Book Fair Reminders

The book fair will run from Monday, May 6 until Friday, May 10, during 2nd nutrition break, in the school library.  It will also be open from 5:00-6:00 pm before the school play on Tuesday, May 7 and Wednesday, May 8.  All purchases benefit Cobblestone school!

MAY news...

It is hard to believe that May is here already!  Time flies when you're having fun!  

Reading & Writing
Please continue to participate in the Home Reading Program! It really helps support your child's reading ability and their confidence in reading.

We are working on procedural writing - How to... 

Together the children and I will demonstrate how to ...Make Rainbow Floats (you can ask them how to make one!).  There will be more to come this week and next.  It’s a chance for children to “be bossy and tell people what to do.”
Useful/Helpful Transitional Words:
First
Next
Then
After
After that
Finally

Math

We are just finishing up our Money Unit and our next unit of study is Telling Time. The children will be making a clock in class. They will be using our clock manipulatives at school and their homemade clock will be sent home for extra telling time practice.

The children will learn to read digital and analogue clocks, and then use them to identify benchmark times (e.g., times for breakfast, lunch, dinner; the start and end of school; bedtime) and to tell and write time to the hour and half-hour.

They will also name the months of the year in order, and read the date on the calendar.

The children will also estimate, measure, and describe the passage of time, through investigation using non-standard units (e.g., number of sleeps; number of claps, number of flips of a sand timer).

We will continue to work on positional/directional words and pattern counting by 1's, 2's, 5's 10's and 25's to 100.

I'm sure time will continue to fly, as we have fun learning during our Telling Time Math Centres!

Together in Learning,
Mrs. M. Novak