Ms. Midgley's Blog

Hello families,  This week we have been working very hard on our Best Part of Me writing. Students decided on the best physical part of them and brainstormed ideas about what it looks like, feels like, and what they can do with it. They then use sentence frames to put their ideas into complete sentences. From there, students focused on improving the neatness of their writing, thinking about "sky, grass, dirt" letters, proper spacing, and appropriate use of lowercase and uppercase letters. They then did a final copy and a self-reflection on their work.  In math, we've been working on creating some base ten donuts as a parallel task to our base ten creatures. Students were asked to create 3 specific numbers on their donuts, and then create a donut of their choice.  We've been continuing to learn about colours and enjoyed colour mixing with paint and going on a community walk to search for primary and secondary colours.  Here is what we've been up to in our Word Work...

Hello families,  We have had a busy week! We've been working on improving some of our classroom routines and are working together to complete a bingo card. Once students have shown me three times that they can successfully meet the expectations of each activity, they get a check mark. Once the box has three checkmarks, we will cross it off. We are working towards some extra tech time for the whole class! One time of day we are particularly working on is our mindfulness time after lunch. We've been reviewing choices and expectations.  We have been working on adding sensory language to make our writing more interesting! We worked on a sensory language activity as a class with a cinnamon bun, and students worked in table groups to brainstorm their own sensory language. Grade 1 students worked with me on spacing in their writing (what we like to call spaghetti and meatballs!) and Grade 2 students worked with Mrs. Carreño on synonyms.  As part of our exploration into the quest...

Hello families,  This week we continued working on improving the neatness of our writing with sky, grass, dirt letters. Students did some writing about their weekend to practice this skill. We also combined some of our science learning with our writing and started talking about using sensory language in our writing to make it more interesting. Students in grade 2 are also working on using synonyms in their writing.  We also started on our Words Their Way "Word Work Groups." All grade 1/2 students will be working with their Word Work Groups for the last part of the day (2:10-2:35). This is just a portion of our literacy instruction which is targeted at supporting students individual next steps. This week we got to know each other and introduced our routine. We will start with our personalized word work on Monday.  In math we have been working on a few things! We reviewed equal and unequal quantities and learned about greater than and less than symbols to compare numbers. I...