May in Ms. Robinson's Classroom

Spring is finally here, bringing lots of birds, earthworms 

and blooming flowers.

This Month:

Character Education Trait: Integrity

“I will do the right thing even if no one is watching.”

May Special Days/Events

May 4^th - DanceMania!

May 16^th – Upper Canada Village Field Trip

May 17^th – Jump Rope for Heart

May 23^rd to June 5^th – EQAO testing

Literacy

Reading and responding to fiction, non fiction and poetry

Math

Money – names and value of coins and bills; counting money

Geometry – flips, slides and turns

Number Sense

Multiplication and Division – learning how to use arrays to multiply and divide.

Multiplication is “groups of” or “rows of”

5x4 is 5 rows of 4

Division is “sharing”

If you share 12 stickers with 4 people, how many stickers will each person get?

Fractions (fractions are parts of a whole)

Science/Social Studies

Pioneers, Early Settlers and First Nations Peoples in Upper Canada, 1780-1850.