Grade 5 Community News

Hello Year 5 families!!!

Thank you to all the parents and carers who attended meet and greet this week.  It was lovely to meet the grownups of our wonderful year 5 students and begin the important school/home relationship that is so integral to our students' learning.    

Knowledge Building

We are now well into our knowledge building unit on The Wild Robot.  During this unit we have been focussing on sentence expansion and persuasive writing.  In the coming weeks students will continue to unpack how language features, images and vocabulary influence interpretations of characters, settings and events of the novel. They will be analysing and explaining literal and implied information throughout the text. 

Mathematics

We have now finished our Data unit.  In weeks 5 and 6 our focus will move to factors and multiples.  Students should already have a basic understanding of factors and multiples from previous units, knowing that factors and multiples are found within the multiplication and division facts. In this 8-lesson topic, students begin to construct a formal understanding of the terms “factors” and “multiples” and represent these using a hundred chart and arrays. This helps them start to comprehend and apply divisibility rules, which are also introduced within this unit.

Reminders

-    Just a reminder that in Term 1, students need to be wearing a TRPS school hat during recess and lunchtimes.

 -    Student journals will not be being sent home this year.  Students will write their reading in the journals when they arrive at school each day.  

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