Grade 5 News 

Upcoming Dates – Term 3

🏃‍♂️ Friday, August 15

        District Athletics (selected students)

🏡Tuesday, August 26 

        Grade 5HA visit to Waterford Valley Retirement Village

🏀 Thursday, August 28 

        Summer Sports Round Robin – Day 1

⚽ Friday, August 29 

        Summer Sports Round Robin – Day 2

🎭 Monday, September 1 

        Production Dress Rehearsal

🎭 Tuesday, September 2 & Wednesday, September 3 

        School Production

🏕️ Monday, September 8 – Wednesday, September 10 

        Grade 5 Anglesea Camp

Learning in Action

📖 Literacy

We have started reading our Literature Unit text, ‘Hatchet’ by Gary Paulsen. Here’s some thoughts and reflections by our students:

“I’ve enjoyed the level of detail, suspense and use of repetition by the author. It’s written so that I feel like I’m actually in the story. I could feel the panic that Brian was experiencing when the plane was going down.” Lyndon 5HA

“I feel that at times there’s too much repetition that it can get a bit annoying.” Aekam 5HA

“I’m enjoying learning new words, such as wallow.” Sophie 5HA

“It’s fun to read with lots of twists and turns.” Lily 5MA

“I like that it’s realistic.” Zara 5MA

“Hatchet is really pulling. When you finish one chapter you want to keep reading the next and the next.” Callum 5MA

“Hatchet is a really good book about survival. In the first chapter, a boy called Brian crashes in a plane and has to try and survive.” Abbey 5M

“I like how there’s suspense which makes it more interesting.” Brandon 5M

“I like how we get to do fun activities like drawing the map of the setting from the details given in the book.” Maisie

 

Students have been revising and practising correct use of singular and plural nouns along with correct use of possessive apostrophe, revising the parts of direct speech including use of quotation marks, boundary punctuation, capital letters and reporting clause.  We have also been learning about how to summarise the main idea in a passage by using expansion words.


Preview for Learning

We will continue to read our Literature unit text, 'Hatchet' by Gary Paulsen. We will continue to build on the tier 2 vocabulary we come across, continue to examine the author’s craft and reflect and share our opinions and understandings at different stages. Through reading connected informative texts, we will build our knowledge of the wild animals that Brian encounters in the Canadian wilderness, such as skunks.  

 

During sentence level writing we will be looking at editing passages for consistent use of tense. 

 

For Word Work we will be decoding and spelling words with the Latin base vide-vise, meaning to see, followed by 'aud', meaning to hear.

➗ Maths

During our number lessons we have been comparing adding and subtracting fractions with related denominators, converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions, simplifying when required, representing and solving fraction problems on a fraction number line and solving worded problems involving fractions.

 

In our study on location, students have been introduced to mapping using coordinates, compass points, scale and directional language. 

 

Preview for Learning

Students will continue the study on maps and location with an investigation unit involving creating a map with coordinates, scale and compass. Each student will provide clues so that other students can navigate their way around the map, picking up letters to spell a word, along the way.

 


Reminders

Please return camp medical forms to the office.

 

Grade 5 Teachers

Karin Halstead, Peta Alexander, Rachel Manning, Craig McKenzie

 

Updates from around the school

John Monash Science School (Mini Mathematicians)

Blair: In term 2 and term 3 we went to John Monash Science School. We were there 4 times and our parents took us there. On the first day of John Monash, we played a game where each school had to hold up a card from 1 to 6 (e.g. 4) and if two teams have the same number they do not get any points. However, if a team is the only one to pick that card they get the number of points they put up. We didn’t win but it was still really fun.

 

Aekam: On  the fourth day, my favourite activity was Pictionary, where someone has a word (e.g. Fraction) and has to draw it without actually writing the actual word and the other people have to guess it successfully. Then  the next person has to go and get the next word and continue so on. The first team to finish all the words wins! Sadly, we didn’t win once again but it was a great game and I think we should try to play it at school.

 

Lyndon: For me, my favourite activity was the kahoot that we did on the last day. Kahoot is a virtual quiz where every school counts as a team and they all have to work together to score maximum points. To score points you have to not only get the question right, but you also have to answer as fast as you can. It’s a good way to test what we have been learning and is very fun. Although we didn’t win(Again), we still had a lot of fun, and came third on the podium.

Green Team News

The Green Team has raised over $80 thanks to students putting their juice, milk and water containers into the 10 cent collection tubs, instead of landfill bins. That's a lot of money but more importantly that's a lot of rubbish kept out of landfill.