making caterpillars to match addition sentences, math games on the i-pad, walking around the room and putting in order numbers from least to greatest, dice book addition sentences up to 12, addition up to 10 and counting by 5's, and rainy day addition and rainbows writing numbers before and after.

Writing/ Handwriting 

We have finished the handwriting book and are focusing on writing now. We have been focusing on writing in our journals now where we are writing 2-3 sentences and a picture to match the journal. :)  We are sharing these as well- they are fun to listen to!

**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!**

**Sent home today are field trip permission forms and parent volunteers for the field trip to the zoo on Tuesday, May 31.  Please return as soon as possible. Thanks!**

**Please return the sheets for the poetry cafe on May 27 from 8:30-9:15.  We need to have a number of how many people will be attending so we can plan accordingly. :)  If you need another sheet just let me know and I will send one home with your child.  Thanks!**

 Have a great weekend!  Happy Mother's Day!!

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