Year 5/6

Year 5/6 Cluster News

HOME INQUIRY:  

Reading: Aim for 20 minutes minimum reading per night. We encourage students to read aloud, either to themselves or a parent.  Don’t forget to record your book for the Premier’s Reading Challenge. 

Mathematics: Students are to work on the recall of their x11 multiplication facts. You may like to create flash cards or skip count aloud with your child to help support their learning with this. There is a fun ‘trick’ or pattern with these tables, can you work it out? 

Inquiry: Talk with your child about how both human actions and natural events affect animals, plants, people, and the Earth's surface. 

Simple conversations—about things like pollution, deforestation, wildfires, weather changes, or how communities grow and change—can help children better understand the connection between people and nature 

Current and Upcoming Learning  

Reader’s Workshop:  Students will continue reading information reports that connect to our new inquiry topic. The focus will be on developing research skills and evaluating the reliability of sources.  

Writer’s Workshop: In our upcoming unit of inquiry, students will inquire into the structures and features of information reports and persuasive texts. There will be a focus on enhancing our research skills, learning how to paraphrase information effectively. 

Mathematics: We have started exploring fractions, learning how to represent and compare. This foundational knowledge will support our upcoming work on decimals and percentages, as we make connections between fractional, decimal and percentage representations. 

Inquiry: Our new Unit of Inquiry for ‘Sharing the Planet’ has begun. The central idea for this is “Living things adapt to physical changes on Earth to survive, influencing and being influenced by natural processes”.  

Glow Week: 

We are super excited that GLOW Week is back in Week 9 this term. If you have any special skills or hobbies that you’d be willing to share with the children, or if you would like to volunteer for this amazing week of learning, please contact your classroom teacher ASAP- groups are being organised and more information will be sent out soon.  

School Calendar:     

https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/   

May God bless your week

 Yours sincerely,  

Luke Napier    napier.luke@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Jade Fielke

fielke.jade@goldengrove.sa.edu.au 

Jayne Zadow    zadow.jayne@goldengrove.sa.edu.au