Level 5

Reading

In Level 5 we utilise the HEPS reading model. This reading workshop allows students to engage in authentic reading experiences. Workshops may vary in length and include time for teaching, selecting and reading books, writing about books, and sharing ideas about books with partners or in group discussions.

In Term One we motivate students to understand that reading is thinking and support them to choose good fit books when reading independently. We will explore a range of reading comprehension strategies throughout the term including activating prior knowledge, making connections, questions, inferring, visualising and summarising. 

Students will experience a range of texts including good-fit books that are self-selected from the library and guided reading books and novels that are studied in small groups with the teacher. 

Weekly Focus

Week 2: Activating Prior Knowledge

Week 3: Making Connections

week 4: Questioning

Week 5: Monitoring

Week 6: Buffer week

Week 7: Predicting

Week 8: Inferring

Week 9: Visualising

Week 10: Summarising

Writing

During Writer’s Workshop this term, the students will be looking at Narrative and persuasive genres that are based on the inquiry topic - Ethics and Emotions. They will be revising and adopting the 6+1 traits to help them create a historical narrative. We will focus on the structure of narratives in the first half of the term using Plot Mountain and developing our descriptive language to further enhance our writing. In the second half of the term, we will review the genre of persuasion by identifying and exploring the structure of persuasive texts, language features, persuasive devices and using correct paragraph structure.

Weekly Focus

Week 2-5: Narrative (Text Structure, Language Features, Building a Character, Creating a Setting, Developing a Plot)

week 6: Buffer Week

Week 7-10: Persuasive (Text Structure, Language Features, Persuasive Devices and Persuasive Paragraph)

Spelling & Grammar 

In Level 5 we continue to build on the skills we have learnt in Level 4 using the Jolly Phonics program. We incorporate 3 spelling focused lessons and 1 grammar lesson into our weekly learning. This term we will focus on the revision of nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs. We will begin looking at complex and simple sentences and identify their differences.

Maths

In Term 1, Level 5 students first explore the place value of whole numbers and then move to further understanding of their decimals knowledge and how they link to fractions. They look at the four operations using both whole numbers and decimals and use rounding and estimation to check the reasonableness of their answers. 

We will also explore 2D and 3D shapes, investigating their properties and angles.

Weekly Focus

Week 2-4:  Developing a Place Value Understanding of Decimal 

Week  5-6: Operations with Whole Numbers and Decimal 

Week 7: Buffer Week

Week 8-10 : 2D and 3D Shape, Properties and Angles

Inquiry

Students will learn about ethics and emotions and the impact of identity. They will learn how the media and their peers can influence and pressure them. How to cope with pressure and challenges associated with puberty. Some essential questions we will investigate will be: 

• What does it mean to be honest? 
• How am I influenced by others? 
• What can you say when you don't want to do something that someone is pressuring you to do? 

On completion, we hope students will have a repertoire of strategies that support the maintenance of their sense of self-worth and well-being.

Communication

Mrs Shayesteh (5YS): yasi.shayesteh.far@heathmonteastps.vic.edu.au

Mrs Kelly Veness( 5KV): kelly.veness@heathmonteastps.vic.edu.au

Mrs Perryman (5AP): angela.perryman@heathmonteastps.vic.edu.au

Mrs Latu (6KL): katherine.parkes@heathmonteastps.vic.edu.au