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Mrs. Scalamonti
Kindergarten has been busy, busy, busy!
We are learning our beginning alphabet sounds and are working on our book handling skills. Our skills are improving everyday because we never say we can't- we say we can try and we can learn!
We are also learning to sort objects by color, size and pattern. This helps us with our math skills.
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Mrs. Benedict, Mrs. Johnson, and Miss Iozzi
We have just completed our first reader, and now we are starting "Picture Perfect." We've been studying vowels, consonants, and many special sounds.In math we have been using our "Function Machines" to help us add and subtract. Computation has never been easier!
Mrs. Benedict's class has had a terrific time learning about autumn. The children learned a poem, made leaf people and observed the changes go on outdoors. The boys and girls are really enjoying this colorful new season.
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Mrs. Johnson's class has their own website! Click on the picture to visit room 11. Be sure to visit often.....the "Showcase" displays are always changing.
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Miss Iozzi's class has been traveling around the world visiting 10 different countries. Before the class goes to the "airport" to "fly" to the next country, every child gets his/her passport stamped to enter the new country. In each country we discuss the flag, location on a map, style of traditional dress, language, and ways the country celebrates the winter holidays. We then make project for each country. We have made gingerbread houses for Germany, latkes for Israel, pizzelles for Italy, and pinatas for Mexico. We will finish this unit by making a video sharing all the facts will learned. It has been a lot of fun learning about different countries.
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Mrs. Kusher and Mrs. Turi
The second grade has been getting in touch with their feelings through literature. The children have been reading various books and writing about emotional experiences.
We are becoming great authors and illustrators. The classes worked on "fangtastic" and "spooktacular" stories with are displayed in the classrooms.
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Visitors to our page last year will recall the story of "EL GATO", a BIG BOOK project organized by two sisters who teach second grade in neighboring towns. Ronnie Grossman, a teacher at Mill Lake School in Monroe and Janet Kusher a teacher at Miller School had their students develop a story combining English and Spanish language skills. Students from Mill Lake started the story and then it was sent to Miller to be finished by Mrs. Kusher's second grade. We were all invited to create our own endings and send them in via e-mail.
This year's BIG BOOK story centers around the timely topic of the Millenium. What will Y2K bring according to the creative students of these two second grades? Check back with us to see.
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Mrs. Daum and Mrs. Smith
We have been learning so many exciting things. We have written personal narratives, as well as informational paragraphs on owls, and we have also worked on descriptive paragraphs. We had a lot of fun making our compound word puzzles, and our sunflower synonyms, which are on display in the hall outside our classrooms. We also spent time learning important fire safety rules. Learning how to write in cursive has also been so much fun.
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Mrs. Daum's class "reading tub"
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Students in Mrs.Tinari, Mrs. Westcott, and Mr. Spalthoff's classes worked to create several scarecrow's like the one pictured on the left. The project made practical use of many aspects of the fourth grade curriculum including crafts, language arts, math and cooperative skills. The scarecrows were placed on display throughout the building. Some even made their way to the Miller Garden.!
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Mr. Falik
Our class enjoyed listening to Stories from the Wayside School that were read aloud. We couldn't wait to hear what happened next at their thirty story high building. The humor elements of Louis Sachar's book taught us about puns and jargon. We listed the aspects of reality and fantasy at the Wayside School. After viewing a model of a compare/contrast between Miller School and the Wayside School, we each selected two things for our own compare/contrast paragraphs. This was our first attempt at expository writing and it was hard to do. We read our paragraphs aloud and saved them in our portfolios. After doing one or two a month, we will evaluate our progress.
Mr. Terranova
The fifth grade students are well under way with projects and studies that promise to make this year their greatest school year yet. Expectations are high and everyone is happy to be back in school. We have so much to learn, trips to take, letters to write, friends to make, and a show to present.
By the way , if you think you smelled cooked chicken in the hallway, you were right! Both fifth grade classes participated in a hands-on lab dissecting a chicken wing. We observed the skeletal, muscular, and circulatory systems. We used forceps, a plastic knife, and a magnifying glass and followed the procedure in our lab report. We had a lot of fun. Too bad you can never eat anything from the Science Lab! ( I bet it would have tasted better than Mr. Coscia's rubber chickens!!)
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RESOURCE CENTER
NEWS 1999
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Mrs. Chomko's language arts classes are spending time reading the daily newspapers. The classes enjoy choosing articles to read, report on, and display on the 1999 News Bulletin Board. Favorite sections at the newspapers are Sports, Travel, Entertainment, and the Front Page. The classes also plan to design personal newspapers this year.
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Mrs. Butterwick
LANGUAGE ARTS/LITERACY-
First Grade- - First graders are practicing the sounds of the letters and learning lots of new words. We enjoy reading and rereading our Poetry Journals and small books. WE also practice writing in our Writing Journals.
Second and Third Grade - - Reading and writing activities help us to understand and enjoy the selections from the reading series. We continue to review sound and letter patterns and and word attack strategies when we learn the new story vocabulary. Creating story maps, summarizing, sequencing, retelling as well as other activities help us to more fully understand the story.
Fourth and Fifth Grades - - Through reader response activities we learn to analyze the reading selections and extend our understanding of what we read.
MATH-
We are practicing basic facts, as well as working with word problems. In fourth grade we begin with multiplication and division. In fifth grade , we begin with decimals
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Mrs. Director
ESL students this year come from Switzerland, Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Russia, India, Lebanon and Egypt. The students from first through fifth grade have started a new series of content based ESL books and are ejoying them very much!
Kindergarten children have completed their first rhyme: Humpty Dumpty. They loved the magnetic board and puzzle they made.
A fourth grader wrote the following sentences about how it feels to move to a new place
"The best thing about moving to a new place is you see new things. You get to see new places. You get to learn new things to enjoy"
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NATIVE
AMERICAN
SHELTERS
Like the ones pictured here are part of a fifth grade Social
Studies Project
Mrs. Falik's and Mr. Terranova's classes have placed their projects on display in the main
entrance hallway for all to see.
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