Miller Elementary Weekly Update

Hello Miller Families!

I hope this weekly update finds your family kicking off a fun-filled 4-day weekend! We certainly wrapped up an amazing week celebrating kindness and love here at school. Thank you for helping your child dress up each day for our Random Acts of Kindness Spirit Days, sending in class Valentines, and a great big thank you to all our party volunteers. These are the days your child will remember as they look back on preschool and kindergarten. You can ask them if they played a game, listened to a story or made a fun craft this past week!

Speaking of crafts, check out the cute place mats, butterfly candy craft and hearts we dropped off at the Avenue at Aurora! Your children made these cute items for our senior friends at the Avenue and they greatly appreciated this special treat.

This upcoming week we will host our important Kick Off to Kindergarten Parent Meeting on Tuesday, February 20th at 6:30 PM at the Aurora High School Auditorium. This parent only meeting is for all our families who will be enrolling their child in kindergarten for the 2024-2025 school year. Since your child is currently enrolled in the Aurora Schools, there will be fewer steps for you to complete. We will make sure you receive the correct enrollment folder at the Kick Off Meeting. In the next month or two, I will be sharing more information about the transition for our kindergartners going to Craddock for first grade and details for our preschoolers who will be staying in our program for another year!

Finally, this newsletter will serve as communication for the next two weeks since we have a shortened week ahead. I will be sending out specific communication to our kindergarten families related to second semester progress using our reporting system Gather. Be on the lookout for a Final Forms message early next week regarding all the details to access your child's report.

Have a great long weekend!

Maria Goodman

Miller Elementary School - Principal

330-562-6199

Email mgoodman@aurora-schools.org

Kindergarten Registration for the 2024-2025 school year will begin in February! Please help spread the word to your neighbors and friends and we are super excited to start this process with our current eligible preschoolers. We will be holding our Kick Off to Kindergarten parent-only meeting on Tuesday, February 20, 2024, at 6:30 PM at the Aurora High School Auditorium located at 109 W. Pioneer Trail.

Residents of the Aurora City School District who have a child turning 5 by September 30th, 2024 are invited to attend our Kick Off to Kindergarten meeting to pick up registration materials and learn all about kindergarten! We will be holding our registration days on March 6th and 7th. You will select a registration time slot using the links shared at the parent meeting. All presentations and registration information will be shared on our district website after February 20th if you cannot attend this parent meeting. Please don't hesitate to call Miller Elementary School with specific questions at 330-562-6199.

The Aurora Elementary PTO will be hosting 2 Donut Days on March 19th and 20th for all Miller Elementary children. Please see the schedule listed below for your child's assigned day. We will be sending home more specific communication about this event in the weeks ahead so please be on the lookout. If you have a child in both preschool and kindergarten or in different classes, you may select one of the days to attend or come on each of the scheduled days so your child can be with their classmates.

Tuesday, March 19th:

• All preschool classes, AM & PM (Ms. Jaime, Ms. Lauren, Ms. Taylor, and Ms. Amanda)
• 1/2 day Kindergarten, AM & PM (Mrs. Verhotz/Miss Kirby)
• Mrs. Buettin
• Mrs. Forster

Wednesday, March 20th:

• Mrs. Sabulsky
• Mrs. Yonally
• Mrs. Kidwell
• Mrs. Gallucci
• Mrs. Jaworski
• Mrs. Haughey
• Mrs. Smerkar

We are halfway through our Kids Heart Challenge program and have raised over $10,000! If you haven’t had a chance to take one of our heart challenges yet, don’t worry! There is still time. Our Miller School link is: http://www2.heart.org/goto/MillerElementarySchoolAuroraOH

Our Kids Heart Challenge event ends on Friday, February 9th. Please have all donations in that day!

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with Mrs. Barnes at sslackford@aurora-schools.org. Thank you so much for all your support for this amazing organization.

February

• Thursday, 2/15 - End of the Second Trimester
• Friday, 2/16 - NO SCHOOL - Staff In-service Day
• Monday, 2/19 - NO SCHOOL - Presidents' Day
• Tuesday, 2/20 - Kick Off to Kindergarten Parent Meeting 6:30 PM at Aurora High School Auditorium
• Friday, 2/23 - Second Trimester Reports Will be Accessible (Final Forms Message will be emailed to Kindergarten Families on Tuesday 2/20)
• Monday, 2/26- BOE Meeting at the C&I Conference Center 7:00 PM
• Thursday, 2/29 - Parent Teacher Conferences (Other Evenings May Be Offered)

March

• Donut Days
• Monday, 3/25-Friday, 3/29 - NO SCHOOL (Spring Break )

Our 2024 Spring Aurora Baseball League Rec Registration is OPEN!

Be sure to register and save your player’s spot today!

