Ms. Midgley's Blog

Hello families,  Here's our weekly update!  This week we finished up all of our government assessments - phew! 😅 This was a lot of our math work this week!  We enjoyed starting our week learning about the Autumn season and enjoying the nice weather! We went to the garden for a sit-spot and sketched signs of Autumn. Students enjoyed drawing (and labelling for grade 2s!) their favourite things about fall time!      We also learned about Orange Shirt Day this week and talked about why it is important to honour the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Students brainstormed words for how kids would feel at residential schools and how we should feel at school today and recorded these in their sketch books. Many students are still working on this activity. We also watched an episode of Molly of Denali called "Grandpa's Drum" which is a heartwarming story about residential skills.      In literacy, we reviewed the letters "I" and "N" with the ...

Hello families!  Here's our weekly update!  We had fun celebrating Dot Day on Monday! Students worked on a collaborative dot art project that is on  display in the hallway.  In literacy we learned about CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words that we can spell with the letters A, M, P, S and T. We also reviewed the letters P and F with UFLI. We met the characters Polly Panda and Farley Fox. Ask you child about the actions for P and F!  Students have also been working hard to complete literacy and numeracy government assessments. We are getting close to being done! These assessments test letter-sound knowledge, phonemic awareness skills, processing speeds and basic numeracy skills (greater numbers, number lines, counting, identifying numbers, addition and subtraction).  In math this week we also started learning about data collection and made a bar graph of our favourite colours as a class!  We've been enjoying learning about the stories of each person in...

We had another great week in room 11! Our first five day week of the year! Here's what we got up to!  We are continuing to practice our inside voices (close-talking voices). We enjoyed reading the story "My Mouth is a Volcano."    We also learned what it means to follow the "group plan." This  is a strategy from Occupational Therapists for students to understand and demonstrate expected behaviours. The program, Social Explorers, is designed to develop social thinking. Specifically, it develops awareness of self, awareness of others, and the impact of our actions on others' feelings and thoughts. The term Group Plan is the expected behaviours and routines. Students are learning how to identify the group plan and join in with their bodies and thinking.  In the mornings, students have been introduced to Opening Task. This is a short, familiar activity that students complete after soft entry. The activity may change depending on what we are learning in the class...