Mrs. Miller's Kindergarten Class
My name is Kathy Miller and I am so happy to be your child's teacher. This kindergarten year will be a year of new beginnings, a year filled with large and small accomplishments, a year of trying new things and making new friends. Kindergarten is an important year in your child's education. It sets the foundation for future years. I am honored to be on this very memorable and special journey with you and your child! I will be updating this website weekly with our K1 Newsletter, class photos, important dates and information.
I look forward to working with you this year!
Important Dates:
February 13 & February 16 - No School - Presidents Holiday
March 16 - No School for students - Teacher workday
March 30- April 3 - No School - Spring Break
Hello K1 Families,
We began a unit on Presidents this week and started learning about George Washington. We painted his portrait, learned a fun song about him and read many informational books about his life and contributions to our country. Next week we will learn about Abraham Lincoln.
In social emotional learning this week we began a Kimochis Unit. As you recall, Kimochis in Japanese means feelings. We read about the Kimochis character Lovey Dove. Lovey Dove is a character who is sweet and nurturing, wise and calm. But sometimes she does worry. You will find a hand out in your child’s Friday bag that goes into more detail and suggests some fun home/school activities.
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching! We will be celebrating on Thursday, February 12th. We will be having a Valentine’s card exchange. Each child is invited to bring in 22 valentines (one for each classmate including themselves.) Please do not have your child address them, just have your child sign the cards. This helps with passing out the valentines.
In Bridge to Reading, we worked on the sounds; /x/ and /y/. You will find the story Fox’s Box on the back of this week’s A Peek at Our Week. See if your child can sound out the words and read it to you. They have been working hard sounding out CVC words and reading smoothly, and with inflection! Your child is bringing home their readers for the month of January this week. Please keep them and have your child read them with you at home.
In writing we worked on dictation with a focus on our red words and sounding out CVC words. One of the sentences the children wrote was, “He has a pet.” Try some dictation at home using our red words!
In math, we played a fun addition game called Bump. This is a VERY POWERFUL, highly interactive number sense strategy game that the children love! The children show so much enthusiasm and joy while engaging in rich math talks.
In January, Mrs G our councilor facilitated 4 lessons focused on Friendship. The class spent time learning about how to make friends, how working together with friends makes things even better, how important it is to
really listen to a friend (especially remembering their name!) Ask your child who’d they like to get to know better from their class and invite them over to practice these skills!
Thanks for the extra help in the classroom this week! I appreciate all the support. - Kathy
