Year 5/6 News

Year 5/ 6 News

The Year 5/ 6 teachers would like to welcome all their students and families back for Term Three. (Wow! Term Three already…)

This term, our integrated studies topics are ‘Natural Disasters’- Week 1-5, and Government- Week 6-10.

We have also been busy introducing students to several new classroom and learning initiatives.

All classrooms are establishing their own classroom libraries by getting the students to go through the books and sort them into the various genres. This has given the children an opportunity to familiarise themselves with material in the room and to reflect on themselves as readers. 

A new Homework Investigators’ program is being trialled for Term Three.  Each week, students select one task they would like to complete for the week from the areas of literacy, numeracy, the arts, helping hands and PE and Health. The Homework Investigators task sheet can also be found on Showbie.

In literacy, we have introduced children to the ‘Readers Notebook’ to deepen student’s thinking around texts during independent reading time and develop ability to understand what they are reading through a variety of comprehension strategies.

We encourage you to take time to discuss these initiatives with your child.

Liz, Nikki, Emily and Casey.