Grade 5 Community News
Dear Grade 5 families,
Welcome back to Term 4! We hope you all had a restful and enjoyable break with your families. This term is shaping up to be an exciting one, filled with new learning opportunities, special events, and important milestones as we move towards the end of the school year. Remember that this is a hat term.
Upcoming events:
- 24th October - Sovereign Hill Excursion 8.30am - 4.30pm (Week 3, Friday)
- 30th October - Grade 5 Open Session 9am-10am (Week 4, Thursday)
- 31st October - Halloween Dress Day (Y6 Graduation Fundraiser) (Week 4 Friday)
Reminder to complete consent/any payment forms on Compass. A reminder for our Sovereign Hill excursion - Students leave on the bus at 8.30 sharp. If they miss the bus, they will need to remain at school and go to a different class. Please note, when we arrive back at school, the students will be taken into the school grounds by their classroom teacher and will only be dismissed from the soccer pitch. Please complete this Google Form to fill in how your child is getting home that day or whom they are being picked up by.
Please click here: https://forms.gle/ysZkbBJKoH89qZvm7
Knowledge Building
Big Ideas that we focussed on were:
- The Gold Rush
- Life on the Goldfields
- Children on the Goldfields
- Women on the Goldfields
- The Wadawurrung People
- Migrants on the Goldfield
- Growing tensions on the Goldfield
- The Eureka Stockade
Mathematics
This term, our first topic will be Data Representation. A key focus of this 12-lesson topic is in understanding the key steps of a statistical investigation from beginning to end. Students are learning to plan investigations, write survey questions, and collect large-scale categorical data. A key focus is on interpreting data displayed in frequency tables and column graphs with non-unit scales. Students are supported by their previous learning in graph comparison, data representation, and interpretation.
Vocabulary
Over the past two weeks the students have been learning 5 new words each week from the novel and fluency reading passages. Students look at the meaning of the words, synonyms and antonyms for the words, and how to use the words in sentences. They then use these words in their writing and reading.
