Year 5/6

Year 5/6 Cluster News

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READING: Aim for 20 minutes minimum reading per night. As students complete a book, they are to record the author, title and date of finishing in their Readers’ Workshop book. We encourage students to read aloud, either to themselves or a parent. 

Unit Of Inquiry: 

Our ‘Who We Are’ unit is focusing on, ‘Changes people experience at different stages of their lives affect who they are.’ As part of this unit, students have begun growth and development classes. These Kidz Biz Education sessions have started and will continue next week. After Kidz Biz, students may have questions about how their body is changing and developing. Please engage in these conversations as it is important students get answers from an adult who knows, rather than a friend who is still learning. 

Literacy: 

Students are writing a narrative of their choice. In reading, we are looking at setting up routines for Readers’ Workshop. During this time, we will be discussing things such as finding ‘right fit books’ and the ways in which reading is thinking. We are also establishing routines in Spelling with a focus on determining the syllables in words and identifying phonemes (the sounds in words) and the correct graphemes (letter combinations) to spell these words. 

Mathematics:

We are currently working on subtraction and will be touching on different elements of space. This can include coordinates and transformation of shape. 

Touch Typing: 

As we have started touch typing, it has become evident that a number of students don’t have a working keyboard. The iPad keyboard will be important in the development of keyboard skills which will be part of their class learning. Headphones will also be regularly used in class for a variety of purposes. Both items will be necessary for Year 5s to complete NAPLAN. Again, thank you for helping with this.

NAPLAN:

Naplan is coming up in Week 7 of this term for year 5 students. Year 6 students will be working through different maths learning such as cartesian planes, which isn’t part of the year 5 curriculum.

IPads:

iPad agreements will be sent home this week. Can you please ensure you have gone through the agreement with your child. We have had cluster discussions about expectations around iPad usage and we appreciate this being reinforced at home. 

Yours sincerely, 

Lauren Neumann  neumann.lauren@goldengrove.sa.edu.au 

Luke Napier  napier.luke@goldengrove.sa.edu.au 

Jayne Zadow  zadow.jayne@goldengrove.sa.edu.au