Ms. Midgley's Blog

Hello families,  Here's our weekly update! I, I mean we,  survived three days of being stuck indoors this week! We talked a lot about how fresh air and exercise impacts our abilities to listen, follow instructions and learn. Thank goodness it's warmed up a little!  In literacy, we continued learning about digraphs (two consonants that go together to make one sound). We learned the 'sh' sound and the two sounds of 'th.' Students worked on "just-right" level work for these digraphs and completed, what I call, 4 square activities to practice their encoding and sentence writing skills!      SH UFLI Roll & Read TH UFLI Roll & Read Here are the words for next week. We are taking a break from the high-frequency list to do some Valentine's Day themed words. There will be no quiz next week.  In math we continued working on addition and subtraction. We learned how to use some of our Montessori materials to help us solve subtraction problems. We learn...

Hello families,  We had a busy week with lacrosse this week! Thank you School Council for this fun opportunity! Students had lots of fun learning new skills from Coach Dan! On the days we didn't have lacrosse, we had music and gym outside so our mornings went by quite quickly!    https://elev8lacrosse.com/new-to-lacrosse In math this week, we were continuing to learn strategies for addition and subtraction. We learned how to count back to subtract and used number lines and hundreds charts to help. We had fun playing a subtraction math game as well! Grade 1s worked on adding with multiple addends, and grade 2s learned how to show addition on an open number line.    Here's an example of the grade 2 open number line work - they found it really tricky so we mostly worked on it together. We start with the bigger number and then decompose the smaller number and add groups of 10 if we can! We are practicing skip counting by 10s starting at any number to help us with th...