Ms. Midgley's Blog

 Hello families!  Wow! It's been a very long time since I've written a blog. It was so nice to be back in the classroom with students this week! Seeing them in person definitely beats Google Meet!  This week, we focused on improving our writing and showing our best work. We worked on some mixed addition and subtraction and continued learning about graphing. We read a spring poem and students collected data about the number of different bugs in the poem. Students then created their own survey questions to ask their classmates and today we graphed the data. Next week we will look at our graphs, receive some peer feedback, and do a second copy!  We also spent the week practicing our Thriller dance for the surprise flash mob for Mrs. Jones. It was so much fun and Mrs. Jones was definitely surprised!  We spent much of this week getting back into our regular routine - 4 weeks is a long time to be away! During Daily 5 some groups played sight word games, and others con...

Hello families!  This week we started our week with a virtual field trip through the Arts Commons with Elder Shirley Hill. The students really enjoyed this session. We learned about Indigenous culture, music and dancing. We saw a video of Elder Shirley hoop dancing and got to dance in the classroom ourselves. We talked about the buffalo jump, language and got to ask her some of our questions!  This week we also worked on finishing our classroom land acknowledgement! This took a lot of work this week! Students worked in partners or a group of three to practice reading their sentence fluently and make up actions. We learned a little bit of sign language to incorporate as well! I unfortunately can't share this video with you but will be making another version with student voices and images without faces to share with you!  In math, we started talking about measurement. As a class, we brainstormed what we knew about measurement by thinking about - What is measurement? and Wha...

Hello families,  This week we continued to learn about our chick eggs and watch them grow. We enjoyed candling the eggs to see if they are growing. Some of them appear to be growing and some we could tell were not growing much.  For our physical education Minute To Win It challenge this week, we did an activity called "Flippin' Cones." where students had to flip a smaller cone and and have it land on a larger cone. This was very challenging! On Monday, as a class, we only got 3 cones on in a minute, but today we got 7 cones on! This week we have also been working on creating our very own classroom Land Acknowledgement. We started by going outdoors and thinking about what part of the land we connected with the most. Students then wrote their ideas on a sticky note and we grouped them by common themes. Each table group was responsible for writing a sentence based on the topic they were given (smell, animals, air, earth and trees). We then put the sentences together and talk...

Hello families,  I hope you all had a nice Spring Break! We had a busy week back at school!  On Tuesday we had a surprise for students! We are in the process of incubating chicken eggs! I usually have my partner in crime, Mrs. Ireland, to help with this process, but this is the first time I am attempting it without her! In the past we have hatched both chicken and duck eggs, and unfortunately last year we weren't able to do this because of school closures. So, we are very excited to have this experience this year!  We have 12 chicken eggs in our incubator but are not expecting all of them to hatch. Students are learning about the needs of animals and how to care for living things. We learned how the incubator works similar to a mother hen by keeping the eggs safe and warm, and flipping them regularly to ensure they are warm on every side. Each day we are learning about how the chicks are developing, and next week we will be able to candle the eggs to actually see the chic...

Hello families!  We had a busy week and completed a lot of fun learning activities! Prepare for a lot of photos!  In science, we started talking about colour mixing. We tried the "Walking Waters" experiment, created secondary and tertiary colours using Playdoh and used paint to make tints and shades!  In social studies, we continued developing our geographical thinking skills. We continued learning about the rest of the Canadian provinces and territories. We learned about Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Yukon Territories, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. We watched the Canada Road Trip series for each province and territory. In addition, we watched a video about life in Iqaluit and we watched a throat singing performance by an Inuit band called The Jerry Cans. We have plans to make our own classroom flag and classroom Land Acknowledgment after Spring Break.  Our "Minute to Win It" challenge this week was called "Pool Sharks." Students had to lay on t...