Year 5/6

Year 5/6 Cluster News

HOME INQUIRY:  

Reading: Aim for 20 minutes minimum reading per night. We encourage students to read aloud, either to themselves or a parent.  Don’t forget to record your book for the Premiers Reading Challenge. 

Mathematics: Students are to continue to work on the recall of their x12 multiplication facts. You may like to create flash cards or skip count aloud with your child to help support their learning with this. 

Inquiry: Have a conversation with your Year 5 student around natural and artificial sources of light and with your Year 6 student around how our solar system works.  

Classroom requirements:  We have begun touch typing lessons. There are still several students without a keyboard. The iPad keyboard will be important in the development of keyboard skills which will be part of their class learning. This skill development is part of our English curriculum. Please can you check in with your child to see if they require a keyboard.  

We appreciate your support in this. 

Current and Upcoming Learning  

Reader’s Workshop:  Students have been looking at scientific reports which link to our inquiry.  

Writer’s Workshop: Students have deepened their understanding of procedural texts by writing scientific methods in the form of experiments for their scientific reports. They will focus on incorporating key features such as a clear title, a list of materials, sequential steps, appropriate language choices, hypothesising and forming conclusion based on results.  

Mathematics: We have spent time learning about angles and how to identify and successfully measure them. Students can accurately draw specified angles with accuracy. They will show their understanding of this through an investigation. 

Inquiry: Our Unit of Inquiry for ‘How the World Works’ has a focus on scientific thinking. Students have investigated how materials behave and have done scientific experiments around this. Next week, they will move into year level groups with a specific focus. Year 5 students will be looking at different sources of light and how light behaves. Year 6 students will be investigating the solar system and how it works. We will be visiting the Adelaide Planetarium on Monday to engage students in our inquiry.  

An online consent form has been sent out today, thank you for promptly signing this.  

Colour Run: 

Tomorrow is our Colour Run Day!  

It is a casual clothes day and we recommend a white t-shirt and old shorts/pants that you don't mind your child getting ‘paint powder’ on. 

Donations for this can be paid via Qkr. 

Glow Week: 

We are super excited that GLOW Week is back in Week 9 this term. If you have any special skills or hobbies that you’d be willing to share with the children, or if you would like to volunteer for this amazing week of learning, please contact your classroom teacher.  

School Calendar:     

https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/   

May God bless your week

 Yours sincerely,  

Luke Napier    napier.luke@goldengrove.sa.edu.au  

Jade Fielke

fielke.jade@goldengrove.sa.edu.au 

Jayne Zadow    zadow.jayne@goldengrove.sa.edu.au