Grade 5/6

Literacy

Waves: 

Every journey is perilous,

every situation heartbreaking.

Every refugee is a person forced                    

by famine or war or fear

to leave their home, their families,

their friends and all they know.

Children have travelled on waves

of migration to the shores of Australia

for tens of thousands of years.

This book tells some of their stories. 

Waves is a narrative nonfiction book about the waves of migration to the shores of Australia.

 Students will be reading about kids their own age that travelled to Australia from all around the world from 50,000 years ago until 2000's. We are exploring specific vocab and character traits within the book and the perils that these explorers went through. 

Finola 

Numeracy

BIG IDEA 8

ESTIMATION: Numerical calculations can be approximated by replacing numbers with other numbers that are close and easy to compute with mentally. Measurements can be approximated using known referents as the unit in the measurement process. 

Students are rediscovering many areas of our curriculum in this idea. They are using the estimation strategy to solve equations quicker. Students are estimating when it comes to money and rounding to the nearest 50cents to dollar. Along with decimals, they learnt to convert decimals into fractions and estimate different measurements when it comes to area and perimeter. 

Call to Action

Social Justice

Students will learn about some of the biggest problems facing children around the world and the aid agencies working to help solve these problems. They will practise making values-based decisions in response to ethical dilemmas. Students will learn some literary devices and use them to write a spoken word poem to call people to action. For their final project, they will perform a spoken word poem at the Poetry Slam.

This week students are learning about the Literacy Devices, such as metaphors, alliteration and similes that can use to persuade, entertain or inform readers when they create their Poetry Slam.