Year 5 Spotlight

Wellbeing: Identifying Character Strengths

This week the Year 5s have been looking at a 4Rs (Resilience, Rights & Respectful Relationships) lesson linked to Character Strengths. These are traits that people have that can be a strength or might be something to work on. Students chose five strengths to create a poster for our Foundation buddies. We then displayed our leadership skills by sharing our work and understanding of character strengths with our buddies.

Student reflections:

• “Helping the preps understand Character Strengths is important so they can make better choices in the future.” ~ Lola and Maddie, 5C
• “We liked doing these types of activities so we can help our buddies make better choices, learn about strengths and make the world a better place.” ~ Sibella & Aurora, 5C
• “We like to hang out with our buddies, to have some one-on-one time and helping them with their work. When we read with them, we can help the understand the book and main message.” ~ Maxi & Barnaby, 5C

Time with Buddies

Year 5 classes have been working with our Foundation buddies on a range of activities. Some of these include listening to a story, summarise the text, find the main message, and how we can connect to the story as readers. Reading and listening to our buddies read has also been a lot of fun. We often co-construct writing pieces, participate in team building activities, like scavenger hunts, building things and drama activities.

Inquiry – Geography

In Geography, the Year 5s have been researching the geographic location, distance from, population and interesting facts linked to Australia and our neighbouring Asian countries. We have used an atlas, Google Earth and Google Maps to assist in our learning.

Numeracy

Students have been learning about fractions. 

We have learnt about adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying fractions. We have also applied our knowledge to solve real world scenarios. 

Can you solve this problem? 

It takes 2 minutes to squeeze ⅔ of a cup of juice. How much Juice could I squeeze in 16 minutes?

Writing

This term in writing, students we have been learning and writing about fractured fairy tales. 

Fractured fairy tales are a form of writing where you take one of the fairy tales we know and love, and make it into an entirely different story by changing the personality, the settings, the time, or the characters. For example, you could take a fairy tale such as the three little pigs and change it to the three little donkeys. 

This story would up being written along the same basic storyline, or based on the original another way, but it would have substantial differences like the pigs are the baddies instead of the wolf. This makes the story entertaining and interesting, but still has a similar (or the same) moral. An example of a moral would be: Don’t be greedy.

~ By Phoenix, Pippa, Eleanor and Rosie

~ Year 5 Teachers (Naomi, Olivia, Lauren & Blake) and Students