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 the recall of their x4 multiplication facts. You may like to create flash cards or skip count aloud with your child to help support their learning with this. 

Inquiry: Students are looking at the government and elections, it would be great to have discussions about the election on Saturday. 

Classroom requirements:  We will begin to start touch typing lessons this term.  

There are still several students without a keyboard. The iPad keyboard will be important in the development of keyboard skills which will be part of their class learning.  

Please can you check in with your child to see if they require a keyboard.  

We appreciate your support in this. 

Current and Upcoming Learning  

Reader’s Workshop: Students have been researching the structure of the Australian Government and the upcoming election. Next week we will begin to look at scientific reports which links with our new unit of inquiry.  

Writer’s Workshop: Students will begin exploring the features of information reports, with a particular focus on scientific reports, to support their understanding as we launch our new Unit of Inquiry on scientific thinking. 

Mathematics: Students have been working on interpreting data representations with a focus on voting results. 

Inquiry: Next week we will begin our new unit of inquiry How The World Works- ‘Scientific Thinking’. The Central Idea for our new unit is ‘Understanding matter and energy helps us make sense of the natural and physical world’ 

Glow Week: 

We are super excited that GLOW week is back in Week 9 this term. If you have any special skills or hobbies that you’d be willing to share with the children, or if you would like to volunteer for this amazing week of learning, please contact your classroom teacher. 

Chapel: 

Our Year 5/6FZ class will be presenting at assembly this Monday, 5th May. 

We are also hosting Chapel on Friday, 9th May. We warmly invite you to join us as we celebrate and give thanks for mothers and mother figures. 

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