Grade 5 Home Learning Snapshot - Term 3/Week 9

Writing

This week students will experiment writing different genres of fiction texts. They will use a graphic organiser to sort their ideas before they create short stories. The genres they will write are horror, science fiction, fantasy and adventure stories.  

Word Study

Students will continue to practise 30 "codes" of the English language through watching videos uploaded by their teachers. They will also continue to explore a reading or spelling rule which will help them when they decode or write words. There are 30 rules that students will gradually explore through their primary schooling. 

This week students will continue to  "bootcamp" Rule 18. This is where the students practise the new skill until it becomes "automatic" in their brains. They will complete an assessment on Thursday to show their knowledge of Rule 18.

Reading

This week students will continue their focus on summarising Fiction texts. They will learn strategies to help them retell the important information in the book by making connections to the problem.

Students need to continue reading daily as part of their tasks and also at night for their homework. If your child needs some inspiration for reading, here are some authors or books that might be of interest.

Students should also be encouraged to continue working on their fluency by reading out loud for part of their independent reading - whether they call a friend and read to them or read to family members or even pets!

Maths

This week, students will continue to revise what they have learnt in fractions over the last 5 weeks. In addition, students will further develop their understanding of decimal place value and its relationship to fractions and percentages. 

Unit of Inquiry

This week in UOI students will be continuing the unit, “How We Organise Ourselves” focusing on the Central Idea: Economic choices impact the community and the environment. They will be turning their attention to a consideration of the affect that we as consumers have on ourselves, our family, the broader community as well as the natural environment and economic institutions. Students will be exploring how a decision to buy an item affects the family as well as businesses selling or producing the item. 

Students will be anaylsing the benefits to themselves and their family of having savings and/or a strategy for saving and investigating whether buying at the local supermarket helps the local community. In addition students will be examining whether their actions have an affect on the environment, for example, does choosing to use recycling shopping bags have an affect on the natural environment?

Wellbeing - Zones Of Regulation

This week students will be building on their understanding and identification of the size of a problem which they have been grouping as,   big and medium, as well as small glitches to include their reaction to the problem.  When we have a problem  we also have a feeling about it - our reaction. It is expected that our reaction needs to match the size of the problem.

We use our social and emotional thinking to match our reaction size to the problem size.

Grade 5 Team

Miss Caitlyn Jeffress - 5A 

Mrs Kylie Crebbin - 5B

Mrs Zheljana Peric - 5C

Mr Andrew Lyon - 5D

Ms Su Perrins - HU

Specialist Snapshot

You access the  Specialist Newsletter at this link.