Level 5 & 6 Wonga Weekly
Week 2, Term 4
🌿 READING AND VIEWING
During Reading, students will analyse the features of short stories and how an author makes a story relatable for their audience. They will discuss how they feel about different stories and make judgements about how the characters faced dilemmas, based on their own experiences.
🪴What you can do at home:
We encourage your child to read independently as often as possible. Discuss with your child different stories they have read and take note of how the characters have dealt with the problems that arise in these stories.
🌿 WRITING
Students will continue to take inspiration from short story authors to create their own engaging narrative. They will be focusing on making problems characters face in the story, relatable to their intended audience.
🪴What you can do at home:
Discuss common school yard problems that can be fictionalised and turned into a humorous story.
🌿 SPELLING AND GRAMMAR
This week our spelling focus is prefixes. Students will identify the correct use of specific prefixes and understand their base meanings and origins.
🌿 MATHS
Grade 5:Students will continue to learn about money and financial maths. They will engage in a range of real-life open ended activities that will require them to consider cost and change.
Grade 6:Students will conduct chance experiments and express the probability of certain outcomes as fractions, decimals and percentages.
🪴What you can do at home:
Grade 5: We encourage students to use Mathletics and the maths game links on Showbie to further develop their skills and understanding of money and financial maths.
Grade 6: We encourage students to use Mathletics to further develop their skills and understanding of probability and its relationship to fractions.
🌿 CBL
🌱 Our Big Idea for Term Four is 'Discovery'.
🪴Our Essential Question is:
🌏 In what ways can digital technologies improve our lives?
🪴Our Guiding Questions are:
🌏 How have the discoveries of digital technologies changed the world?
🌏 How do the positive impacts of digital technologies compared with the negative impacts?
🌱 This week, students will continue to investigate their wonderings about digital technology. They will also be completing the first mini challenge of creating a self portrait using coding.
🌿 HOMEWORK
In addition to reading four times a week for at least 20 minutes, Mathletics and 'What you can do at home' recommendations above, this term:
🌱 Grade 5: Students have received their fourth 'Buddy Bag' task last week. Please support your child in working towards completing this.
🌱 Grade 6: Students have been given information to begin work on their 'Memory Book'. You should have received an email with information and a timeline. This information is also here:
🌿DATES AND REMINDERS
🌱 Please ensure your child comes to school everyday with their iPad fully charged. We use these devices daily to assist with their learning so it is important that students are prepared.
🌱 Saturday 14th October - Vue on Halcyon 'Twilight Graze' fundraiser
🌱 Tuesday 17th October - Cyber Safety Webinar - Digital Balance & Wellbeing 7.30pm
🌱 Thursday 19th October - Breast Cancer Awareness Fundraiser
🌱 Monday 30th October - Friday 3rd November - Book Fair @ WPPS