Ms. Midgley's Blog

Hello families,  This week, we have been working hard at our community project! Students finished up creating their communities and are working on brochures to share more information about their communities and convince people to visit their community.  This week we also continued to learn about bees! We watched a few videos, took some notes as a class, and had some great discussions!  For our math facts this week, we reviewed Fact Families and students did a great job! We also revisited measurement with non-standard units. Students chose three or more things to measure in the classroom and used either a paperclip, snap cube, square or playing card to measure. They then turned one of the items into a riddle (ie. I measured the shelf and it was 13 units long, what measurement tool did I use?). We had fun guessing the measurement tools of every student!  We have finished "Junie B. Jones is a Graduation Girl." It was suggested that we have our own graduation from grade 1 and 2.

Hello families,  Happy June! Can you believe there are only 15 days of school left? I feel like we just started the school year! We had a very hot week! We struggled through the heat a bit, especially in the afternoons, but students did a good job staying focused on their work. We also had a lot of fun spending time outside!  This week students were challenged with some addition with missing addends for their math fact practice. It was a great challenge and our beaded number lines came in handy! This week we also practiced some skip counting! As a class, we have been learning about honeybees by reading books and watching videos and taking jot notes as a class. Students showed a lot of interest in learning about bees and wasps when we were learning online so I thought it would be nice for us to learn together!  This week we have been working on a project about communities! We reviewed the three types of communities: urban, suburban and rural. Students are working with a partner to creat