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 x6 multiplication facts. You may like to create flash cards or skip count aloud with your child to help support their learning with this. 

Inquiry: Have a discussion about reversible and irreversible changes. Is the change a chemical or physical change? Check on a definition of each.  A good question to ask is, ‘Is this changing the chemical composition or changing the atoms?’ An example of a physical change is that shredding a piece of paper doesn’t change that it is still paper.  

Classroom requirements:  We have begun touch typing lessons. 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. This skill development is part of our English curriculum. 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. The procedural texts that we will focus on will be scientific reports which link to our inquiry.  

Writer’s Workshop: Students will deepen their understanding of procedural texts by writing scientific methods in the form of experiments for their scientific reports. They will focus on incorporating key features such as a clear title, a list of materials, sequential steps, appropriate language choices, hypothesising and forming conclusion based on results.  

Mathematics: We have spent time learning about angles and how to identify and successfully measure them. Students will move into being able to accurately draw specified angles with accuracy. 

Inquiry: Our new Unit of Inquiry for ‘How the World Works’ has a focus on scientific thinking. Students are investigating 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. Have a chat to your child about the experiment where they made icecream. 

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.  

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