Term 3 Overviews
Year 4/5, 5/6
Year 5/6 Art
4/5/6 Term 3 Overview 2020
Teachers
Justine Colyer jcolyer@tcs.catholic.edu.au
Maryanne Gorman mgorman@tcs.catholic.edu.au
Frank Anania fanania@tcs.catholic.edu.au
Literacy
Reading
Students will engage with a variety of texts. They listen to, read, view, interpret and evaluate spoken, written and multimodal texts designed to inform and entertain.
Students will develop their understanding of how texts, including media texts, are influenced by context, purpose and audience. They will develop strategies to find word meaning in context, interpret figurative language and summarise texts.
Writing
Students will learn how to write an Information Report and Poetic texts using the correct structure and language features. They will be using a rubric for teacher feedback and the ‘T.A.G’ (Tell, Ask and Give) process to give self-evaluated feedback to improve their writing.
Speaking and Listening
Students will communicate with peers and teachers and the wider community in a range of face-to-face and online/virtual environments.Students will listen to discussions, reflect and give feedback. Students will complete and present a report on an issue related to our Inquiry unit, ’Care For Kids-Social Justice’ using developing oral skills.
Mathematics
Number and Algebra
Students will be learning the value of numbers and applying that knowledge in everyday situations. They will explore Pattern and Algebra in particular how to explore and describe number patterns using the four operations. They will solve word problems by using number sentences.
Measurement and Geometry
Students will create and interpret simple grid maps, use a grid reference system and find locations and routes using landmarks and directional language. They will investigate translations, reflections and rotations of two dimensional shapes, identify line and rotational symmetries and create tessellations. They will be introduced to the Cartesian coordinate system using all four quadrants.
Inquiry
Students will learn about the biggest problems facing children around the world. They will learn some persuasive techniques to prepare and deliver a digital presentation encouraging people to support an aid agency that supports children in need. Students will learn some literary devices and write a poem about a cause that they are supporting.
Religious Education
Students will explore the scripture passage Matthew 25:35-40-The Final Judgement. Students will read and investigate the words, phrases and sentences used in the Gospel of Matthew. Students will discuss the meaning of the scripture and how they can live what Jesus is saying in their daily lives.
Digital Technology
In Digital Technology students will continue an online course on Cyber-Bullying. They will investigate the correct protocols which need to be followed when online. Students will learn how to identify the dangers when online and identify strategies to avoid them.
They will be using a variety of ICT skills and digital devices to create work tasks on a teacher created workflow document. Students will learn how to create an ‘APP’ using new learnt skills which will showcase their learning. Students will continue to learn the skills of coding to prepare them for programming in the future. Students will also learn about the correct ICT protocols when accessing any digital devices.
Student Well Being
This term in the area of Wellbeing Curriculum all staff were introduced to the Respectful Relationships Program. The Program is an initiative to support schools promote and model respect and equality. It also supports educators to teach children how to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence.
All classes will deliver unit one ‘Emotional Literacy’ as part of their wellbeing learning.
Our school commitment to the Berry St Education Model will also continue remotely with all classes implementing brain breaks and daily check- ins and concluding the day with a 'What went well' Meet.
Physical Education
This term students will take part in a Target Games unit which will be delivered during remote learning. Students will engage and explore in a range of Target games such as 10 Pin Bowling, Golf and Bowls at home in their non device time. They will perform and practice skills which link to fundamental movement skills such as rolling, underarm throw, 2 hand strike. Students will create their own games by modifying equipment they have at home and will then submit their learning using photos and videos of their work.
Mandarin
In term three, students will continue to use Google Classroom to access their Chinese learning journal online. Students are engaging with various multimedia resources through the learning journal. They are learning also to seek opportunities at home to practise the language orally. The topics we are learning in Term 3 will support the frequency of language use in a home learning environment. Students are also learning different cultural aspects of Chinese to deepen their understanding of China and Chinese culture and participate in cultural study activities.
Visual Arts
This term Grade 4/ 5/6 students will use the whole school art theme of ‘Time’ to explore concepts past, present and future. They will explore the past through the history of Chinese ceramics and sculpture and how time and place impact audience interpretations of artworks. They will examine the ways in which artists including Van Gogh, communicate their ideas in an artwork, and express opinions about how these artists do this. Students will imagine possible utopian/dystopian futures using prevalent topics in our current world including: climate change, migration, conflict, and advances in technology and science.
They will use these imaginings as ideas to communicate within their own artworks. Students will investigate the present through the Chinese Lunar Calendar and current ‘Year of the Rat’. They will concentrate on identifying and using the art elements of form, value,space and texture. Students will experiment with different materials, techniques including: pen, watercolour, pencil, various forms of hatching, layering, sketching/drawing using different pencil grips, sculpting by carving, assembling, and modelling. They will produce 3 artworks based on the whole school theme of Time. These will include:
- Van Gogh Starry night of the Future
- Chinoiserie Chinese Year of the Rat
- Terracotta Warriors sculpture
Science
Life on Earth
In Biological Science the students will explore their local environment, investigating the relationship between the growth and survival of living things and the physical conditions of the environment. Students will investigate the impact of the surrounding environment on living things and the implications for decision making. Students will also explore the human impact on the environment and implications for growth and survival of living things. Students will be using different multimedia resources through tasks as outlined in their weekly Science Journals. While they are learning from home they will also be given experiments to perform at home.They will use and further develop the skills of observation, questioning, prediction, planning, conducting, analysing, evaluating and communication.
Music
Over term three, students will reflectively listen to several piece of music and respond to specific elements through reflecting upon and communicating their responses clearly, using musical vocabulary, as well as art to portray their ideas. They will explore ways of combining the elements of music using electronically generated sounds, through programs such as Chrome Music Lab, to create effects.