Level 6

Welcome to Term 2

Reading

This term, students will study the reading comprehension skills of summarising, predicting and inferring. The students will participate in a daily Reader’s Workshop where they use their own instructional texts to consolidate their understanding of these skills. The activities will be differentiated to ensure every student is learning at their ability level.

Weekly focus:

Week 1: Summarising 

Week 2: Summarising 

Week 3: Fact or Opinion

Week 4: Predicting 

Week 5: Predicting 

Week 6: Predicting

Week 7: Inferring 

Week 8: Inferring

Week 9: Inferring

Writing

We use the 6 Plus One Traits of Writing program which covers the traits of voice, conventions, sentence fluency, ideas, organisation and word choice, with the plus one being a presentation. Modeling to students on how to use these traits will be done to grow students’ writing skills. This term we are focussing on Persuasive and Procedural Writing. Persuasive writing intends to convince readers to believe in an idea or opinion and to do an action. A focus will be on the ability to ‘sit on the fence’ or be neutral, building up arguments through the choice of vocabulary and sentence structures, and developing a text that engages the reader. Discussing with your child topics of interest in these two areas will significantly help your child to develop focussed pieces of writing based around their interests. Teachers will incorporate the six plus one writing traits into these.  

Weekly focus:

Week 1-5: Persuasive Writing

Week 6-9: Procedural Writing

Spelling and Grammar

We are using the Jolly Phonics Spelling and Grammar program to strengthen students’ abilities with spelling patterns and rules, along with revisiting basic and introducing advanced grammar concepts. They will have the opportunity to learn, experiment, practice and use a variety of language structures to enhance their spelling strategies, writing and communication skills.

Week 1: <ei> and <ie> spelling for /ee/ & Linking Verbs

Week 2: <ei>, <eigh> <eir> & Prepositional Phrases Acting as Adverbs

Week 3: <cious> & Relative Clauses

Week 4: <cious> & Relative Clauses

Week 5: Double Letters & Coordinating Conjunctions

Week 6: <cc> for  /k/ & Semicolons and Compound Sentences

Week 7: Doubling Rule for <fer> & Colons in Sentences

Week 8: Long /oo/ & Subordinating Conjunctions 

Week 9: <ai> and complex sentences

Numeracy

In Term 2, we will be revising our knowledge of the Number and Algebra throughout the term. We will explore Measurement and Geometry through activities that involve 3D shapes, angles and volume. Area, perimeter and length will also be a focus. Students will learn about aspects of time such as timetables, intervals and elapsed time, with data representations and comparing sets then following. The end of the term will focus on Financial Maths and Money and everyday application. 

Through planning and implementation of our lessons, an integral part will be on the four maths proficiencies; understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning.

As we move through the term, we continually assess the students’ work and develop lessons that meet the individual needs. The weekly focus below can change depending on how the students are grasping these mathematical concepts.

Weekly focus:

Week 1: Prisms, Pyramids and Angles, and revision of numbers (fractions)

Week 2: Prisms, Pyramids and Angles, and revision of numbers

Week 3: Time, Length, Area and Perimeter

Week 4: Time, Length, Area and Perimeter

Week 5: Comparing Representations of Data, and revision of numbers

Week 6: Comparing Representations of Data, and revision of numbers

Week 7: Financial Maths and Money, and revision of numbers

Week 8: Financial Maths and Money, and revision of numbers

Week 9: Revision 

Inquiry

Throughout Inquiry in Term 2, students will consider how to sustain the environment, the society and the economy. They will be immersed as geographers as they consider how the data that they collect helps to inform sustainable actions and development. Students will build a weather station to collect weather data at school. They will research a country in Europe or North America and present their findings in a brochure that encourages people to come to their country of research. Students will explore natural disasters and the impact they have on us, the data that surrounds these and how this is used inform us. Students will use tables and data and how the environment influences how people live, work and play - how they can have an impact as a global citizen.

Important Dates

April 

25th April - Anzac Day Public Holiday

29th April - Connect Groups

May

Thursday 5th May - Cross Country

13th May - Term 2 Interschool Sport begins

20th May - Connect Groups

24th May - Multi Age Day- Literacy

25th May - School Photos

26th May - HEPS Open Night Book Fair

June

10th June - Connect Groups

13th June - Queen's Birthday Public Holiday 

24th June - Last day of term 2:30 dismissal