A Look at Learning

Year 5/6 Learning

This term year 5/6 have been exploring the world of poetry. In our Big Writes we have been working to create a anthology of poems on various topics. We would love to share some of our work with you.

There once was a silly old chook

That once got caught by a cook

The cook put her in a pot

Then the cook served her hot

That silly but delicious chook

By Baxter

There was a chook from Rome,

Who would never come Home,

One day she met a Fox,

Who ate her in a Box,

That silly old chook from Rome.

By Darcy

Oh Guyra

You are the best town out of all.

Quiet as a fish in tank.

When I think of you, you make me feel better.

My heart smiles when I go to Guyra.

Good and fun and my soul.

Oh How I adore you so much

By Zac

Fiji

A far away trip to the jaw-dropping islands

The complete opposite of our gorgeous drylands

The choirs of the ocean hum at its beauty

As waves of love flood your duty

You are mesmerizing to the heart

Like newly placed paint now classified as art

Your freshness like the new gliding breeze

Your weather burns to like 100 degrees

Locals recall you as paradise

As long as they don’t feed me too much rice!

You are the place place for all

As long as you are warmer than Nepal!!!

By Ellie

Hawaii

Magical, Extraordinary

Swimming, Relaxing, Hiking

Beach, Surfboard, Dirt road, Slang

Stunning, Fishing, Shearing

Hot, Cold

Australia

By Khloe

Trees

Important, tall

Living, twirling, growing

Leaves, bark, petals, nectar

Swaing, inspiring, falling

Pretty, colourful

Flowers

By Bella

End of Year Assessments

With the end of the school year coming to a close, our students have completed testing for PM reading benchmarks and also other formalised testing including PAT Maths and Reading Assessments to assess their learning progress for the year. These assessments are completed across the diocese and are good tools to inform future teaching and planning.

End of year reports will be written over the coming weeks, however, if you would like to discuss your child's performance please contact the class teacher.

Our students' aspirational PM Reading Benchmark targets for each grade at the end of each school year are as follows:

Kindergarten - Level 8
Year 1 - Level 15
Year 2 - Level 22
Year 3 - Level 30
Year 4-6 - Level 30 and above

Classroom teachers use many other forms of assessment to determine your child's growth and understanding of the content and skills covered throughout the Semester.

Tips for Kindergarten Parents:

Multiplication & Grouping:

Putting objects together in equal groups helps children to understand early multiplication. Encourage your child to move objects to create equal groups. There are lots of opportunities to make and show equal groups in everyday life. Think about events when sharing is needed and ask your child to help you create equal groups.

• Sharing equal amounts of food

• Baking biscuits or cupcakes where the mixture is shared equally

• Building 2 Lego towers the same height

• Giving equal amounts of time to play with a toy

• Organising your toys into equal groups.

• Sharing out cards for a card game

One of the best ways to explore equal groups is to make unequal groups and problem solve together how

to make them equal.

Tips for Year 1/2 Parents:

Fact Families and Addition & Subtraction Facts

Recently your child has been learning about Fact Families. What is a fact family? Fact families are usually represented in the form of a triangle, as shown in the below image. The three numbers forming the fact family are written in the three corners (near the vertices) of the triangle.

The operation’s sign connecting the three numbers is usually written in the middle. For the addition fact family, the sum of the numbers is usually written at the top vertex, and the numbers being added are written at the vertices at the bottom.

Take a look at the fact family triangle with fact family numbers 2, 5, 7.

Fact families are vital to understanding complex math operations.

One of the reasons fact families are so important is because they help children learn their addition and subtraction facts. When children first learn these facts, it can be difficult to keep track of all the combinations. However, by grouping them into fact families, children can more easily see the relationships between the different facts.

A fact family is made up of three numbers and can be made up of at least four math facts. For example, if a child knows that 3 + 4 = 7 then they can also deduce that 4 + 3 = 7 and 7 – 4 = 3 and 7 – 3 = 4.

You can see that each number bond fact is related to two other facts in the family. In other words, they share two of the same numbers.

Subtraction can be especially difficult for some students than addition, but fact families can often help. Overall, fact families can be a helpful way for children to remember their facts, especially in the early stages of learning them.

Mass:

Mass and weight are different as weight is a force created from the gravitational attraction to the Earth's centre.

Weight is the force acting on an object, weight can change depending on the gravitational force, for example you would weigh less on the moon as the gravity is weaker there, however your mass remains the same.

Ask your child to look around at home and find objects that they would describe as being light. Once they have a collection of "lights" you could ask them to find objects that they would describe as heavy.
Discuss the mass of items from your shopping as you put them away. Ask “Is this tin of tuna lighter or heavier than this bag of sugar?” Use words that describe the mass of objects when you are engaging in daily family activities, e.g. “Your school bag is heavy today because you have that heavy book in it.”
Measure the weights of ingredients with your children when baking.

Thanks heaps

Tiffany Ahumada

SORA

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