Registration is limited and will close Feb 28th! All registered coach pitch, juniors, minors and majors players will be invited to participate in our indoor practices that will focus on player development and brushing off those winter blues! Be sure to register today!

https://aurorabaseballleague.sportngin.com/.../373618813

Interested in becoming an umpire for our ABL this year? If so, please register using the link below. Be read through the registration for more details.

https://aurorabaseballleague.sportngin.com/.../476061261

Do you have a company willing to sponsor one of our rec teams? Travel teams? ABL Tournament? Check out our new options available! Spots are limited!

https://aurorabaseballleague.sportngin.com/.../236362135

Hello Families! Kindergarten students should be proud to share that they have mastered the ZONES of Regulation. They’re mini-experts at explaining how they feel. We’ve also been working with learning some coping skills incorporating breathing, finger tapping and tracing. Another enjoyable activity has been listening to A Little SPOT Series – Diane Alber. These are books that help the students understand feelings while incorporating coping strategies.

This week, we will be celebrating kindness! Please enjoy these Kindness at Home activities from The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation.

As always, please feel free to reach out at any time if your student would benefit from extra support during their school day. It’s been great to watch them grow as Greenmen!

Mrs. Lindsey Ambrosia

School Counselor

lambrosia@aurora-schools.org

330-562-6199, ext. 5414

This is a reminder that we are using our Miller Attendance and Parent Pick-up Form as an easy communication tool to report your child will be absent or you need to pick them up from school early. You still need to use the Alternative Bus Stop Form linked in this newsletter if you need your child's bus to change. You do not need to report if they will not be riding the bus in the morning due to an absence or illness on this form.

If you want to change your child from a bus rider to a parent pick-up, please scan the QR code below or click the button to fill out our Google form. This can be done from any device and your reply will be sent immediately to our secretary, Mrs. Wolf.

If you need an alternative bus stop or a change in busing, we also have attached the transportation forms to change your child's busing information. These forms need to be completed and sent to our transportation department at transportationinfo@aurora-schools.org

As a reminder, you can send in cash or check made out to the Aurora City Schools and we will add any amount to your child's lunch account. Please send in money in a clearly labeled envelope so we know to add this amount to your child's account!

Hello Miller Families!

Below are your AEPTO updates.

1. Our next AEPTO meeting is Wednesday, March 6th at 10:00am at Schell Bell Boutique (334 E. Garfield Rd.). We hope to see you there!

2. Thank you to all our families who volunteered to plan our Valentine's Day parties!! We appreciate you!

3. Mishan Salon - Give Back Event!

Thank you to everyone who participated in our give back event and to Mishan Salon! We made around $300!

4. We hope all our families who booked a room at Kalahari for 2/16 have a wonderful time! We booked 78 rooms and made $780 from this event! Thank you!

5. Parents of the Class of 2037!! The AEPTO is partnering again with the Harmon High PTO (HHPTO, Aurora's middle school and high school PTO) to offer their Growing Greenmen Class of 2037 shirts. See the flyer for more details. The shirts are one size (XL) and the idea is for your child to wear the shirt each year for their first day of school photos. The shirts can be purchased at Kindergarten Registration in March. All proceeds from the shirt sale go back to Aurora schools!

6. Spring Flower Fundraiser - The Fortmeyer & Sons spring flower fundraiser kicks off February 27th and will close March 12th. Flyers will come home soon.

7. Save the Date - Miller's Donut Days March 19th and 20th! More information is coming soon!

8. Wednesday, March 27th 2:30pm-4:30pm - The AEPTO is excited to announce our next family event at Akron Children's Museum! Please see the flyer below for event details. Tickets are on sale now through Schoolze or our website at https://auroraelementarypto.org/fundraisers. All proceeds raised at this event will go directly to Miller Elementary. All of our elementary school families are invited!

9. Save the Date - AEPTO's Mother Son Event at Fun 'n' Stuff on April 25h from 5:00pm-8:00pm! More information is coming soon!

10. Box Tops! Another easy way to help out our schools. Just download the app and then scan your receipts to earn box tops.

11. Interested in joining the AEPTO Board? My position, Vice President of Miller, will be open starting next year! Please reach out to me for more information. I'm happy to meet with you to review the position and go over all the details. Deadline to express interest is March 22, 2024.

Important Upcoming Dates

2/27 - Spring flower sale starts

3/1 - Yearbook orders are due

3/6 - AEPTO Meeting 10:00am

3/12 - Spring flower sale ends

3/19 - Miller Donut Days

3/20 - Miller Donut Days

If you have any questions, please let me know!

Jen

auroraptomesvp@gmail.com

mgoodman@aurora-schools.org

Principal

Vicki Wolf

vwolf@aurora-schools.org

Secretary

Email: mgoodman@aurora-schools.org
Website: aurora-schools.org
Location: 646 S Chillicothe Rd, Aurora, OH 44202, USA
Phone: 330-562-6199