Ms. Midgley's Blog

Hello families,  Here's our weekly update!  Our MRU student teacher, Ms. Yip, has begun teaching students about cycles and patterns in math. Students started by learning what a cycle is, and explored the season cycle, the day and night cycle, and life cycles.    Students were also introduced to repeating patterns. They had to identify the core of patterns and enjoyed creating their own patterns with different building materials. We will be continuing to learn about patterns after the fall break!    In literacy, we learned a bit about plural and singular nouns. We learned that when we add an -s to the end of a word it sometimes makes the /s/ sound (cats) and sometimes makes the /z/ sound (bags). We also reviewed the letter K with our character Kimmy Kangaroo. During Daily LA, students on the word work station are working with Ms. Yip and students at the teacher table are continuing to work with me.  We started learning how to practice our high-frequency words with sky, grass dirt wr

Hello families,  Happy Hallo-week! We had a great week together with lots of Halloween fun!  We started our week with some ghost art! Students enjoyed experimenting with chalk pastels - they are messy!  Some of our other Halloween fun included designing a Halloween costume for Ms. Midgley, a Roll-a-Monster activity, a Halloween alphabet challenge, spooky sounds challenge, a pumpkin weaving activity with our big buddies, Halloween stations and of course, the Halloween parade!                    In math, we continued to work on representing numbers with hundreds, tens and ones each morning. We also added a spooky spin on things by using pumpkins, brooms and haunted houses instead of ones, tens and hundreds! We also worked on our November calendar activity on Friday!  This week we reviewed the letter E with the characters Ellie the Elephant and Edgar Elf! Ask your child about the action and sound! We also read lots of Halloween stories and enjoyed Daily LA each day.    Next week, we are g