Remember to wear BLUE tomorrow!
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Red Day
Well as you can guess today was RED day! We did lots of activities with the color red and also the circle shape! Here is a photo!
Remember to wear BLUE tomorrow!
Remember to wear BLUE tomorrow!
Monday, August 22, 2011
The Stars of Mills' Memos 2011-2012
Here are a few snapshots from the beginning of the year! Can't wait to see this crew grow in learn in many ways!
Claire, Madison, and Dainy
Adryeen, Eileen, and Felipe
Aiden, Joanne, and Jude
Nelly, Kristina, and Angela
Presilla
Claire, Madison, and Dainy
Adryeen, Eileen, and Felipe
Aiden, Joanne, and Jude
Nelly, Kristina, and Angela
Josilyn, EhHserMuLar Soe, and Hennessy
Keira, David, and Dania
PresillaHere is my new class. I will be adding Ernesto and Luis as soon as they come!!!!!!
Blog later,
Ms. Mills
Day 1 - Kindergarten Craziness!
Hello!!!! I would like to welcome my new viewers!! If you have taken a look at last year's posts you can see we have a lot of work to do to be ready for 1st grade but I know we can do it!
Our first day was a little crazy. We had lots of kids running around, the breakfast line was a mile long, and we got out of school early! Thank you to all of the parents who let me know where their student was going after school! This makes things sooo much easier! Here are some photos of my NEW classroom and then all but two students who weren't at school today!!!
This is the view from the door as well as our new addition... the turtles! The kids love these two critters!
This is a picture of our math center, housekeeping center and lastly the library. The students seemed to love the housekeeping center because of the endless possibilities!
Here is the picture of our first PWIM poster. We will be starting to label it tomorrow on Red Day. I will be posting more PWIM activities as soon as we start doing them!!!
Our first day was a little crazy. We had lots of kids running around, the breakfast line was a mile long, and we got out of school early! Thank you to all of the parents who let me know where their student was going after school! This makes things sooo much easier! Here are some photos of my NEW classroom and then all but two students who weren't at school today!!!
This is a picture of our math center, housekeeping center and lastly the library. The students seemed to love the housekeeping center because of the endless possibilities!
Welcome to Kinder 2011!
I have pictures of students and our room coming soon! Here is a link to a blog that the students will be doing later on. This will be a good way to see progress your student is making with their writing!
http://kidblog.org/MsMillsClass
http://kidblog.org/MsMillsClass
Friday, May 6, 2011
We can READ! We can READ!!!
I am just soooo proud of my kinders that I have been taking videos and pictures of students reading. I hope that you enjoy hearing this even if they aren't yours! We have been working really hard and they are ready for 1st grade!!
This is a video of my "green" group reading the story they chose to read for our viewers. In this group you will see Skyler, Faith, Anahi, Tiffany, Cindy, and Sadishia.
In this video, Angel is reading another book that this group had recently put in their book box. I try to not help them unless needed so that they can practice decoding on their own!
Hope you enjoy our progess! More to come while we finish up the year!!!
Ms. Mills
In this video, Alexis is reading a book that we have read only a few times the day before.
Hope you enjoy our progess! More to come while we finish up the year!!!
Ms. Mills
Happy Mother's Day!
WOW it has been an extremely long time since I have updated our blog! We have been working really hard on getting ready for 1st grade and we only have days left! My first blog today is about Mother's Day. Today we worked really hard on coming up with a list of reasons that we are very thankful for our moms....This is what they said
I would like to say THANK YOU for all of your support moms!!!!! I know that this year would not have gone as smoothly without you! We also constructed these...very carefully!
I hope that you are suprised when they give them to you on SUNDAY....A lot of them were very anxious and I could tell you were getting them today :) Enjoy....
HMMM I wonder what could be in these little bundles :)
Have a GREAT weekend all!!!
I would like to say THANK YOU for all of your support moms!!!!! I know that this year would not have gone as smoothly without you! We also constructed these...very carefully!
Have a GREAT weekend all!!!
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
March News
Hello to all of our readers!
This post will be more "newsy" and less spot on of an activity that we are doing.
We have two birthdays in the month of March.... Tiffany will be turning 6 on the 13th and I will be having a birthday on the 18th (which is a day we do not have school)!!
I have started the 3rd Quarter Assessments and conferences will be fast approaching. Sheets will be coming out soon to communicate the time that you had before, and if that will still work! I can't believe we are almost to the end of the third quarter but here we are! One thing that I am noticing we need to work on is writing our numbers, our months of the year, and counting to 100. Another thing we need to work on is making our handwriting better and using our lowercase letters. We talk about it often, now we just have to implement!
