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.  Don’t forget to record your book for the Premiers Reading Challenge. 

Mathematics: Students are to continue to work on the recall of their x5 multiplication facts. You may like to create flash cards or skip count aloud with your child to help support their learning with this. 

Inquiry: What changes can you observe when we heat or cool materials at home, and which of these changes can be reversed? 

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:  We will continue reading engaging books to build our reading stamina whilst also exploring the purpose and key features of procedural texts. 

Writer’s Workshop: Students will deepen their understanding of procedural texts by crafting their own instructions of an everyday task. They will focus on incorporating key features such as a clear title, a list of materials, sequential steps, and appropriate language choices.  

Mathematics: We have begun an inquiry into angles. Students will delve into the properties of angles, learning to identify, estimate, and measure various types, including acute, obtuse, right, straight, and reflex angles. 

Inquiry: In our new Unit of Inquiry, ‘How the World Works’ – Scientific Thinking, students will investigate how materials behave in different states—solids, liquids, and gases—and explore how temperature and pressure influence these materials. They will also investigate whether the changes they undergo are reversible or irreversible. 

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: 

Don’t forget our Year 5/6FZ class will be hosting Chapel this 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