Year 5/6
Year 5/6 Cluster News
SACSA events:
We have begun training for SACSA Netball, which will be held on Friday, Week 4.
After that we will begin training for SACSA Football, followed by SACSA Basketball in Term 4. If your child is interested in trying out for SACSA Football or Basketball, please encourage them to practise their fitness, ball skills and teamwork skills at home.
HOME INQUIRY:
Reading: Aim for 20 minutes minimum reading per night. We encourage students to read aloud, either to themselves or a parent.
Mathematics: Continuing to develop their recall of multiplication facts, with the goal of building automatic recall of multiplication facts up to 10 × 10.
At home, please continue to encourage your child to read the time at different points throughout the day. The more opportunities they have to practise this skill in real-life situations, the more confidently and independently they will be able to apply their learning.
Reader’s Workshop:
We are continuing our novel study of Hatchet, which connects closely with our Unit of Inquiry, Sharing the Planet.
Mathematics:
Students have begun inquiring into angles. They are developing their ability to identify and classify acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex angles, and will learn to estimate, construct and measure angles in degrees using a protractor. As their understanding develops, students will investigate relationships between angles on a straight line, angles at a point and vertically opposite angles, using these properties to determine unknown angles and explain their mathematical reasoning.
Inquiry:
We are continuing with our ‘Sharing the Planet’ unit of inquiry, where we explore the features of environments connected to biomes and how living things adapt to surviving in these conditions. Students will explore the interconnectedness of ecosystems within biomes and how resources are used within these. As the week progresses, students will be moving from our ‘Sharing the Planet’ unit into exploring the beginnings of our ‘How We Express Ourselves’ unit. This unit will be an Exhibition/Celebration of learning unit.
Books week- book swap
Instead of having a book fair we have decided to participate in the Great Book Swap in support of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF). Students/families will be invited to donate pre-loved books in good condition and on a day of the swap, bring a gold coin donation to exchange for a book to take home. All funds raised will go directly to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, this money helps to provide books and literacy resources to children in remote indigenous communities across Australia. More information will be coming soon.
Dates of upcoming events
- Exhibition Launch for Y6 students – Week 3
- Parent Exhibition Information Session – Week 4 - Wednesday 12 August. There are 2 sessions available to parents to attend. A separate communication for this event has been sent to the Year 6 parents with a RSVP link to attend the event.
Please use this link if you have not yet responded which session you are attending.
- Year 5/6 Action Excursion – Week 5 - Tuesday 18 August
- Book Week Parade and Community Breakfast – Week 6 - 25 August
- Student Free Day – Week 7 – 4 September
- Year 5 Celebration of Learning – Week 9 - Thursday 17 September – 6:00pm – 7:00pm
- Year 6 Exhibition Evening – Week 10 - Tuesday 22 September – 6:00 – 7:30pm
More information about these dates and events will be shared in the weeks prior.
School Calendar:
https://www.goldengrove.sa.edu.au/calendar/
Blessings for the week ahead,
The 5/6 Team
Luke Napier napier.luke@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Jade Fielke
fielke.jade@goldengrove.sa.edu.au
Rachel Saunders saunders.rachel@goldengrove.sa.edu.au