Year Five/ Six
Communicating with the Year Five/Six Team
We look forward to partnering with you in 2022, and welcome your input:
Llewela Humphries (Class 56A) Llewela.Humphries@education.vic.gov.au
Melissa Woollard (Class 56B) Melissa.Woollard@education.vic.gov.au
Zoe Overdyk (Class 56C) Zoe.Overdyk@education.vic.gov.au
What will you find in this issue:
Mathematics / Home Learning Update
Mathematics - Term Two
NUMBER & ALGEBRA
During Term Two, the Year Five and Six students have focused on fractions and transferring their prior knowledge of how they represent equal parts into placing them on a number line. They then built on their knowledge of fractions by recognising that they make up part to a whole number, not just an object.
MEASUREMENT & GEOMETRY
During Term Two, we have had a big focused on the Measure and Geometry strand. They began the Term by focusing on Time and calculating the elapsed time between events. This links to building knowledge on timetables and learning how to read them. Students studied Mass and concepts. relating to weight, and they finished the Term by looking at Volume and Capacity. Within these topics, students identified the relevant units of measurement, along with how to convert between the units.
MASS:
Year Five and Six students studied the various units of measurement for Mass and look at real life connections were they would be likely to work with Mass in their everyday lives. Students were given the opportunity to use hands on materials such as weighing scales, where by they weighed various classroom items. The scales used were both analogue and digital and they were given the chance to compare different makes and models of scales.
VOLUME AND CAPACITY
Year Five and Six students compared and contrasted the difference between Volume and Capacity and were able to recognise that capacity relates to the amount of a substance that can take up a 3Dimensional shape versus the plain area. In order to consolidate knowledge on this unit, students were given the opportunity to physically compare and measure the Capacity of different objects and complete a project where by they had to convert units of measurement from Volume to capacity using the operations division and multiplication.
STATISTICS & PROBABILITY
PROBABILITY:
When investigating Probability, students in Year Five and Six recognised that chance changes depending on the quantity or amount of an object that is used. They did this using M&M's. Each student was provided with a bag of M&M', where by the colours and quantities varied. They then used chance language and built on their learning from previous years by converting their knowledge into numerical terms. For example: expressing probability as fractions, decimals or percentages and ordering the likelihood of them pulling a certain colour of M&M's out their bag on a number line.
Home Learning:
Congratulations to the Year Five and Six students who completed. Home Learning during Term Two. We will be continuing with this in Term Three, and will be alternating. Inquiry and Grammar focuses. to consolidate knowledge and skills. acquired at school.
Thank You!
Thankyou to our wonderful parents and carers for their continued support of our students, without you, we wouldn't be able to provide such as high quality teaching and learning program.
STANDARD SPECIALIST TIMETABLE
5/6 A
Visual Arts: Tuesday 10:30am
Performing Arts: Thursday 9:00am
Health & Physical Education: Tuesday 11:30am
Japanese: Thursday 1:00pm (odd weeks)
5/6B
Visual Arts: Tuesday 11:30am
Performing Arts: Tuesday 10:30am
Health & Physical Education: Wednesday 9:00am
Japanese: Thursday 11:50am (odd weeks)
5/6C
Visual Arts:Thursday 9:00am
Performing Arts: Tuesday 11:30am
Health & Physical Education: Tuesday 10:30am
Japanese: Thursday 11:10am (odd weeks)