Ms. Midgley's Blog

Hello families!  Here's what we got up to this week!  We're continuing to learn about our little chicks and are so excited for hatching day on Monday! We candled the eggs again on Day 15 and they appear to be growing well! We also learned about the different parts of an egg and what they do and students were challenged to make a chicken lifecycle out of loose parts. On Friday we had our "chick lockdown" day which means we are no longer able to open the incubator. We took a look at the chick's habitat and students sketched and labelled the habitat from a birds-eye view. We are feeling prepared for hatching day on Monday! Don't worry I will take LOTS of chick pictures!  This week we also celebrated Earth Day! We had fun measuring eco-friendly items on Earth Day! We learned important rules for using non-standard units of measurement and recorded our findings in a table. We learned how to measure using the tiling strategy as well as iteration - ask your child abou...

Hello families,  We had a fun, short week in room 11!  At the zoo we enjoyed our program about polar bears and other arctic animals! We got to look at lots of cool artifacts! Students had fun exploring the zoo in their small groups, and had lots of fun playing at the Bugtopia playground at lunch time (I'm sure this was a favourite part for many students!)                In literacy, we learned about adjectives! We've been practicing identifying nouns, verbs and adjectives in sentences and using the Montessori grammar symbols to represent each part of speech! In some small groups, we used another Montessori grammar material and talked about when to use the article "a" versus "an." Other small groups were practicing the magic e with our magic e wand!  Here are the words for next week! I changed up the red list a little to try to help students with remembering that tricky magic e and identifying the difference between CVC and CVCe word...