Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room! 

  Reading 

We read another non fiction book this week I Want to be a Vet.  It was all about how hard vets work and the different types of animals they work on.  The students enjoyed it!  We learned some new vocab words - assist, injure, recover, and clever.  During daily 5 this week we played a fun game called "Monster Truck" where we read tons of CVC words.  We played it all week and the students loved it!

Jolly Phonics 

We focused on the word family -ot and -op this week.  We added four new popcorn words this week- "came",  "make", "ate" and "ride". Please keep practicing- there are a ton of words now!

Math 

This week we focused on a little bit of measurement but mostly did practicing with subtraction.  Today we took our -2 timed test.  I have not graded them yet, so will give you an update next week.  

Writing/ Handwriting 

We worked on some handwriting pages this week.  We worked on lower case v and w.  We also wrote a sentence about why we like Jasmine since she was our star student this week.  We read a fun book about plants and flowers today and created a flower craft labeling all the parts of the flower.

  

       

   

   

   

            

**Thanks to the Rinaldi and Hines families for donating the glue sticks this past week- I hope we are good till the end of the year!  Fingers crossed! 

**Thanks to all of you who took the time out of your busy schedules to come to Open House last night- I know the students were really excited to show you all their hard work!**

** Thanks for the book donations- I was able to get 7 new books for the classroom from the book fair last night! **

 **Remember snack should be healthy, such as fruit, vegetables, cheese, or crackers. If you are sending a juice, make sure it is 100% juice.** Thanks!

 

 My phone line has been set up in my room and the number is 783-5218. Email I will get to the quickest if you need to reach me. jolsen@ccsd66.org

I hope everyone has 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

Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room! 

  Reading 

We read another non fiction book this week Knowing About Noses.  It was about how animals use their noses in different ways.  The students thought it was interesting and funny!  We learned some new vocab words - prey and object.  During daily 5 this week we did many activities that involved writing CVC, color, and number words and making silly sentences with illustrations.  I will also make this into a book for open house.

Jolly Phonics 

We focused on the word family short e this week.  We added four new popcorn words this week- "eat",  "please", "want" and "with". Keep practicing those popcorn books- we have a lot of words now!

Math 

We continued to work on measurement this past week and our centers all were how to measure different items with different tools.  We took another subtraction timed test on -1 today.   Next week we will go back to working on addition and subtraction facts and understanding of those two.

Writing/ Handwriting 

We worked on some handwriting pages this week.  We worked on lower case c and s.

  

       

   

       

            

**Thanks to the Rinaldi, Yurchak, Waitkus and Hines families for donating the wipes, paper towels, and kleenex this past week- I hope we are good till the end of the year!  

I hate to ask but we are almost out of glue sticks again- I cannot believe how quickly we went through the ones that were donated not too long ago!  So, anyone who wants to donate glue sticks- it would be greatly appreciated! :)

** Emily Hines was principal for the day this week and had a great time- congrats to her!**

 **Remember snack should be healthy, such as fruit, vegetables, cheese, or crackers. If you are sending a juice, make sure it is 100% juice.** Thanks!

 

 My phone line has been set up in my room and the number is 783-5218. Email I will get to the quickest if you need to reach me. jolsen@ccsd66.org

I hope everyone has a great weekend and a Happy Easter!

 Mrs. Olsen 

 Some great websites for the students to do at home are: 

 funbrain.com 

 starfall.com 

 aaamath.com 

 kidsites.org 

 kidzone.ws

Kindergarten News in Mrs.Olsen's Room! 

  Reading 

We read another non fiction book this week On the Go.  It was about how people get around all over the world.  We learned some new vocab words - active and haul.  During daily 5 this week we did many activities that involved writing CVC words and working on beginning sounds.  We finished the lion and lamb writing activity on how we are more like lion or lamb weather. I will be making it into a book for you to look at during open house. 

Jolly Phonics 

We focused on the word family "et" this week.  We added four new popcorn words this week- "say",  "away", "play" and "they". Keep practicing those popcorn books- we have a lot of words now!

Math 

We continued to work on measurement this past week and our centers had measurement activities, as well as, addition and subtraction.  We took our first subtraction timed test on -0 today.  Half of the class did great and will do -1 next week.  Subtraction is definitely harder than addition.  The other half of the class will still be working on +1, +2, or -0 for next week.  We also talked about the importance of fluency in knowing your math facts.  The faster we know our facts the easier the following years in math will be. :)

Writing/ Handwriting 

We wrote a sentence and drew a picture about Ryan this week since he is our star student.  We did a fun rainbow craft with a rhyme we created to go with it!

  

       

           

            

**Thanks to the families who have donated kleenex, wipes, pencils, paper towels, and glue!**  We still could use kleenex, wipes, and paper towels!  We are completely out of wipes as of today and down to our last paper towel!

** Thanks to Diezel's parents for donating a class movie and popcorn this week- the students got to watch Turbo and have popcorn on Wednesday.  They bought it at the PTO auction a few weeks ago- the students loved it! :)

 **Remember snack should be healthy , such as fruit, vegetables, cheese, or crackers. If you are sending a juice, make sure it is 100% juice.** Thanks!

 

 My phone line has been set up in my room and the number is 783-5218. Email I will get to the quickest if you need to reach me. jolsen@ccsd66.org

Finally some nice weather!!  We finally got out for both recesses this week too- it had been MONTHS!!

Enjoy the warm weather this weekend! 

 Mrs. Olsen 

 Some great websites for the students to do at home are: 

 funbrain.com 

 starfall.com 

 aaamath.com 

 kidsites.org 

 kidzone.ws