Year 3-6 Sector

Year3

Welcome back to face-to-face teaching, our lovely Year 3s! We are so happy to have you back in the classroom after our two-week lockdown. 

‘Although learning from home was fun we enjoying being at school with our friends and teachers more. We loved completing the tasks that were set for us at home including the specialist’s tasks, they were fun and engaging.’ Josh A and Chloe 3A

Reading:

During our time at home, we practiced various reading comprehension skills using a range of multimodal texts! We revised what we already know about predicting, inferring, summarising and questioning and put it into action by identifying key information in the text and justify our thinking using clues. 

In the next two weeks, we are learning to understand how authors construct formative texts. Year 3 students will be able to list various types of formative texts, identify their text features and explain its importance and purpose. We will be studying personal narratives, letters and diaries!

Writing:

During remote learning, our grade 3’s worked brilliantly completing the writing tasks assigned to them. In creative writing, students created their very own TV show. They wrote a blurb stating what the series will be about, including the Title, Characters and setting.  Students wrote letters to friends and family, checking to see how there were coping during lockdown and also to their past/future selves. They also wrote some amazing narratives, which included sizzling starts and exciting endings!

Maths:

In Maths, the year 3 students have continued their focus on multiplication and graphing.

While learning from home, the students have been investigating factors and multiples. They gathered data of observations around the home organised this into bar graphs.

For the remainder of the term, we will be learning about division and chance.

Year 4

What’s been happening in Grade 4

Reading

We have been becoming familiar with and practicing roles for our literature circles next term. These roles require us to think about the text we are reading and help us to understand a text on a  deeper level. We have also been looking at non-fiction texts and text features. 

Writing

We have been focusing on Narratives. We have been using the 7 steps to successful writing to help us make our writing more interesting. 

Maths

We have been focusing on multiplication. We have played many multiplication games and learnt many strategies to use when multiplying. We are now starting to focus on division

Year 5

PBL

We woke up early for out excursion to the Melbourne Immigration Museum, we got ready and dressed really warmly-as it was a freezing winter day and then went to school. Once we got to school we met up with our class and put our bags on one big box. It was hard to lift it but the boys managed through it all! We got to the bus and saw lots of cool things while we were on the way to the Melbourne city. Once we got there it took 10-15 minutes to get everything ready. Such as putting away the bags and every class to settle and sit down. After that we got split into 2 big groups in our classes. So 2 classes went into 1 group and so on. Once group had to walk to the park whilst stopping at the Immigration bridge to look at the sculptures and one group stayed at the museum to learn and watch things in the museum and then we switched. Then we played a little bit in our lunch break and went back to the museum for 10 minutes then got onto the bus and went back to school and got our home learning in case we went into lockdown-which we did! 

We really enjoyed our last day of school before going into lockdown, we were very lucky we got to spend it going on an excursion with all our friends to learn about Australia’s immigration history! 

Maths

We have just started learning about angles in geometry. Before remote learning we were looking at data and making graphs and analysing our data. 

Writing:

In writing we are learning about journal writing and that includes the date, place, key points and personal words such as I, me and myself. Before lockdown we discovered there are so many different diary entries- such as memory diaries, eating diaries, fitness diaries, travel diaries and more! Journal writing helps different people in different ways such as helping them blow off steam of helping them forget about problems and if it was a student they might have been bullied or hurt so they could write about it in their journal before going to bed to help them sleep. 

Reading

We are learning about summarising. We are using S,W,B,S,T which stands for Somebody, 

Wanted, But, So, Then to make our summaries better and more concise. It’s important to put it into your own words when writing a summary because when you read it later you want to be able to understand it. 

Year 6

Here are some of the things we have been learning about In Year 6 at school and during Home Learning.  

Reading:  

In reading we have been focussing on summarising and all three types of connections (text to self, text to text, text to world).  

We have also been focussing on character motivations and character traits. 

Writing:  

In writing we have been exploring the topic of journal entries and have even been writing a few of our own. We have also looked at proper nouns, conjunctions and homophones.  

Maths:  

In maths we have been looking at percentages and probability. In percentages we have been taught how to calculate the answer many different ways. For probability we have learnt about theoretical probability and experimental probability (what the actual outcome will be). 

ICT:  

In ICT we are currently in the making of our own video games on scratch. We are given the choice of any type of game we want to create; the possibilities are endless!  

P.E:  

In P.E we have had the experience to play invasion games. (An invasion game is when you go into another team’s area.) We have played a modified game of netball and also play a lot of Capture the Flag.  

PBL:  

In PBL we have been learning about a specific era to Australia’s migration and its importance to us today. We are going to create a timeline about our chosen era and how it has impacted Australia today.  

Music:  

In music we have been learning lots of songs on piano such as Levitating- Dua Lipa, Twist and shout- The Beatles, Sunflower- Post Malone and more. Sorry to our teacher who had to deal with us…  

Food tech:  

In food tech we got to choose between a pasta (of sorts) and a muffin (of sorts) to make and bake for our Food Tech lesson. They came out scrumptious and we couldn’t wait to make more!  

By Zara and Mikaela (6B)