Ms. Midgley's Blog

Hello families,  This week we braved the rainy weather at Fish Creek Park! We ended our trip a little early but still had a great time. Thank you to our volunteers - these trips aren't possible without you!  On Wednesday, we celebrated National Indigenous Peoples Day. We enjoyed a lovely assembly where we received three flags from the CBE, reviewed our 2022-2023 Call to Action, and revealed our Call to Action for the 2023-2024 school year. We enjoyed a full school sit-spot outside where we were able to do our up, down, all around sketching routine - an activity that we were unable to do at Fish Creek due to the rain.  We also watched this video from the CBE to learn more about the three indigenous flags.  This week we also coordinated with the kindergarten teachers to give the kinders a chance to visit the grade 1/2 classrooms. Mrs. Sidhu and Ms. Mumford took all of the grade 2 students outside for PE while the kinders visited our classrooms. The grade 1s got to practice their role

Hello families,  We're in the single-digit countdown! Only 9 days of school left!  I just have a quick blog update this week!  We were so excited to have ARTS Senior Animal Rescue come visit us on Tuesday! Denise and Brian came to teach as all about ARTS and brought their cat Ronnie with them. We were able to donate over $1600 thanks to our Family Dance fundraiser! I will be putting together a video of this experience to share with the whole school at our end of year assembly.  In math we've continued learning about 3D shapes and specifically looked at cubes, rectangular prisms, and triangular prisms.  In science students have been working away on their National Geographic books - about half of the students are done and the other half are just finishing up! Our social studies work has been set aside a bit as we finish up this big project! We also had a little tortoise visiter in our classroom. Ms. Gierl borrowed her friend's tortoise, Flash, so we got to learn a little bit

Hello families,  This week we had an exciting start with our HAWCS visit! It was such a cool experience to watch the helicopter land and take off in our field.  This week we also enjoyed learning rugby! We learned a lot of skills from Breanne and continued our own practice on Thursday. Ask you child about the proper technique for throwing and catching a rugby ball.  In science, students used a Venn Diagram to compare animals! We also started turning our animal research into National Geographic book! Students are working hard to turn their jot notes into full sentences and display this information in a clear way using some features of a non-fiction text.  During our morning task this week, students were given a variety of math problems to solve. Our favourite was this one:  We also started looking at 3d shapes and their attributes. We learned about faces, edges and vertices and took a closer look at spheres and cones. We've defined each of these as:  Face: a flat surface of a shape