A very important PTA Parent Reading Meeting will be held this Friday December 13th in the Miller Cafeteria beginning at 9 a.m. The agenda is exclusive to providing parents with reading strategies and resources to help improve their child’s home reading habits. The meeting will be followed by an Open House, where parents can enter the classroom and observe the great teaching and learning taking place. If there is one meeting parent need to attend it is this one… hope to see you there.
Good Afternoon Miller Community, This week students will bring home a Miller Gear Order Form, a great way to show school spirit and build community pride. All orders are to be returned to the teacher or Office. Order form includes child and adult sizes, thanks for considering and have a great day! Respectfully, Mr. Radewin Awada – Principal
Reading: Students will learn to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. They will learn to recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Math: Students will compare and count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
Writing: Students will understand how to write an opinion paper. They will work on the steps in the writing process from drafting, revising, editing to publishing.
Science: Students will plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties. They will learn how different kinds of matter exist and many of them can be either solid or liquid, depending on temperature. Matter can be described and classified by its observable properties.
Social Studies: Students will review maps, positive and negative consequences, landforms and various forms of transportation. They will be tested on Unit 2.
Come enjoy a relaxing and enjoyable evening at the PTA sponsored Roller Skating Event taking place next Thursday December 12th, 2019 beginning at 6 p.m. at the Lincoln Park Skating Arena, free busing will be available to transport the first 60 Miller students / parents turning in their permission slip, bus departs from Miller Elementary at 5:30 p.m. All students must be accompanied by a parent to attend. The cost of admission is $7 a person when tickets are purchased at school or $8 if tickets are purchased at the door (Roller skates included in price:>)
Miller will take part in a fruit and vegetable program where students will receive a fruit or vegetable for a snack. It will begin on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019.
Miller Elementary School will be having a book fair starting on Monday, December 9 and continues until Friday, December 13. Students were sent home a flyer that showed many of the books available for purchase.
Reading: Students will learn to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. They will learn to recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Math: Students will compare and count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.
Writing: Students will understand how to write an informative/explanatory text in which they introduce a topic by explaining the definition and purpose of an informative or explanatory text about the Miller garden.
Science: Students will plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties. They will learn how different kinds of matter exist and many of them can be either solid or liquid, depending on temperature. Matter can be described and classified by its observable properties.
Social Studies: Students will use maps to describe the spatial organization of the local community by applying concepts including relative location and using distance, direction, and scale. They will describe land use in the community(e.g. where people live, where services are provided, where products are made). Students will construct maps of the local community that contain symbols, labels, and legends denoting human and natural characteristics of place.
We will not have school from Wednesday, November 27 through Sunday, December 2, 2019 due to the Thanksgiving Holiday. School will resume on Monday, December 2, 2019.