Grade 5/6 Newsletter

Welcome to Term 2!!

During Social and Emotional Lessons, the Grade 5 students have been learning about Personal Strengths - differentiating between talents and character strengths in others and identifying our own.

During Literacy, Grade 6 students continue to take part in Paired Fluency. They read with a buddy, keep track of their buddies reading and then give constructive feedback about accuracy, pace, expression and punctuation.

This term we are reading information reports with the aim of writing our own information report based on our serial read 'Once' by Morris Gleitzman.

Grade 6 have been working on a two week unit about Time - calculating elapsed time, calculating start and finish times and interpreting timetables and itineraries.

As part of our first Systemic Knowledge unit this term, Biological Science, the Grade 6 students have been learning about how animals have had to adapt over time to survive. We learnt how the Cambrian Explosion happened and its effects and what Megafauna creatures looked like from fossil evidence. We then created a new Megafauna creature of our own.

Grade 5 had the exciting opportunity to visit the Migration Museum as part of their Systemic Knowledge unit, History - Settlement, Invasion, Colonisation and Migration.

Grade 5/6 students are excited for another term of Interschool sports. This term the students will be taking part in Tee-ball, Newcombe, Netball, AFL and Modified Games.