Grade 5/6

Literacy

Waves: 

Every journey is perilous,

every situation heartbreaking.

Every refugee is a person forced                    

by famine or war or fear

to leave their home, their families,

their friends and all they know.

Children have travelled on waves

of migration to the shores of Australia

for tens of thousands of years.

This book tells some of their stories. 

Waves is a narrative nonfiction book about the waves of migration to the shores of Australia.

 Students will be reading about kids their own age that travelled to Australia from all around the world from 50,000 years ago until 2000's. We are exploring specific vocab and character traits within the book and the perils that these explorers went through. 

Over the last few weeks we have looked at characters who have travelled to Australia due to being a prisoners/orphans of war, children and families who are looking to work and settle in Australia (gold rush) and now to wealthy and successful families looking for a fresh start in a new world. 

Numeracy

BIG IDEA 9

PATTERNS: Relationships can be described and generalisations made for mathematical situations that have numbers or objects that repeat in predictable ways. 

In Big Idea 9, students will be revisiting our factors, multiplies, multiplication and index notations that create patterns. They will be introduced to our first Space content, learning about different kind of 2D & 3D shapes, tessellations, prisms and how shapes can translate, rotate and reflect to change their positioning, how they are views and patterns they can create. 

Call to Action

Social Justice

Students will learn about some of the biggest problems facing children around the world and the aid agencies working to help solve these problems. They will practise making values-based decisions in response to ethical dilemmas. Students will learn some literary devices and use them to write a spoken word poem to call people to action. For their final project, they will perform a spoken word poem at the Poetry Slam.

Students are in their final sessions of creating, publishing and rehearsing their slam poems. Students have researched their topic (Malnutrition, Illiteracy and Poor Sanitation) and created their poem based on the effects they have on children and people around the world. They researched a aid agency who works to improve or help people at need with these topics and will address their fantastic work in their poem. 

Aria - "Powerless kids in poverty are poor in learning, not getting persistent principles about education" 

Elsie - "Dirty water determines deadly diseases" 

Maeve - "Bravery breaks the boundary of poor sanitation, do not sit back and watch, do something!" 

Luka - "I said it before, it's because we don't show enough empathy" 

Mason - "So we will do this together to save this world from sanitation"