Year 6 News
North Melbourne Primary School
From Sara-Lee Shalders, Year 6C Teacher and the 6C students
Literacy
By Lojain, Emma, Rocco, and Amin
This term in writing and reading we have been making prologues for our dystopian stories. A dystopian place is when a place tries to be perfect or a utopia, but fails and now everyone living there is under control by a leader or few leaders.
Later in this term we will be creating dioramas of our dystopian story settings. From high tech robotic setting to low grade old city’s, dystopian stories can have verious settings, each unique and different from the next. We are all so excited to start this new project and explore everyone’s different ideas.
Maths
By Tahlia, Moë, Aisha, and Ian
This week we have been working on fraction area models. We have done a variety of multiplication, division and addition. We have worked hard doing tricky equations, but with the help of area models we have been able to visualise the problems and find new ways to work out. To find the answer using area models, we draw the first fraction and find how many of the second fraction fit into the first. Then we double check by switching the numbers in the second fraction and then we multiply. This has been a really good way to learn new things as we can grow our patience and expand our knowledge of strategies.
Economics
By Rocco, Lucas, Vivian, and Ton
In a fresh new term we are learning economics through financial literacy, where we learn how to spend our money wisely when living an adult life. We now understand how managing our money may be difficult, and how we see adults go bankrupt. We found out what tax was, but we figured out pretty soon that tax does take a lot of your salary. Finding a place to live has been fun, looking through the website at houses and apartments, trying to find somewhere close to work was challenging. It has been great putting on our parents shoes and having fun, we realise now all our parents do for us!
True North
By Lojain, Emma, Rocco, and Amin
The grade sixes have started true north this term run by The Huddle, where the North Melbourne AFLW team comes into our class every week, and they teach us about our emotions and social connections. Last week we made hand shakes with different people in our class. Our class has learnt how to regulate our emotions, one of the techniques that we got taught was box breathing, it slows your heart rate and calms you down. We also learnt how to make social connections with our classmates. We learned a bunch new things about each other. We are so excited for the next sessions. Thank you to the north Melbourne AFLW team/Huddle!
Travel
By Mary
These last holidays I’ve been in Canada to visit some of my family. I have been hanging with my family, we’ve also been going to fun places like amusement parks, beaches, picnics, and lots more, but it was a shame that I had to leave so quickly. But I would say my highlight was when it was snowing the last day I was there, that was a moment I will never forget.
By Charlotte
Over the past 3 weeks I was lucky enough to visit Japan. I went with my cousin’s, my Aunty and Uncle, my family and my Nanna. We all had so much fun going to Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka and then back to Tokyo for the last couple days. We all had the times of our lives together and would never hesitate to do it all over again.
By Macy
For the last 6 months I’ve been travelling around Australia in a Caravan. We've been to so many places like beaches, deserts, cities, and gorges, but out of all the places my highlight is probably Ningaloo reef because we saw a lot of fish and wildlife. It was a really different and unique trip and I liked it but I am also happy to be home.