Ms. Midgley's Blog

Hello families,  This week we reviewed the letters W, Y, Z and Q. We will be starting up our Words Their Way program shortly! We've been doing our Daily Language Arts time twice each day so students are participating in read with teacher, read to self, buddy reading, listen to reading and word work twice each week. The Listen to Reading station can be quite distracting for other students if headphones aren't used. If you are able to send headphones for your child to keep in their cubby at school, that would be very helpful. In math we continued with representing numbers and students did some Halloween math using haunted houses (hundreds), broom sticks (tens) and pumpkins (ones). We've been doing math warm-ups each morning to help kick-start our mornings. I added an example.  This week we worked on our Art Cards for our upcoming holiday season! Here's a little sneak peak but I don't want to share the final results yet! I think they turned our very cute and the studen...

Hello families,  We've had a busy 5 day week! We enjoyed two more art sessions with Ms. Sharon and learned about how Peter Reynolds uses lines in his artwork.  This week we took advantage of the nice weather and spent a little extra time outside. Students made their names out of nature for the cover of our nature journals, and some created nature Mandalas if they had extra time. We also spent some time practicing lines and mindfulness with our Zentangles outside.  In math, we continued to work on representing numbers using hundreds, tens and ones. We also learned a new math card game called Wild Jacks. The video below can teach you I Spy and Wild Jacks if you're interested in playing at home.  We did another picture sort for the letters F, E, K, R and H. We reviewed L, V, U and J. Students BEGGED me to do an activity from last year where they designed Halloween costumes for me! We talked about the purpose of this writing which is persuasive writing. I am not expectin...

Hello families,  Better late than never! I wanted to share a brief blog about some of our work from last week.  We started our Artist in Residency program with Ms. Sharon. We learned about natural pigments and experimented painting on wet and dry surfaces. We are looking forward to working with her two more times this week!  We also finished painting our Turkeys from before Thanksgiving!  In math, we've been working on place value and representing numbers using ones, tens and hundreds. We learned a new math card game called "I Spy." We reviewed the letters R, H, F and K. We are getting close to being done our letter review!  In science, we continued learning about the seasons and in social studies we began learning about the Medicine Wheel. We will continue this work this week!  Upcoming Dates Every Tuesday afternoon - Library book exchange  Friday, October 28th - PD Day - No school for students (I missed this one on the October calendars!) Monday, Oct...