Ms. Midgley's Blog

Hello families!  It's been awhile...  Ms. G (and Ms. Kassam who used to teach at LBS) and I had a great time at the Reading For The Love Of It conference in Toronto. A highlight was meeting author, Melanie Watt! Here are some photos!    Here is a recap of the last little while!  On the 18th we had fun celebrating the 100th day of school! Students enjoyed participating in an estimating activity! Ask your child how many of each item were in the jars.      Also in math, we worked on some subitizing skills and learned how to represent addition with pictures! Subitizing with dice is a good start but we want to be able to subitize with tens-frames or random dot assortments.    In literacy, students have been continuing to learn about digraphs. Last week students worked on the wh and ph sounds and this week we learned ng and nk. We also learned how to make an acrostic poem for Pink Shirt Day using the word "kindness."  Words for next week ...

Hello families,  Can you believe that Tuesday will be the 100th day of school?! Where has the time gone!  Here's what we got up to during our short week of school!  On Monday we had fun exploring loose parts again as a pre-writing activity. Students were asked to build something that they did on the weekend. After some building time they shared with a buddy or two to practice their oral story telling skills. Some students also shared what they did with the whole class. Next, students used their building to draw a picture of what they did over the weekend. Lastly, they wrote about what they did. We were working on generating more ideas and adding more detail to our writing!    Grade 1 example   Grade 2 examples Also in literacy, we learned the 'ch' digraph. Students worked on a 4 square activity to practice their writing of ch words and sentences.    Here are the words for next week (February 18-21): And here are the words for the following week (F...