Grade 5/6

LOST KATHMANDU JACKET

If anyone has accidently taken home a Kathmandu jacket or know where one could be hiding just before end of term 3, can you please contact either Mr Ward or Miss Stephan. 

There is a reward up for grabs if you can locate this! It is black and size 12. 

Literacy

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk with his younger sister Dorothy, when they saw a "long belt" of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater in the English Lake District.

Our mentor text for the start of term 4 introduces our poetry content. This short poem by William Wordsworth explores a vast range of figurative language and strong vocab from the 1800s. Students have been exploring vocab such as host, margin and continuous. 

They've continued learning about or coordinating and subordinating conjunctions which create compound and complex sentences. 

Numeracy

Big Idea 12-13 - RELATIONS & FUNCTIONS: Mathematical rules (relations) can be used to assign members of one set to members of another set. A special rule (function) assigns each member of one set to a unique member of the other set. 

 

EQUATIONS & INEQUALITIES: Rules of arithmetic and algebra can be used together with notions of equivalence to transform equations and inequalities so solutions can be found. 

This week we are commencing Big Idea 12-13. This concept will introduce our Statistics content and the last part of our Algebra for the year. 

Integrated Studies

Bizarre Bazaar - Thinking creatively assists us when we are planning, designing and constructing.

Students will gain a real-life understanding of the design and production process and the different resources and sales tactics used to create and market products. They will brainstorm an idea for a product and conduct market research to refine it. Students will work in groups to prototype and produce their product using craft and recyclable materials. Their products will be sold at a school community market called 'Bizarre Bazaar,' and proceeds from the market will be directed to a charity selected by the class.

This term students will be learning about designing, production and marking of a product that they will make and then sell at our end of term Bizarre Bazaar Market.

we have explored young entrepreneurs who have identified a need or a problem that needed to be fixing, that by creating an invention.

Bizarre Bazaar Market - Week 11, Wednesday 17th December. Time TBA

Term 4 Class Challenge

Throughout this term, 5/6A and 5/6B will be in battle each week to see what class will reign champion of our class challenge. this term students are playing games against each other. Games are not just located to outside games, but games like Uno, marbles, paper/scissors/rock. This it to promote cooperation, team work, resilience, kindness and how to problem solve as a group. We will also focus on being humility and how we conduct ourselves not matter the result.

Week 1- Dodgeball

Result - 5/6A 0  def by 5/6B 3

Even though the wind reeked havoc last week in our dodgeball game, 5/6B came up winners out of a best of 3 competition. 

5/6A are looking to bounce back for our first inside game Friday.