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