The stopwatches were a hit! There are several grade levels doing a reading competition throughout January and are using the WinterKids stopwatches to track how much reading they’re doing at school and at home. That was neat to see and witness during week 1.

Students got to do a bonus activity during lunch this week with the lunch ladies which was spot the yeti. They had to find all 26 yetis around the cafeteria during lunch time and they loved it.

One thing that Miller School is working on this year is improving our school-wide attendance so an additional incentive that was done was any class that had 100% attendance got to have Stanley the cardboard yeti in their classroom for the day. It became a huge deal and there were many classes that had 100% so we had found yeti plushies so all classes who had good attendance got to have Stanley in their classroom. This will be happening throughout the 4 weeks and has definitely helped our attendance so far. Stanley and his friends are many of our students favorite part of WinterKids. They love when they show up to our school.

The Opening Ceremony was a success as we were able to get well over 300 staff and students outside including our students in our special education classrooms that may be in wheelchairs. It went very well and we also were able to get an amazing drone video of our ceremony. Now we cross our fingers for a good snow fall so our classes can go snowshoeing next week!