Grade 5 Snapshot - Term 1/Week 5-6

Writing

Last week all students prepared and practised speeches for JSC. Well done to all students who took the risk in applying for the role of JSC. It is really great public speaking practise for future leadership positions. Students are learning how to 'unpack' a seed (idea) to support them with their development of ideas in their writing. They used their 'Me Bags' to start to develop these skills. This week students were introduced to the 6+1 Traits of Writing to create a common language to support their writing. These include; Voice, Ideas, Conventions, Organisation, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency and Presentation. They created a Skeleton to highlight these traits as metaphors. Students will be focusing on the 'ideas' trait in the coming weeks.

Reading 

Since coming back to school teachers and students have been setting up Guided Reading and completing individual reading conferences. Student's understand the expectations of guided reading and have begun to work collaboratively with other students in their group. During independent reading, students have continued reading GOOD FIT books. They have started making responses in their Reader's Notebooks. Students have completed visualisations as they read as well as character pages. Next week we will begin a unit on summarising. Students will focus on retelling important events in order and using topic sentences to describe the main idea of their books. 

Maths

Over the last couple of weeks, students have been working on their understanding of the place value system. They have been working with large numbers; learning how to say them and write them in both digits and words. This week students have been working on their rounding skills and also applying this to larger numbers, as well as applying this knowledge to a series of differentiated problem solving tasks. Next week, we will introduce the concept of decimal place value and how this can be extended to thousandths.  

Inquiry

Last week in Inquiry, students looked at a complex and contested conflict in Australia - coal mining. In pairs, students were given one perspective from the mining debate and were asked to research into their perspective. They then participated in debates with other classmates. This week in Inquiry we are looking at peacemakers and are researching people who have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Students will select one peacemaker and identify the processes and strategies that they use to diffuse or resolve global conflicts.  

Grade 5 Team

Mrs Kylie Crebbin - 5A

Mr Andrew Lyon - 5B

Miss Tatjana Linklater - 5C

Miss Caitlyn Jeffress - 5D