September 4th-7th

Important Notes

• It is no longer necessary to wear bus tags or PE shirts.  Thank you for being so good about remembering both of these items!
• Please pack only ONE snack for your child each day.
• Please remember a folder each day.
• Mrs. Gallucci's class only--Book orders are due on on Friday, September 7.  I apologize about the incorrect date on the book order form.  Thank you!

Cool School
Miller school will be featured on next week’s “Cool School” poll on Fox-8 and FOX8.com. Each week there are three schools in Northeast Ohio in the running to becoming a “Cool School”. The winning school will be featured in a story on-air and on our website.  Please vote by following the link below:
http://fox8.com/category/morning-show/cool-schools/.

Language Arts

This week we will be reading 2 stories, The Little School Bus and Big Yellow Bus.  We will compare and contrast these stories and talk about the characters in each story.  At home, as you read with your child talk about the characters in the story.  We tell the children that the characters are the people or animals in the story.

We will continue to work on fluency this week through poetry.  The children have enjoyed the mystery color poems.  Have they shared these with you?   We will also look at a new poem called Get on the Bus.

We will also complete a Name of the Day activity each day until each child in the class has a chance to bring home a special book.  During this activity we work on letter names, sounds, and formation of letters. 

Every week throughout the year we will do phonemic awareness activities such as letter names and sounds, rhyming, listening for the beginning sounds in words, compound words, and listening for ending sounds in words.  Please practice these types of activities at home with your child.  The best part of these activities is that it doesn't require any materials or take a long time.  All you have to do is say "Can you think of a word that rhymes with dig?" or "What sound do you hear at the beginning of ball?"  "What do you hear at the end of mug?"

Sight words this week: I, am


Math
This week we are:

• describing measurable attributes
• comparing 2 objects
• classifying objects into categories

Counting!!  We will be talking to the class about careful counting.  This means that when they touch one object they say one number and move it over. 

We will also work on counting forwards and backwards from any number.  This skill will continue throughout the year.  At this time, we will focus on the numbers from 0-30.