Years 4 & 6

Learning in Year 4 and 6 has been intense over the past fortnight. 

We have discovered a love of quizzes, and so we have been using them to review previous learning or warm up our brains for new ideas. We have been using the wayground.com site to complete online quizzes. This would be a great boredom buster in the school holidays if you want to pick a quiz and have a go!

We also read and respond to Powerpoint presentation quizzes using our whiteboards. This is a great way to check for understanding as we learn.

Literacy

We have finished reading Black Cockatoo by Carl Merrison. We read some information about how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are allocated totems, and we connected this with what was happening for Mia, the main character in the story. We learned that Aboriginal people are assigned a totem before they are born. They can have as many as four totems. One for their nation, one for their clan, one for their family and ne they are assigned by an elder. Their assigned totem is usually given after the elders assess their personality and character. I asked the students to consider what totem they thought their elders would assign to them. I think I would be a wombat - up all night, roundish in shape and I have a scurrying run. I am also very stubborn! What would you assign your child? This could make for some interesting conversation at home.

Numeracy

We have been upskilling in data and graphing for the past fortnight. We have analysed and identified good questions that can be asked to gather data, and questions we can ask based on data. We have read, analysed and discussed pictographs where one symbol represents many, and column graphs. We have learnt what “skewed” data means, and Year 6 have developed side by side column graphs to analyse and compare data sets. New vocabulary has also included discrete and continuous data, categorical and numerical data.