Level 6
Reading
This term, students will study the reading comprehension skills of synthesising and inferencing. The students will participate in daily Guided Reading sessions and Reader’s Workshop where they use their own instructional texts to consolidate their understanding of these skills. The activities will be differentiated to ensure every student is learning at their ability level.
Weekly focus:
Week 1: Predicting
Week 2: Predicting
Week 3: Critiquing
Week 4: Critiquing
Week 5: Analysing
Week 6: Analysing
Week 7: Author study
Week 8: Author study
Week 9: Author study
Week 10: Author study
Week 11: Christmas reading
Writing
We use the 6 Plus One Traits of Writing program which covers the traits of voice, conventions, sentence fluency, ideas, organisation and word choice, with the plus one being a presentation. Modelling to students on how to use these traits will be done to grow students’ writing skills.
This term we are focussing on a writing unit called ‘Reflections of Primary Years’ scrapbook. In this unit, we will look at seven different writing genres and reflect on different events in the students’ primary years. Each week will be structured; revising and planning the writing genre, publishing their work, and then editing a good copy.
This is a creative and engaging unit of work that spans the entire term and allows the students to get nostalgic with their peers when reflecting on all their primary years.
Weekly focus:
Week 1: Planning our scrapbook writing genres with chosen grade level
Week 2: Recount Writing
Week 3: Procedure Writing
Week 4: Persuasive Writing
Week 5: Letter Writing
Week 6: Descriptive Writing
Week 7: Poetry Writing
Week 8: Narrative Writing
Week 9: Collating and Designing Scrapbooks
Week 10: Collating and Designing Scrapbooks
Week 11: Presentation at Graduation
Spelling and Grammar
We are using the Jolly Phonics Spelling and Grammar program to strengthen students’ abilities with spelling patterns and rules, along with revisiting basic and introducing advanced grammar concepts. They will have the opportunity to learn, experiment, practice and use a variety of language structures to enhance their spelling strategies, writing and communication skills.
Week 1: The Active and Passive Voice
Week 2: ‘Silent <p>’ Digraphs
Week 3: The Passive Voice
Week 4: <ui> and <u> for /i/ sound
Week 5: Gerunds
Week 6: <gh> and <gue>
Week 7: Idioms
Week 8: <gu>
Week 9: Verb ‘To Do’: Past, Present, Future
Week 10: <ought>
Week 11: Statements and the Verb ‘To Do’
Numeracy
In Term 4, we are learning about volume and capacity and how to convert between the two. The students will take part in an investigation in this area. We will then move to algorithms. After algorithms, we will investigate constructing prisms, exploring the calculator and how to decipher a high school timetable. We will do a week’s revision of the four operations and to finish off, two weeks of Christmas Maths.
Through planning and implementation of our lessons, an integral part will be on the four maths proficiencies; understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning.
As we move through the term, we continually assess the students’ work and develop lessons that meet the individual needs. The weekly focus below can change depending on how the students are grasping these mathematical concepts.
Weekly focus:
Week 1: Volume and Capacity
Week 2: Volume and Capacity Maths Investigation - Teach Starter
Week 3: Algorithms
Week 4: Algorithms
Week 5: Constructing Prisms
Week 6: Constructing Prisms
Week 7: Exploring the Calculator
Week 8: High School Timetables
Week 9: The Four Operations Revision
Week 10 and 11: Christmas Maths
Inquiry
Throughout Inquiry in Term 4, students will be undertaking a unit of work called ‘Healthy Lifestyles’. This unit is based on healthy living and sustainability. They will investigate food hygiene and safety, how and why food and fibre are produced in managed environments, sustainable housing designs and planning and promoting healthy lifestyles in our community.
Homework for this term, the students will be required to investigate what it takes to create a sustainable building. To do this, they will be required to complete a series of weekly tasks which will then be presented at the end of Term 4.