Year 5 Term 2 Overviews

Year 5 Term 2 Overview

First Two Weeks:

Everyone has settled into Term 2 extremely well. Term 2 is a slightly shorter term being 9 weeks and the first two weeks has seen lots of learning and collaboration take place. We have unpacked Health and what this means. This might be a great conversation to have at home about what health may look like in the family, home and when out and about in the community.

Curriculum:

Literacy

Reading maintains the focus on developing our students to become balanced readers, where there is an equal emphasis on fluency, decoding and comprehension. As students read more complicated text it is important for them to continue understanding what the text means. Students will continue to develop their clarifying skills through a range of strategies. Invite your child to show you the different strategies they can use to clarify and solve an unknown word or phrase. We will be continuing to focus on the different areas of comprehension - summarising, inferring the author’s message, purpose, oral summary, analyse the writer’s voice, make connections between fiction and non-fiction to make history more vivid and understandable.

This term in writing, we will be exploring writing narrative texts. This will allow us to create narrative texts for different audiences and purposes. We will use the writing process and 6+1 writing traits, with a particular focus on sentence fluency - capturing smooth and rhythmic flow and breaking the rules to create fluency; Voice - creating a connection to the audience. SMART Spelling will explore different spelling patterns to spell different sounds. Handwriting has become a focus this term as we show correct formation of all letters to move onto learning how to write joined letters.

Our Home Reading program continues in Term 2. We have access to books on Epic and the School Library. If your child has misplaced their login details, please have them see their teacher. We encourage all students to borrow a book from the school library, send along a bag for them to place and protect the book. Ask your child what day their class visits the library.

Numeracy

This term Year 5 students will be creating budgets for financial maths using their knowledge and understanding of the four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We will be solving real world problems using the operations addition and subtraction. Transformation and properties of shape will be explored where we describe translations, reflections and rotations of 2-dimensional shape, identify the line and rotational symmetries, apply transformation to familiar 2-dimensional shapes and explore properties.  We will choose appropriate units of measurement for length and calculate the area and perimeter of rectangles. 3-dimensional objects will be used with appropriate units of measurement  to investigate the mass, volume and capacity. 

Our school has a subscription to Mathletics. This is a great resource for your child to practise Maths skills while at home. If your child has misplaced their login details, please contact their classroom teacher.

Inquiry

Our focus this term is History, were we will be investigating ‘What significant events brought change and shaped Australia that lead to the Australian Federation?’ The focus will be on the impacts that changes had on Indigenous People through treatment and if they were considered in any significant event. We will be sequencing events through timelines of significant historical events, explaining and justifying the cause and effect, exploring and describing different points of views, and using and identifying different sources of information through primary and secondary resources.. 

SEL

Throughout this term, students will have the opportunity to continue to develop their skills in the DCC values and expectations, in particular respect. They will be listening to each other in Yarning Circles and Campfires and working in Billabongs and Caves on a variety of tasks that focus on Emotional Understanding, Positive Coping and Problem Solving.

We look forward to Term 2. Please come and see your child’s teacher if you have any questions or concerns. After school is best for a quick chat, otherwise send your child’s teacher an email to set up an appointment time for a longer chat.

Bernadette, Paul, Rachel, Courtney, Nathan and Anne