What’s Happening in 5/6 in Term 3 2024
Important Dates:
- Library: Odd weeks on a Friday 12.05-1.50pm
- Interrelate program – Weeks 1-3 on Friday
- Father’s Day Stall – Thursday 29th August
- Curriculum Day – Friday 30th August
- Celebration Week – Monday 16th – Friday 20th September
- Book Parade – Friday 20th September
- End of Term 3: Friday 20th September 2.30 finish
In Literacy students will be:
Participating in Reading, Writing and Spelling lessons where they will be:
- Introduced to a range of poetry.
- Completing a novel study about the book ‘Black Cockatoo’.
- Answering literal and inferred comprehension questions about our Core Knowledge units.
- 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 group work.
- Revising the structure when writing a range of genres including information reports, narratives, letter writing, poems and comics.
- Creating a text of choice that will be included in our class book for Celebration Week.
In Mathematics students will be:
Participating in topics including multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, area, time, dot plots and probability by:
- Applying the distributive property to solve multiplication problems (e.g. 7 x 16 = 7 x 10 + 7 x 6).
- Applying the associative property of multiplication to solve problems (6 x 24 = 6 x 2 x 12).
- Ordering related mixed numerals, proper fractions and improper fractions (e.g. order 12/5, 1 4/5, 6/5, 4/5, 14/5).
- Writing fractions in their simplest form.
- Representing decimals to hundredths on a number line.
- Shading hundred grids to represent half, fifths and quarters and write them as a decimal.
- Finding the area of rectangles by counting grid squares.
- Calculating the area of rectangles by counting the grid squares of the length and width and multiplying.
- Calculating the area and perimeter of rectangles by measuring length and width with a ruler.
- Converting 24-hour time to 12-hour time and vice versa.
- Determining finish time when given start time and elapsed time.
- Writing the coordinates of shapes on a coordinate plane.
- Listing the possible outcomes of chance experiments, represent them using fractions and explain why the sum of the probabilities is equal to 1.
- Representing the possible outcomes of a chance experiment using fractions, use these to predict the results, conduct the chance experiment then explain the results.
Participating in a range of problem-solving tasks by
- designing investigations and plan their approaches
- applying their existing strategies to seek solutions
- verifying that their answers are reasonable.
In Inquiry students will be:
Discovering and learning about the Olympics. Students will research the history of the Olympics for the past hundred years. They will engage in tasks that will use a range of ICT skills including creating a table to keep a record of the medal tally, researching the countries that have hosted the Olympics and significant moments that have occurred in the Olympics over the past hundred years. Students will also investigate the history of the Olympic games.
Wellbeing
The Grade 5/6 students will participate in the Interrelate program covering a range of topics including all about me, my changing body, my changing relationships and respectful relationships. Students will continue engaging the Respectful Relationships program in their classrooms.
Home Learning
Each week students will have expected and suggested Home Learning.
Expected Learning each week:
| Expected Numeracy | Expected Literacy |
| Complete ‘times tables’ rockstars 4 times a week for 15 minutes (60 minutes for the week) – login and complete set timetable challenges from your teachers or choose a times table you want to work on mastering and complete the challenge. – students are expected to record which times tables they are working on in their diary | Read a minimum of 100 minutes a week. (This can be spilt up over multiple days or just on one day it is your choice.) In your diary record the following: – title of the book you are reading – number of minutes read – number of pages read – your parents’ signature at the end of the week ensuring they are aware that you have read your 100 minutes minimum of required reading. |
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.
Students who do not complete their home learning tasks will be required to attend our weekly home learning club during a recess break and will need to complete their home learning tasks during this time.
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.