What’s Happening in 5/6 in Term 2 2024

Important Dates:

• Interschool Sports: Every Friday 9-11.30pm (Commencing week 4)
• Library: Odd weeks on a Friday 12.05-1.50pm
• EKC Transition Excursion – Wednesday 17^th April
• ANZAC Day – Thursday 25^th April (Public Holiday)
• Curriculum Day – Friday 26^th April (Pupil Free Day)
• Grade 6 Camp – Wednesday 1^st May – Friday 3^rd May
• Mother’s Day Stall & (Special Friend) – Thursday 9^th May
• King’s Birthday – Monday 10^th June (Public Holiday)
• Three Way Conferences (Pupil Free Day- students to only attend during their interview) – Wednesday 26^th June
• End of Term 2: Friday 28^th June

In Literacy students will be:

Participating in Reading, Writing and Spelling lessons where they will be:

• Answering literal and inferred comprehension questions about our Core Knowledge units, World Lakes, World Deserts and Biomes.
• Learning about Maya, Aztec and Inca which were the three most dominant and advanced civilizations that developed in the Americas prior to the arrival of the Europeans.
• Identifying key vocabulary and the meaning of these words.
• Practising sentence structure and writing and identifying key parts of a sentence.
• Revising their phonological awareness.
• Using different spelling rules to complete a range of tasks.
• Learning about suffixes and homophones.
• Presenting key understandings through class discussions and project work.
• Revising the structure when writing recounts and narratives.
• Creating an information text with correct structure (title, headings, sub-headings, diagrams and captions)

In Mathematics students will be:

Participating in topics including multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, money by:

• Identifying and describing factors and multiples of whole numbers.
• Determining if numbers are divisible by 2, 5 and 10.
• Using knowledge of equivalent number sentences to find an unknown number in a multiplication equation (e.g. 4 x 5 = __ x 10).
• Using knowledge of equivalent number sentences to find an unknown number in a division equation (e.g. 40 ÷ 8 = __ ÷ 4).
• Finding unknown numbers in equivalent number sentences that involve addition, subtraction, multiplication or division.
• Using a written division algorithm and represent any remainder as a fraction or a terminating decimal.
• Adding and subtracting decimals with the same, and different, number of decimal places.
• Creating a budget for an event such as a class fundraiser.
• Identifying the GST component of invoices and receipts.
• Calculating 10% and calculating 50% of money amounts and the cost of items with a discount of 10% and 50%.
• Converting mixed numerals to improper fractions by drawing and converting improper fractions to mixed numerals by drawing.
• Converting mixed numerals to improper fractions through multiplication and addition.
• Converting improper fractions to mixed numerals through division.
• Adding and subtracting fractions, including mixed numerals, with the same denominator using concrete materials, by drawing or by using a number line.
• Adding fractions that have the same denominator and convert answers that are improper fractions to mixed numerals.
• Writing the fraction or mixed numeral and decimal for shaded hundred grids (stating that, for example, 0.65 can be called 6 tenths and 5 hundredths, or 65 hundredths).
• Shading hundred grids to represent decimals to hundredth (stating that, for example, 0.65 can be called 6 tenths and 5 hundredths, or 65 hundredths).
• Adding and subtracting fractions with related denominators by using multiplication or division to make the denominators the same.

In Inquiry students will be:

Discovering and learning about Biomes and different environments. They will research information about world lakes and deserts. Students will look at different Biomes and participate in a range of tasks including Lotus Diagrams explaining features of a chosen Biome, working with maps and creating Biome fact files.

Wellbeing

We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on personal strengths, positive coping and gender and identity.
Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• Talent and character strengths
• Positive coping
• Positive and negative self-talk
• Sharing positive coping strategies
• Gender norms and adolescence

Home Learning

Each week students will have expected and suggested Home Learning.

Expected Learning each week:

In addition to this, your child may bring any unfinished work home to complete which will be documented in their diary.

It is an expectation that your child’s diary is in their school bag each day, in order for them to write in any important dates, messages or tasks to be completed.

Home Learning Books and diaries will be collected on Mondays for teachers to check students’ progress and the new Home Learning cycle will begin on the Tuesday for the following week. We ask that, at the end of the Home Learning week, parents sign to acknowledge the completion of the expected Home Learning tasks.

SUGGESTED LEARNING TASKS

In addition to supporting your child to complete the Expected Home Learning tasks each week, you may also like to encourage your child to select one or more of the following tasks:

• Students may choose one Literacy and one Numeracy task from the matrix.
• Apply real life Mathematics in situations outside of the classroom, i.e. working out how much change required when shopping, measuring ingredients when cooking, telling the time etc.
• Keep a diary about special events each week and use a wide range of interesting vocabulary.
• Participate in a range of outdoor activities.
• Play boardgames and card games such as UNO or Monopoly.