Level 5 & 6 Wonga Weekly

🌿 Grade 5/6 Information Session video

Please click on the link below, (you may have to press shift and click on the link or or copy and paste the link to the URL), to hear all the information you need about our year level.

https://vimeo.com/916356660/e2acbb5f4c?share=copy

🌿 WEEK SEVEN LEARNING

🌱READING 

This week, students will analyse and compare a range of news segments and articles. They will revise and extend their understanding and skills related to summarisation and use RACE (Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain) responses to answer comprehension questions. 

🌱WRITING

Grade 5: 

Students will be comparing and contrasting persuasive and narrative text types. They will use this understanding to digitally plan, write and edit their own texts using keyboards and their iPads

Grade 6: 

Students will continue to use persuasive devices (emotive language, personal pronouns, rule of 3, etc) to strengthen their arguments. They will  write a complete persuasive essay, following the correct structure and will complete self assessments to monitor their progress. 

🌱SPELLING 

We will be practising a range of strategies to improve spelling accuracy in our own writing. 

What you can do at home

Help your child to set aside time to read - preferably every night. This will help them build important learning habits. You may also want to discuss what they are reading with them, focussing on identifying interesting vocabulary. You might like to read about current events on kidsnews.com.au and ask your child to share their opinions about the topic. 

🌱 NUMERACY

GRADE 5:

In Maths this week, Grade 5s will be revisiting and extending their understanding of number and measurement concepts such as: 

- Fractions

- Money

- Interpreting Graphs and Data

- Shape

GRADE 6:

Grade 6 students will solve a range of multi-step problems involving addition and subtraction with decimal values. 

What you can do at home

Discuss the importance of slowing down to understand the problem at hand. It may be the language that gives clues about how to solve the problem or it could be a multi-step problem. This will assist in your child understanding which formula to use to find an answer.

🌱HOMEWORK

Encourage your child to log onto Mathletics and explore activities related to: 

Grade 5 - Measurement and Geometry 

Grade 6 - Place value and decimals

When 2024 Mathletics classes have been set up by our computer technician, Mathletics will become a weekly homework task, set by the classroom teacher.  

🌿 DATES

🌱  7th -13th March - Somers Camp (Grade 6s)

🌱  12th March - Reconciliation Action Plan Day & Assembly @10am

 🌱 13th March - Writing NAPLAN (Grade 5s) 

 🌱 14th March - Reading NAPLAN (Grade 5s)

 🌱 15th March - Interschool Sport vs Warranwood (TBC)

 🌱  26th March - High School Transition Information Session for parents (Details to come)

 🌱  27th March - Colour Run (Community Event) @ 5pm