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.
• 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.

Â鶹¹û¶³ 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.

Â鶹¹û¶³ Learning Tasks and signed diary are DUE on Monday every week for checking

New Â鶹¹û¶³ Learning Cycle begins on Tuesday.

*If a student does not bring their expected Â鶹¹û¶³ Learning tasks in each week, they will be attending our weekly Â鶹¹û¶³ Learning Club where they will be expected to complete some of the tasks, they did not complete for Â鶹¹û¶³ 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 Â鶹¹û¶³ 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

Important Dates:

• Library: Odd weeks on a Friday 12.05-1.50pm
• Interrelate program – Weeks 1-3 on Friday
• Father’s Day Stall – Thursday 29^th August
• Curriculum Day – Friday 30^th August
• Celebration Week – Monday 16^th – Friday 20^th September
• Book Parade – Friday 20^th September
• End of Term 3: Friday 20^th 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.

Â鶹¹û¶³ Learning

Each week students will have expected and suggested Â鶹¹û¶³ 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.

Â鶹¹û¶³ Learning Books and diaries will be collected on Mondays for teachers to check students’ progress and the new Â鶹¹û¶³ Learning cycle will begin on the Tuesday for the following week. We ask that, at the end of the Â鶹¹û¶³ Learning week, parents sign to acknowledge the completion of the expected Â鶹¹û¶³ 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 Â鶹¹û¶³ 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.

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

Â鶹¹û¶³ Learning

Each week students will have expected and suggested Â鶹¹û¶³ 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.

Â鶹¹û¶³ Learning Books and diaries will be collected on Mondays for teachers to check students’ progress and the new Â鶹¹û¶³ Learning cycle will begin on the Tuesday for the following week. We ask that, at the end of the Â鶹¹û¶³ Learning week, parents sign to acknowledge the completion of the expected Â鶹¹û¶³ Learning tasks.

SUGGESTED LEARNING TASKS

In addition to supporting your child to complete the Expected Â鶹¹û¶³ 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.

Important Dates:

• Interschool Sports: Every Friday 9-11.30pm
• Library: Odd weeks on a Friday 12.05-1.50pm
• NAPLAN for Grade 5’s: Week 7 and 8
• House Cross Country: Monday 18^th March
• End of Term 1:Thursday 28^th March

In Literacy students will be:

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

• Studying the novel, ‘Boy Overboard’.
• Answering literal and inferred comprehension questions about the text.
• Identifying key vocabulary and the meaning of these words.
• Writing diary entries, timelines and character profiles in relation to the text.
• Learning about persuasive writing and the key features of this genre.
• Writing a persuasive piece following the correct format.
• 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.
• Presenting key understandings through class discussions and project work.

In Mathematics students will be:

Participating in topics including multiplication, division, perimeter and fractions by:

• Using a written algorithm to multiply numbers, including decimals, by one- and two-digit numbers
• Solving division equations using a written algorithm, with and without regrouping and remainders.  
• Beginning to use order of operations to solve equations that include multiplication and addition (e.g. 5+7×2).
• Multiplying and dividing numbers by powers of 10.
• Finding and writing equivalent fractions for fractions with related denominators.
• Comparing and ordering fractions with the same or related denominators.
• Representing fractions on a number line and justifying their order.
• Working out equivalent fractions by multiplying or dividing the numerator and denominator by the same number.
• Measuring and comparing the perimeter of shapes and objects.

In Inquiry students will be:

Continuing their novel study of, ‘Boy Overboard’ where they will investigate themes from the text. They will research information about Afghanistan and surrounding areas. They will look at their customs, war, lifestyle and make comparisons to their lives.

Wellbeing

We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on emotional literacy and personal strengths.
Students will engage in lessons looking at:

• What emotions look like.
• Recognising positive, negative and mixed emotions.
• Intense emotions.
• Character strengths and strengths I admire.

There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix.