Connect: Year 5

Welcome to the first Connect Newsletter of Term 3.

The Year 5's kicked off this term with a bang! From an incursion with Professor Bunsen to Sovereign Hill Camp, it has been a very busy start! A tremendous thankyou to the wonderful staff and parent helpers that came with us on Camp. We appreciate you giving up your time to join us and make Camp a success.

Important Dates:

Friday 21st July: MND PJ and Beanie Day
Tuesday 25th July: Hot Chip lunch
Thursday 27th July: Respectful Relationships Open Afternoon
Friday 28th July: Whole School Tree Planting Day
Monday 7th August: 5/6 Hoop Time
Friday 11th August: Curriculum Day (Pupil Free)

What's happening in our classrooms?

Literacy:

Students began our unit on Historical Fiction and are learning about the features of Historical Fiction texts. Students will be exploring Historical fiction through the use of our class novel and mentor texts around Eureka Stockade. We will be practicing writing historical texts such as diary entries or letters from the perspective of a person living during the Gold Rush.

Numeracy:

Students are continuing on with their learning on Multiplication and are expanding their knowledge on various written strategies to solve problems including; the area model, lattice method and using the Multiplication algorithm. Students will be practicing using multiplicative thinking to solve worded problems.

Over the next two weeks students will be exploring angles by identifying and making acute, obtuse, right, straight, reflex angles and revolutions. Students will also be learning how to use a protractor to correctly draw and measure them.

Inquiry:

We have begun our Inquiry Unit on "Earth and the Solar System." Students have been busy learning about the planets in our Solar system including which planets are inner and outer planets. They will be exploring the dwarf planets, moons, comets and asteroids. Students have enjoyed working with different students from the cohort to research information.

Check out the NASA website we have been using during Inquiry

Wellbeing:

During our Wellbeing lessons students will be introduced to the concept of positive and negative self-talk and the influence self-talk has on our actions and emotions. This term students will be continuing to work on the Zones of Regulation focusing on gaining awareness on how they look and feel in each of the 4 Zones. Students will be working on identifying and verbalising which zone they are in.