Connect: Year 5

Welcome to Term Four, Week Six

A huge Thank You to all the grandparents and special people who came to visit our classrooms. It was exciting to see the connections between the students and their grandparents. 

Dates to Remember

14th November SRC Free Dress day.

21st November - Curriculum Day

17th December - Final Assembly

3rd December - Community picnic

Numeracy 

Over the coming weeks students will continue to consolidate their knowledge of rounding and use a bar model to determine a suitable operation for a word problem. We will explore Location, identifying co-ordinates on a Cartesian Plane, reviewing features such as they x and y axis and plot co-ordinates.

Literacy 

Literacy will focus on Natural Disasters. Students will explore floods, cyclones, bushfires and droughts and their impact on human and natural features and resources.

Wellbeing 

During our Wellbeing lessons students will explore positive and negative use of power in relationships, what it means to be a bystander and help seeking. Traditional gender roles will be explored prompting discussions around how these have changed and the impact they have.  They will develop strategies to succeed when learning is challenging and how to overcome speed humps. 

Inquiry

Students will explore solids, liquids and gasses. They will appreciate the way that scientists and engineers have used their understanding of chemistry to develop solutions to solve problems.