Ms. Midgley's Blog

Hello families,  It has been busy around here! I apologize for the lack of blog posts. Here are a few photos from last week!  In math we have been reviewing addition and subtraction! For the rest of the year we will be working on some review as well as some measurement basics. We have been working hard on some story writing! Students are writing stories about a chosen animal and how it came to have one of their structural adaptations. For example, "How the fox got its fluffy tail" or "how the beaver got its big teeth." We  are going through each step of the story writing process... Planning ↓ Sharing & Feedback ↓ First Draft ↓ Editing (which we started today!)  We also used step-by-step drawings to learn how to draw our animals. I am hoping we can finish these up by early next week!  Guest Reader We are not going to continue with Guest Reader for the rest of June since there are so many students interested and not enough days! We are going to invite some old...

Hello families,  This week for our 30 by 30 challenge, we did lots of fun activities outside!  We made our names out of nature, did a scavenger hunt, learned about texture and did some rubbings, enjoying playing and being in the sun, and helped our older buddies design a garden for their Minecraft challenge. In math, we have been working with Fact Families. These are three numbers that are related and create 2 addition and 2 subtraction problems. We used the unifix cubes to help model the equations. We started with all of the numbers provided in the fact family, and then moved on to determining the missing number from the fact family.  This week we have also been talking about the elements of a story. We watched a great story called "The Panda Problem" and students wrote and/drew about the characters, setting, problem and solution. We are working up to writing our own stories!  We continued to work with the Nature Kits this week. Specifically we looked at some beaver...

Hello families!  It was a VERY busy week!  This week we started the 30 by 30 challenge which was started by the David Suzuki Foundation. It is now called the "One Nature Challenge" but apparently I didn't get the memo so we are still calling it 30x30! We have been collecting photos from all of our outdoor activities this week! If you choose to continue spending 30 minutes outside each day this weekend (I know it's not supposed to be very nice but I'm sure we can still do it!) feel free to email me a photo and I can include it on our calendar! Here are some photos from our outside time this week!  On Monday , we read a story about clouds and did some cloud watching to sketch what we saw in the clouds. We were even lucky enough to see a rainbow! On Tuesday, we had a skipping lesson from some of the 4/5 students in Ms. Mumford's class!  On Wednesday, to celebrate Hats on for Mental Health, we had some fun outside together getting fresh air (but unfortunately no s...

Hi Families,  Here's a bit of a late blog post from last week!  In math, we continued talking about addition and subtraction. We played an Earth Day math game and continued our work with balancing equations. We also used ten frames for addition and subtraction to 10 to help students see the relationship between addition and subtraction.  In science we are still looking at structural adaptations in animals. We looked at the different ways that birds use feathers as well as different animal shells.  We continued with our Me on the Map book and students will be bringing them home this week to share. We also learned about a Sit Spot and enjoyed some time in the garden sketching from our chosen sit-spots.  We have enough volunteers for our zoo field trip on June 9th but could still use some more for our in-class learning experience with Teacher's Pet on the afternoon of June 2nd. Please let me know if you're interested in helping out!  Upcoming Dates Library eve...