Mrs. Miller & Mrs. O'Toole's Kindergarten Class
We are 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.We are honored to be on this very memorable and special journey with you and your child! We will be updating this website weekly with our K1 Newsletter, class photos, important dates and information.
We look forward to working with you this year!
Important Dates:
November 6 - Springhill's Rainbow Run - Don't forget to wear red that day!
November 11 - No School - Veteran's Day
November 23-27 - No School - Fall Break
Hello Wonderful Families!
A huge thank you to our room mom Irene, for creating such a beautiful Halloween balloon backdrop! Thank you to our amazing party planners, Abbey and Madeleine, for organizing such a wonderful celebration. A special thank you to our parent volunteers that helped make our Halloween Workshops run smoothly. Thanks also to the families that donated materials! We really appreciate everyone’s time and support! The parade was definitely the highlight of our day! The children were so proud! Thanks for making Halloween in K1 a memorable day!
You will find two special homework assignments for the month of November in your child's Friday bag. The first one is their November reading log and letter fluency practice, the second one is a fun thankful turkey feather art project to be done as a family. All the directions are attached to the feather. Please return the completed feather as soon as you can, or by Friday, Nov. 6th so your child can share it with our class. We will display the feathers on a class turkey.
In math this week we practiced counting. The more experience children have with counting, the more they will discover the patterns in counting and begin understanding numeracy. Understanding the meaning of numbers takes repeated practice with counting objects. You can help at home by giving your child this experience regularly. We have learned lots of ways to count accurately. Some included; crossing things out, moving objects, making groups, and of course touching things as you count. We continue to use the math language of “fewer, greater, and equal” when comparing groups of objects.
In reading this week we worked a lot with Red Words. We looked for them in our readers, and practiced writing them. Many of these words can be sounded out, but the “stop sign” words have different spelling patterns and the reader needs to “stop and think” about the word. We are finishing up our first Red Word (sight word) unit next week.
Your child is bringing a group of readers home that we have been reading during the past weeks. Some of the books are poems, others informational text and others focus on a red word or spelling patterns. Please keep these in a place that your child can read them with you and add more books to their collection over the months ahead!
On Friday we had pumpkin science! Ms. Spain had lots of engaging and fun pumpkin activities for the scientists. Every child brought home their very own pumpkin! Again, a huge thank you to Sloan's family for getting all the pumpkins for our class! We know this took a lot of effort!
On Friday, November 6th, every student at Springhill will take part in a sponsored run/walk event called "The Rainbow Run" during school hours. This is Springhill's biggest giving campaign of the year, where every single dollar contributed goes straight back into our wonderful school. All kinders are invited to wear the color RED. Kindergarten students will be running from 9:40-10:00. Please come and cheer us on!
Have a safe Halloween!
Kathy & Stephanie
- Name
- Kathy Miller
- Position
- Teacher -Kindergarten
- Other
- Welcome back Springhill community! I'm thrilled to be back for my 32nd year of teaching. My name is Kathy Miller. I live in Lafayette with my family. We have 3 children and a loveable yellow lab named Gus. Our daughter Emma lives and works in San Francisco after graduating from the University of Washington. Our son Jack will be a college junior at University of Washington. Our second son Will is going into his senior year at Acalanes. I'm looking forward to another great year with our newest Springhill Scorpions.
