What’s Happening in Grade 5 in Term 2 2025
In Literacy students will be:
- Exploring a range of homophones (e.g. there, their and they’re, affect and effect)
- Investigating Latin Etymology (the study of where words come from)
- Investigating Greek Numbers
- Generating compound sentences using coordinating conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, or, yet and so)
- Identifying independent and dependent clauses withing a complex sentence
- Completing sentence stems
- Explore the use of brackets (abbreviations, acronyms and including additional information)
- Using appositives correctly (nouns or a phrase that adds extra information)
- Building their background knowledge and vocabulary through Knowledge units study
- Exploring different world lakes and deserts in Knowledge units
- Investigating economics and peoples needs and wants
In Mathematics students will be:
- Extending their knowledge on perimeter and area of shapes
- Identifying, representing and comparing fractions, and exploring equivalent fractions.
- Using decimals accurately and understanding their purpose
- Exploring 2D and 3D shapes and their relationship (2D faces used for 3D nets)
- Identifying the probability of events occurring and conduct and test chance experiments
In Inquiry students will be:
- Investing the different types of lakes around the world
- Deepen their understanding of how lakes are used for a variety of reasons (hydroelectric power, food, travel routes and recreation)
- Understand that lakes are one of Earth’s most important resources of water.
- Investigate the different life found in lakes
- Explore different dessert found around the world
- Review climate zones and imaginary lines and boundaries (Artic circle and Antarctic circle)
- Explore the difference between needs and wants in everyday life
- Identify the difference between goods and services
- Explore economic choices such as budgeting and personal values
- Understand how the marketplace wors
- Examine examples of economies and economic choices in U.S history
Wellbeing
We will be using the Respectful Relationships program to focus on emotional literacy and personal and cultural strengths.
Students will engage in lessons looking at:
- Incorporating weekly morning circles to begin each day with positivity and develop a sense of togetherness and safety withing the classroom.
- Identifying a range of coping strategies to help cope with intense emotions.
- Exploring the impact of self-talk on their actions and emotions.
- Devising strategies and plans to assist in completing challenging tasks, making decisions or resolving problems.
- Identifying factors that influence decision making
- Investigating causes and effects of conflict and practise different strategies to resolve problems.
- Developing respect for rights culture and heritage.
- Understanding what personal and cultural strengths.
- Understanding how to use strengths in everyday life.
- Incorporating Smiling Mind lessons that include meditation.
- Analysing the impact of peer and adult actions in maintaining or changing contemporary gender norms.
- Developing an awareness of the impact of gender norms on the attitudes and behaviours of those entering adolescence.
- Identifying the standards and associated actions that underpin respectful gender relations.
There will be a continued focus on our SWPBS Expectations as outlined in our whole school matrix.