What’s Happening in 5/6 in Term 4 2024

Important Dates:

• Library: Odd weeks on a Friday 12.05-1.50pm
• Cake Stall – Thursday 10^th October
• Professional Practice Day – Pupil Free Day – Friday 1^st November
• Report Writing Day – Pupil Free Day – Monday 4^th November
• Melbourne Cup Day – Tuesday 5^th November
• Grade 6 Surf Excursion – Thursday 7^th November
• Remembrance Day Ceremony – Monday 11^th November
• Grade 6 Graduation – Wednesday 18^th December
• End of Term 4: Friday 20^th December, 12.30 finish

In Literacy students will be:

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

• Completing a novel study about the novel Blueback.
• Answering literal and inferred comprehension questions about the novel Blueback.
• Identifying key vocabulary and the meaning of these words.
• Presenting key understandings through class discussions and group work.
• Learning about the history of the English Language.
• Learning about morphology (Morphology is the study of how parts of words, called morphemes, create different meanings by combining with each other or standing alone).
• Practising sentence structure and writing and identifying key parts of a sentence.
• Expanding their knowledge of appositives by creating a range of sentences.
• Revising nouns and noun phrases and verbs and verb phrases to uplevel their writing.
• Using quotation marks for speech and creating writing with dialogue.
• Using ellipses to indicate an incomplete thought, pause for emphasis, uncertainty/hesitation or a break in dialogue/narration.
• Using adverbs of affirmation (e.g. certainly, indeed, surely, definitely, obviously) within a sentence to convey an opinion.
• Revising and further extending their knowledge of note taking, writing single paragraph outlines and multiple paragraph outline structures.
• Writing persuasive pieces following the correct format.

In Mathematics Grade 5 students will be:

Further exploring topics including multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, percentages, money, angles, symmetry and measurement by:

• Determining if numbers are divisible by 2, 5, 10, 3, 6, 9, 4 and 8.
• Recognising and representing percentages on a hundred grid or with bar models.
• Finding complementary percentages to equal 100 percent.
• Converting between fractions, decimals and percentages and ordering them on a number line.
• Calculating percentages of an amount and using a given percentage to find other percentage amounts.
• Describing the rule and continuing fraction or decimal sequences.
• Extending number sequences for visually growing additive and multiplicative patterns.
• Estimating and measuring acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex angles with a protractor.
• Rotating shapes including quarter, half and three-quarter rotations; 90, 180 and 270 degrees clockwise and anticlockwise.
• Solving measurement problem solving tasks focusing on length, mass, capacity, perimeter and area.

In Mathematics Grade 6 students will be:

Further exploring topics including number and algebra, place value, operations, money and financial mathematics, fractions and decimals, division, angles, perimeter, area and grid co-ordinates by:

• Defining prime and composite number and determining if numbers are prime or composite
• Constructing a number line from -10 to 10 and using it to compare and order integers
• Simplify calculations by representing composite numbers as a product of their factors (e.g. 36 x 25 = 6 x 6 x 5 x 5 = 30 x 30 = 900).
• Subtracting positive integers from positive integers where the result is a negative integer and adding positive integers to negative integers.
• Multiplying and dividing numbers by powers of 10 where the movement of the decimal point results in new places being opened.
• Multiplying numbers, including decimal numbers, by multi-digit whole numbers.
• Using order of operation to solve equations that include brackets, indices and the four operations.
• Identifying and selecting strategies for calculating fractions, decimals and percentages of an amount.
• Writing and extending number sequences for visually growing additive and multiplicative patterns.
• Describing the rule and continuing fraction sequences including mixed numerals and create fraction sequences for given rules.
• Estimating, measuring and comparing angles using a protractor.
• Drawing an angle when given a certain number of degrees and checking it with a protractor.
• Calculating the volume of rectangular prisms using length, width and height.
• Writing the coordinates of points on a Cartesian plane.

In Inquiry students will be:

Discovering and learning about Sustainability. This will allow students to develop the knowledge, skills, values and world views necessary to contribute to more sustainable patterns of living. They will learn about how Sustainability has an increasing local, national and global importance. Students will learn about how past, present and future decisions effect the environment.

Students will investigate how environmental, social and economic systems interact to support and maintain human life. They will look at different influences in sustainable development. They will engage in tasks that will help them see themselves as having the capacity to act in ways that will help to establish more sustainable ways of living.

Wellbeing:

The Grade 5/6 students will participate in a range of tasks from the ‘Respectful Relationships’ program in their classrooms.

Home Learning:

EXPECTED TASKS

• 100 minutes of reading, which is clearly recorded in their diary, with the title of the book and minutes and reading.
• 15 minutes of Times Table Rockstars in ‘GARAGE’ mode – this function allows students to work on times tables facts that they need.
• 1 x Mathematic work sheet reflecting taught content from the year so far.

Home Learning Tasks and signed diary are DUE on Monday every week for checking

New Home Learning Cycle begins on Tuesday.

*If a student does not bring their expected Home Learning tasks in each week, they will be attending our weekly Home Learning Club where they will be expected to complete some of the tasks, they did not complete for Home Learning. 

If your child/children are unable to complete the set tasks, please write a note in their diary or send an email to their classroom teacher so we are aware of the reasons for it not being completed.

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