Ms. Midgley's Blog

Hello families,  Here's an update about our week!  Literacy In literacy we reviewed the nasalized a sound (like in an or am) and the short i sound. We learned more about adjectives and students worked to describe a hamburger - this work was shared at conferences!  We also talked about the "ip" word family and students used sound boards to brainstorm as many "ip" words as they could. During Daily LA we started reading decodable books in grade 1 and some levelled readers in grade 2! Ms. H also taught a lesson based on the book L is for Loving. Students chose one emotion that was new to them and drew a picture of that emotion with the matching word or letter sound.  Here are the sight words for next week! I will add the full documents so you can save them for reference at home! Please refer to last week's blog for ideas of how to practice words at home and for some additional literacy resources ! Math In math we enjoyed doing some m-art (math and art!) Students

Hello families! We had a short but busy week! Art Cards came home today! I think they turned out great! Orders are due by November 28th in order to receive cards before Christmas time. You can also order other items made from your child's artwork such as ornaments, puzzles and plaques!  Literacy This week we reviewed the short a vowel sound! We also learned about synonyms so develop students sensory language. Students worked in table groups using Word Hippo to write synonyms for a given word. Students were asked to choose any classroom material to describe. Some students used Word Hippo to explore synonyms. Word Hippo Next week's words!  A few ideas for how to practice sight words at home!  Engaging Littles Lip Gloss and Crayons Blog Here's how we practice words through writing - we also build the words with classroom materials. Here are some decodable books and other resources you can use at home as well!  UFLI Parent Resources  Flyleaf Publishing The Measured Mom Science

 Hello families,  We had such a blast at the zoo on Monday! We learned all about penguins and enjoyed exploring the zoo in our groups. Thank you to the amazing volunteers that were able to join us - I hope you had fun too!  This was three generations of lemurs - a baby, mom and grandma! How sweet!  What a day! Math In math we continued to develop our understanding of place value. Students chose "just right" work - ask your child how they know when classroom work is a good level for them! We practiced writing, drawing and building numbers. Students could choose between teen numbers, numbers to 100, and numbers to 1000. Here's an ABCya game to practice place value! Students briefly learned how to use the Room Recess base ten program to practice identifying and building numbers!  Literacy We reviewed our last letter, C, with our character Crazy Camel. We practiced our heart words and enjoyed some Daily LA time!  Grade 1: (I made a mistake with this in last week's post!