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.
Mathematics: Students are to continue to work on number facts (times tables). You may like to create flash cards or use an app to help with this.
Inquiry: We encourage you to have a conversation with your child about the significant event they have chosen as the focus for their personal historical narrative. Ask them to share their story with you orally — this will help them clarify their ideas, build confidence, and strengthen their understanding of the event and its impact.
Classroom requirements: There are still a number of students without a keyboard. The iPad keyboard will be important in the development of keyboard skills which will be part of their class learning.
Current and Upcoming Learning
Reader’s Workshop: Students continue to build their reading stamina and participating in reading conferences with the intention to create goals for their reading. They continue to look at a variety of texts, with a focus on historical narrative, which connects to our unit of inquiry.
Writer’s Workshop: Students will be looking at the specifics of narrative writing, leading into a historical narrative, which connects to our unit of inquiry. We will be focusing on sentence structure and punctuation.
Mathematics: Students have been working heavily with number this term. Over the next few weeks, we will continue to explore measurement, which includes length, perimeter and area.
Inquiry: The Central Idea for our unit of inquiry is, ‘The identity of society is shaped by history’. The lines of inquiry are:
Significant events in history
- Impact of change
- Australian exploration
We have been exploring significant events in the students’ lives as a way to connect personal experiences with history. This learning will support students as they begin writing historical narratives, with a focus on incorporating key features such as setting, perspective, and historical accuracy. Building on this, students will then research a significant event of their own choosing and write about it, demonstrating their understanding of the time period, its impact, and how change shapes our world.
HARMONY DAY: Monday, March 24th
Parents: Are invited to join us for Harmony Day Parade which will take place from 9.10am on Monday morning. It would be great if students are able to say hello in the language of their culture, so parents are asked to practise this with their children prior to Harmony Day.
Students: Are invited to dress in clothing of their culture or to wear the colour orange for the day. Children wearing cultural dress will be able to change if they are comfortable. If able, students are asked to share a greeting of ‘Hello’ in their home or family language.
Classes will be involved in creating a school display and will take place in some special activities during the afternoon before assembly.
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