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.

We're Practicing for DANCEMANIA 2017!

Here's the link for our song - Don't Stop Movin' By S Club 7!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlhGZOJvIYI

Keep practicing - Date of Dancemania Coming Soon!!

April in Ms. Robinson's Classroom!

April showers bring May flowers!

As we watch the ice and snow melt and wait for warmer weather, 
learning in room 226 continues!

This Month:

Character Education Trait: Cooperation

I work with others to create a peaceful community

April Special Days/Events

April Fool’s Day - April 1^st

Good Friday – Friday, April 14^th

Easter Monday – Monday, April 17^th

Earth Day - April 22^nd

Literacy

Persuasive Writing:

Writing to make readers agree with you

Poetry

Math

Measurement:

Learning how to tell time to the nearest 5 minutes (eg. 5:40 pm)

Read a thermometer in degrees Celsius  ( ° )

Learn benchmark temperatures (eg. room temperature is about 20°C, water boils at 100°C, water freezes at 0°C)

Probability: the likelihood of events

It is impossible for a dinosaur to be your teacher.

It is very likely you will have gym on Monday.

Science/Social Studies

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

It's SPRING!

I hope everyone had an amazing March Break!

This week:

Math: 3D Geometry (nets and 3D solids)

Science: Grade 4’s will learn about Rocks and Minerals.

Grade 3’s will learn all about Soil.

Before the break students were working on designing 

children’s cereal boxes. Here are the finished products!

                          

 

Grade 3/4 Picasso Portraits

March in Ms. Robinson's Classroom!

Spring is in the air! We have so much to learn!

This Month:

Character Education Trait: Fairness

March Special Days/Events

Thursday, March 9^th – Primary/Junior Activity Day!

March 13 – March 17 – March Break (no school)

Friday, March 17^th – St. Patrick’s Day

Monday, March 20^th – First Day of Spring

Literacy

Media Literacy

-> Students designed a cereal box and will make a commercial to advertise their cereal

Read Alouds This Month:

Little Red Riding Hood Stories

 

Little Red Riding Hood
Retold by Bernadette Watts

Here are some other versions of Little Red Riding Hood: 

Ninja Red Riding Hood
By Corey Rosen Schwartz

Red Riding Hood: A Newfangled Prairie Tale
By Lisa Campbell Ernst

Super Red Riding Hood
By Claudia Davila

Fixed Fairy Tales: Little Red Riding Hood
Fixed Fairy Tales YouTube Video


Math

Continuing 2D and 3D Geometry:

  -> Names and characteristics of shapes and figures.

  -> Angles – right angles, angles greater than a right angle and less

  than a right angle

  -> Congruent shapes (congruent shapes are the same size and

  shape)

  -> Symmetry

Science

Completing (Grade 3) Structures and (Grade 4) Pulleys and Gears

Have a Great March Break!!

Grade 3/4 was hard at work in February!

Students wrote Valentine’s Day Colour Poems using similes.

For Art, students created portraits like artist Pablo Picasso.

February in Ms. Robinson's Classroom!

February is the shortest month of the year,

but there is so much going on!

This Month:

Character Education Trait: Acceptance

I believe people’s differences make them more interesting.

I believe everyone belongs.

February Special Days/Events

February 2^nd – Groundhog Day

February 14^th – Valentine’s Day

February 16^th – Family Dance!

February 17^th – P.D. Day (no school)

February 20^th – Family Day (no school)

Literacy

Read Alouds this Month:                                

                                                                                            

Martin's Big Words
By Doreen Rappaport  

The Other Side
By Jacqueline Woodson

Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a
Remarkable Friendship
By Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff
and Dr. Paula Kahumbu

A true story about the value of accepting other's differences

Owen snuggling up to his friend, Mzee.

Viola Desmond Won't Be Budged!
By Jody Nyasha Warner

A picture book about a brave Canadian who took a stand against discrimination.

Here's the link for "The Present" an amazing short film about Acceptance: 

The Present

*Students will also write colour poems for Valentine’s Day.

Math

*Beginning Geometry: 2D Shapes and 3D Solids

Science

*Hands on investigations on Strong and Stable Structures and Pulleys and Gears

Art

*Students will create art with themselves inside a snow globe!

I'm inside a snow globe
with my snowman friend!