Year 5 News

From Matilda B, Year 5 teacher

Recipes and New Friends

This fortnight in Year 5 we started our Cooking sessions with Erin! We used the stove to melt butter and golden syrup and make Anzac biscuits with carrot, chia and rosemary. We also kneaded dough for lavosh crackers and ate them with hummus, cucumber and carrot. 

We also started our Cooking Zines, collaging and decorating the front cover. We will use them to document our recipes throughout the term. It was fun to work and collaborate with different people from our class in our cooking groups and sit at the table to share the food together. 

We’re really looking forward to the sessions to come!

Gender Equality

We also unpacked limiting gender stereotypes and the impact of gender bias and assumptions. We started by identifying what some gender stereotypes, and were able to share the way that we have all been impacted by them in our lives. Then we split into groups of 3, and made a gender equality campaign. Some of us made short videos, some of us made posters, and some made stop motion animations. Now we feel equipped with the tools to combat limiting gender stereotypes when we see them!

In Maths we have been practicing our division and multiplication skills. We have been solving worded problems, learning strategies for multiple digit multiplication and division, and learning how to multiply whole numbers and decimals by 10, 100, and 1000. 

In Writing, we have been modernising fairy tales! We have had lots of fun investigating the features of traditional fairy tales and adapting them to a modern context, keeping the moral the same. 

In Reading, we have had a great start to our literacy circles. These are like mini weekly book clubs. With our groups, we read an agreed amount of pages and each fulfil a role, ready to meet and share once a week.