Amazing 5/6

What have we been up to?

Term 4 has started off strongly, with the students quickly falling back into their routines and classes. We will continue to have a strong emphasis on our routines as we come to the end of the year, because this will minimise the nervousness and deregulation of another year finished and the Year 6’s moving on. We are encouraging the ‘business as usual’ moniker at the moment for this very reason.

As we head towards the end of the year, we still want to achieve some big goals and keep working, to the end of the year, at being the best versions of ourselves. This term there are a number of significant leadership training opportunities for our Year 5 students in preparation for School Leadership positions next year. This includes working with our Year 6 leaders to model the roles and responsibilities of our School and House Captains. We encourage all our Year 5’s to have leadership aspirations and to take a chance on themselves and try for a position next year, even just as a chance to grow their public speaking skills and confidence.

Nearing the end of the year, especially for our Year 6’s, we understand that uniforms are getting too small and that buying new ones is unreasonable and unrealistic. We would just like to stress that if a child is coming to school in a non-school piece of clothing, that it be plain, respectful and appropriate. This especially applies to shorts and skirts.

Student Report:

Hi my name is Clara and I’m a leader in Roblox, and my name is Lenny and I’m a leader in sport. This week in 5/6, we have been reading ‘Last Day on Mars,’ which is a fiction book set in the future about a boy and a girl named Liam and Phoebe who are trying to escape Mars before it is swallowed up by the sun. We have currently read a few chapters and it looks like a really good book.

This week in 5/6 maths, we have been learning about area, shape and perimeter. We have learnt that the formula of perimeter is length + length + width + width = area. The formula for area is timesing the length by the width. We have also been writing our names in bubble writing on a sheet of grid paper so we can measure the perimeter and area of each letter.

This week in inquiry we have been learning about space and planets such as Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune and Mercury. Some fun facts are that a day on Venus is longer than a year on Earth.

This term I’m looking forward to the Big Ride Out (Lenny), and I am looking forward to graduating Year 6 (Clara).

Term 4 learning:

Morpheme Magic:

Morpheme Magic will continue this term, focusing still on the Prefixes, Suffixes and Bases that help improve the maturity and complexity of their writing.

Literacy:

We are beginning narrative and creative writing this term, focusing on character development and setting. To this end we are reading the story “Last Day on Mars,” a Sci-Fi adventure novel full of daring escapes and space travel.

Maths:

In Maths, the students will focus on Area, Perimeter and Volume, including conducting experiments and predicting amounts.

Teacher Contact Information

If there are any queries please feel free to contact one of us:

Nick Duckett

nicholas.duckett@education.vic.gov.au

Maddie Simos

madeleine.simos@education.vic.gov.au

Gemma Baker & Sam Boontjes

gemma.baker@education.vic.gov.au

samuel.boontjes@education.vic.gov.au

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