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Meet the Teacher
Dear
Parents,
Welcome to
the Launch Pad! I want your child to have a
fun, exciting, and
successful year in First Grade.
I have been teaching since
1977
and this is my 9th
year teaching
for the Mustang School
system. I have taught
in Houston for Cy-Fair and North Forest ISD.
I taught K, T-1, and 1st for the Putnam City Schools and
I recently was at Mustang Valley for 6 years
teaching Transitional First.
I'm so excited to be a
part of this school and to
be teaching First Grade again.
Other teaching opportunities have been :
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Participant in the State
of Oklahoma
Master Teacher Program 06-07, 08-09
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Fund for Teachers
Fellow
Received Grant to go to Storybook England
See Tatankah Travels
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Young Astronaut Leader
at Omniplex
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Guest educator at
Omniplex for 2nd to 5th graders
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Mustang Valley Science
Club
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Odyssey of the Mind
coach, took the team 3 times
to World Competition
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Sunday School/VBS
I live 10 minutes away for
the school. I am married and
have two teenagers:
Clayton ,22 - Oklahoma City University, Senior
Bishop's Scholar - Major in World Religions/Philosophy, School
Senator,
State director of OKIPL
Sonia ,20- University of Oklahoma, Sophomore with
academic honors -Major in Zoology
Please check out
the links for
more information about
your child's school
and classroom. If you need
to contact me
at school, our school phone number is 256-6466.
My extension is 3105.
Leave a message and I will get back to you on my break or
at the end of the day
We are having a
wonderful school
year!
Sincerely,
Ms. Miller
BS - Western Michigan University
MS -University of Central Oklahoma
Coronado Heights Teacher of the Year 1984
Oklahoma's
Technology Association's 2004'
OUTSTANDING TECHNOLOGY USING TEACHER
FUND FOR TEACHERS FELLOW
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Our Room
This year we have 19
students, 11 boys and 8 girls.
We enjoy going to the computer lab every Monday and we have
4 computers in our room that we often use.
This class really likes
singing and moving so we are learning many
skills using music. Thanks to Jenny Dowd and her "Phonics Dance"
book and activities we are moving and grooving to our alphabet and
hunks and chunks. (ex: sh,oo,ou,er,ing)
Our Math
curriculum is a mixture of Math Their Way, Singapore Math,
Houghtin Mifflin and my vast collection of age appropriate math
activities.
We are involved with several activities this year:
Tatankah, Travel Buddy
Big - Little Buddies
Elmer's Glue Recycling Program
Our year has started off with a fantastic start.
We are reading, writing, and building our stamina
to become independent workers.
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PhilosophyThe Centennial First
grade
program provides a
meaningful
learning environment
that incorporates
the social, emotional,
physical and
cognitive
well-being of the whole child
by laying the foundation
to help
each child become a
self motivated,
self sustained,
life-long learner.
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Odyssey of the Mind
One of my interests as a teacher/parent
is coaching young people in
Odyssey of the Mind competitions.
In 2000-01, (5th grade) the team won
first in state and went on to WORLD
competition in Maryland.
In 2001-02 , ( 6th
and 9th graders) we were 2nd in Region and 6th in State.
In 2003 - 04, (8th and 9th graders) a great team
from North Middle school came in 1st place in Regional and 2nd in State.
They also went to WORLD competition in Maryland and did
better than 2001.2006-07 ,
found the core team as Juniors at Mustang High.
They again came in 1st in Regional and in State. They went to
the WORLD Finals in East Lansing Michigan in
May!!!!!!!
It was an awesome trip and they meet a team from Germany
and they placed in the top half of WORLD.
The core team was: Patricia Baker, Rachel Byrd, Sonia Miller,
Kristen Mortimer,
and Wesley Matthew.
The newest additions were Greg and Stephen Schwartz.
I would like to thank the
administration and Board of
Education for supporting
the team.
We are also supported by the
High School in which the team attends
and byparental financial
backing. I would like to thank them for
their support of this wonderful educational
experiencefor students.
If you wish to find out more
go to this site.
Odyssey of
the Mind
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