Year 5/6 - Newsletter
Dear 5/6 Parents
Camp is nearly here for the Year 6’s and the students are so excited. We had a camp meeting last Friday to go over a few things with the students, and to clarify some questions they had.
Important Year 6 Camp info:
- Please arrive at the Adventure Playground opposite school by 8.30am and check in with your classroom teacher.
- Students must have a packed snack & lunch for the first day in a small backpack.
- Water bottles and their wide brimmed school hat
- Luggage (including sleeping bags) stacked in classes (please remember a pillow case)
- All medication checked in with Cara (please try to arrive a little earlier if you have medication)
- All students with asthma medication will be given their school ventolin/spacer by their classroom teacher on the morning of camp. These students will carry this with them during the day, and at night in cabins.
- Please note change to pick-up time on Friday(2.30pm) in email sent out by Jarrod Wait
The buses will be leaving by 9am. Due to the camp program, the bus cannot be delayed for late arrivals and will be leaving at that time.
Year 5’s have a program set for the week, including specialist classes, planned curriculum lessons in the classroom and some Naplan practice.
This week in Year 5/6:
English:
We revised the verb suffix -ify. Students read, spell and put words into context.
In structured literacy we continue to read The Silver Donkey and work on our Fables. Most classes are writing the action paragraph,, using ambitious vocabulary and grammatical features modelled in the text-based unit. We are loving this book in class and building our background knowledge on The First World War and the English Channel.
Maths:
Students have been working on tasks using the cartesian plane. We have plotted coordinates and revealed mystery pictures.. Students continue to be set tasks in mathletics for follow-up practice.
Inquiry: Need or Greed
This week students were introduced to the Home Project “The Best Thing Ever”. All students have taken a project sheet home and it is also on Google Classroom. We had great excitement in class for this advertising project and we look forward to presentations In Week 9.
Dates for your diary:
Monday 9th March - LABOUR DAY
Tuesday 10th - Friday 13th March - Year 6 Camp Phillip Island
Wednesday 11th - Friday 20th March - Naplan for Year 5
Thursday 2nd April - Last day of Term 1
Term 2
Wednesday 6 - Friday 8 May - Year 5 Camp Forest Edge
We will see all our Year 6’s on Tuesday morning at the camp bus!
Have a great long weekend.
Year 5/6 Teachers
Charlotte, Jarrod, Cara, Rachel, Josh and Michael