Grade 5/6
Miss Stephan and Mr Ward, supported by Mr Reid & Miss Gale
Literacy
Waves:
Every journey is perilous,
every situation heartbreaking.
Every refugee is a person forced
by famine or war or fear
to leave their home, their families,
their friends and all they know.
Children have travelled on waves
of migration to the shores of Australia
for tens of thousands of years.
This book tells some of their stories. Waves is a narrative nonfiction book about the waves of migration to the shores of Australia.
5/6s have started exploring our new mentor text Waves. Students will be reading about kids their own age that travelled to Australia from all around the world from 50,000 years ago until 2000s. We are exploring specific vocab and character traits within the book and the perils that these explorers went through.
We will be using this book for fluency, creating a non fiction text and comprehension.
Numeracy
BIG IDEA 7
BASIC FACTS & ALGORITHMS: Basic facts and algorithms for operations with rational numbers use notions of equivalence to transform calculations into simpler ones.
Students are rediscovering many areas of our curriculum in this idea. students are focusing on factors and multiples. All things multiplication and division. Fractions and simplifying them. Adding, subtracting, estimating and rounding decimals and measurement converting and finding perimeter and area.
Call to Action
Social Justice
Students will learn about some of the biggest problems facing children around the world and the aid agencies working to help solve these problems. They will practise making values-based decisions in response to ethical dilemmas. Students will learn some literary devices and use them to write a spoken word poem to call people to action. For their final project, they will perform a spoken word poem at the Poetry Slam.
Students this week are learning about poor sanitation, malnutrition and illiteracy. They a learning about infographics which inform them about the problems above that children are facing. This will guide their spoken word poem.
Visit Bangladesh
Visit Thailand
Visit Timor