Ms. Midgley's Blog

Happy Holidays everyone!  Thank you to all of you for your incredibly sweet Christmas presents. I feel so spoiled.  Enjoy your holidays and see you on January 8th! 

Hello everyone! Weekly Words This week students were given the option of 3 holiday themed word lists. Orange: bow, snow, elf, joy, toy, bell, red, green Blue: Santa, holly, jolly, candy, frosty, gift, wreath, stocking Red: holiday, decorate, Christmas, December, gingerbread, snowflake, mistletoe, poinsettia Library Books All books need to be returned ASAP! Thank you to everyone who returned them for their due date today! Overdue slips were sent home with students who still have a book checked out. AARCS Fundraiser We are so happy to announce that we raised $300 for AARCS! We are hoping someone from AARCS will be coming to LBS this week to accept the donation. There will be more information about this coming soon! Holiday Celebration & Holiday Sweater Day On Friday we will have a holiday celebration in our classroom. Please let me know if you'd like to bring treats. We will also be wearing our holiday sweaters on Friday so if you have one please join in! Chris...

Hi everyone! I hope you all enjoyed our Winter Concert last night! Today we enjoyed some time in our colour groups sharing some winter stories. We also started working on Quebec and will continue on Monday. ALL LIBRARY BOOKS NEED TO BE RETURNED MONDAY! We are looking forward to a busy and fun last week before break. On Friday we will be having a bit of a celebration. If you are interested in providing treats please let me know! Have a great weekend!

Hi Everyone! I apologize for the lack of blog posts this week - it's been very busy! Today we started on the province of Ontario for our map! We've been enjoying gym outdoors, practicing for the winter concert, and today we were busy all afternoon making cat treats! Tomorrow is the Winter Concert! Students are welcome to dress a little nicer than usual but can wear what they do on a daily basis as well. Students are just asked NOT to wear anything on their head (ie. hats or tall headbands) so that everyone can be seen on stage. Students will need to arrive by 7:10pm tomorrow. See you there! AARCS Fundraiser Room 12 and 13 are doing a fundraiser to raise money for the Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society (AARCS). During the daytime and evening winter concert shows on Thursday, December 13th, we will be selling homemade Crunchy Tuna Cat Treats and Blueberry Dog Bites. Each bag will cost $3 and all proceeds will go towards AARCS to help ensure the animals in their car...

Hi everyone! This morning we had Explore and Play as well as our last library time of 2018! All library books need to be returned by Monday, December 17th. Our weekly words come from the "-ow" family this week (with a long vowel sound!) Our photocopier has been out of commission so students wrote their words once in their books and I quickly typed them so they would have another copy to take home. In the afternoon we worked in our classroom literacy groups. Students were given a picture prompt to write about. They had the choice between a spy mouse, a superhero squirrel, and a car stuck in a tree. They will continue with their writing tomorrow afternoon! We also introduced Manitoba today and began adding it to our map. Students will finish up with this tomorrow!  AARCS Fundraiser Room 12 and 13 are doing a fundraiser to raise money for the Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society (AARCS). During the daytime and evening winter concert shows on Thursday, December...

Hello everyone! I wrote this yesterday after school and forgot to hit "post"... whoops! This morning were visited by our OT and PT. They did a "Good Morning Yoga" activity with us. You can also check out "Good Night Yoga."  Students then went to music. During work period we practiced our weekly words and continued working on our MakeItMerry cards. In the afternoon we had mindful minutes and guest reader. The students then had some more time to finish up their cards or choose a responsible work choice. At the end of the day we watched a video about Brazil and the United States as some of our classmates are traveling there soon! We also read a story called "Moosletoe" and tested out the Good Night Yoga. Monday will be our last library time until the new year! Have an awesome weekend!

Hello everyone! This morning we had our daily 5 literacy time and practiced our weekly words from the "-ar" family. We then talked about the province of Saskatchewan. We watched a video about Saskatchewan and students continued with their own maps. Our guest reader went a little long so we used Go Noodle in the classroom today for PE. In the afternoon we continued with our mindful minutes that is becoming more mindful every day! We also started some literacy groups within our classroom, with the support of Ms. Kassam, that is mostly focused on writing skills. Students then went to music. At the end of the day we practiced our skip counting, read a math story about skip counting sheep, and watched Canada Crew. I am still looking for volunteers for the morning of January 30th for our Clay for Kids activity. I am also still looking for volunteers to support us during the afternoon of Wednesday, December 12th to help us bake our AARCS treats! Have a great evening!

Hello families, This morning we had library and and talked about mindfulness. We read the story "Sloth at the Zoom" and "I am Peace." We compared being mindful to a sailboat. We need to anchor ourselves sometimes so the waves (thoughts and worries) can't bother us. We can do this by placing our hands and feet on a hard surface and focusing on our breath! We are working on having a more successful Mindful Minutes in the afternoon. Students will continue to have the choice of doing a guided mindfulness activity on the SmartBoard in our room, reading a book independently in Miss Ireland's room, mindful colouring or their own quite mindfulness activity while watching the SmartBoard (Music and images) in Miss Ireland's. We discussed how practicing mindfulness can help bring us back to the green zone so we are ready to learn after lunch time. In the afternoon Ms. Kassam was in the classroom while I was in a meeting. Students chose their weekly words fr...