Miller Elementary Weekly Update
Week of January 12th, 2025!
Hello Miller Families,
Happy New Year! We have slowly eased back into our routines here at school and we've loved hearing all about your winter break! I hope this message finds your family rested and ready to tackle the rest of the 2024-2025 school year. We always expect an adjustment period during these first few weeks as children begin to adjust back to their school and home routines. Overall, it was a great week and everyone enjoyed seeing their classmates and teachers!
We still have some children who are experiencing vomiting and diarrhea due to the viruses in our area. We know this is coming on quickly so we appreciate your flexibility to pick them up when they aren't feeling well. We will stay in communication if there is an increase in illness. At school we are continuing with extra hand washing and cleaning protocols.
Finally, we have been inside almost all week for indoor recess due to the feels like temperature hoovering below 15 degrees. We found a small break in the temperature on Monday to enjoy a few minutes outside, but the rest of our recesses have been indoors. As soon as the temperature improves, we will get them outside to play!
Take Care!
Maria Goodman
Miller Elementary Principal
330-954-2189
As a reminder, 2nd-semester tuition payments for preschool and kindergarten will be due on January 15th, 2025. We will send letters in the mail with your remaining balance and payment options before winter break. If you want to change your payment method, please reach out to our office to share your requested change. We will automatically charge the credit card we have on file with the remaining balance after January 15th if we have not received a check, cash or a new credit card number. If you have any questions after you get the letter, please contact Erin Toler at 330-562-6199.
We have recently discovered our QR code for our transportation link is NOT WORKING. We are working to fix this as quickly as possible. Our Transportation/Attendance Google Form IS WORKING so you can continue to use the link and button below. We just wanted to inform families that if you are using the QR code, we are working to fix it at this time. Thank you!
It's that time of year where we begin to have students who meet the benchmarks set forth in HB 410 for absences. Please be aware that if your child meets one of those, a letter must be sent from the school alerting you. Please also be reminded that it doesn't matter whether the absences are excused or unexcused. We have to track the hours missed regardless and communicate to you when benchmarks have been met.
This is also the time of year that planned absences often get scheduled. We have attached our planned absence form and policy. Please make sure you read through this important message and understand that planned absences and absences due to illness all count for missed hours. If you have any further questions, please let me know!
Important Dates and Events
JANUARY
- Monday, 1/06/25 - All Students Return to School from Break
- Monday, 1/20/25 - NO SCHOOL (MLK Jr. Day)
- Thursday, 1/30/25 - Miller Elementary Family BINGO Night - We will hold this in the Leighton Elementary Cafeteria to have more space (6:30PM-7:30PM)
FEBRUARY
- Thursday, 2/13/25 - End of Trimester 2
- Thursday, 2/13/25 - Valentine's Day Celebration at 10:30 AM & 2:00 PM
- Friday, 2/14/25 - NO SCHOOL (Staff PD Day)
- Monday, 2/17/25 - NO SCHOOL (Presidents' Day)
- Tuesday, 2/18/25 - Kick Off to Kindergarten Parent Meeting @ AHS Auditorium 6:30-7:30 PM
- Friday, 2/21/25 - Trimester 2 Gather Reports Live
SAVE THE DATE
Kick Off to Kindergarten for the 2025-2026 School Year
Tuesday, February 18th, 2025 - 6:30-7:30 PM at the High School Auditorium - This is a parent only meeting for families that has a child who will enroll in kindergarten for the 2025-2026 school year. More detailed information will be shared after the new year and posted on our district web page. For our current Miller Preschool Families, this informational night will review the exciting transition to kindergarten. Your child is already enrolled in the Aurora Schools, but you will follow an alternate process to enroll for kindergarten which we will review at this meeting. (There will be a Welcome to Craddock and First Grade Parent Meeting in the spring. More information to come!)
Happy New Year, Miller Families! It was great to start off the year by meeting with Kindergarteners to review our expectations: be responsible, be a problem solver and be respectful. Kindergarteners also learned that self-care is important. To go along with that theme, they listened to NOODLE and the NO BONES DAY by Jonathan Graziano as a reminder to take time to relax when our bodies send us those signals. Moving forward, we will be learning about identifying feelings. We will use the ZONES of Regulation to introduce this topic. The ZONES of Regulation helps categorize feelings. As a Kindergarten student, your child will be able to identify how they feel and practice selecting a coping skill or strategy if they choose to feel differently. In class, we will learn that all feelings are okay! We will continue working on identifying feelings, learning new coping skills and discussing what “triggers,” or events, may cause us to feel a certain way. Please enjoy these read-alouds from The ZONES Book Nook to help your child practice identifying feelings.
Separately, another resource that has been helpful is On Our Sleeves. This site is a simple way to gather community resources, contacts, talking points and activities to benefit your family’s well-being and mental health. I found the How-To articles super helpful because as a counselor and a parent, I know how I want my students and children to think of themselves, but am often refining the process in which I use to correct their thinking in a more positive way. I hope you find this resource helpful!
Mrs. Lindsey Ambrosia
(330) 562-6199, ext. 5414
Here are some important illness updates during the cold and flu season!
- It is important to check your child each day for symptoms of illness as you know them best. If they become I'll during the day, or are injured, we will reach out to you and let you know if their symptoms are worsening. We call home for injuries, fevers, and continued sickness. We do not call home for every trip to the nurse for a band-aid, ice pack or upset tummy. We certainly will call if symptoms worsen. We sometimes use our School Nurse Cell Phone
- Students sent home with a fever, vomiting or diarrhea may not return to school until they are free of these symptoms or without medication for at least 24 hours. This means if your child was sent home on Tuesday at 12:00 p.m. with a fever, he/she may not return to school until 24 hours later. If your child does return the next day, our school will be calling for you to come pick him/her up. Please help to support our efforts in this area.
- We are required to report to families if there is a confirmed communicable disease in your child's class. This could include strep, pink eye, COVID, RSV, hand-foot and mouth or other illnesses.
Finally, please make sure your child has extra clothes in his/her backpack. Accidents and spills happen all the time and it's safe to always have their own clothes in their book bag instead of wearing our spare clothes.
Miller Elementary: Preschool & Kindergarten
Miller Elementary Principal
Erin Toler : etoler@aurora-schools.org
Miller Elementary Secretary
Email: mgoodman@aurora-schools.org
Website: aurora-schools.org
Location: 646 S Chillicothe Rd, Aurora, OH 44202, USA
Phone: 330-562-6199