I have sent out the March specials calendar. I am trying to get the calendar uploaded onto our blog, but I am still working on it. Hopefully we don't have any more snow days so that we don't have to be "off" schedule! We have a musical concert coming up on the 15th! The kids are doing a lot of practice and will do a fantastic job I am sure! We will have some extra practices coming up during the first recess, which will help so if they tell you we didn't have recess we were just practicing for perfection :o)
Coming up in March we will be putting up a new PWIM poster that deals with a farm. We will be talking about spring, growing things like plants, a field trip to a farm and at the very end summer, and summer safety. I am excited to see what kinds of words we will shake out! With that we will continue to work on our problem solving with our CGI problems. We are getting better at the strategies we use and hopefully they will continue to grow for the rest of the year! The thing about problem solving that is great is that it can be used anywhere! There are a lot of strategies to solve problems in and outside of the home and to have the skills to solve this is good for life. I try to ask the students problems that they can relate to or can think about outside of school to hopefully get them thinking when they are not in my classroom.
It has come to my attention that quite a few of my students are not bringing tennis shoes and are borrowing some from the gym. Please send these with your kids on PE days or have them at school so they can be ready to work it out and learn fun games with Mrs. Drenth.
All of my reading groups have been working really hard on their word studies and writing. I want to encourage you to PLEASE practice the words on the refridgerator sheet that is sent home each week. We practice in the room but it is hard when they are only working with these words for a few minutes everyday. Along with that, we are working on writing and connecting their letters and sounds with what they hear in their words. Encourage your child to write at home! It doesn't have to be spelled correctly but practice using those sounds to make words!
Lastly...after the evacuations last week. Please help your child memorize a phone number where you can be reached in case of emergencies. I have phone numbers from you if they were given at conferences, but if there is a different number you want them to know...please teach it to them! You never know when these things can happen and being able to get ahold of you is important!
Until next time,
Ms. Mills :o)
This post will be more "newsy" and less spot on of an activity that we are doing.
We have two birthdays in the month of March.... Tiffany will be turning 6 on the 13th and I will be having a birthday on the 18th (which is a day we do not have school)!!
I have started the 3rd Quarter Assessments and conferences will be fast approaching. Sheets will be coming out soon to communicate the time that you had before, and if that will still work! I can't believe we are almost to the end of the third quarter but here we are! One thing that I am noticing we need to work on is writing our numbers, our months of the year, and counting to 100. Another thing we need to work on is making our handwriting better and using our lowercase letters. We talk about it often, now we just have to implement!
I have sent out the March specials calendar. I am trying to get the calendar uploaded onto our blog, but I am still working on it. Hopefully we don't have any more snow days so that we don't have to be "off" schedule! We have a musical concert coming up on the 15th! The kids are doing a lot of practice and will do a fantastic job I am sure! We will have some extra practices coming up during the first recess, which will help so if they tell you we didn't have recess we were just practicing for perfection :o)
Coming up in March we will be putting up a new PWIM poster that deals with a farm. We will be talking about spring, growing things like plants, a field trip to a farm and at the very end summer, and summer safety. I am excited to see what kinds of words we will shake out! With that we will continue to work on our problem solving with our CGI problems. We are getting better at the strategies we use and hopefully they will continue to grow for the rest of the year! The thing about problem solving that is great is that it can be used anywhere! There are a lot of strategies to solve problems in and outside of the home and to have the skills to solve this is good for life. I try to ask the students problems that they can relate to or can think about outside of school to hopefully get them thinking when they are not in my classroom.
It has come to my attention that quite a few of my students are not bringing tennis shoes and are borrowing some from the gym. Please send these with your kids on PE days or have them at school so they can be ready to work it out and learn fun games with Mrs. Drenth.
All of my reading groups have been working really hard on their word studies and writing. I want to encourage you to PLEASE practice the words on the refridgerator sheet that is sent home each week. We practice in the room but it is hard when they are only working with these words for a few minutes everyday. Along with that, we are working on writing and connecting their letters and sounds with what they hear in their words. Encourage your child to write at home! It doesn't have to be spelled correctly but practice using those sounds to make words!
Lastly...after the evacuations last week. Please help your child memorize a phone number where you can be reached in case of emergencies. I have phone numbers from you if they were given at conferences, but if there is a different number you want them to know...please teach it to them! You never know when these things can happen and being able to get ahold of you is important!
Until next time,
Ms. Mills :o)
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