Ms. Midgley's Blog

Hello families,  If you haven't seen our LBS Family Literacy Day video - check it out here!   You can also add to the LBS Community Writers Padlet here.   In math, we are continuing to practice our doubles and doubles +1 using games, songs and activities. We are also still learning about 2D shapes and did some sorting with 2D shapes this week. We learned a new math game called Matho (similar to Bingo) and we played an addition game that got us up and moving on Friday!  In literacy, we are continuing to work on vowel sounds. Next week we will start learning about digraphs (letters that go together to make one sound, i.e. sh, ch, th). We are still doing Daily 5 twice per day which I have been loving! In our small groups we are working on a variety of things such as building words, working with word families, reviewing letter sounds, reading books, and this week we played some "sight word bingo." Sight words are sometimes referred to as "heart words" because we nee...

Hello families,  I hope everyone is doing well! I apologize for how long it has been since I posted a blog. This month is flying by! I hope that you all had an enjoyable winter break and enjoyed your extra time. I am very happy to be feeling better and to be back in the classroom with students! Here are some things we've been working on in the last two weeks!  Math In math, we have been learning about addition strategies to help with adding numbers to 20. We have been learning about doubles and doubles +1 (or near doubles). Knowing the doubles will help students to be able to solve other addition problems!  We have also been working on sorting objects using one attribute. We sorted emojis in different ways such as mouth opened or mouth closed, happy and unhappy, tears and no tears, etc. Students were a little confused and wanted to sort based on too many attributes, so we tried again with different animals and that went much better! Students sorted animals based on where ...