Ms. Midgley's Blog

 

Hello families,  We made it through the last full week of school - I can't believe it! This week we had lots of fun with our buddy class. We continued our animal research work, shared our the stories each student wrote, enjoyed checking out the forts they made in their classroom, and went for a community walk. This week we also celebrated National Indigenous Peoples Day and had our first in-person assembly in a very long time. We enjoyed being outside with the whole school for a sit spot and continued to learn about the 7 Sacred Teachings. On Friday we did our best to get through Sports Day despite the weather! We had to create a team name for a class and ended up going with the Room 11 Super Sabes since we recently learned how the sabe represents honesty. On Friday the students enjoyed some free choice time together and enjoyed building and creating things together.  Next week we will have two more days of school! We are looking forward to finishing up our learning about the ...

Sports Day at LBS We are so excited to be able to host a Lake Bonavista School Sports Day in 2022! Sports Day will be taking place on Friday, June 24 from 8:30am-12:15am. On this day, students will begin in the gymnasium for a pep rally and then travel with their class and their neighbouring class outside to participate in group activities and games. Parent Council has generously provided healthy snacks all students to enjoy for the end of the day!   Here are some things to keep in mind: Wear athletic clothing and shoes Pack a water bottle and snack (we will have two snacks this day) Wear sunscreen and bug spray (apply in the morning!) Despite the forecasted rain, we will be moving forward with Sports Day unless there are thunderstorms, please dress accordingly   Thanks for your support! Active Living Committee

Hello families,  It has been a quiet week around here! There are lots of students away sick or on vacation.  I apologize for no blog post last week - I have been very busy writing report cards! Report cards will be available online at the end of next week. Please note that if your child's grades did not increase, that does not mean they have shown improvement. If your child is receiving the same grade, it means they were able to keep up with the increase in demand and expectations that come with approaching the end of grade 1.  End of Year Wrap-Up If your child will be ending the school year prior to Tuesday, June 28th, please send me an email to let me know. On the last day of school for your child, please send a reusable or plastic bag so they can bring home their workbooks and other belongings.  In math we have been working on some word problems and showing our thinking with pictures, words and numbers. We also did some review of patterns.  Once the rain fina...

Hello families,  It has been busy around here! I apologize for the lack of blog posts. Here are a few photos from last week!  In math we have been reviewing addition and subtraction! For the rest of the year we will be working on some review as well as some measurement basics. We have been working hard on some story writing! Students are writing stories about a chosen animal and how it came to have one of their structural adaptations. For example, "How the fox got its fluffy tail" or "how the beaver got its big teeth." We  are going through each step of the story writing process... Planning ↓ Sharing & Feedback ↓ First Draft ↓ Editing (which we started today!)  We also used step-by-step drawings to learn how to draw our animals. I am hoping we can finish these up by early next week!  Guest Reader We are not going to continue with Guest Reader for the rest of June since there are so many students interested and not enough days! We are going to invite some old...

Hello families,  This week for our 30 by 30 challenge, we did lots of fun activities outside!  We made our names out of nature, did a scavenger hunt, learned about texture and did some rubbings, enjoying playing and being in the sun, and helped our older buddies design a garden for their Minecraft challenge. In math, we have been working with Fact Families. These are three numbers that are related and create 2 addition and 2 subtraction problems. We used the unifix cubes to help model the equations. We started with all of the numbers provided in the fact family, and then moved on to determining the missing number from the fact family.  This week we have also been talking about the elements of a story. We watched a great story called "The Panda Problem" and students wrote and/drew about the characters, setting, problem and solution. We are working up to writing our own stories!  We continued to work with the Nature Kits this week. Specifically we looked at some beaver...

Hello families!  It was a VERY busy week!  This week we started the 30 by 30 challenge which was started by the David Suzuki Foundation. It is now called the "One Nature Challenge" but apparently I didn't get the memo so we are still calling it 30x30! We have been collecting photos from all of our outdoor activities this week! If you choose to continue spending 30 minutes outside each day this weekend (I know it's not supposed to be very nice but I'm sure we can still do it!) feel free to email me a photo and I can include it on our calendar! Here are some photos from our outside time this week!  On Monday , we read a story about clouds and did some cloud watching to sketch what we saw in the clouds. We were even lucky enough to see a rainbow! On Tuesday, we had a skipping lesson from some of the 4/5 students in Ms. Mumford's class!  On Wednesday, to celebrate Hats on for Mental Health, we had some fun outside together getting fresh air (but unfortunately no s...