Week of April 7

sight word: of
Word Study: Blends st,sp,sk,sn

Eric Carle Author Study

This week we did a small author study on Eric Carle. We read many of his books and noticed the things he did as an author and illustrator. We noticed that he used very bright paintings in his pictures, wrote many books with animals as the characters, he used interesting words and punctuation like ellipses. We even got to make our own animal with painted paper just like Eric Carle does!

Full Day Kindergarten Week

4/13-4/17

After spring break we will be having our snow day make up days. Both the A.M. and P.M. classes will be all together that week. This will be a great experience for the classes to get a taste of what 1st grade will be like. Please look for the packet of information to go home on the Tuesday we return.

I want to wish everyone a

 safe & happy Spring Break! 

See you in a week!

Right to Read Week Assembly

Thank Your Mr. V for a wonderful assembly and creating the awesome Lego Necklaces!

Week of 3/16

Sight Word: review
Wordy Study: review

Right to Read Week

This week is right to read week! It is lego themed, which the kids are going to love! Each student will be receiving a special lego necklace to keep track of books they are reading. This necklace will be kept at school until the end of the week! Thanks to Mr. Eric VanRaepenbusch for putting these necklaces together for every student at miller school! He will also be kicking off the week with an assembly! Each day we will also being have a dress up theme:

Monday, March 16, 2015- Lego Color Day!

Dress in your favorite colors like a Lego character or wear your favorite color!

Tuesday, March 17, 2015- Lego Animal Day!

Dress as your favorite Lego Animal! You can wear anything with animal prints or a picture of an animal

Wednesday, March 18, 2015- Lego Number Day!

Dress up in your favorite numbers, Lego style! You can wear a sports jersey!

Thursday, March 19, 2015- Lego City & Career Day!

Dress as your favorite Lego City or Career Character! You can wear an old fireman costume, police badge, or a pretty dress!

(Please remember no masks or props when dressing as characters please!)

Friday, March 20, 2015- Lego Spirit Day

Dress in your best Aurora Greenmen Gear!

Upcoming Dates

Friday 3/27 Last Day of 3rd Quarter

3/30-4/6 Spring Break

Friday 5/1 Kindergarten Concerts-10:30 a.m. & 2:30 p.m.

Week of March 9th

Sight Word: Review 3rd Quarter Sight Words: with, his, that, for, into, and

Word Study: th, wh

Math

Earlier this week we did a little work with Geometry. We explored and made different shapes with Geo-boards. They were a big hit! Later in the week we did a little work with tens and ones. We used digit cards to build numbers. Some of the questions we ask the kids to do is: "Build a number that has 3 tens and 4 ones" (34). We follow that up with "What is 30 + 4 make" (34). We have also been continuing to practice addition/subtraction story problems and math fact fluency. 

Upcoming Dates:

3/30 Last day for Malleys Online Orders

3/16-3/20 Right to Read Week (more info to follow this week)

Friday 3/27 Last Day of 3rd Quarter (wow!)

3/30-4/6 Spring Break

Week of March 2

Sight Word: and
Word Study: digraphs th,wh


This week and last week we have been focusing on comprehension related to Non Fiction books. We have talked about the main idea: what the book is mostly about, learning new facts, and looking at different features of these books: headings, bold words, diagrams, and maps. When reading non fiction books at home you can practice these things by asking your child to point out text features or asking them what they learned from the book or what the book is mostly about.

Dance Party

On Friday we had a dance party to celebrate all our hard work over the past few weeks! Both classes cracked me up coming in all dressed up and ready to dance! We had so much fun!

Upcoming Dates:

Thursday 3/5 Scholastic Book Orders Due

Tuesday 3/10 Spring Conferences

Monday 3/30-4/6 No School, Spring Break